EARTHQUAKES AS “SIGNS” Among the “signs” which our Lord mentioned as signaling His approaching return were “earthquakes, in diverse places” (Matt. 24:7). An article in the January, 1983, issue of Getrouw by Alexander Seibel on “The Background of Terrorism Illuminated from the Bible” calls attention to these signs mentioning especially the increasing frequency and intensity […]
D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES: THE FIRST FORTY YEARS 1899–1939, by Iain H. Murray. Published by the Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Carlisle, PA, USA, 1983. Hardcover, 394pp. $15.95. The former editor of the Banner of Truth publications provides us with a fascinating and illuminating account of the first half of the 80-year life of […]
Our Lord prayed that His followers “may be one” (John 17:21–23), and accordingly His church through the centuries has confessed, “I believe a holy catholic church.” What is overlooked by many who in our time advocate a variety of efforts to draw the churches together (the “ecumenical movement”) is that His prayer was that they would […]
“The LORD is a man of war” (Exodus 15:3). During the holiday season when the strains of Handel’s Messiah are commonly heard as part of the traditional Christmas music we also listened to the records of the same composer’s much less familiar oratorio, Israel in Egypt. In a style similar to that of the […]
A continuing problem confronting Christian churches is the relationships which they have, or ought to have, with other churches. It is often called the “ecumenical” problem. Our Lord prayed that His followers might be one (John 17:21–24). What is often overlooked in the frequent allusions to that prayer is that in it the Lord prayed […]
Libolt at Calvin (Jan. 1983 Issue) Editor, The Outlook, For someone apparently so concerned with factuality as the editor of The Outlook, he has remarkably little compunction about representing correctly what I said on the occasion of a speech at Calvin College. I will advert to a single but characteristic example of the distortion found […]
A review article on A Christian Approach to Economics and the Cultural Condition, by Douglas Vickers. Published by Exposition Press, Smithtown, N.Y. 1982, hardcover, 198 pp., $12.50. In the prevailing current concern with economic problems there is a need and opportunity for a book such as this which attempts to deal with these matters from […]
The Gospel and the Poor It would be beneficial if we in the CRC would do a bit of reflecting on the nature of the gospel, particularly as it relates to the “poor” in this world. We easily slip into a kind of horizontalism or “social gospel” approach when we think about all the […]
Dr. Clayton Libolt gained notoriety in the Christian Reformed Churches when the 1981 synod denied his application for candidacy for the gospel ministry. He was rejected after he stated in his examination that he would not hold the Genesis Adam and Eve story to be “real” in the sense that his questioner intended. On the […]
Protection Against Poisons The death of several people by taking the popular drug Tylenol which someone had laced with cyanide has sent shock waves across the whole country as many realize how vulnerable we are to being poisoned by the many packaged drugs we buy in countless stores. There has been talk of taking […]