All Articles For Colossians

Rev. Kuiper is pastor of Southeast Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There are anthropomorphisms in Scripture, figures of speech in which human characteristics are ascribed to God in order that we may better understand Him and His works. God’s repentance is such a figure: God is not a man that He should repent; He never changes or does any thing for which He is sorry. Yet we read of the repentance of God several times, because to our limited minds it seems that God changes in respect to His dealings with the sons of men. When we read...

Pelted with Questions We have been receiving the Standard Bearer for only two or three months (plus extra copies sent to us by the Evangelism Committee of the South Holland Protestant Reformed Church). We eagerly anticipate the arrival of each month’s issue; for we are learning a great deal from them. Your magazine has very encouraging, inspiring articles that cause us to think deeply about the Word of God. Thank you! My husband and I are new to the Reformed faith. After we had studied the “5 points of Calvinism” for maybe two years, God introduced us to the full plan this...

Mr. Wigger is a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of Hudsonville, Michigan. Evangelism Activities The Peace PRC of Lynwood, IL sponsored their annual Spring Lecture on April 21 at the Illiana Christian High School. Rev. C. Haak, pastor of the Bethel PRC in Itasca, IL, spoke on the topic, “Personal Evangelism: A Desire for the Glory of God in the Salvation of Souls.” The Extension Committee of the Lynden, WA PRC also scheduled a Spring Lecture. On March 31, Professor H. Hanko, of our Seminary, spoke on the subject, “The Church: A Spiritual Institution.” Congregational Activities The Council of...

Rev. Key is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Randolph, Wisconsin. Under this rubric, “Taking Heed to Doctrine,” we have been led by other writers through a broad overview of theology or the doctrine of God. This new writer begins with the next section of Reformed doctrine, that of anthropology, or the doctrine of man. This division of Reformed doctrine generally includes such subjects as creation and providence, as well as what the Bible teaches concerning man—his creation, his fall into sin, and the effects of that fall. To many of our readers, the treatment of these concepts will contain...

The later Homer Hoeksema was professor of Dogmatics and Old Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary.

Deckers and Hankos Feted On the evening of October 5, 1990, the Theological School Committee of the Protestant Reformed Churches observed significant anniversaries in the lives of Professor Herman C. Hanko and of Professor Robert D. Decker. This year marks Professor Hanko’s 35th year and Professor Decker’s 25th year in the ministry of the gospel. 

The Epistles of Peter, by J.H. Jowett (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1993), 174 pp., $9.95 (paper). [Reviewed by Prof. Herman Hanko.] Rev. John Henry Jowett was a Congregationalist preacher in England during the last part of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th. He was, from 1918 till his death in 1923, minister in Westminster Chapel in London, a predecessor of Campbell Morgan and Martyn Lloyd-Jones. This book is not a commentary in the strict sense of the word. It is rather a collection of meditations on various passages in Peter’s two epistles – 18 on the...

Rev. Kuiper is pastor of Southeast Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The believer today is a circumcised individual with a circumcision made without hands. “For we are the circumcision which worship God in spirit, and rejoice in Jesus Christ, and have no confidence in the flesh” (Phil. 3:3). The Old Testament rite of circumcision, the cutting of the foreskin of the male child, was a token of the covenant (Gen. 17:11). The outward sign, administered to the eight-day-old man-child born in the house or bought with money of the stranger, portrayed in a striking way the truth that...

Rev. Lubbers is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity (love), in spirit, in faith, in purity. I Timothy 4:12, 13 To be sure, Timothy is placed here under a very weighty injunction, as a God-appointed officebearer in the church of the living God. As were the Nazarites in the Old Testament, so must Timothy be a good example of all godliness. He must not fail in this pursuit of godliness as did Samson, but he must be a...

Mr. Hilton is principal and a teacher at the Free Christian School of Edgerton, Minnesota. This article was originally intended by the author for the “Letters” column. Because of its length and worth, we publish it as a contribution. For the benefit of all our readers, we give the “form” referred to by Mr. Hilton, the questions asked at the ceremony of public confession of faith in the Protestant Reformed Churches, in full. Public Confession of Faith   (Before or after the sermon, the minister requests those who intend to make public confession of their faith to arise and to...