“And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.” Does the reading of these words from Genesis 1:27 impress you but little? This may be due in part to the fact that you know them so well. As a morning mist obscures the beauty of a hillside landscape, so your familiarity with the […]

In our days, when prophets of gloom are cheaper by the dozen, it is refreshing to take note of some of the favorable entries on the ledger of the Christian Church. Indeed, there is justification for a sensitive awareness to the change and decay which perniciously eats away at the fabric of human society. Uncritical optimism concerning either […]

Some time ago Rev. Tymen Hofman wrote an article in The Banner about our current practice of “lapsing” members of our congregations who for one reason or another no longer attend services but who claim to be committed to Christ and claim to be attending church elsewhere. Though he recognized that misuse could be made […]