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Reformed Faith at the Crossroads
June 18, 1993
The Reformed community faces especially intense issues and decisions in our time.
Read MoreReformed Ministry
April 30, 1993
An examination of the Reformed tradition's upholding of the general office of believer.
Read MoreReformed Life
March 4, 1993
A discussion on the foundation, the disciplines and the pattern of Reformed life.
Read MoreWord-Centered Piety
December 14, 1992
The center of Reformed piety is and always has been the Word of God.
Read More“Expounding”: Not Exhorting, Preaching or Leading Worship
July 20, 1992
An interview with W. Robert Godfrey concerning the state of the Christian Reformed Church in the early 1990's.
Read MoreJust How Pro-Life Are You Really?
July 1, 1992
The significance of human beings over all other species resides in the image of God stamped on each person.
Read MoreSerious Misgivings
June 22, 1992
Areas of concern regarding “The Confessional Conference” of 1993 are expressed.
Read MoreThe Importance of Preaching
January 1, 1992
Too often we have trouble placing such a high evaluation on preaching because it does not seem to correspond to our experience. Many Christians today believe that they came to faith through the witness of family or friends or through a small group Bible study. They may have heard relatively poor preaching and find it hard to attribute such importance to preaching in general or in their own spiritual development.
Read MoreThe Offering
November 24, 1991
The offering clearly has a vital function in the financial life of the congregation, but how does it function spiritually in the worship of the church?
Read MoreVocabulary
November 14, 1991
As Christians, we must keep biblical words and categories of thought as foundational to our own.
Read MoreThe Triumph of Vulgarity
September 24, 1991
How Christians are to thoughtfully engage with pop culture.
Read MoreBlessings
September 3, 1991
The importance of the blessings pronounced in our worship is a significant teaching of Scripture that ministers need to insure that the people of God understand its meaning and value.
Read MoreAncient Praise
March 16, 1991
The ancient worship of the church, which focused on the Psalms and sung without musical accompaniment, was simple, spiritual, and reverent.
Read MoreArticle Thirty-One
December 1, 1990
The action of Synod 1990 in the Christian Reformed Church was tyrannical, judged purely from the perspective of Church Order Article 31. In 1990 as in 1944, Article 31 is at the center of our church struggles.
Read MorePhilip Melanchton
October 17, 1990
A brief study of the life and work of the German reformer Philip Melanchton.
Read MoreThe Preacher with the Golden Tongue
April 24, 1990
A brief biographical sketch of the eastern church father John Chrysostom.
Read MoreA Day Belonging To Jesus
March 10, 1990
There is a day that belongs to Jesus in a special way. Revelation 1:10 is a key to knowing that Sunday is the Lord's Day.
Read MoreCalvin to the Persecuted Faithful
March 1, 1990
The power of Calvin's spiritual counsel was in the fine balance that he maintained between his insistence on militant faithfulness in the real battles of the Christian life and his constant reminders of the assurance of victory that the Christian has in Christ.
Read MoreReforming the Church’s Singing
February 4, 1990
As we seek to reform the music of the church, we must try to do that – as Calvin did – in a biblical way.
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