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Plenary Inspiration of Scripture

Question: What do they mean who say that they believe in the plenary but not in the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures? Answer: Let us listen to one, the late Dr. A. Pieters, who held to this position. He writes in his “Notes” and I quote: “The position taken by the author of these notes is […]

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The Opponent

Let us look once into the other camp over which the banner “Error” proudly waves. We will try to get a general view of our opponent together with the forces he has mustered under his command. Our first impression is astounding. We cannot fail to notice the “bigness” of the enemy’s camp in proportion to […]

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Preview of a Happy Easter

Young people, did you know that it is almost Easter? Yes, that’s what I’m asking. That’s a stupid question, you say. Of course we know it’s almost Easter. Don’t we see the signs of it all around us? Does not almost every store window show something we should buy because Easter is coming? We see […]

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Letters

March 7, 1954 Holland, Mich. Dear Mr. Editor, In light of recent events, the letter in OPEN FORUM written by Hollis D. Heemstra was very much out of place. In these trying times we should not be busy condemning and calling the church of God names. Instead we should be praying and asking God to […]

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Military Mail Bag

Hello Fellows: We come again with another issue of BEACON LIGHTS. Again we do not have any letters from you men. By this time the first issue has reached you wherever you are in the service so you know that Beacon Lights is again being published and that your pages are open for letters from […]

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Living Out of Good Works (3)

The question is: Are good works the condition to our salvation or the fruit of our salvation? Again we will use faith as an illustration to keep the issue clearly before us. There are in particular two ways that faith is spoken of as a condition to salvation. The first is that our salvation in […]

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God’s Hand on the Earth

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” How do we know? “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” (Heb. 11:3) Reason, mere human calculations, cannot fathom the depths of creation and […]

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Communism (7): Its Ultimate Failure

In my foregoing installments on this subject we have seen how the secret controlling powers of Communism, that is the Devil, and its “sacred cow,” Jew controlled Freemasonry, seek to dethrone the Triune God from the heavens, if possible, by their means of persecuting the true Church of Christ and their attempt to gain absolute […]

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