The Silent Problem in Our Pews
The church is uniquely positioned to serve those who have a mental illness.
The church is uniquely positioned to serve those who have a mental illness. If we look at the roles of those in the church as listed in 1 Corinthians 12:28, we read that three are “healing, helping, and guiding.” This is what those with mental illness need most from the church. They need fellow Christians... Continue Reading
Conservative Presbyterians Lay Out Why Mainline Cousins Are Losing Members: ‘Supernatural Battle’
The liberal Presbyterian Church USA has approximately 700,000 fewer members than in 2012
Sean McGowan, who pastors a PCA church in Tallahassee, Florida, echoed Groff’s assertions. McGowan noted how the PCUSA’s recent press release about its “nonbinary/genderqueer” distinction emphasized a desire to be inclusive, which he warned “may get accolades and respect from the culture,” but comes “with a serious cost.” “As the culture has gotten worse, the... Continue Reading
Ridge Haven 2.0: Cameron Anderson Appointed to Head the PCA’s Ridge Haven Conference Center
Cameron Anderson appointed as the Executive Director of Ridge Haven Camp, Conference And Retreat Center.
Cameron’s ties to Ridge Haven were always a given, having been enlisted as a high schooler to help with everything from food service to housekeeping, starting the summer of 2009 when his dad Wallace was hired as executive director. What wasn’t a given was his love for the camp, which has grown from serving about... Continue Reading
A “Reset” of the Anglican Communion
Western heresy prompts the beginning of a historic reordering of Anglicanism.
GAFCON-affiliated Anglicans have made it clear that fellowship has been ruptured, particularly due to the infidelity of progressive western leaders. They have not been “able to provide a godly way forward that will be acceptable to those who are committed to the truthfulness, clarity, sufficiency and authority of Scripture. The ‘Instruments of Communion”’ have failed... Continue Reading
Reclaiming Power and Control
To abdicate our God-given charge to exercise power and control in his world is to open wide the doors for more and greater abuses.
Those who wish to live rightly in God’s world must not overcorrect by seeking to give up all power, control, authority, and gain. Instead, we recognize that though those qualities may be abused, they were given by God for our good and for the good of others in his world. We must pursue those goods... Continue Reading
An Overture on Titles & Ordination
In the 1990s there was some controversy in a presbytery or two where churches used the title “minister” for unordained persons.
Some in the PCA are not content to contextualize their presentation, liturgy, or worship — they also feel the need to contextualize polity for an egalitarian cultural mindset that has no patience for the biblical doctrines of office and ordination that are found in our BCO. Their ecclesial innovation can only harm the peace and... Continue Reading
Abusive leadership in God’s House: A Growing Problem
These two books represent depressing reading. They expose the growing ugliness in the body of Christ.
While Honeysett focuses on how churches as a whole, and bodies of elders gradually lose their way to the detriment of the rest of the church, Kruger spends proportionately more time looking at the spiritual, emotional, and psychological state of the key leaders, particular senior pastors themselves. Book review, Bully Pulpit: Confronting the Problem... Continue Reading
A Review: To Count Our Days: A History of Columbia Theological Seminary.
While William Childs Robinson may have been pugnacious in his defense of traditional Calvinism, he was right about the effects of loosening confessional subscription on the institution and the church.
What happens when the culture moves in a less theocentric direction? The middle also moves with it. While William Childs Robinson may have been pugnacious in his defense of traditional Calvinism, he was right about the effects of loosening confessional subscription on the institution and the church. The story of Columbia Theological Seminary is mixed. ... Continue Reading
Does The Church of England Need Evangelicals?
There is an evangelical rebellion among the Church of England’s most committed evangelical congregations.
Traditional, orthodox Anglicans are about to meet in Rwanda in order to assess the global situation and further attenuate, perhaps even completely sever, links with the Church of England. One reason is that the African bishops see the West’s attempt to foist this liquefied anthropology upon the global church as yet another act of Western... Continue Reading
An Overview of “Embracing the Journey: A Christian Parents’ Blueprint to Loving Your LGBTQ Child” (2)
The authors assure their readers: Just "love God, and love another. We leave the rest to the Holy Spirit."
“Embracing the Journey” has all the earmarks of being a stealth gay/transgender front organization, and an exemplar of deception, doublespeak, and egregious proof-texting. There is a reason why they avoid direct statements about their view that Scripture isn’t addressing committed homosexual relationships and an “authentic” transgender life: They want to attract conservative parents who start... Continue Reading
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