Volu 100 Issue 21

(1886-1965) was the first editor of the Standard Bearer, one of the founders of the PRC and her seminary, and longtime pastor of First PRC in Grand Rapids, MI. This is a reprint (with minor edits) of an English translation by Homer C. Hoeksema of a Dutch meditation from the pen of his father. Klaagtoon en Jubellied was published in the Nov. 1, 1927 Standard Bearer (v. 4, p. 49). The English version was first published in the March 15, 1988 Standard Bearer (v. 64, p. 412). O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body...

Pastor of Crete PRC in Crete, Illinois INTRODUCTION In the past two editorials I have been reflecting on decisions of Synod 2024 of the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRCA) on a case of doctrinal error related to the believer’s experience of his salvation. In my first editorial I set forth the doctrine of Christ’s saving work as it relates to the experience of salvation, and in my second editorial I addressed the doctrine of the forgiveness of sins and its relation to the experience of salvation. In this article I want to explain the doctrine of faith and how it relates...

minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches and member of Covenant of Grace PR Fellowship in Spokane, Washington Previous article in this series: August 2024, p. 464. But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. There is one come out of thee, that...

Pastor of Providence PRC in Hudsonville, Michigan But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord— II Corinthians 3:18 INTRODUCTION In the last two articles we studied the fifth step in the ordo salutis: justification. Remember the steps: regeneration, calling, conversion, saving faith, justification, sanctification, preservation, and glorification. Justification is God’s legal declaration of righteousness, freeing us from sin’s guilt and punishment. But there is more to salvation than justification: justification by itself does not...