Our Worship, Chapters 14, 24–29 Worship is a holy conversation between God and his people. The previous installment of this series on Abraham Kuyper’s book Our Worship considered several elements of worship in which the congregation speaks to God: through prayers, songs, and offerings. Meanwhile, God speaks to the congregation primarily through the reading of […]
THE LIVES OF PHILIP AND MATTHEW HENRY, by J. B. Williams. Banner of Truth, Edinburgh. 1974. xlvili + 488 + xxxii + 323 pages, $11.95. THE LIFE AND LABOURS OF ASAHEL NETTLETON, by Bennet Tyler and Andre’v Bonar. Banner of Truth, Edinburgh. 1975. xvi +454 pages. $8.50. Reviewed by Rev. Jerome Julien, pastor of the First […]
Our Worship, chapters 6–8, 21, 31 Within the last few years, two important books for United Reformed worship have appeared: the Trinity Psalter Hymnal and the Forms and Prayers. As Abraham Kuyper’s discussion of liturgy suggests, these publications demonstrate a fundamental commitment of Reformed worship: providing a distinct and definite vocabulary with which the assembly […]
Did your parents let you sleep in on Saturdays? Did your parents give you chores to do around the house or around the farm? Maybe you grew up on a dairy farm and had to be in the barn at 5:00 a.m. to milk before school. Your parents probably explained to you that this is […]
Our Worship, chapters 2–3, 13, 15–17, 30 Our examination of liturgy in the last issue of The Outlook emphasized that worship communicates. The design of a church’s building, the arrangement of its sanctuary, and the attire of its worshipers are all clues to the content of its faith. But this is not all. At a […]
Our Worship, chapters 1, 4–5, 9–12 If, as my last Outlook series claimed, our culture’s crises of identity, community, and tradition threaten the survival of the Reformed church in the twenty-first century, what part can a small and vulnerable community of faith such as ours play in stemming such a mighty flood? We have already […]
ABRAHAM KUYPER: a biography, by Frank Vanden Berg. St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada: Paideia Press, 1978; 282 pp. $4.95, paper. Reviewed by Rev. Jerome Julien, Pastor of the First Christian Reformed Church, Pella, Iowa. Some men really stand out in the Reformed tradition. One of these is Abraham Kuyper. But as great as be was and […]
In this second article on the subject, Rev. Peter De Jong, pastor of the Christian Reformed Church of Dutton, Michigan, continues his consideration of that much discussed concept—the kingdom. His aim is to clarify just what went wrong here, and also to point out how our thinking on this important matter can be gotten back […]
Of late, a renewed interest in sphere sovereignty has come to be very much in evidence. What is it? How is it being misunderstood? In this article, Rev. Peter De Jong, pastor of the Christian Reformed Church of Dutton, Michigan, states: This is no mere philosophical argument. Consider a few of the results that appear […]
One who reads the Gospels will notice how often our Lord spoke of the “kingdom of God” or the “kingdom of heaven.” Jesus was promised and was born to be King. He preached the “gospel of the kingdom.” Most of his parables begin, “The kingdom of heaven is like . . . .” In spite […]