Daylight: Daily Readings with the Bible
We do not drift into another year as pieces of wood on the stream of time. The new year is before us as a race to be run. God calls us to the race, and tells us how to run it.
Culture
The Biblical Doctrine of Election
The general plan of God with respect to the Universe we call God’s Counsel; His specific plan of the church is called Election.
Calvinism: The Origin and Safeguard of our Constitutional Liberties
The ability of a plant to live depends on the root from which it springs. He who would guarantee our liberty to us should know where it originated and be able to tell whence it came.
Calvinism: The Biblical Criticism of the Present Day
In keeping with an ancient custom, it will be a rule at our University that the exchange of the rectorate shall be accompanied by an oration; and it is preferred that each rector shall take a theme from his own department.
Christianity & the Class Struggle
The question of how human beings are to live together in the proper use of the goods the Creator placed in this world, has always been and is today one of greatest importance.
The Implications of Public Confession
Baptism is not complete without its complement, the holy supper. When an infant is born into the world, the nurse who is in attendance washes it, because it is born unclean. It needs bathing, but that is not all it needs. It also needs food.
Lectures on Calvinism
It was not from Greece or Rome that the regeneration of human life came forth;—that mighty metamorphosis dates from Bethlehem and Golgotha.
Capitalism and Progress
In two extensive volumes Spengler expounded the well-known thesis that the law of birth, maturity, and death applies not only to plants and animals but holds equally for civilizations.
Economic Stewardship vs. Capitalist Religion
The following pages contain an edited version of lectures presented by Dr. B. Goudzwaard at an economics and politics seminar sponsored by the Institute for Christian Studies in the summer of 1972.
The Beginning of Wisdom
If you were to survey all of the titles in the “Self-Help” genre, you could probably begin to see how the world’s “wisdom” has been shared from culture to culture, language to language, epoch to epoch, and has converged into this one genre like a sticky mess of a hodgepodge.