“Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners…” I Timothy 1:15 Some years ago Henry Van Dyke published a book entitled, The Gospel for an Age of Doubt. He followed it with another entitled, The Gospel for a World of Sin. There is a […]
The Free University – Church and State During October the Free University of Amsterdam celebrated its seventy.fifth anniversary. The Reformed people of the Netherlands had good reason to rejoice in the progress of their university. It was begun in 1880 with a faculty of five, a student body of three and no campus. Today it has […]
God, who worketh all things after the counsel of his will, deals with our sinful world in terms of Jesus Christ. It has pleased God “to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth” (Eph. 1:10). In Christ the grace of God has appeared. Our Savior has abolished […]
8. And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things saith the first and the last, who was dead find lived again: 9. I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but arc a synagogue of […]
Congregational singing is a “must” for the Church of Jesus Christ when met for public worship. The people of God are and always have been a singing people. Even the Church Triumphant as depicted in John’s Revelation is heard singing “the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb” (15:3). […]
Osterhaven on the Reformed Church and the Christian School “What place does the Christian School have in the Reformed Church in America?” is a question directed to Dr. Eugene Osterhaven, professor of systematic theology at Western Theological Seminary, Holland, Michigan, in his October 7, 1955, column Youth Forum, regular feature of The Church Herald, Reformed Church weekly. Dr. Osterhaven […]
In the science of genetics we have not only a precise science which, thanks to careful experiment and observation, has demonstrated that all heredity is governed by definite laws, but we have also a science whose results confirm the biblical teaching that all living things reproduce “after their kind” (Genesis 1): the offspring of roses are […]
Of Law and Love: The Ten Commandments and the Cross of Christ PETER H. ELDERSVELD (Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 1954, pp. 85. $1.50.) It was a heartwarming experience to read this slender book. The thirteen sermons are on a timely subject. They display that same quiet but compelling style that has distinguished Mr. Eldersveld as one […]