The title of this column reflects my thoughts early last year upon receiving my copy of The Rock Whence We Are Hewn from the Reformed Free Publishing Association. Boy, was I wrong. My original (wrong) thoughts on the book were, “Do we really need another book on common grace?” Then I read the book. We […]
Dear Editor, Writing in response to the article “Deadly Poison” by Mrs. Dilys Watson in the January 2002 issue of Beacon Lights, I shall confine myself to the points that I regard as a misrepresentation of my views. I do not believe that God is ignorant of anything. In particular, I do not believe that […]
Dear Beacon Lights Editor, I was sent a set of tapes from a series of lectures given by Rev. David Silversides in 1999. The tapes I received in mid 2000. They were sent to me by a young Christian friend whom I know through the mutual friendship of Mr. Paul Hayden, first Secretary of the […]
Reprinted from the CPRCNI newsletter. “For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of those that believe,” I Timothy 4:10. This text, along with others of a similar kind, has often been quoted in support of the free and general […]
This is not an attempt to prove that the theory of common grace is anti-Scriptural and anti- Confessional, since our present purpose is to show what happened in 1924 from the point of view of an observer. Moreover, this is done extensively and thoroughly in a book that will soon be published and be made […]
There is an error which is found in nearly every church today to one degree or another. The error is that God loves ALL (every man, women, and child) men and is sincere in His desire to save ALL men. Those who teach this error go straight to the Bible in defense of this error. […]
It is important to understand the factors which led to the formation of the Protestant Reformed Churches. The PR Churches were constrained to come out of the Christian Reformed Churches in America in 1924. In order to acquire a picture of the spiritual condition of the CR Churches in the 1920’s it is evident that […]