All Articles For Deuteronomy

This sermon on Christian education by the Rev. Herman Hoeksema was preached in September, 1916, when Hoeksema was still a minister in the Christian Reformed Church. It was published in the September 1, 1927 issue of the Standard Bearer (Vol. 3, pp. 532-536). The sermon is fitting for the beginning of the school year. “And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”  Deuteronomy 6:7 That the education of children is one...

Rev. denHartog is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Randolph, Wisconsin. You will recognize that the above theme is taken from a familiar passage of Scripture found inDeuteronomy 29:29. The whole verse reads as follows: “The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.” These words are a great statement of Moses, the man of God, spoken by inspiration of the Holy Spirit. They were a kind of general conclusion and summary application of...

The later Homer Hoeksema was professor of Dogmatics an Old Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. Scripture begins the narrative of the coming into existence of our universe with the statement of Genesis 1:1, 2: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” The question as to how this narrative of creation came into being can have but one answer. That answer is: by revelation. God Himself revealed that He...

Rev. Slopsema is pastor of Hope Protestant Reformed Church in Walker, Michigan. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.  Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:  Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses; and dwelt therein;  And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is...

Rev. Haak is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Lynden, Washington. (Note: The outline of the Book of Ruth, which is begun here and will be carried on in several subsequent issues of the SB, was prepared by Rev. Haak for use in Lynden’s Ladies’ Bible Study Society. At our request he submitted the outline to us “as is”—that is, without any revision for a larger readership. It seems to us that it can serve a useful purpose, in that form, in our Standard Bearer, for other societies and Bible Study groups which choose to study this book of...

Rev. Lubbers is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. “This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless….” A few introductory remarks are in order. We are considering now what the sacred Scriptures say concerning the office of a bishop. In the first place, we notice that this office, that of a bishop, is limited to men only. We need not repeat. See our former lessons: Christian women are excluded. See I Timothy 2:2-15. In the second place, we should notice that this...

Rev. Slopsema is pastor of Hope Protestant Reformed Church in Walker, Michigan. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:  And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deuteronomy 6:6, 7 Moses is addressing the people of Israel in the plains of Moab. Soon Israel will enter into the land of promise. Moses reminds Israel of the covenant which God established with them at Mount...

Rev. Koole is pastor of Faith Protestant Reformed Church in Jenison, Michigan.

Rev. Terpstra is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of South Holland, Illinois. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.  Isaiah 6:3, 5

Rev. Terpstra is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of South Holland, Illinois. Introduction to the Nature of the Problem The question with which we deal in this presentation is that which concerns the proper exercise of discipline on the part of the church toward those baptized members who have not yet made public profession of faith but who walk in open, unconfessed, and impenitent sin. The Protestant Reformed Churches, as well as other Reformed churches, have the practice of working with such members by means of admonitions and warnings before finally erasing them as members of the church, which...