Vi Van Den Top, of our Hull church, composed this poem for Hull’s 50th anniversary singspiration held June 15. With her permission we gladly include this in our special issue. Thy people wander oft O God Taking the way so smooth and broad. With chastening rod and conscience sore, Thou restorest them to thy […]
Point I A. The First Point of Common Grace, as adopted by the C.R. Synod of 1924: “Relative to the first point which concerns the favorable attitude of God towards humanity in general and not only towards the elect, Synod declares it to be established according to Scripture and the confession, that apart from the […]
The topic before us ought to be of interest to all of us. This is true, because it stands at the very center of each of our lives. Essentially it deals with our relationship to God and is an important factor in our spiritual wellbeing. The following study guide is prepared to stimulate our discussion […]
I. To gain a proper understanding and viewpoint of dating and its practices, we should first of all consider what marriage is. A. The relationship between husband and wife is the most basic relationship on earth. 1. In Paradise, the first relationship God created was husband and wife. 2. In Gen. 2:24 and Eph. 5:31 […]
In 1953, I was merely 14 years old, a 9th grader under Alice Reitsma at Hope Protestant Reformed Christian School, then a small country school. I was aware of the controversy in the churches, but hardly involved. My recollections of it are few. I remember a Sunday evening in Hope when Rev. Hoeksema came to […]
In order to be proud of something in the true sense I will have to be thoroughly convinced that what I stand for is absolutely right and true. That means that no where in the world are there “truths” more in unity with Scripture than those that I believe in. I haven’t heard nor studied […]
It was while reading a newsletter from the Sub Committee of the 50th anniversary of God’s covenant faithfulness to the Protestant Reformed Churches, that I began to wonder. Is it really true that there are 1200 people planning to attend a field day to celebrate that occasion? What a coincidence that while thinking about this, […]
Are you preparing yourself for the future? If not, you should. If so, How? In what way? What are the tools, the helpers, the means you are using to do so? I hope you’re not using the BOX! The BOX wouldn’t do anything but spew filth at you, which your old man would suck up […]