All Articles For Deuteronomy

In the November, 1959 issue of Torch and Trumpetthe Reverend Henry Vander Kam gives brief expositions on The Sermon on the Mount. With two of these we take exception.  Commenting on Matthew 5:13-16 and particularly on the expression of Jesus: “Ye are the salt of the earth,” he makes the following observations: 

And Jehovah shall appear above them, and like lightning shall his arrow go forth, and the Lord Jehovah shall blow the trumpet, and go forth in the storms of the South. Jehovah of hosts shall protect them, and they devour and tread down sling-stones, and they drink and make a noise as from wine, and become full like bowls, as the corners of the altar. And Jehovah their God saves them in that day (saves) like a flock his people, for Jewels like a crown shall they be, sparkling over the land.

Rev. R. Decker, of Doon, Iowa, has accepted the call extended him by our church in South Holland, IL; and, Doon has already named a trio from which they will choose one to fill Rev. Decker’s place: the Revs. D. Kuiper, D. Engelsma and H. Veldman.

Rev. Key is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Hull, Iowa. We have considered the necessity of being born again, and have seen it as a wonder work of divine grace. The question now becomes, also as a matter of personal importance: How is that wonder of regeneration brought to consciousness with all that it includes? How do I know that I am regenerated? That is an urgent question, as you who are elect strangers can certainly sense. We have seen that the Holy Spirit works the wonder of regeneration by implanting the incorruptible seed of Christ’s life in...

In our previous editorial on this subject we found that the answer to the question whether government subsidy involves government control is affirmative. This, in the first place, is the history of all government subsidy in general: whatever the government pays for it also controls to some degree. In the second place, we found that already there are severe restrictions attached to federal funds granted to private schools under the 1963 Higher Educational Facilities Act.

Mr. Minderhoud is a teacher in Covenant Christian High School and a member of Hope Protestant Reformed Church, Walker, Michigan. The Italian navigator has landed in the new world.” So went the coded message communicating that Italian- American physicist Enrico Fermi had, on that second day of December, 1942, set off the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, in a squash court of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. This important discovery quickly led to the assembling of a half a million people and two billion dollars in resources in New Mexico, known as the Manhattan Project. The goal of...

Rev. Key is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Hull, Iowa. The substance of this article was the keynote address given at the Officebearers’ Conference of Classis West in Randolph, Wisconsin, on August 1, 1004. The speech has been adapted by the author for publication in the Standard Bearer. Previous article in this series: November 1, 2005, p. 57. Having considered together in our last article the basis for Christian education, we now turn our attention to the goal and fruit of such dedicated instruction of the church’s children. The Goal In the instruction of our children we strive...

The October 10 issue of The Banner carried, contrary to the expressed judgment of its Editor, the Reverend J. Vander Ploeg, an article entitled “Christian Art,” written by Dr. Calvin Seerveld, professor of philosophy at Trinity Christian College, and placed as one of a series of articles on “New Frontiers for the Reformed Faith.” One might almost have expected, in the light of some recent past performances, a set of “pro” and “con” articles about this article of Dr.

Hezekiah’s prayer of thanksgiving. Isaiah 37:9-20  The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he had been sick and was recovered from his sickness (vs. 9).  As an expression of his gratitude Hezekiah wrote this: prayer for the instruction and edification of all God’s believing people. The first section leads us into his great anguish of soul that he experienced at receiving the tiding that he must die (vss. 10-15). 

And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew they servant they greatness, and they mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this...