This article is written shortly after Calvin College’s Board of Trustees gave approval for the professors at Calvin to teach whatever they want to teach, even evolution.  This article is not intended to scorn or mock our mother church, nor is it our intent to directly debate that fateful report.  I only point to that […]

Eli who?  No, Elihu!  Elihu was a young man who reproved the elder Job and his three friends for lack of wisdom.  We read in Job 32, “Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu…against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.  Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, […]

  Young People, do you witness of Christ?  Do you know that a good witness is one of the proofs that you belong to Him?  Jesus Himself tells us this in Matthew 10:32. Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.  Notice here that […]

This is a subject that is not commonly discussed in a young people’s periodical, the subject of visiting the sick, elderly and shut-ins.  The busy life, the many interests that take up the hours of the day leave little time for thinking about others who may be weak and frail, afflicted with some ailment; lying […]

Nancy Van Baren has resigned as our News Editor.  We have been thankful for her faithful contributions to this rubric over the last couple of years and know that she is or will be active in other work concerning the young people of our churches. That leaves us with the need not only for a […]

“And of some have compassion, making a difference; and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.”  Jude 22, 23             The text is difficult to translate, one reason being because of many manuscript readings at this point.  But we offer the following rendering of […]