“Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10). As these words are being written we, in our part of the world, are only haltingly entering into the spring season. As you, dear reader, read these words however, it will certainly be warm and the summer of […]
A Threefold Cord A Reformed education is the strength of our covenant children. Solomon in his wisdom wrote in the last part of verse 12 of Ecclesiastes 4, “a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” Have you ever seen one of those heavy ropes that are used to secure a large boat to a dock? […]
Candidates for the ministry often have a tendency to push an agenda of their own making. They are going to fix what they think is wrong with the church. One almost gets the impression that the church has been waiting for exactly this moment when at last they are going have things set straight. In […]
Thus far in this series of studies concerning “Needs Which Our Wives Need Met At Home”, we have considered the fact that we must give to our wives the gift of Time –Time which results in God-honoring, Christ-centered companionship and compatibility. Secondly we considered the gift of LOVE which our wives also desperately need and […]
In Gen. 3:15 we read that God said “I will put enmity between thee (Satan) and the Woman, (God’s people – the church) and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” This is a most important doctrine pertaining to one’s salvation. Note first that God […]
Mid-America Reformed Seminary celebrated her seventeenth commencement ceremony on Friday evening, May 17, 2002 at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Hammond, Indiana. The Rev. Alan Lutz of Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) addressed the graduates with a sermon entitled, “From Sending to Saving.” Rev. Lutz preached from Romans 10:14–15 and challenged the graduates to recognize the important […]
It was on Pentecost that Peter proclaimed that Jesus was delivered over to crucifixion by the “foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23). For centuries the church has rightly understood that God knows beforehand the things that will happen in history. Interestingly enough, the apostle also here refers to the basis of the divine foreknowledge: “Him, being […]
In the book of 1 Chronicles we read some interesting history. In Chapter 13 we read that King David gathered all Israel together to bring the Ark of God back to Jerusalem. They put it on a cart and proceeded to go to Jerusalem. But on the way something went wrong. One of the oxen […]
A Contradiction in Terms? One of the common objections among some Reformed believers to the free offer of the gospel is that it violates the norms of consistency and coherence. To affirm simultaneously the teachings of unconditional, particular election and of the well-meant gospel offer flies in the face of logic. How can God sovereignly […]
January 1964 “It is oversimplification to contend that the government teaches only the ‘secular’ – it teaches one of several controversial views of the secular, namely the secularist or man-centered view.” * * * * * “Excluding, by de-emphasis, traditional attitudes from so much of life only holds the probability of eventual disappearance of such […]