To preach, or not to preach? – today there are those who would have us believe that this is for us to choose. Be sure to read this ringing article by Rev. Fred Van Houten, pastor of the Ninth Street Christian Reformed Church of Holland, Mich., in which he seeks to set the matter straight. […]

One of the current synodical study committees of the Christian Reformed Church has a mandate “to provide the church’s membership with guidelines for making ethical decisions about war. The committee shall, inter alia, (a) take account of previous synodical decisions, especially the Report on the Problem of War (Acts of Synod 1964, pp, 312–316) and […]

The Consistory of the Christian Reformed Church of Ann Arbor, Michigan is overturing Synod 1973 to “urge the President of the United States and Congress to grant, at the earliest opportunity, amnesty for those who by reason of their Christian conscientious objection to the Second Indochina War are in exile, at large, incarcerated, or deprived […]

When Polonius asks Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, what he is reading, the prince answers, “Words, words, words.” A few years ago I heard someone ask a parishioner how he liked his new minister. His reply was the same as Shakespeare put into the mouth of Hamlet. Words of Songs – When ministers spend considerable […]

The editor of THE OUTLOOK called Agenda Report 36 on The Nature and Extent of Biblical Authority “the most crucial issue facing Synod 1971” (cf . THE OUTLOOK, June 1971). Many delegates to Synod shared that view. What can be more important than the Bible. God’s inspired. infallible, authoritative Word? The Study Committee in presenting […]

“And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth toward my master: as for me, Jehovah hath led me in the way to the house of my master’s brethren.” (Gen. 24:27). “God has been good to me! I never knew his love was so […]