Timothy Monsma is serving this year as Administrative Dean of Mid-America Reformed Seminary at Orange City, Iowa. When the Christian Reformed Church was young she had an open door policy in regard to the seminary training of her ministers. Her original ministers were trained in the Netherlands or in the home of another minister. Later […]
(In addition to teaching duties, Dr. Monsma is also serving this year as Administrative Dean of Mid-America Reformed Seminary at Orange City, Iowa.) A Classic Prerogative How is a qualified theological student declared a candidate for the ministry, ready for calling by the churches? In the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands, one is under the […]
Mid-America Reformed Seminary began with four students last September. When her second semester begins in February, she will have at least eight students-seven full time and one part time. The original students came from Iowa, Florida, and California. The incoming students are from Korea, Michigan, California, and Iowa. Sun Myong Kim is the son of […]
This is the concluding part of an article (beginning in the July issue) by Dr. Monsma, former missionary in Nigeria, who is to teach at the new school at Orange City, Iowa when it begins classes in September. The Seminary’s Program Now we must proceed to the second question that I posed at the beginning. […]
The following material is based on a lecture given by Dr. Monsma in Zeeland, Michigan, on April 29, 1982. The board of Mid-America felt that his lecture should have a wider audience, and that is why it now comes to you in the form of an article, which is to appear in two issues of […]
Dear Friends of Mid-America Reformed Seminary, It is time to bring you up–to-date on several exciting developments in the Seminary since our last visit with you by newsletter. When you read on, we think you will agree with us that the Lord’s prospering hand is establishing this effort in answer to your many prayers. The […]
The Catholic Christian Church We believe and profess one catholic or universal Church, which is a holy congregation of true Christian believers, all expecting their salvation in Jesus Christ, being washed by His blood, sanctified and sealed by the Holy Spirit. This Church has been from the beginning of the world, and will be to […]
Dr. Timothy M. Monsma, veteran of twelve years of missionary service in Nigeria and at present professor of missions at Grand Rapids, Michigan’s, Reformed Bible College, in this and a following article, calls our attention to the bearing of our Reformed creeds on our missionary activity. This material is also being published under a slightly […]
William Carey (1761–1834), English shoemaker and cobbler, is usually considered to have been “the father of modern missions.” Were there Protestant missions also prior to Carey’s time? It is to this question that Rev. Timothy M. Monsma addresses himself in this article. After a brief ministry at Chandler, Minnesota, Rev. Monsma served as a CR […]
We read in Revelation 20 that an angel bound the dragon, who is Satan, and threw him into the abyss, where he is to stay for one thousand years (vss. 2, 3). This one thousand years has been called the millennium, which is a Latin word for “one thousand.” Some Christians describe the millennium as […]