Rev. B. Woudenberg declined the call to Southwest Church.  Rev. C. Hanko also declined the call to Redlands, California.  Our Missionary, Rev. G. Lubbers, declined the call to Loveland, Colorado.  Rev. B. Woudenberg declined the call to Southwest Church.  Rev. C. Hanko also declined the call to Redlands, California.  Our…

In many ways it was a good Synod.  In many ways it was a good Synod.  With one exception, all the primi delegates were present throughout the sessions. This is always conducive towards good work on the Synod, for none of the delegates come unfamiliar with the work which Synod…

“Furthermore, among the gross sins, which are worthy of being punished with suspension or deposition from office, there are the principal ones: false doctrine or heresy, public schism, public blasphemy, simony, faithless desertion of office or intrusion upon that of another, perjury, adultery, fornication, theft, acts of violence, habitual drunkenness,…

At the conclusion of our preceding article the Romish Fathers Rumble and Carty were confronted by the Scriptural expressions that Christ is the door and also the vine. We will recall that Rome contends that the Scriptural passage: “This is My body,” must be understood in the natural sense of…

Behind all history is God.  It is His hand that raises up kings and puts them down. He named Cyrus before he was born. Isaiah 45:1-4. He gave Nebuchadnezzar all the kingdoms of the world for his. realm. Daniel 2:37, 38. But no less is this true of all the other kings…

It is our intention to write a few sketches in this rubric on this third Chapter of II Peter. We believe that this section of II Peter lends itself very well to a separate discussion in a short series of essays. Without fear of contradiction we may affirm that the…

Now, surely, the child that has grown up into an adult is still the same person. It is, therefore, the clear and undeniable teaching of the Word of God that there is only one people of God, the seed of Abraham in Christ, and that this seed is not the…

* Address at the graduation exercises by Graduate David Engelsma. * Address at the graduation exercises by Graduate David Engelsma. We view this topic as a proposition to be defended. There are other conceivable methods of treating this subject. One might, for example, explain what this theological discipline is or…

* Rectoral Address at the graduation exercised of the Theological School of the Protestant Reformed Churches, June 11, 1963. * Rectoral Address at the graduation exercised of the Theological School of the Protestant Reformed Churches, June 11, 1963. Mr. Chairman, Fathers and Brethren of the Synod, Graduate Engelsma, and Friends: …

It is a significant and hopeful event when our Theological School has graduation exercises.  It is a significant and hopeful event when our Theological School has graduation exercises.  Significant it is, for one reason, because our school is small and our students few, and because graduation does not occur very…

Classis Orange City adopted the following overture to the Synod of the Christian Reformed Church which, at the time of this writing, is already meeting in Grand Rapids:  Classis Orange City adopted the following overture to the Synod of the Christian Reformed Church which, at the time of this writing,…

“What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, by all Thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: then hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every…