The World that Perished by John C. Whitcomb Jr. Baker Book House, paperback, 1973 Uniformitarians are yet attacking the Word of God. However, the truths of creation and the global catastrophe of the Genesis Flood are still maintained by many Christian theologians and scientists around the world. We as members of the Protestant Reformed Churches […]
Every living thing fears death. An animal instinctively runs from the hunter, perhaps to live only briefly away from the final bullet. Reprobate man fears death as a termination of any conscious life at the least, or at most, a time of judgment. A child of God quite understandably fears death too. This is not […]
Again the Grim Reaper has struck among us scything his death and destruction with unaccustomed viciousness. A family has suddenly lost another son, the Church on earth has lost another stalwart member. We cannot help but cry out why? Why another young man, the third in recent months, the sixth in just over two years? […]
“Better Living Through Christ” by John H. Schaal. Published by Baker Book House, 128 pages. Better Living Through Christ is a study in the book of Hebrews. Using the sixteen chapters as an instructive guide the inexperienced Bible scholar will find them useful. At the end of each chapter appears a series of questions directed […]
We have often said that the future of our Churches in particular and the future of the Church of God in general is in the hands of our young people. We are training them daily to be the Church of tomorrow. This training is a momentous task of awesome difficulty, as every parent knows. Often […]
“Successful Church Libraries” By Elmer L. Towns and Cyril J. Barber. Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1971. Elmer Towns is professor of Christian education at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. It is therefore understandable that the book stresses the church library as an educational center. Cyril Barber is librarian at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School […]
In the recent past it has often been said of our consistories that they threw out faithful members for nothing more than personal animosities. It is not the purpose of this article to go into the issues involved in past troubles, they are utterly closed, and should remain so, but rather, a clarification of the […]
Dear Brethren and Sisters in the Lord, A Stuffy little, eh? Just like that old school teacher being very white-shirt again? Well, maybe a little – we are of different generations, and putting myself into your vernacular isn’t always easy or, for that matter, wise either. In the last couple of editorials I’ve written (I’m […]
It has become fashionable nowadays to use the term “love thy neighbor” as an advertising pitch for all sorts of socially oriented organizations, from conservation groups to social welfare organizations. It is supposedly the duty of all men to love one another, better their economic condition and their earthly environment, thus making it a “better” […]
The Creation vs. Evolution Handbook By Thomas F. Heinze, Bake Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1970; 79 pages, Paperback, $1.50. Mr. Heinze is a missionary in Italy for the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society and formerly taught subjects related to the field of Science and Religion. As the title indicates the book is only a […]