AUTHORS

ARRICK STEPHEN M.

The Order of the Lord’s Church: Offices of the Church  9:9; 10:10; 11:10 Women and the M. Div. Program at Calvin  5:2

BESTEMAN, ARTHUR

1986 Mid-America Reformed Seminary Board Meeting and Seminary Festival  10:9

BLANKESPOOR, JOHN

Abounding in the Work of the Lord  4:4 Carrying Each Other’s Burdens  6:2 The Church That is Near Death  9:6 Confidence in God’s Complete Work  7:2 Faithful Stewards  10:6 The Lord is My Shepherd  1:4 Peace and the Sword  11:4 Peter’s Denial of His Lord  3:14 When the King Could Not Sleep  2:8 Witnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ  5:4

DE JONG, PETER

Anti-Christian Ethnic Theology  5:16 Biblical Unity and Separation  3:24 Christian Reformed Synod Agenda  6:8 Constructive Christians in a Collapsing World and Church  10:4; 11:8 De Koster on Report 44  1:14 For Such a Time as This  11:13 A German Reformed Voice at Mid-America  4:2 God’s Calling: The Office of the Christian Believer  1:11: 2:20; 3:20; 4:16 Luther and Calvin  6:6 New Missions for the Gospel  9:14 Now a Sexist Catechism  4:21 Our Concerned Brothers  8:14 Our Heritage, Predicament and Future (Conference of Concerned)  7:19 Reformed Ecumenical Synod on Political “Heresies”  5:20 Revivals and Altar–Calls  10:7 “Surprised by Joy”  4:22 Unworshipful Worship  1:23 What is Lynwood Saying to the C.R.C.?  10:2

DE JONG, PETER Y.

J. Larry Roberts: 1917–1986  5:13

DE KOEKKOEK, JOHN M.

Seminary Students Evaluate Contemporary Testimony  1:20

DE KOSTER, LESTER

Adam and Evolution  4:18; 5:10 Bureaucracy in the Church: Its Cause, Its Cure  6:4; 7:8; 8:4

GROSSMANN, ROBERT

The Problem is the Bible  9:10

HEGEMAN, NEAL

Highlights from the Lowlands: Church Reformation Models  5:21

JONES, NORMAN L.

What About Euthanasia and Living Wills?  5:8

KAMMINGA, GEORGE

The Synod’s Pastoral Letter  1:24

KLOOSTERMAN, DAVID A.

Biblical Headship and the Board of Publications  8:8 Needed: A Creation Creed  3:6

KLOOSTERMAN, NELSON D.

Can Two Walk Together  8:11

KNOTT, EDWARD J.

Synod 1986  7:4

KOERNER, MAYNARD

Update on the Reformed Confessing Church of Zaire  11:6

KWANTES, HARRY J.

New Chapter of Concerned Members Organized  10:2

LANNING, RAY B.

Preaching in America Today  10:13

MADANY, BASSAM M.

Rethinking Missions Today  1:6; 2:2; 3:2

MENNEGA, AALDERT

Absence of Evidence  3:5 Human Tails  1:2 “Not Older Than Fifteen Billion Years”  9:15 Peppered moths  11:12 Polystratic trees  7:12

MONSMA, TIMOTHY

Preparing for Christ’s Return  6:16

MULDER, IVAN

S.W.I.M., 25 years Later, is the Church Better Off?  1:19

MURRAY, IAIN H.

Translations of the Bible  9:8

OOSTENDORP, ELCO H.

An open letter to the editor of The Banner  4:10

PALMER, GLENN P.

Who Am I?  1:24; 2:11; 3:13; 4:5; 5:15; 6:17; 7:11; 9:7; 10:14

PASTINE, STUART C.

Consistorial Conference  11:16

PETROLJE, ALLEN

“You are the Salt of the Earth” (Matt. 5:13)  9:5

PIERSMA. JOHN H.

Comment and Opinion  5:17; 6:18; 8:15: 10:15; 11:2

PONTTER. RALPH A.

Training Women Ministers  8:2

PRONK, FREDERIKA

Women Deacons: Church Polity and Hermeneutics  2:5; 3:11; 4:6

SCHLISSEL, STEVE M.

S.O.S. or Abandon Ship?  7:17

TUININGA, CECIL

Rethinking Congregationalism  1:22 Tensions in the Churches  2:10

TUININGA, JELLE

Children at the Lord’s Supper  6:20 Church Dishonesty  1:23 Joining a Common Apostacy (sic)  10:11 Lapsing Memberships  5:20 Mid-America Reformed Seminary  4:24 1985 in Review  6:21 No “Denominational Differences”?  4:10 Rethinking Congregationalism  4:22 A Threat of Fundamentalism  9:16 Today’s Hypocrisies (Matt. 23:24)  2:23

TURNGREN, TIMOTHY

The Contemporary Testimony  6:14

VANDEN HEUVEL, HENRY

Fellowship Anniversary Meeting: “Filling the Gap”  11:13

VANDER GOOf, HENRY

The Bible in the C.R.C. Today  1:8

VANDER KAM, HENRY

The Acts  1:16, 2:16. 3:16, 4:12 Whither the Christian Reformed Church?  3:8

VENEMA, RICHARD J.

The Inspiration and Inerrancy of Scripture  2:12

VISS, SIMON

In memoriam: Harry Van Dyken, 1917–1985  3:23

WEEKS, NOEL

Living on the Lunatic Fringe  5:6

WILLIAMS, C.J.

The Necessity of Christian Education  7:12

WILSON, LARRY E.

Needed: Whole Christianity  5:19

YONKER, KEN

God’s Hand at Work in the Winter  11:11

ARTICLES

Abounding in the Work of the Lord, J. Blankespoor  4:4 Absence of Evidence, A. Mennega  3:5 The Acts, H. Vander Kam  1:16; 2:16; 3:16; 4:12 Adam and Evolution, L. DeKoster  4:18; 5:10 Anglicans and Scripture  10:12 Anti-Christian Ethnic Theology, P. De Jong  5:16 Tho Bible in the C.R.C. Today, H. Vander Goot  1:8 Biblical Headship and the Board of Publications, D.A. Kloosterman  8:8 Biblical Unity and Separation, P. De Jong  3:24 Bureaucracy in the Church: Its Cause, Its Cure, L. DeKoster  6:4; 7:8; 8:4 Can Two Walk Together . . . ? N.D. Kloosterman  8:11 Carrying Each Other’s Burdens, J. Blankespoor  6:2 Children at the Lord’s Supper, J. Tuininga  6:20 Christian Reformed Synod Agenda, P. De Jong  6:8 Church Dishonesty, J. Tuininga  1:23 The Church That is Near Death, J. Blankespoor  9:6 Comment and Opinion, J.H. Piersma  5:17; 6:18.; 8:15; 10:15; 11:2 Confidence in God’s Complete Work, J. Blankespoor  7:2 Consistorial Conference, S.C. Pastine  11:16 Constructive Christians in a Collapsing World and Church, P. De Jong  10:4; 11:8 The Contemporary Testimony, T. Turngren  6:14 DeKoster on Report 44, P. De Jong  1:14 Faithful Stewards, J. Blankespoor  10:6 Fellowship Anniversary Meeting: “Filling the Gap,” H. Vanden Heuvel  11:13 For Such a Time as this, P. De Jong  11:13 A German Reformed Voice at Mid-America, P. De Jong  4:2 God’s Calling: the office of the Christian believer, P. De Jong   1:11; 2:20; 3:20; 4:16 God’s Hand at Work in the Winter, K. Yonker  11:11 A Good King Became Better  6:24 Highlights From the Lowlands: Church Reformation Models, N. Hegeman  5:21 Human Tails, A. Mennega  1:2 In Memoriam: Harry Van Dyken, 1917–1985, S. Viss  3:23 The Inspiration and Inerrancy of Scripture, R.J. Venema  2:12 J. Larry Roberts: 1917–1986, P.Y. De Jong  5:13 Joining a Common Apostacy (sic), J. Tuininga  10:11 Lapsing Memberships, J. Tuininga  5:20 Living on the Lunatic Fringe, N. Weeks  5:6 The Lord is my Shepherd, J. Blankespoor  1:4 Luther and Calvin, P. De Jong  6:6 Mid-America Reformed Seminary, J. Tuininga  4:24 The Necessity for Christian Education, C.J. Williams  7:12 Needed: A Creation Creed, D.A. Kloosterman  3:6 Needed: Whole Christianity, L.E. Wilson  5:19 New Chapter of Concerned Members Organized, H.J. Kwantes  10:2 New Missions for the Gospel, P. De Jong  9:14 1985 in Review, J. Tuininga  6:21 1986 Mid–America Reformed Seminary Board Meeting and Seminary Festival, A. Besteman  10:9 No “Denominational Differences”? J. Tuininga  4:10 “Not Older Than Fifteen Billion Years” A. Mennega  9:15 Now a Sexist Catechism, P. De Jong  4:21 An Open Letter to the Editor of The Banner, E.H. Oostendorp  4:10 The Order of the Lord’s Church: Offices of the Church, S.M. Arrick  9:9; 10:10; 11:10 Organization and Plans of the Concerned  3:19 Our Concerned Brethren, P. De Jong  8:14 Our Heritage, Predicament and Future (Conference of Concerned), P. De Jong  7:19 Peace and the Sword, J. Blankespoor  11:4 Peppered Moths, A. Mennega  11:12 Peter’s Denial of His Lord, J. Blankespoor  3:14 Polystratic Trees, A. Mennega  7:12 Preaching in America Today, R.B. Lanning  10:13 Preparing for Christ’s Return, T. Monsma  6:16 The Problem is the Bible, R. Grossmann  9:10 Reformed Ecumenical Synod on Political “Heresies,” P. De Jong  5:20 Rethinking Congregationalism , C. Tuininga  1:22 Rethinking Congregationalism, J. Tuininga  4:22 Rethinking Missions Today, B.M. Madany  1:6; 2:2; 3:2 Revivals and Altar–Calls, P. De Jong  10:7 Seminary Students Evaluate Contemporary Testimony, J.M. DeKoekkoek  1:20 S.O.S. or Abandon Ship? S.M. Schlissel  7:17 “Surprised by Joy” P. De Jong  4:22 S.W.I.M., 25 Years Later, is the Church Better Off? I. Mulder  1:19 Synod 1986, E.J. Knott  7:4 The Synod’s Pastoral Letter, G. Kamminga  1:24 Tensions in the Churches, C. Tuininga  2:10 A Threat of Fundamentalism, J. Tuininga  9:16 Today’s Hypocrisies (Matt. 23:24), J. Tuininga  2:23 Training Women Ministers, R.A. Pontier  8:2 Translations of the Bible, I.H. Murray  9:8 Unworshipful Worship, P. De Jong  1:23 Update on the Reformed Confessing Church of Zaire, M. Koerner  11:6 What About Euthanasia and Living Wills? N.L. Jones  5:8 What is Lynwood Saying to the C.R.C.? P. De Jong  10:2 When the King Could Not Sleep, J. Blankespoor  2:8 Whither the Christian Reformed Church? H. Vander Kam  3:8 Who am I? G.P. Palmer  1:24; 2:11; 3:13; 4:5; 5:15; 6:17 ·–7:11; 9:7; 10:14 Witnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ, J. Blankespoor  5:4 Women and M. Div. Program at Calvin, S.M. Arrick  5:2 Women Deacons: Church Polity and Hermeneutics, F. Pronk  2:5; 3:11; 4:6 “You are the Salt of the Earth” (Matt. 5:13), A. Petrolje  9:5

SUBJECTS

ADAM – HISTORICITY

Adam and Evolution, L. DeKoster  4:18; 5:10

BIBLE

Anglicanism and Scripture  10:12 The Bible in the C.R.C. Today, H. Vander Goot  1:8 DeKoster on Report 44, P. De Jong  1:14 Fellowship Anniversary Meeting: “Filling the gap,” H. Vanden Heuvel  11:13 The Inspiration and Inerrancy of Scripture, R.J. Venema  2:12 The Problem is the Bible, R. Grossmann  9:10 Translations of the Bible, I.H. Murray  9:8

CALVIN COLLEGE AND SEMINARY

Training Women Ministers, R.A. Pontier  8:2 Women and the M. Div. Program at Calvin, S.M. Arrick  5:2

CALVIN, JOHN

Luther and Calvin, P. De Jong  6:6

CANONS OF THE SYNOD OF DORDT

An Open Letter to the Editor of The Banner, E.H. Oostendorp  4:10

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

The Necessity of Christian Education, C.J. Williams  7:12

CHRISTIAN LIVING

Constructive Christians in a Collapsing World and Church, P. De Jong  10:4; 11:8 Living on the Lunatic Fringe, N. Weeks  5:6 Needed: Whole Christianity, L.E. Wilson  5:19 “Surprised by Joy” P. De Jong  4:22

CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH

The Bible in the C.R.C. Today, H. Vander Coot  1:8 Biblical Headship and the Board of Publications, Kloosterman  8:8 Bureaucracy in the Church: Its Cause, Its Cure, DeKoster  6:4; 7:8; 8:4 Can Two Walk Together . . . ? N.D. Kloosterman  8:11 Church Dishonesty, J. Tuininga  1:23 Consistorial Conference. S.C. Pastine  11:16 For Such a Time as This, P. De Jong  11:13 Joining a Common Apostacy (sic). J. Tuininga  10:11 New Chapter of Concerned Members Organized, H.J. Kwantes  10:3 1985 in Review, J. Tuininga  6:21 No “Denominational Differences”? J. Tuininga  4:10 Now a Sexist Catechism. P. De Jong  4:21 Organization and Plans of the Concerned  3:19 Our Heritage, Predicament and Future (Conference of Concerned), P. De Jong  7:19 Rethinking Congregationalism, C. Tuininga  1:22 Rethinking Congregationalism, J. Tuininga  4:22 S.O.S. or Abandon Ship? S.M. Schlissel  7:17 Synod 1986, E.J. Knott  7:4 Tensions in the Churches, C. Tuininga  2:10 Today’s hypocrisies (Matt. 23:24}, J. Tuininga  2:23 What is Lynwood Saying to the C.R.C.? P. De Jong  10:2 Whither the Christian Reformed Church? H. Vander Kam  3:8

CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SYNOD

Christian Reformed Synod Agenda, P. De Jong  6:8 The Synod’s pastoral Letter. G. Kamminga  1:24

CHURCH MUSIC

A Threat of Fundamentalism, J. Tuininga  9:16

CHURCH – NETHERLANDS

Highlights From the Lowlands: Church Reformation models, N. Hegeman  M5:21 Joining a Common Apostacy (sic), J. Tuininga  10:11

CHURCH ORDER/POLITY

Bureaucracy in the Church: Its Cause, Its Cure, L. DeKoster  6:4; 7:8; 8:4 Lapsing Memberships, J. Tuininga  5:20 The Order of the Lord’s Church: offices of the church, S.M. Arrick  9:9; 10:10; 11:10 Women Deacons: Church Polity and Hermeneutics, F. Pronk  2:5; 3:11; 4:6

CHURCH UNITY

Biblical unity and separation, P. DeJong …………3:24

CONTEMPORARY TESTIMONY

The Contemporary Testimony, T. Turngren  6:14 Seminary Students Evaluate Contemporary Testimony, J.M. DeKoekkoek  1:20

CREATION

Needed: A Creation Creed, D.A. Kloosterman ……….3:6 “Not Older than Fifteen Billion Years,” A. Mennega  9:15

EUTHANASIA

What about Euthanasia and Living Wills? N.L. Jones  5:8

EVANGELISM

Revivals and Altar-Calls, P. De Jong  10:7

EVOLUTION

Adam and Evolution, L. De Koster  4:18; 5:10

FUNDAMENTALISM

A Threat of Fundamentalism, J. Tuininga  9:16

HEADSHIP ISSUES

Biblical Headship and the Board of Publications, D.A. Kloosterman  8:8

HEIDELBERG CATECHISM

Now a Sexist Catechism. P. De Jong  4:21

HERMENEUTICS – see BIBLE

LORD’S SUPPER

Children at the Lord’s Supper, J. Tuininga  6:20

LUTHER, MARTIN

Luther and Calvin, P. De Jong  6:6

MEDITATIONS

Abounding in the work of the Lord (I Cor. 15:58), J. Blankespoo  4:4 Carrying Each Other’s Burdens (Gal. 6:2), J. Blankespoor  6:2 The Church That is Near Death (Rev. 3:1–6), J. Blankespoor  9:6 Confidence in God’s Complete Work (Phil. 1:6), J. Blankespoor  7:2 Faithful stewards (I Cor. 4:2), J. Blankespoor  10:6 The Lord is my Shepherd (Ps. 23:1), J. Blankespoor  1:4 Peace and the Sword (Luke 2:14; Matt. 10:34), J. Blankespoor  11:4 Peter’s Denial of his Lord (Matt. 26:74, 75), J. Blankespoor  3:14 When the King Could Not Sleep (Esther 6:1), J. Blankespoor  2:8 Witnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 1:8), J. Blankespoor  5:4 “You are the Salt of the Earth” (Matt. 5:13), A. Petrolje   9:5

MID-AMERICA REFORMED SEMINARY

A German Reformed Voice at Mid-America, P. De Jong  4:2 Mid-America Reformed Seminary, J. Tuininga  4:24 1986 Mid-America Reformed Seminary Board Meeting and Festival, A. Besteman  10:9

MISSIONS

New Missions for the Gospel, P. De Jong  9:14 Preparing for Christ’s Return, T. Monsma  6:16 Rethinking Missions Today, B.M. Madany  1:6; 2:2; 3:2

OFFICE OF BELIEVER

God’s Calling: The Office of the Christian Believer, P. DeJong  1;11; 2:20; 3:20; 4:16

PREACHING

Preaching in America Today, R.B. Lanning  10:13

REFORMED ECUMENICAL SYNOD

Reformed Ecumenical Synod on political “heresies” P. De Jong  5:20

REFORMED FELLOWSHIP

Fellowship Anniversary Meeting: “Filling the Gap”, H. Vanden Heuvel  11:13 For Such a Time as This, P. De Jong  11:13

REPORT 44 – see BIBLE

ROBERTS, J. LARRY

J. Larry Roberts: 1917–1986, P.Y. De Jong  5:13

SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE

Absence of Evidence, A. Mennega  3:5 God’s Hand at Work in the Winter, K. Yonker   11:11 Human Tails, A. Mennega  1:2 “Not Older than Fifteen Billion Years” A. Mennega  9:15 Peppered Moths, A. Mennega  11:12 Polystratic Trees, A. Mennega  7:12

STUDY OUTLINES

The Acts, H. Vander Kam  1:16, 2:16; 3:16; 4:12

S.W.I.M.

S.W.I.M., 25 Years Later, Is the zchurch Better Off? I. Mulder  1:19

THEOLOGY – TRENDS IN

Anti-Christian Ethnic Theology, P. De Jong  5:16

VAN DYKEN, HARRY

In Memoriam: Harry VanDyken, 1917–1985, S. Viss  3:23

WOMEN IN ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE

Training Women Ministers, R.A. Pontier  8:2 Women Deacons: Church Polity and Hermeneutics, F. Pronk  2:5; 3:11; 4:6

WORSHIP

Unworshipful Worship, P. De Jong  1:23

ZAIRE – REFORMED CHURCH

Update on the Reformed Confessing Church of Zaire, M. Koerner  11:6

BOOK REVIEWS

Antonides, Harry, Stones for Bread (the social gospel and its contemporary legacy), (J. Tuininga)  10:16 Henry, Carl F.H., Confessions of a theologian, (P. De Jong)  9:2 Jones, Norman L., Study helps on the Heidelberg Catechism, (R.J. Blauw)  9:14 Murray, John, Collected Writings of John Murray, Vol. 4, (P. De Jong)  2:24

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