Mr. Wigger is a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of Hudsonville, Michigan. Minister Activities Rev. and Mrs. Mahtani, of the Trinity PRC in Houston, TX, were blessed with the birth of their seventh child, a healthy baby girl, named Mary, born on July 10. Our congregation in Doon, IA…

Our Reformed Church Service Book, by G. Van Rongen. Neerlandia, Alberta, Canada or Pella, Iowa: Inheritance Publications, 1995. 250 pages. $13.90 (U.S.). (paper). [Reviewed by Prof. R. D. Decker.] This book is about another book, viz., the Book of Praise: Anglo-Genevan Psalter. This latter contains the synodically approved Psalm texts…

Rev. VanBaren is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Loveland, Colorado. The Only Name Whereby We Are Saved In the June issue of this magazine, we quoted a letter from a minister in the Reformed Church who claimed that salvation was possible outside of Christianity (“God is truly known…

Mrs. Lubbers is a wife and mother in the Protestant Reformed Church of South Holland, Illinois. “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”  Ephesians 5:11 A good sturdy outside door on our house is important. Because of the increasingly high incidence of burglary…

Prof. Hanko is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. Introduction Reformers are strange people. They do not seem at first glance to be cut out for the role. As a matter of fact, if one measures their abilities by human standards they are the…

Rev. Key is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Randolph, Wisconsin. As a unique creature who was created in the image of God, man was also created a covenant creature. Adam was created God’s covenant friend, to reflect the blessed friendship and fellowship of God’s own covenant life. The…

Transcript of speech delivered at the graduation of Richard Smit and Cheah Fook Meng, on June 17, 1996. It is in the context of Christ-centered preaching that we must understand the discussion over redemptive-historical preaching vs. exemplaristic preaching. In an important writing on this subject (The History of Redemption in…

Mr. Lanting, a member of South Holland Protestant Reformed Church, is a practicing attorney. “Defendant Nichols had the right, under the religious accommodation provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, to make a substituted charitable payment in lieu of joining or financially supporting the labor union.” Machinists &…

* This article was originally a public lecture on Christian education given, apparently, at the First Protestant Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan by its pastor, Rev. Herman Hoeksema. Evidently, the speech was given shortly after World War I. It is from the Martin Swart collection of handwritten transcriptions of…

Last year there was a merger of two religious publishing organizations. They were not publishing giants by man’s reckoning. The merger had no impact on the stock market. The religious press took no note of the event. But the merger is of interest to the readers of the Standard Bearer.…

Rev. Terpstra is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of South Holland, Illinois. Able to gaze on the glory of our Lord now in this life?! And doing so, to be changed into the same image as He, even from glory to glory?! That we shall behold our Lord’s glory…