Vol 70 Issue 21

Mr. Wigger is an elder in the Protestant Reformed Church of Hudsonville, Michigan. Minister Activities Seminarian Allen Brummel and his family were delayed for much of this past summer in entering Singapore because of some “red tape” problems with the government there. During this delay Seminarian Brummel was able to fill in on occasion for some of our churches’ pastors while they were on vacation, or preaching for our churches’ mission in the San Luis Valley, Colorado. Finally on Monday, August 1, the Brummel family was able to leave the States for Singapore, where plans call for Seminarian Brummel to...

Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write, by Richard P. Belcher. Columbia, SC: Richbarry Press, 1980; rev. ed. 1993. 165 pp. $6.95 (paper). Arthur W. Pink: Letters from Spartanburg, 1917- 1920, ed. Richard P. Belcher. Columbia, SC: Richbarry Press, 1993. 287 pp. $10.95 (paper). (Reviewed by the Editor) Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write is a revised edition of the biography of Pink that the author originally published in 1982. The revised edition avails itself of newly discovered correspondence between Pink and his publisher, I.C. Herendeen. The biography is an interesting, informative account of the life and labor of an influential,...

Rev. Haak is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Lynden, Washington. In these first 18 verses we have a summation of the entire book. All that will follow to the very end of the book is intended to prove the truth of the things declared in these first 18 verses. They make clear to us how John will approach his presentation of the Lord’s work and person-that Jesus Christ is the eternal and natural Son of God now made flesh for our salvation. (See Lord’s Day 13 of the Heidelberg Catechism and Art. 10 of the Belgic Confession.) Nowhere...

Mr. Lanting, a member of the South Holland Protestant Reformed Church, is a practicing attorney. “Authority over public schools belongs to the state, and cannot be delegated to a local school district defined by the State in order to grant political control to a religious group. “  Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet (1994)  (J. Souter, majority opinion).  “Justice Souter’s position boils down to the quite novel proposition that any group of citizens (say, the residents of Kiryas Joel) can be invested with political power, but not if they all belong to the same religion. Of course such disfavoring...

Rev. Bruinsma is pastor of First Protestant Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan. It is always amazing how certain passages of the Bible suddenly seem to stand out at different times in life. I remember when I was once visiting with my sister and her husband, that she mentioned that it is important to teach our children not simply to abstain from evil, but to abstain from all appearance of evil. This short exhortation of the apostle Paul in I Thessalonians 5:22 had never really struck me before that conversation. Maybe that was true because my children were young and I had not...

Prof. Hanko is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. Introduction In our last article, we left Peter Datheen in Frankenthal, in the Palatinate of Germany, busy as court preacher and as liturgist. It is especially his work in liturgy that is of interest to us. The liturgy in use in the Protestant Reformed Churches, and up until a few years ago in many Reformed churches, is an ancient liturgy. It goes all the way back to the Reformation in the Netherlands. In many Reformed churches this ancient liturgy has been abandoned. In its place...

The Lord Give Us Bigots Please could you send the remaining issues of the Standard Bearer which contain Rev. VanOverloop’s articles on “Calvinism and Missions.” I have already those of November 1, 1993 and January 15, 1994, and would love to complete the Five Points. John Kennedy, the Scottish Highland evangelist wrote: “No Christian can be true and faithful on whose brow the world shall not brand the name bigot. But let him bear it. It is a mark of honour, though intended to be a brand of shame. In every age from the beginning, when the cause of truth...

This is the time of year when the meetings for the study of the Holy Scriptures resume within the Protestant Reformed Churches. These are regular, organized, mid-week gatherings of the saints for the systematic, thorough study of the Bible. Although there are also other purposes of these meetings, e.g., praise and fellowship, the main purpose is learning the Word of God. The profit, obviously, is enormous. The apostle indicates how a believer can profit from such study when he writes in II Timothy 3:15-17 that “the holy scriptures . . . are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which...

The innovative and aggressive Evangelism Committee of the PRC of South Holland, IL has recently launched two new ventures. One is a monthly newsletter, “The Reformed Perspective.” Each issue features an article by South Holland’s pastor, the Rev. Charles Terpstra, on an article of the Belgic Confession. Write the committee for a copy at 16511 South Park Ave., South Holland, IL 60473. The other venture is the stocking of sermons on cassette tape by deceased PR ministers. These will be made available to all who want them. This is a call to all who possess taped sermons by Herman Hoeksema,...

Rev. Moore is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Hull, Iowa. “Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.” Psalm 37:4-5 How necessary it is for us to commit our way unto the Lord. This becomes more emphatically true each day that we live. This is true because of the days in which we live, days in which there are many forces being brought to bear upon us to dissuade us from a walk...