Before I introduce myself I would like to express a word of appreciation to the retiring editors of The Outlook, Rev. and Mrs. Tom Vanden Heuvel. I began serving on the Board of Reformed Fellowship almost ten years ago. At that time Tom and Laurie had been editors for a little over a year. Back […]
Americans are good at destroying perfectly good words with abuse and overuse. Hallmark Cards and Harlequin Romances have managed to make “love” sound like a single syllable cliche. Therefore, any discussion of true biblical love has to begin with a battle for a definition. That battle is […]
Grandma, have you checked your spiritual job description in the Bible lately? Are you doing the job effectively and efficiently as the Bible tells you? You have an important, precise detail of service for God. The following is what we will think of in this article as God’s explicit job description of spiritual work for […]
In Article 53 of the Church Order of the Canadian Reformed Churches, we are told that the churches ought to commemorate the central New Covenant acts of salvation—namely, Christ’s birth, death, resurrection, ascension, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Yet, sometimes, we can feel that this is a holdover from late medieval superstition. After […]
Webster’s Dictionary defines a sound bite as “a brief recorded statement [as by a public figure] broadcast esp. on a television news program.” Those “sound bites” refer to audible statements. Webster also defines sound as “free from error, fallacy, or misrepresentation”, “logically valid and having true premises”, and “showing good judgment or sense”. In celebration […]
Proverbs 3:5–6 – Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. “The Dating Game”, now there’s something to grab your attention! It sounds like some daytime gameshow with Rosie O’Donnel as the host with contestants […]
In July of 1540 John Calvin made a marriage proposal to Idelette de Bure. She accepted. Three weeks later they were married on August 10, 1540. Many wedding couples have an interesting story of how God brought their lives together. The Calvin’s marriage is no exception. Obstacles to […]
We are living today in a highly critical age. People no longer are afraid of attacking anything or anyone. Even the Lord of heaven and earth is openly criticized and blasphemed as if He were mere man. And surely if they fear not God, they have lost all respect for the Word and the service […]
(With this article I am beginning a new series of articles on the subject of Reformed evangelism. The following article is intended to serve as a kind of introduction to the articles that will follow, D.V. Though I can make no claim to be an expert on the subject, it seems to be one that […]