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The God-Man in the Gap

To merely look and fail to really see . . . That’s the awful tragedy of it all—if we are content, whenever the calendar calls for it once again, to observe the Christian holidays by taking another look at Jesus in a manger, on a cross, in and out of the tomb, and ascending to […]

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“Have Ye Not Read?”

That’s how Jesus replied to questions, problems, and difficulties that were agitating the church in His day. “Have ye not read?” He would ask, and then go on to quote a relevant passage of Scripture to settle the matter in hand once and for all. In other words, if the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the […]

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Recently the members of the Calvin Seminary Faculty felt called upon to address a page-long “Open Letter to the Christian Reformed Church.” In The Banner of December 4, 1970, with their signatures affixed, the Faculty concluded its letter with a request for confidence as follows: “What in these times we covet and indeed expect from […]

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Portrait of a Protestant

Annual Meeting – October 20, 1967 Wish to say something about the portrait of a Protestant. However I now have some misgivings. I thought I was perfectly safe but I think I have spied somebody who was present when r spoke along this line some time ago about 500 miles from here. I have misgivings also because […]

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Four Thoughts for Easter

This Easter meditation was written by the late editor John Vander Ploeg, (formerly editor of The Banner) in March, 1975. A blessed Easter to you! But let’s be clear about one thing. That wish can come true only on this condition: that by faith we think the right thoughts. Fragrant flowers, a new outfit, and […]

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Desideratum—A United Reformed Church

Although adopted into our English language, the word desideratum, as used in the title above, is Latin and may be somewhat unfamiliar. Why use it then? Because I can think of no other single word that says it all — that is, all that I wish to try to say about the matter of a […]

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