There is much talk today about the new morality, often referred to as just the “old immorality.” It seems as if the human race is suffering a complete breakdown in morals. Sex is not the only frontier where morality seems to be making its last stand. The name of God is literally trampled to death, […]
“I write you young men because ye have overcome the evil one…I have written you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.” – I John 2:12-14 This time I ask you youthful reader, to take your Bible and read the text […]
The staff of Beacon Lights requested me to write an article on the above-captioned subject for our young People. I do this gladly for more than one reason. For one thing, each decade brings me a bit farther removed from the “present generation” of young People. I do not believe that there is a “generation […]
June 1, 1969 thru May 31, 1970 Balance May 31, 1969 $6,732.00 INCOME Bank Interest $275.06 Interest on U.S. Gov’t Bond $125.00 Gift – Mr. A. Vanden Top $ 19.80 Gift – Hope Heralds Concert Collection $ 64.65 $ 484.51 DISBURSEMENTS Scholarships Awarded $700.00 Ad in Standard Bearer $ 3.00 $ 703.00 Balance May 31, […]
The turning away of the Simple shall slay them. – Solomon At last, but not surprisingly, we find Christian arriving at Mr. Calvary, where his terrible burden fell from his back, tumbled down the blood-stained hill to roll off into a sepulcher at the bottom, where it was swallowed up and seen no more. For […]
Our Young People On Friday, the twelfth of June, a Clue Hunt was held in Hudsonville for all the area young people. Many of us never knew there even existed such towns as Burnips, Borculo, and Beaverdam but we sure had fun finding them that night! The Hudsonville young people, with the help o9s some […]
The Bible contains many passages that are favorites of mine – passages that I turn to when I’m in need of a special message from God’s Word. But if there is one group of verses that I seem to turn to more often than the others and if there is one verse that comes to […]
Editor’s Note: What follows is the text of an address given on May 29, 1970 at the honors assembly of the Hope Protestant Reformed Christian School. I was requested at the time to prepare it for distribution; I chose instead to publish it here. I suppose that most of you know why you have come […]
“For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” With many misgivings and doubts did we, the Hudsonville Young People’s Societies, undertake the planning of the 1970 Convention. How were we to make this a truly significant […]
The traditional Sunday worship services as we have always known them are becoming the object of much criticism. The church is accused of being irrelevant and outdated. Demands are made for more involvement in the worship service – more congregational participation. These accusations are not only made by critics of the church, such as atheists […]