Three of our churches have recently extended calls. From a trio consisting of the Reverends R. Hanko, Kamps, and Moore, Hull Protestant Reformed Church has called Rev. Kamps. Our church in Houston, Texas has called Prof. Decker, from a trio which included also Rev. Slopsema and Rev. Woudenberg. Lynden’s trio…
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO GENESIS, by Charles C. Cochrane; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1984; 88 pp., $5.95 (paper). (Reviewed by Prof. H. Hanko). The author was for 40 years a minister in the Presbyterian Church of Canada. Why this book should be the product of his literary efforts is…
In our last article we began to discuss the subject of the Christian and the ordinance of labor. We discussed the institution of labor by God and the teaching of the Scripture regarding the necessity of our working. In this article we want especially to consider the purposes of our…
In the previous three articles of this series we have examined some of the views of Rufus Anderson. Because it has been some time since this column has appeared we shall give a brief review of what we have discovered thus far in our study of Anderson. Anderson, like Henry…
What Next? “Faith in Focus,” the monthly magazine of the Reformed Churches of New Zealand, quotes a letter from J.M. Batteau, professor of systematic theology at Korea Seminary, Pusan, Korea. The letter was addressed to all the members of the Reformed Ecumenical Synod which met last summer in Chicago. The…
Chapter XVI “The Church-Age” in Premillennialism (continued) It is the burden of these articles to demonstrate clearly and beyond any doubt that it is contrary to the plain teaching of the prophetic Scriptures to propagate the “doctrine” that it is proper to speak of a “church-age” rather than of confessing…
[Editor’s note. Here is the first installment of the promised report on the trip by Prof. Hanko and Rev. D. Engelsma to the United Kingdom.] [Editor’s note. Here is the first installment of the promised report on the trip by Prof. Hanko and Rev. D. Engelsma to the United Kingdom.]…
Our Heidelberg Catechism discusses in Lords Day XXXVIII what is implied in the keeping of the fourth commandment. Strikingly, it includes in our observance of the Lord’s Day our calling to contribute, through collections, to the causes of Christ’s kingdom. It says, “What doth God require in the fourth commandment?…
From a reader who wishes to have his name withheld comes the following letter: “Dear Professor: “Your editorial, ‘About Guests at Communion,’ (Nov. 1, 1984) was well worth reprinting and reflects careful work of Classis East in yesteryear. With the contents of this article I am in full agreement. From…
From the Evangelical Reformed Church of Singapore we received the following letter addressed to “All Protestant Reformed Churches of America,” under date of October 24, 1984: Dearly beloved brethren in the Lord: Greetings from Singapore in the Glorious Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. From the Evangelical Reformed…
This is the time of the year when, at least in most of our congregations, newly elected elders are ordained. It is not amiss, therefore, to reflect on this aspect of the office of elder. Elders are bishops, or overseers; and to their calling to be overseers belongs the calling…
“Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.” II Timothy 4:8 “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of…