A church sanctuary is not “just another auditorium!” Congregations which have had to worship in school gymnasiums and public auditoriums will vouch for that. But what should a Christian place of worship look like? What does the Bible have to say about church architecture?     When Moses met with the Lord on the mountain, […]

Expository preaching in our day has degenerated into moralistic story telling. Some part of the Bible is retold in an interesting (or not so interesting) manner, and then it is made to teach some desirable (or simply desired) lesson. No wonder that expository preaching has fallen into such disrepute. The real hurt comes when we […]

ISN’T THE CHURCH “PRIMARILY MORE IMPORTANT”? “I would like to know…” wrote Arthur Davies in a recent TORCH AND TRUMPET article (August, 1970), “how that church is of primarily more importance than, for example, the God-instituted family.” “That church” to which he refers is the “church-as-institute-gathered-around-the-Word-with-its-Christ-appointed-officiary” spoken about by P. Y. De Jong in a […]

What does it mean to “offer” the benediction? To ask this question is to raise a number of related questions; Who may offer the benediction? When may the benediction be offered? What is a benediction? ‘The answers to these other questions are closely connected with the answer to the first one. Certain things seem adequately clear. […]

Does the reformed faith have a distinctive approach to evangelism? This question arises from observation. Reformed preachers are taking a current interest in reaching the masses with the Gospel-but many of them seem to be embarrassed by their own efforts. They find themselves teaming up with Arminian cohorts, or else they themselves are sounding an unsteady […]