All Articles For Romans

Rev. Heys is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. The tremendously small disease germs that are invisible to the naked eye of man can produce in man a dangerously high fever, severe pain, and as far as some of them are concerned, the realization of certain death. The length, breadth, shape, and weight of such creatures do not count. Likewise a small spark of electricity, or a small match that has been lit near an explosive gas can cause a powerful explosion, great devastation, and fire. Therefore men are warned not to smoke while filling their automobiles with...

The late Homer Hoeksema was professor of Dogmatics and Old Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. God’s Creation of the Living Creature (Gen. 1:20-25) In this connection let us pay attention to the following facets of the creation of the animals which we have not yet considered. In the first place, we call attention to the creative act as such, whereby the fish and fowl were brought into being on the fifth day, and the animals on the sixth day. Concerning the fish and fowl we read, first of all, in Genesis 1:20: “And God said, Let the waters bring forth...

Grammatical-Historical-Spiritual Exegesis” In the October 1, 1994 issue of the <=”” i=””>, Prof. Engelsma called Mr. Harold Camping back to the grammatical-historical-spiritual method of Bible interpretation. Would you please explain more fully what this is, for those of us who would want to tread carefully on the “holy ground” of Jehovah’s Word? Is the grammatical-historical-covenantal (method) something different? Are there books or literature that you can recommend on this topic? I and others will be eagerly awaiting your response.  D. Scott Connerley  Bloomington, IN Thank you for your article, “Lessons from the Recent False Prophecy of the Date of the End of...

Prof. Hanko is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. Controversy With Arminius It may surprise our readers somewhat that Gomarus fought hard against the appointment of Arminius as professor in theology. But this surprise will evaporate when we realize that Arminius was under strong suspicion for his views before he was considered for a professorship. After he completed his studies, Arminius became minister in the church of Amsterdam. It was not long after the beginning of his ministry that he began a series of sermons on the book of Romans. In connection with his...

Mr. Huisken, a member of Grandville Protestant Reformed Church, is registrar at Hope College, in Holland, Michigan. Calvin’s main treatise on civil government is found in Book IV, Chapter 20 of his Institutes of the Christian Religion. Since Chapter 20 constitutes the final chapter in his Institutes, it is considered by many to be strategically placed—a culmination of his teaching on what it means to be Christian in this world, the consequence of his theology. Whether this is indeed true we will leave for the Calvin scholars to argue, but what we do know is that Calvin gives prominence in his Institutes to this...

Mr. Lanting, a member of South Holland Protestant Reformed Church, is a practicing attorney. Truth is the majority vote of the nation that can lick all the others.  Oliver Wendell Holmes  There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.  Allan Bloom  For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work . . . . The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan . . . with all unrighteous deception among those who perish because they did not...

Rev. Slopsema is pastor of Hope Protestant Reformed Church in Walker, Michigan. The Scriptures teach that every citizen has various obligations to the civil government under which he finds himself. Our Reformed fathers understood these duties and set them forth very beautifully in the confessions of the church. The duties of the citizens to the state are summarized, for example, in the Belgic Confession, Article 36. Moreover it is the bounden duty of every one, of what state, quality, or condition soever he may be, to subject himself to the magistrates; to pay tribute, to show due honor and respect...

Rev. Moore is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Hull, Iowa. We would like to take this means to inform our readers further of the trip that we took to Ghana in behalf of the Protestant Reformed Churches in America and under the direction of its Foreign Mission Committee. Our churches have had a long standing interest in Ghana as a potential mission field. This has happened because of contacts that we have made with children of God in this nation. Especially this interest has been promoted because of our contact with a fellow believer, Gabriel Anyigba. We have...

Christmas, you see, is about family. Christmas is mainly about family. Christmas is all about family. This is the truth of Christmas only inasmuch as Christmas is the birth of the baby Jesus from the virgin. The child had no earthly father. As the angel announced to His mother, in accounting for her conception, “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee” (Luke 1:35). The virgin conception establishes that Christmas is about family, because conception by a virgin, without a male, is the sign and means of the incarnation. God the Son...

Rev. Moore is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Hull, Iowa. In this meditation we have an occasion for great rejoicing and gladness as the elect church of Christ dwelling in the midst of a sin cursed world. We would consider the simple declaration of the Scripture as it is set forth in Mark 16:6, where we read, “And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.” The instruction of the passage is one that we have heard many...