Reprobation – off hand one would hardly call this a pleasant or a delightful subject. There is something so awesome about this that we may shrink from any contemplation of it! Election – yes, we glory in that. But reprobation? By nature we may say, perish the thought! But here too, as so often, we err […]
A HANDBOOK OF CRC ISSUES 1968–1978; 600 pages; published by Association of Christian Reformed Laymen, P. O. Box 1303, Grand Rapids, Mich. 49501; $7.95. Reviewed by Rev. John Vander Ploeg. By all means don’t buy or read this book or even get anywhere near it, unless you are willing to be disturbed and possibly also stung […]
Some months ago my editorial on “Desideratum A United Reformed Church” called forth a measure of response including a misunderstanding which, in fairness to honestly disturbed ministers in the CRC, should be set straight. Writing about disturbing developments in the CRC, one correspondent states: “There are still a goodly number of pastors who arc very unhappy […]
Not every meeting of the Board of Reformed Fellowship, Inc., is as encouraging and exciting as last month‘s meeting on February 4. New members are being received regularly and, of course, there are also some cancellations from time to time. But try to imagine our elation when at last month’s meeting as many as 107 […]
America Needs Another King True, America’s achievements have been stupendous. Think of it! Americans have walked on the moon; and, America‘s Viking I spaceship has now made its scheduled landing on the planet Mars many millions of miles away. Nothing seems impossible. True, America has come a long, long way in 200 years. But America […]
That’s what is now being proposed for adoption at the Synod of the Christian Reformed Church, to be convened next month on June 8 –a new stand on divorce. Is the divorce rate in the U.S, (I have no figures for Canada) on the increase? Glancing at the latest available statistics (and they are a […]
The annual celebration of the world’s phony Easter with all its gala accouterment of feasting, flowers, and finery has the Devil‘s full endorsement. Crowded churches for once with an apostate clergy repeating heresy as old as the hills, that’s okay–too. But the preaching of the literal, bodily resurrection of our Lord from .the tomb in […]
I have just read another of Rev. Clarence Boomsma’s discerning articles in The Banner on “The CRC—What Is Happening to Us?” With good reason the writer, who served as president of the CRC Synod of 1972, is being commended for what he has to say. Like an experienced and competent physician or surgeon, Rev. Boomsma […]
It’s more than time to return to a consideration of this subject that was introduced in an editorial in the October issue with a promise to continue the matter the following month. The reason for the delay is that other matters were allowed to have the right of way. If a bit of Bobbie Burns’ […]
The dilemma is real, not imaginary. Also in the Christian Reformed Church. Anyone who denies this is either deliberately blind or pathetically uninformed. Changes are introduced, subtly and gradually; and that makes them so dangerous. Toss a frog in a tub of hot water and it is said he will jump out in a flash. […]