Showing 10 results for “christian renewal”
For two millennia, if you knew a church's name then you knew something about the people inside its doors. Church names stood for timeless saints and traditions -- from the Church of the Nativity to the Church of the Resurrection…. In some flocks, a name might tell a church's location or hint at its
Rev. Van Baren is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. "Young, Restless, Reformed" In Christianity Today, September 2006, an interesting article was printed with the above title. It appears, according to the article, that there is growing interest among young people and in some
Further, the difference in attitude over against Protestants has attracted considerable attention. Formerly all who were not of the Romish Church were apostates bound for hell. Now suddenly they are brethren, although one still should add the adjective "separated." This change in attitude has led to
Rev. Daniel Holstege, pastor of the Wingham PRC in Wingham, Ontario, Canada "Young, Restless, and Reformed" today Back in September of 2006, the year I started seminary, Collin Hansen wrote a feature article for Christianity Today entitled "Young, Restless, and Reformed." That phrase became the wat
Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 42 Vol. 53, No. 1 election away from eternal bliss to the biblical concept of God calling the elect to be a blessing in the world.”42 Evangelism is recast from calling sinners into a right relationship with God in Christ, to redeeming the institutions of the
The religious and doctrinal outlook of this now beyond middle age twentieth century is not that of Calvinism or that of the Reformed Faith. It is rather that of an inclusivistic or syncretistic and non-doctrinal religion. The movement of this religion is not in the direction of "revival," as is wide
On the slopes of the church's journey to her eternal destination, she either rigorously determines to continue the difficult climb of greater faithfulness to her Lord, or she begins to slip backward until the speed of her decline loosens an avalanche on the slopes which suddenly buries her. A Reform
Through all the years I have been in Grand Rapids, the Christian Reformed Church has been a powerful religious organization based on clear, strong principles unswervingly maintained. Your consistently strong and intellectually sound presentation of Calvinistic principles and Biblical faith has made
At the Pew Forum in 2005, prominent evangelical Rick Warren expressed his vision of what needs to happen to bring evangelicals and other Christians together again. You know, 500 years ago, the first Reformation with Luther and then Calvin, was about beliefs. I think a new Reformation is going to be
David Wells, highly respected professor of historical and systematic theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, also challenged the delegates about the course of evangelism. He argued the evangelical movement was in danger of losing its soul, as it is being swept up into the "marketing ethos"