Church Growth
“Although it is easy for us to overlook, it is an empirical fact that most of the church’s members over […]
Read more“Although it is easy for us to overlook, it is an empirical fact that most of the church’s members over […]
Read moreThere are at least three notable things with this “hymn.” The first is that it is a Civil War hymn, […]
Read moreI know that the American/Canadian Idol season is over and a new one is some months off (phew!). But yet […]
Read moreI have a thing for caves and tunnels. We recently discovered a conservation area here in Hamilton that has some […]
Read moreAt one time, the CRC had held to inerrancy. But through the 1960s and 1970s, this position was eclipsed by […]
Read moreFrom the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC) website: Confessing Jesus Christ as only Savior and Sovereign Lord over […]
Read moreRev. Jim Witteveen has some helpful reflections on the developments at Reformed Academic over the last week or so. I […]
Read moreOur story continues further into the 1970s and the case of Allen Verhey. Verhey graduated from Calvin Seminary in 1975 […]
Read moreReport 44 came late to the Christian Reformed Church in 1972. In fact, there were two overtures to Synod 1972 […]
Read moreAfter being appointed in 1969, the committee started its work in earnest. By 1971, a report had been produced for […]
Read moreThe Geelkerken case in the Netherlands in 1926 and its fallout gives us a clear picture of how deformation often […]
Read moreStepping back from the synodical story for a bit, we need to look at some of what was being written […]
Read moreThis week we want to see what we can learn from what the CRC did with inerrancy in the 1960s […]
Read moreThese quotations are from E.J. Young’s excellent book, Thy Word is Truth: “By this word [inerrant] we mean that the […]
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