In this issue of The Outlook we present a brief but provocative compilation of “windows” on the impact which television is having on our culture. Each piece makes its own contribution to the discussion. Each piece lays the blame for this blight either on the television industry itself or on the parents who allow (either […]
ANNOUNCER: The court room is crowded to capacity for the hearing. Will the defendant be brought to trial for his crimes, or will his vast wealth and great influence in high places set him free to continue his career of violence and lust? We will know shortly. The judge raps his gavel for silence in […]
Oh! Be careful little ears what you hear… Oh! Be careful little eyes what you see… Remember that old Sunday School song that many of us sang so earnestly as children? Unfortunately, today’s kids are taught the same song, but for many the meaning of the words are meaningless as increasing numbers of children are […]
The television networks, except NBC, have agreed to more explicit ratings to match their more explicit programs. The ratings—which will purportedly give parents additional information about language, violence, sexual situations and even “fantasy violence” in cartoons were reluctantly adopted because of congressional pressure. NBC thinks the pressure smacks of censorship and stifles artistic creativity, and […]
Biblical revival comes from God. It is recognized through the standards which God uses to communicate to us about how He works. When God works, He works according to His Word. The Spirit of God convinces us of the necessity for revival and opens our eyes to recognize revival if it pleases God to bring […]
Well, it’s that time again—the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. It’s a great time to be in the land of the free and the home of the barbeque grill, jaunts in the mountains, and the migratory flights of four-wheeled vehicles to sun-drenched beaches. Ahhh, this is the life. Yet for millions of my fellow […]
The Presbyterian controversy over theological liberalism was not simply a debate about the ideas of pampered scholars published in obscure theological journals. Rather it concerned the very witness and practice of the church. Was Christ a Savior or was Jesus the greatest ethical teacher ever to live? How Presbyterians answered that question had enormous significance […]
This year marks the 60th anniversary of J. Gresham Machen’s death on January 1, 1937. Machen was one of the most prominent scholarly defenders of the Christian faith in its conflict with modernism in the early part of the twentieth century. He founded the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) and Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, PA. Early […]
We have seen that Orthodox theology stresses the work of Christ as being one of victory over Death and Satan, and the salvation of sinners as one of thesis. On the other hand, Reformed theology emphasizes the work of Christ as a substitutionary atonement, and the salvation of sinners as a Judicial decree of Justification […]
In North America today we have many confessionally Reformed denominations: or example, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Free Reformed Churches, Korean-American Presbyterian Church, Netherlands Reformed Churches, Orthodox Christian Reformed Churches, Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church in America, Protestant Reformed Churches, Reformed Church of the United States, Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, United Reformed Churches. Each […]