More than seven hundred fifty people filled the sanctuary of the Bethel Christian Reformed Church of Sioux Center, Iowa, on Friday evening, September 14, 1984, for a meeting sponsored by the area chapter of the Reformed Fellowship. Featured as speaker was the Rev. Henry Vander Kam, professor-emeritus of Mid-America Reformed Seminary. The subject of his […]
A PLEA FOR UNITY IN INTERPRETATION OF GOD’S WORD After reading Banner reports and listening to local reports of Synodical delegates in reference to “Women in Office,” I’m wondering how this all started and what’s the main motive. Surely, it’s not because current deacons are not doing a good job. We’re surely not minimizing the […]
This article is an adaptation of a speech delivered on October 1, 1981, at the annual Reformed Fellowship Meeting in the Kelloggsville CRC. Its author, Nelson D. Kloosterman, is pastor of the Immanuel CRC of Sheldon, IA, and is secretary of the Board of the Mid-America Reformed Seminary. It is no overstatement to say that […]
A Progress Report By now most readers of The Outlook have been informed of the meeting held in Chicago on April 21 concerning the organization of an association to establish a school for Reformed theological instruction. By instruction of the newly formed Association, eight northwest Iowa ministers have been acting as a temporary board charged […]
Editorial Note: In this contribution the Rev. Mr. Kloosterman, pastor of Immanuel Christian Reformed Church, Sheldon, Iowa. comments on the petition (gravamen) presented by Dr. Harry R. Boer to the 1977 Synod of the Christian Reformed Church. In this gravamen Boer asks the church to declare that statements in the Canons of Dort, one of […]
This completes the “Testimony” of which the first half was printed in October. The “Testimony” is the result of long discussion and a year of work by a committee and has been endorsed by over 40 Christian Reformed ministers who say that it expresses substantially their convictions on major issues that confront our churches today. […]
For a long time members and friends of Reformed Fellowship have felt that the time has come to state succinctly and yet fully the positions which we believe to be biblica and confessional over against the many deviations which confront us. Certain of our brothers in Northwest Iowa were found ready to try their hand […]
Key Verse: “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:37–40 Applying […]
Key Verse: “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people. that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but […]
Key Verse: “Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.” Ephesians 5:1–2 The uniqueness of Old Testament legislation Throughout these Bible studies on Deuteronomy, we have been emphasizing that […]