Col. 2:8 “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” Today as each school day carries out yet another installment in the education of covenant youth, outside the doors of our Christian schools stands a world grown apostate with worldly pleasures and […]
“The trouble with self-made men”, someone has said, “is that they always insist on sharing the recipe.” I remembered that recently as I listened to Phil Donahue, the talk show host, being interviewed about his newly published autobiography. Phil Donahue is no doubt about as genial as anyone on television. But his view of his […]
sDuring the month of November, we as Protestant Reformed young people will gather around our families table on a special day to eat lots of tom-turkey with all the trimmings. Since this day is special we will be full of joy and will want to pack in all the fun and games we can until, […]
The merciless sun of Palestine beats down; weariness past groaning; sweat, fouled bodies; thirst; heads pounding with fatigue, hunger, tension; the chalk dry taste of unslackening fear; desperately aching muscles; sword clumsy in one hand, tools or lift ropes cumbersome in the other as the heavy stones are inched into place-slowly, so exasperatingly slowly. The […]
The Pre-Talmudic School. We cannot speak with as much certainty of the elementary school during the time of Christ’s childhood as we can of later periods. For just about the only authority afforded us is the Jewish Mishnah, the first part of the Talmud, which is not older than 200 A.D. It is probably safe […]