“Sparkle Creed” Is Dim & Dull
There will always be “sparkle creeds” trying to displace more traditional creeds like the Nicene and Apostles Creed.
The progressive Protestant project of North America and Northwestern Europe is fast concluding. It abandoned orthodoxy early in the 20th century in favor of a cold modernism that rejected supernaturalism in favor of stern moral reform. That focus on science and rationality gave way to postmodern self-discovery and deconstruction, with obsession over self-identity, including race... Continue Reading
Witchcraft Sparkle for the Liberal Church
The “Sparkle Creed” is riddled with heresy rarely, if ever, so blatantly expressed in a Christian service.
In her false trinitarian creed, she makes the “rainbow spirit” an affirmation of non-binary queer theory where the triune God is blended with everything in “a gorgeous diversity.” On the contrary, to please God who is binary––separate from us––we must bear his binary image in our sexuality in maintaining the male/female distinction. The Evangelical... Continue Reading
Little Voices in the Pews
You can’t tell me that children are incapable of hearing the Word of God preached from the pulpit.
Keeping our children in church every Sunday is HARD. It is hard being the only adult able to correct and train on a weekly basis. It is hard to constantly be leaving service to discipline a toddler and continually coming back in. It is hard, but it is so worth it. There is no better... Continue Reading
The PCA’s Principle on Non-communing Members – A Halfway Covenant?
If unbaptized “members” are beyond the pale of censure, in what biblical sense are they actually members in the church?
Membership through baptism includes the privilege to warnings that are to precede ever being placed outside the church, which presupposes de facto member-status in the church. But what about unbaptized adult members of the church? How can one who has never been received into the church ever be placed outside the church for not “embracing Christ... Continue Reading
Music at the GA and the PCA
The unaided human voice is the most beautiful of all musical instruments.
Musicians, vocalists, and choirs have a secondary role, a subordinate role, not even a necessary role (we can sing acapella), what ideally should be a hidden role. They are there to support, encourage, and beautify the singing of the congregation. Recognizing that congregational singing is the divinely authorized element also should determine song selection. Does... Continue Reading
7 Ways to Blaspheme God’s Word (Part 1)
The vision of womanhood that He describes in His word is better and more lovely than any vision we can come to on our own.
My writing of this article is, at least in part, to help encourage mature and godly women within Christendom to effectively work so that this passage is no longer blasphemed and so that the Kingdom of Christ grows in ways that please the Father. But I am also writing because I want everyone in Christ’s... Continue Reading
The “Narrative” vs. the Reality of SBC ‘23
According to the narrative, abuse reforms “slowed down” while Southern Baptists reasserted the “patriarchy” by excluding female pastors.
Critics in the media are trying to weave a narrative that Southern Baptists chose their complementarian theology over abuse reform and women in ministry. That narrative is a lie. It’s also theologically and practically a false choice. We don’t have to pick between our complementarian theology and abuse reform/women in ministry. We can do it... Continue Reading
Summary Report of the Christian Reformed Church Synod 2023
CRC Synod 2023 convened June 9-15, 2023, on the campus of Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan in the Calvin Chapel.
Synod 2023 upheld Synod 2022’s interpretation that “unchastity” in the Heidelberg Catechism includes “homosexual sex” and upheld the “confessional status” of that interpretation. Synod was responding to overtures (formal requests) from six classes and five congregations to change the definition of “unchastity,” and change the decision around its “confessional status.” Synod 2023 Rejects Neland... Continue Reading
[PCA] Church Body Calls On Politicians To ‘Renounce The Sin’ Of Promoting Transgender Procedures For Minors
Commission, including medical experts, to draft Presbyterian Church in America's formal petition.
The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), which held its 50th General Assembly in Memphis, Tennessee, last week, approved by a vote of 1,089-793 an overture to urge the government to “renounce the sin” of promoting irreversible sex change procedures for children. A commission to be appointed by the assembly’s moderator will be tasked with drafting... Continue Reading
Christianity & Progressivism: A Pastor’s Perspective
Cultural transformation is not the mission of the Church it is a desired consequence.
Progressive Christianity, at this moment, is not proposing to change the Evangelical and Reformed Confessions. It simply ignores them or claims to affirm them while twisting their meaning with interpretive gymnastics. How? By something that places Progressive Christianity like Liberal Christianity as an insidious adversary of Biblical Christianity: Confessional deception. Why are venerable Evangelical... Continue Reading
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