Since Christmas vacation is a time of much leisure, you must find profitable ways to use this time.  Certainly you remember that time is not your own, but rather that it belongs to God who made all things.  Assuredly he will judge you as to how you use it.  How, then, can you profitably use […]

Beacon Lights presents a series of three articles in which the need for our own high school is presented from a student’s point of view.  Two appear in this issue, and the third will follow in a later issue. This article, in connection with our high school, is an attempt to look ahead to the […]

I am a student at East Christian High School in Grand Rapids, the new branch of Christian High.  I was asked to write this article to point out some of the faults of Christian high, and to show the need for our own high school.  I do not want to do this in an overbearing, […]

There was a time many years ago when my father and my mother took upon themselves a very serious commitment.  It was a commitment made within the Covenant of God, in which Covenant God promised, assured them that He would be to them a gracious Father, and they in turn vowed that they would instruct […]

Its Supralapsarian Character             To a certain extent we entered into the Supra-Infra question, pointing out that the Supra scheme is anything but an “extreme of squeamish timidity,” that rather it, more than the Infra scheme, elevates the certainty and the sovereignty of the decrees of God.  We also noted that the Supra view has […]

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death…” Revelation 6:8a   “There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.” The Reaper and the Flowers Henry Wadsworth Longfellow […]