Thursday, Feb. 8, was a happy day for the congregation of our Southwest Church. The congregation came together for the purpose of sharing their pastor’s joy in celebrating the 25th anniversary of his ordination into the Ministry. To the Schipper family that date had triple meaning for on it the…

We must return once more to the report of the Synodical Study Committee and its report to the Synod of 1960 on the hymn matter. In addition to the committee’s historical and exegetical survey of the hymn question, it includes in its report a section entitled “Conclusions Of Your Committee.”…

First of all; in answering the objection that verbal inspiration is, necessarily mechanical, we may notice that this is a thoroughly rationalistic argument. It does not appeal to Scripture. It is not an argument based upon the Word of God, either directly or by implication. It is purely speculative. It…

The Church of God, we noted in our preceding article, is the gathering of believers, and as rooted in Divine unchangeable election. This is the Protestant view of the Church, which we are now discussing in these articles, and as in distinction from the Roman Catholic view. And that Church…

It was a very different time when Solomon lived from the time in which youth lives today. But the words of Solomon still are appropriate and words of true wisdom: “Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth.” If in Solomon’s day there were many earthly things to occupy…

It may not be without purpose to remind even the thoughtful and attentive reader bf the salient points touched upon in our former article on I Timothy 4:1-5. For the text itself we refer the reader to his own Bible. We suggest that the reader first read the text from this…

“Then Moses mid unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.” Leviticus 10:3 It was a glorious day in the camp of Israel when the tabernacle of Jehovah was…

The Word of God plainly teaches that we are all born in sin and corruption and death, and that the sin of Adam is imputed to the whole human race. It is evident, therefore, that the Savior in these words cannot have meant to teach that no man has sinned…

The case referred to in the title of this article is that! of the protests of First Church and Creston against the action of the Southeast Consistory in receiving as members in good standing schismatics who had left the former two congregations in the split of 1953 and who had…

I stated that the schismatics should return: 1. With a heartfelt confession of the sin they committed when they left the Protestant Reformed Churches and supported the two heretical statements of De Wolf, and 2. That they should make this confession to the consistory and church of which they were…

“I have set the Lord always before Me!”  Psalm 16:8 This time I am a little early, but it will not hurt, because sometimes I am a little late. For many, many years the Church of Christ has a good custom to write and to speak of the suffering of…