Rev. Kleyn is pastor of First Protestant Reformed Church of Edgerton, Minnesota. Is once enough? That is, is it enough to attend church once on Sunday? Scripture does not specifically state that we should attend twice. So why go twice? Is this required and necessary? No one should dispute the…
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Mr. Wigger is a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of Hudsonville, Michigan. Evangelism Activities Once again this summer the Evangelism Committee of the Hudsonville, MI PRC sponsored a booth at the Hudsonville Community Fair. Fair-goers were able to stop by this booth and pick up free pamphlets and…
On a December evening twenty years ago, a group of men met in South Holland PR church building with hopeful accord to discuss a high school and their covenant children. They desired a high school which would embrace the importance of teaching their children every subject of knowledge in the…
Rev. Kuiper is pastor of Southeast Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In the Old Testament the word “boldness” is found but a few times. The root meaning is a place of refuge; then to take refuge; then to be confident, sure, without care. In the New Testament the…
Rev. Kleyn is pastor of First Protestant Reformed Church of Edgerton, Minnesota. Is once enough? That is, is it enough to attend church once on Sunday? Scripture does not specifically state that we should attend twice. So why go twice? Is this required and necessary? No one should dispute the…
Rev. VanderWal is pastor of Covenant Protestant Reformed Church in Wyckoff, NJ. The next three beatitudes are, in their character, rather different from the first four. We must identify this difference primarily as development in blessedness. These three words of blessing show the power and efficacy of the reception of…
Rev. Laning is pastor of Hope Protestant Reformed Church of Walker, Michigan. The order of salvation is the order which the Holy Spirit follows when He applies to the hearts of His elect people the blessings Christ earned for them on the cross. Although it is true that we receive…
Herman Hoeksema was the first editor of the Standard Bearer. Essay read at a Conference of some Christian Reformed and Protestant Reformed Ministers (Translated from the Dutch by Rev. H. Veldman) The immediate occasion of this meeting of certain leaders of the Christian Reformed and Protestant Reformed Churches was, no…
Superb Special Issue The latest, special, 75th anniversary issue of the Standard Bearer was just superb. It redoubles my wish that I could have been in Michigan in June for the outpouring of “pleasant bread.” The whole issue was scintillating. I cannot do without the Protestant Reformed Churches mainly because…
With this issue begins volume 77 of the Standard Bearer. At their annual meeting this summer, the staff, made up of the current writers and the managing editor, reappointed the editor (Prof. Engelsma), the secretary (Prof. Dykstra), the general adjunct (Prof. Hanko), the managing editor (Mr. Don Doezema), and the…
At the Pantlind Conference of Christian Reformed and Protestant Reformed men in 1939, Herman Hoeksema gave a notable speech. He himself knew the importance of the speech. He took a week off from his regular work in order carefully to craft it. Immediately after the conference, he devoted an entire…
At the Pantlind Conference in 1939 regarding the reunion of the CRC and the PRC, one of the participants gave expression to a notable doctrinal insight. He expressed this insight in the clearest, most forceful manner. The insight was not that of Herman Hoeksema. At least, it was not he…
In the 75 years of the divided history of the Christian Re-formed Church (CRC) and the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC), there has been one, and only one, notable meeting on behalf of the reunion of these two denominations. That was the all-day conference in the old Pantlind Hotel, now the…
Rev. Miersma is pastor of Immanuel Protestant Reformed Church of Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3 These words of Christ are very familiar to us. They form the first beatitude in the first part of the Sermon on…