Even as the adults – the members and their families – have experienced the breakdown of the denominational and institutional life of our churches by the recent so-called “split” in the Protestant Reformed Churches, so our young people have experienced the disruption of our church life, as it has affected them in their young lives, […]
“Why art thou cast down O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” Psalm 43:5 Many times, fellows in the service are disquieted or cast down, by the life they have to walk among […]
Last time we pointed out that this discussion (the discussion of good works) must underlie any discussion we may have concerning the practical life of a Christian here below. We also pointed out that it was only a Christian that could really discuss these things. And that for the reason that our rubric is entitled […]
Out here in the Midwest corn belt, there is an insurance company – its name is not important – which has the rather gruesome custom of marking every fatal highway accident with a sign, which, besides bearing an “X” to mark the spot, also carries in large letters the single word “THINK.” I suppose the […]
Yes, indeed, power Christ had to lay down His life in order that He might take it again! Had it not been so, His death would still have been vain, and could not have had the value of a sacrifice blotting out our sins. No one could possibly offer His life as a vicarious sacrifice, […]
February 14, 1954 Grand Rapids, Mich. In the light of recent events, we recall the grotesque antics of a contentious faction whose discordant ways kept the congregations of our Protestant Reformed Churches at loggerheads. What ailed the splinter group? Was it too much jealousy and selfishness interfering with the minds of the people who […]
It is perhaps well that we, at the very outset of our discussion of the battle of all ages, attempt to determine just who and what the participants in this battle are. We distinguish two camps. Over the one a banner is unfurled which bears the label of “Truth.” Surrounding it on every side and […]
“And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” Thus Genesis describes the beginning when God formed the earth. In that same week of creation God separated the waters above from the waters below and, since the flood, there have been oceans and seas as we know […]