Taken from Rev. George Gritter’s book, LISTENING TO GOD ON CALVARY, the following is presented as a meditation appropriate for April, the month of Good Friday and Easter. This excerpt is reprinted by permission of the author and of the publisher, Baker Book House. Rev. Gritter is pastor of the Alger Park Christian Reformed Church […]
A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS by Stephen Neill. Published by Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1965. Price, $7.50. This book is the last of a six volume series called “The Pelican History of the Church.” Owen Chadwick is the general editor of this series, and the other volumes in it deal with the various periods of church history […]
CREATIVE MINDS IN CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY, edited by Philip Edgcumbe Hughes. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. $6.95. Philip Edgcumbe Hughes, the well-known editor of the (Anglican) Churchman, has greatly obligated us by the edition of this guidebook which surprises us again and again by the wealth of its material, its concise synopses of […]
If the covenant of grace is vital to the Christian gospel and the Christian life, and if it is important from both a doctrinal and practical point of view, it certainly is deserving of further exploration and development. Such authors as Peter Y. De Jong, William Hendriksen, Anthony Hoekema, Pierre Marcel and John Murray have made significant contributions […]
Admittedly, parental influence played a significant role in developing my sustained interest in the doctrine of the covenant. During the formative years of childhood and youth God in His providence channeled rich blessings into my life through the molding influence of a godly father and mother. Mine was the blessing and privilege of learning to appreciate […]
There is adventure ahead. One of the most stimulating adventures on which a person can embark is to study all the “ins” and “outs” of some element of Christian truth and to follow such truth into all the paths of life and practical experience that it significantly touches. It is our plan to enter upon such an […]
“And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I flyaway and be at rest. Evening and morning, and at noonday will I cry aloud; and he will hear my voice” (Psalm 55:6, 17). These words of the psalmist express a very strange wish. The psalmist wishes that he were a bird, […]