Delegates to the PRYP’s 1981 Convention, Beloved Young People and Friends: First of all, we wish to express our deep appreciation for having been chosen to be one of the speakers to this convention. This honor we have enjoyed several times before when we were in the active ministry. But we want you to […]
We have been asked to give a brief dissertation on the text found in Philippians 2:12, 13. No motivation was given to signify the reason for this request. We are assuming that it was more than to give an old retired minister something to do. Was it perhaps because it appears on the surface that […]
Introduction: We are pleased to be present with you on this 31st annual Convention, and to have a part in the program which has been arranged. We are also pleased with the general theme of this Convention, which is: Disciples of Christ. It struck me that such a theme would be chosen in a day […]
The Confusion of Tongues (Genesis 11:1-9) It would seem that when we compare what is recorded in these verses, especially verse 2, with what we read in Genesis 10: 8 -10, that we must conclude that the history recorded in Chapter 11 is antecedent to that recorded in Chapter 10. If this conclusion is correct, […]
The Staff of Beacon Lights has requested us to write a brief article revealing the present status of missions in the Protestant Reformed Churches. With this evident interest on the part of our young people in the matter of missions we are truly pleased. We are quite sure it reflects the interest which most of […]
With the appearance of this issue of Beacon Lights we will be in the year of our Lord 1957 and in the eleventh month of that year. And the last Thursday of this month has been designated Thanksgiving Day. With this in mind the editorial staff has asked me to pen a few thoughts about […]
“What,” you say, “the next convention! Why, here it is only the month of May, and you are talking about the next convention already?” Yes, that’s right. And that’s because we really have something to talk about. A certain group of young people have been talking about the next convention ever since the last one. […]
OUTLINE 29 4. A TRUSTWORTHY JUDGMENT RE MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY (I Cor. 7:25-40) a. Occasion for its pronouncement. It is difficult to determine precisely what it is that is the occasion for the judgment the apostle here pronounces. In verse 26 the apostle speaks of “the present distress” or perhaps better translated “the impending […]
OUTLINE 25 4. THE FACT OF OUR CHRISTIAN LIBERTY—(I Cor. 6:9-20) a. The bondage from which liberated. vss. 9-11. What the apostle has to say from here on to the end of the chapter has reference, of course, to the corrupt conditions he had called to their attention in chapter 5, and thus far […]
OUTLINE 21 6. CONCLUSIONS CONCERNING PARTISANSHIP (I Cor. 4:14-21) a. The Motivation of the Severe Rebuke: In verses 14 and 16 the apostle expresses two reasons for his writing as he had. The first of these is “to admonish them in love”. It was not his aim to air their sins and to expose […]