POETRY 1ST – Morning Melody – Jim Jonker 2nd – Autumn Anthem – Jim Jonker 3rd – Tree – Jim Jonker FICTION 1st – Charity Suffered – David Engelsma 2nd – The Letter – Jim Jonker 3rd – The Vase – Lois Kregel NON-FICTION 1ST – How Firm a Foundation – Wayne Lanning 2nd – […]

Among the problems which face our churches at the present, one of the greatest undoubtedly is the shortage of minister of the Word. And, the problem seems to be growing worse instead of becoming less serious. The need seems more acute, for the supply is declining in proportion to the increase of the demand. Many […]

There is a question that has often arisen in Protestant Reformed groups. Attempts to settle the question by discussion have met with little success. The statement that the question ought to be a settled one has proved even less successful as a solution to the problem. The question has not been asked openly for quite […]

Education is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Mark Twain The title of this article should immediately bring into mind three questions. What is education: What are the arts? How are the two related? The first question we will not answer, for it undoubtedly […]

“I will show thee my faith by my works.” Almost everyone almost everywhere has a cause which he supports. Some give only financial support; some, only moral support. Some support because of pressure; some give themselves earnestly and energetically. Some support too few causes; some, too many. Few try to avoid what they believe to […]

The frenzied mob, ferocious, fearing nought, Pressed closer, shouting for the life they sought, And raised their voices in a mighty flood: “On us and on our children be His blood.” The scarlet stains, on that spike-studded cross Where hung the bleeding body, with each toss Of pain re-echoed that rebellious cry Until it reached […]

“Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” Undoubtedly, at the present time there seems to be no greater menace to the American way of life and hence to the American people than that of Communism.  Though its tactics and methods may change, its ideology still re-echoes Krushchev’s bold words, “We […]

(An excerpt from the newest, most revised translation of the Bible, as Moses should have written it.) GENESIS 1 1. In the beginning, gas existed. 2. And the gas was a shapeless mass; and it was dark. And God’s spirit began to be operative. 3. And God said, “Let a shining sphere be formed.” And […]

Evolution and Christian Thought Today Russell L. Mixter (ed.) – Eerdmans – 222 pp. – $4.50 Ever since Copernicus demonstrated that the sun and not the earth was the center of our universe, the “Sea of Faith” has, for the educated, been at ebb tide.  Most scientific men can only “hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing […]

A perennial problem in almost any organization is the conflict that often arises between what is held to be principally right and practically advisable.  Churches, for example, face this issue when they deliberate about admitting into their fellowship members who had been divorced and remarried while still unchurched.  Principally it would seem not only that […]