On March 6, at the age of64, only 5 months after assuming the presidency ofBiblical Theological Seminary, Dr. G. Aiken Taylor who was for 24 year s the editor of The Presbyterian Journal died from an apparent heart attack. In the March 21 Journal, the current interim editor Joel Belz reflects on his significant career. […]
Rev. John Vander Ploeg served the Church faithfully and well for fifty–three years in the ministry of the gospel. He went to be with his Lord on Monday, September 26, 1983 some seven months after his wife of fifty-four years passed away. He was a delightful man to know, and he had a sharp mind […]
It was on November 18, 1900 that Willem Hendriksen made his entrance into this world in the city of Tiel, province of Gelderland, the Netherlands. He was the youngest child in a family of eight sons and one daughter. His father, Bernardus Antonie Hendriksen, a carpenter and specialist in wood carving, was a perfectionist in […]
Who can say whether this preacher or that is the greatest of his generation? Such evaluations are, one is glad to acknowledge, in other hands than our own. There can be no question, however, but that Dr. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones was a very great preacher indeed; and some do not hesitate to speak of him […]
Encounter with our “last enemy” (1 Cor. 15:26) is never easy. And so the news that our friend, Dr. Edwin H. Palmer, had died was not easy to absorb. Ed was healthy. He worked at keeping physically fit. And he looked it. Seeing him was pleasant for many reasons, among them the fact that the […]
Introduction to Dr. Lloyd-Jones In The Calvin Forum in February, 1943 Dr. Clarence Bouma, the editor, called attention to a little book, The Plight of Man and the Power of God. He hailed it as “a gem of 120 pages” which “ought to be on the desk of every preacher in the English-speaking world. And […]
Rev. Edward J. Knott, age 97, passed away Friday night, November 29, 2019 due to complications from a fall. He was preceded in death by his wife, Harriet, infant son Fred, and granddaughter Sandy Lautenbach. Surviving are his children Kathy (John) De Leeuw, Edward (Marcia) Knott, and Fred (Deb) Knott, his 8 grandchildren and 15 […]
Miss Timmer was widely known in the Christian Reformed Community as an outstanding leader and teacher. She was the first dean of women at Calvin College and served as dean and teacher for fourteen years. She was the first acting president of the Reformed Bible Institute (now Reformed Bible College) as well as a much […]
The late Rev. William Kok, always a zealous contender for the faith, was a member of Reformed Fellowship, Inc. and a contributor to TORCH AND TRUMPET (former name of THE OUTLOOK) in bygone days. Dr. William Rutger’s readiness to write this In Memoriam is greatly appreciated. Factual statistics of a man’s life can be told […]
Rev. Corey Dykstra came to the end of his short earthly pilgrimage on Saturday, June 22, 2019. All the families of the Walker United Reformed Church, in Walker, Michigan, were notified by phone that evening that our brother had taken his own life. We do not know the reason for his action that afternoon, and […]