All Articles For Veldman, Herman

NEGATIVE: RESOLVED:That Discipline of Members that Belong to Worldly Organization’s should be Left to the Ministry of the Word. When the undersigned is requested to refute the proposition that the discipline of members belonging to worldly organizations should be left to the ministry of the Word, and, by implication, maintain that Christian discipline must be applied to these members, it is, of course, not his task to prove the necessity of Christian discipline. This is established among us, according to Scripture and Confession. If in many churches the exercise of Christian discipline is sadly neglected or even mockingly ignored we...

NEGATIVE-REBUTTAL: In refuting the affirmative stand as set forth by my opponent, the Reverend J. Heys, the undersigned must remark at the very outset that there is much in his article with which he is in agreement. We, too, believe that the Ministry of the Word is very really discipline and that this first Key of the Kingdom of Heaven is the chief means of Christian Discipline. The rebuttal of the undersigned must therefore be directed primarily against the conclusion of the article of the affirmative which sets forth suggested reasons for leaving the discipline of those that belong to...

* Speech given at a picnic of the auxiliary of our school movement. Not so very long ago I spoke at one of your meetings which was held in the parlors of our Fuller Ave. church. I feel that I owe you some sort of apology. At that time, during recess time, some of you asked me whether I thought that your society was guilty of a lack of enthusiasm, when I asked and tried to answer the question: Why the delay? However, that thought did not live in my soul, but I also wish to remove any doubt which...

Inspiration is that act of God, whereby He moved holy men so that they infallibly, unerringly wrote the Word of God. This refers, of course, to the original manuscripts. We believe that these divine Scriptures, in their entirety, are the direct product of the living God and of the power of His grace. Although mention, then, can be made of the divine and human “factors” with respect to the composition of the Bible, these “human factors,” although referring to the holy men who wrote the Scriptures, must never be regarded as anything else than the divinely willed and prepared instruments...

The doctrine of the Person of Christ implies especially four factors. Christology, of course, includes other doctrines besides the Person of Christ, such as the truths concerning His names, His offices, and His states. The doctrine of the Person of Christ, however, implies especially four factors. First of all, it implies the true and proper conception of the divinity of the Lord. We must confess Christ to be very God. Secondly, this doctrine refers to the true and proper humanity of Christ. We must not only confess that He is very God but also that He is very man. In...

The movement known as the “Reformation” is characteristically spiritual. It denotes that work of God whereby His people, His Church, was liberated out of the shackles of Roman Catholicism. To be sure, the Reformation also had far-reaching political results. Yet, to many it was merely political. This is due to the fact that the Roman Catholic Church, besides being a spiritual power, was also clothed with political might. Nevertheless, the Reformation, in its origin and according to its fundamental significance, is decidedly spiritual. We associate especially two names with the Reformation: Martin Luther and John Calvin. In this essay we...

The four kinds of faith are well-known to us. We have all heard of saving faith, historical faith, temporal faith, and miraculous faith. It is our purpose in this essay, not to discuss these four kinds of faith in detail, but to emphasize the relation which exists between them. And we expect to point out that, proceeding from saving faith, we can speak of a historical, temporal, and miraculous faith in a sound, Scriptural sense of the word. It is possible, we believe, to view these three kinds of faith as rooted in saving faith and as having therefore a...

In Matt. 22:31, 32 we read: “But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.” This word of Jesus also appears in the twelfth chapter of Mark. And in the gospel according to Luke, who also records this incident, we read in Luke 20:37, 38: “Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush when he calleth...

It is hardly conceivable that a stronger Scriptural proof can be quoted against the teaching of “Common Grace” than the explanation, by Christ Himself, of the Decalogue or the Law of the Ten Commandments, in Matt. 22:35-40. We read there: “Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked Him a question, tempting Him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus saith unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second...

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is: the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matt. 7:13-14 We may definitely assert that the “Kingdom of Heaven” is the subject of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Throughout this sermon in Matt. 5:7, the spiritual character of this Kingdom receives all emphasis. It is spiritual in distinction from the earthy expectation of the disciples on the one...