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Rev. Hanko is missionary-pastor of the Protestant Reformed Churches, in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Whether God has made two or three (or even four) offices in the church is an important question. Nevertheless, too great a concentration on this question may sometimes have diverted our attention from a question of greater importance for our times: Has God given to elders (or ruling elders, as they are called among the Presbyterians) authority to teach? Does teaching belong to their office? Are we to distinguish sharply between the offices of teaching and ruling, pastor and elder? That the elders must teach if the congregation...

Rev. Hanko is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Norristown, Pennsylvania. Part 1—The Texts of the Psalter A comparison of the texts of The Psalter with the texts of the Psalms in the KJV reveals not only that our versification of the Psalms are loose but also that the theology of the authors was not in all respects soundly Biblical. I do not mean to say that a significant portion of the words of The Psalter is objectionable. There is little that is. Rather I mean to say that the approach to psalm singing taken by the authors, and that therefore the underlying, rather...

Rev. Hanko is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Norristown, Pennsylvania. The name of the Covenant Reformed Fellowship is not new to the readers of The Standard Bearer. Synod of 1988 decided to send a delegation to Larne to help the saints there. Rev. Kamps and Prof. Engelsma went and the report of their visit is found in the December 15, 1988 issue. It gives a brief history of the fellowship, and details of the visits and work of the delegates. Synod also decided to instruct the Committee for Contact “to secure the labors of one of our ministers to...

Kenneth Hanko is a missionary-pastor of the Protestant Reformed Churches in Norristown, Pennsylvania. The principle which Paul outlines in I Corinthians 9:7-14 is not a difficult one to understand: the Lord has ordained “that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.” Yet it is a principle which the church of God in the twentieth century does not clearly understand nor faithfully apply. The principle can be restated to make the point clear: the church of God is under obligation to give an adequate living to those who preach the gospel in and for it. The Lord has ordained it...

Rev. Ken Hanko is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Norristown, Pennsylvania. In early October of 1983 the Mission Committee of the Protestant Reformed Churches sent Ken Hanko, who had just graduated from seminary and was a candidate for the ministry, to the Norristown, PA area to work with a group of eight people who were interested in establishing a Protestant Reformed Church. Pastor Hanko was ordained home missionary in September, 1984, and has worked since that time with the group in Norristown. Though five of the original eight left, the group grew, and was organized in January of...

Rev. Hanko is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Norristown, Pennsylvania. Jacob is returning from his Uncle Laban’s house in Padan-Aram, and is about to re-enter the land which had been promised to him by God. More than twenty years have passed since he deceived Isaac and obtained the birthright. Through all those years God has been with him, blessed him, and protected him from the avarice and cunning of Laban. God has sent him back to Canaan with the promise, “I will be with thee” (Genesis 31:3), and God has shown him the host of angels who encamped...

Kenneth Hanko, a missionary-pastor of the Protestant Reformed Churches, is currently laboring in Bluebell, Pennsylvania. Rev. Tom Miersma in his regular column in The Standard Bearer has been treating carefully the subject assigned to me for this special issue. In order to avoid repetition I am going to 1) recommend that you read carefully his articles on this subject (there is much valuable material in them), and 2) take a different viewpoint. He has set forth the principles which must apply in the study of a particular passage. I will try to set forth a broader application of these principles to particular...

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.  Matthew 24:14 In Matthew 24 God teaches us that all of history must be understood in the light of its end. False prophets and apostasy, wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes, tribulation and iniquity, even the rise and rule of Antichrist himself are signs of Christ’s second coming. They can be understood properly only when we look at them as progress towards the goal of the fulfillment of God’s purpose: the glory of His...

God created Adam free. This does not mean that Adam was free to obey or not as he chose, for the power to choose sin is not freedom. It means that Adam had the right, the power, and the will to obey. Man’s freedom is always found within the bounds of the law. The fish is not free to live on the land, and the tree is not free to live apart from the soil. Just so man was not created free to obey or not as he chose, but to obey. In disobedience there is, not freedom, but death...