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Rev. Bruinsma is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Kalamazoo, Michigan. … and the glory of children are their fathers.  Proverbs 17:6We have already considered in our last article the first part of this verse, which speaks of children’s children being the crown of old men. When the family unit is preserved from one generation to the next, then fathers and mothers are able to see their children’s children. Their grandchildren are about a father’s feet as jewels which bedeck his royal crown. Families with legitimate children and legitimate grandchildren are of great joy and satisfaction to a man...

Ben wigger is a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of Hudsonville, Michigan.

First Protestant Reformed Church of Holland, Michigan has made a change in the singing of the doxology. After the morning service, they sing Psalter No. 197, and after the evening service they sing the words of “May the Grace of Christ Our Savior” to the tune of Psalter No. 222. 

Mr. Wigger is a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of Hudsonville, Michigan. Minister Activities We extend our congratulations to Rev. & Mrs. Allen Brummel on the occasion of the birth of a son, Darren Ray, born May 28. Darren weighed in at eight pounds fifteen ounces and joins a busy household including five brothers and one sister. Rev. Michael DeVries declined the call he had been considering to serve as the next pastor of the Byron Center, MI PRC. Byron then called Rev. Wilbur Bruinsma, out of a trio that included also Rev. Dick, and Rev. Slopsema. After Rev....

Mr. Doezema is a member of Southwest PRC and secretary of the Domestic Mission Committee. Life’s grandest privilege is to help others to learn to know God in all the glory of His character and His deeds. I must admit that I didn’t look forward to writing this article—because, in reflecting on the work of the Domestic Mission Committee in the past year, and years, I found myself getting … discouraged. If the goal of our home mission work is the establishment of Protestant Reformed congregations, I wondered, where are the “successes”? Doesn’t the track record of the DMC of...

THE TIME OF THE REFORMATION  VIEWS ON THE CHURCH  FORMAL PRINCIPLE  (continued) 

All men are interested in a bargain.  We may not all have money to invest for dividends. We may not even have a bank account from which we seek a little interest on each dollar. And if we do have a little to deposit, we may not have the opportunity to “shop around” to determine which financial institution will give us the greatest amount of interest for the use of our money. There may be but one bank or one savings and loan association in the district where we live. 

Mrs. Miersma is the wife of Rev. Thomas Miersma, missionary in Spokane, Washington. Royal children are children of the Word, children who must develop in their abilities to listen and speak and to read and write with understanding. Since they are stewards of the abilities and talents that their heavenly Father has given them, we as parents and teachers will encourage the development of their talents with a view to serving our Father King. We wrote of talents, not so much with an eye to differences of natural endowment, but from the perspective of abilities that, though they vary, we...

Previous article in this series: May 15, 2010, p. 371. “No church shall in any way lord it over other churches, no minister over other ministers, no elder or deacon over other elders or deacons.” Church Order, Article 84. Introduction The “Anti-Hierarchical Article,” as it has often been called, has a long and honorable history in the Dutch Reformed churches. It was the very first article of the Church Order drafted by the very first regular synod of these churches, the Synod of Emden, 1571. For logical reasons, it was later moved to the section of the Church Order dealing with...

It is striking that, in the case of Isaac and Jacob, the event that manifests their faith so clearly that they are mentioned in Hebrews 11 as those whose walk of life was a confession that they were pilgrims and strangers on the earth seeking the city which hath foundations whose Designer and Builder is God occurred late in life.