The 1961 Synod is history. The immediate effects of the meeting were felt in all our churches; with the exception of Lynden, perhaps. Pulpit supplies were arranged and rearranged, with reading services and two and three-way pulpit exchanges not uncommon. The result of Synod’s decisions upon the denominational life of…
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SYNOD OF 1961 SYNOD OF 1961 INTRODUCTION The Synod of the Protestant Reformed Churches of 1961 is now part of the archives of our denomination. The decisions however are not dead statutes destined to collect dust in some obscure filing cabinet; they will live on in the life of the…
One of the requirements, according to Article 61 of our Church Order, for admission to the Table of the Lord is that the participants shall make a confession of the Reformed Religion. This refers first of all to those who are members of the church by baptism although it applies…
But there is more that we may learn from Dewey, especially when he advocates the teacher’s forming a proper attitude in the pupil to the subject under study, and to all of life in general. The most important attitude, he says, is the desire to go on studying. We agree…
In our preceding article we concluded our quotations from the Decrees of the Council of Trent as setting forth the Roman Catholic position of “Justification by Works.” We also quoted from John Calvin, in which he emphasized that we are justified solely by faith and not by works. We will…
The promise, Peter says on the day of Pentecost, is to us and to our children, to all who are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. God gathers His covenant children in the line of continued generations. He is pleased to gather His children…
We were going to discuss the matter of what happened to “some” in the church at Ephesus, who had cast away a good conscience, and who as a result, and that, too, as the just judgment of God suffered shipwreck in the faith! What happened to these “some” in the…
And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the…
CHAPTER XIX The Binding of Satan With a View to Gog and Magog Revelation 20:1-10 CHAPTER XIX The Binding of Satan With a View to Gog and Magog Revelation 20:1-10 f) That fire from God out of heaven destroys them is evident and clearly stated in the text. We must…
The Synod of the Protestant Reformed Churches, 1961, is again a matter of history. The Synod of the Protestant Reformed Churches, 1961, is again a matter of history. After a prayer service, on Tuesday evening, June 6, in the First Protestant Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, Mich., which was conducted…
“Now our Lord Jessu Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.” II Thess. 2:16, 17 “Now our Lord Jessu Christ Himself, and God,…