Vol 68 Issue 17

Denomination Highlights The Protestant Reformed Church in Byron Center, MI was the site of this year’s Mr. and Mrs. Adult Bible Society League Mass Meeting. On the evening of April 28 society members from the west Michigan PRCs met together to hear Rev. Bruinsma speak on the topic, “Signs of the Times in Light of Current Ecclesiastical Events.” Rev. R. Moore, pastor of the Hull, IA PRC, was the featured speaker at the Ladies’ Spring League meeting held on April 2 in our Hull Church. Rev. Moore addressed the ladies from our Doon, IA, Edgerton, MN, and Hull congregations on...

The Chosen People: A Corporate View Of Election, by William W. Klein; Zondervan Publishing House, 1990; 314 pp., $15.95. [Reviewed by Prof. Herman Hanko.] This discussion of election is presented to the reader as new light shed on a difficult doctrine. The author is of the opinion that neither Arminianism nor Calvinism has succeeded in solving the problem of election, and that a new look at the doctrine will demonstrate that both are wrong. This “new look” results in the author’s idea that election is corporate. 

Mr. Lanting, a member of South Holland Protestant Reformed Church, is a practicing attorney. Inter-religious Coalition Promotes a Religious Freedom Restoration Act In an unusual showing of solidarity, a large and diverse group of liberal and conservative religious groups have formed a rare coalition to support and sponsor a new federal statute calculated to enhance religious freedom in this country. Angered by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year in the notorious case of Employment Division v. Smith, the coalition has convinced 104 U.S. Representatives to co-sponsor a new bill in Congress dubbed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (‘RFRA”). The...

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord… But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shall come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and they sons’ wives with thee. Genesis 6:8, 18 Some Introductory Observations It was a critical time in the church of God. It was some 120 years before the Flood. We read here of the dire predicament of the holy Seed. It was the Seed promised to Eve. It was the Seed that would utterly crush the head of the Serpent’s seed (Gen. 3:15). When God promised to “establish”...

Rev. Haak is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Lynden, Washington. Chapter 4 of Malachi’s prophecy flows naturally from the thoughts of the last part of chapter 3. Chapter 3:17, 18 spoke of that day when God would at last make up His church in which the remnant of Malachi’s day would be included. We were also told that that day would be the day of vindication of God’s righteous judgments, when the difference between the righteous and wicked would be clearly shown. Now the prophet declares the certainty of that day (Behold, the day cometh!) and unfolds the...

Rev. Heys is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. Do you want salvation? Do you need to be saved from the wrong idea of salvation? There is a world of difference between what some mean by salvation, and what its basic meaning is. The awesome fact is that the first lie presented to mankind was the devilish presentation of salvation. Unto righteous Adam and Eve Satan came with the lie that there was a way for man to be saved from the lie which God gave him. Although he did not present it that way literally, Satan through...

Mr. Huisken is a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of Edgerton, Minnesota.

The annual synod of the Protestant Reformed Churches meets this year in South Holland, Illinois. Synod convenes on June 9, the Lord willing. The council of the South Holland PRC has called the special, pre-synodical worship service for the evening of June 8. Our readers will be interested in some of the main matters on synod’s agenda. Knowledge of the work is also stimulation of the saints unto indispensable prayer for the wisdom of Christ in this major assembly of the churches. Mission Committee (MC) First Church of Grand Rapids continues to call a missionary and to try to obtain...

Rev. Kortering is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Grandville, Michigan. “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.” II Corinthians 5:14, 15 Living unto Christ! What a glorious outlook on life. There is far more to life than tears, groans, wounded spirits, sinking souls, and scars. These are real, to be sure, for we live in the midst of...

Rev. Kuiper is pastor of Southeast Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As the holy gospel is the true treasure of the church, so preaching of that gospel is the primary task of the church and her ministers. Recently a local church expressed the hope that their next minister would not be a scholarly preacher but rather a friendly, sociable pastor. This ignorance of what a preacher is according to the Word of God does not bode well for that congregation’s future. The Hebrew word for preaching means to be fresh, then cheerful, then to tell good tidings. According...