“Why do you homeschool?” Of all the questions I knew I would have to field when I embarked on this radical lifestyle, this was the one I dreaded most. I did not have strong negative feelings about leaving the school system as some families do. As far as I could tell the school system was […]
INTRODUCTION Few choices will have as lasting an impact on one’s child than the school which he/she attends. For thirteen years, school dominates the child’s life: shaping his/her thinking, molding his/her character, and to a certain extent, determining his/her destiny. Today’s parents have three options: public schools, private schools and home school. The purpose of […]
There’s a joke being told in Mexico that if you’re visiting Washington, D.C., don’t drink the water. The city government last week warned residents that bacteria levels were so high that the elderly and people with weakened immune systems face a health hazard unless they first boil the water. The warning serves as a metaphor […]
This month and next month, Dr. Bogue focuses on Dr, G.C. Berkouwer’s view of Scripture, which is of course, the fatal flaw which produces error on many other issues. It must be understood at the outset, that here again, we see an early Berkouwer and a later Berkouwer. In 1938 Berkouwer produced a book (Het […]
…Who is left among you who saw this temple in its former glory? And how do you see it now? In comparison with it,is this not in your eyes as nothing? Yet now be strong…and work; for I am with you, says the Lord of hosts. According to the word that I covenanted with you […]
More Than One Way? is the title of a recent book on a very important question: Is faith in Jesus the only way to salvation or is it possible for non-Christians also to be saved?1 In this book several authors present four quite distinct answers to this question. John Hick defends a very liberal point […]
In the last issue I challenged the eldership to prayer: specific, diligent and faithfully practiced prayer. In this one, I direct that same challenge to the deacons in the church. A couple of introductory comments are in order. With the elders, a warning needed to be sounded about the danger to forget that their work […]
After having summarized the millennial views of historic pre-millennialism and dispensationalism, it would be tempting now to offer a biblical evaluation and critique of them. By simply summarizing these views and offering no evaluation of them at this time, some might wrongly conclude that there are no serious biblical objections against them. However, I believe […]
Battle to Destroy Truth by Claris Van Kuiken. Ed. Edwin P. Elliott. (Reformation Educational Foundation, Manassas, VA). ISBN 1-888578-01-7, $15.95, 340pp. Reviewed by Laurie Vanden Heuvel. While the women in church office debate was raging in the Christian Reformed denomination, another battle was being waged in the Orland Park CRC, Classis Chicago South of the […]
INTER-CLASSICAL CONFERENCE TO BE HELD NOVEMBER 7 AND 8 The 1995 Inter-Classical Conference of Christian Reformed Churches meeting in South Holland promised to arrange another meeting of the conference should Synod 1996 of the Christian Reformed Church fail to respond appropriately to their motions. Sadly, Synod 1996 failed to deal appropriately with their concerns. Therefore, […]