At a meeting of the congregation of First Presbyterian (ARP) in Columbia, SC on Sunday Morning, March 27, Dr. Derek Thomas, currently on the faculty at RTS Jackson and Minister of Teaching at First Presbyterian (PCA) in Jackson was approved as the new Associate Pastor at FPC Columbia Thomas will begin his duties after the... Continue Reading

As the modern “home church” movement continues to gain momentum and threaten the peace and unity of congregations in every denomination, it behooves all who love Christ’s church to speak the truth in love to home church advocates. Therefore, I offer this pastoral advice: Distinguish and Appreciate If by “home churching” a person simply means... Continue Reading

Dubbed “Free to Fly,” the campaign funded an out-of-court-settlement with the Synod of the Pacific, ending a six-year battle with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The church property is valued at an estimated $10.5 million. Settlement with a Presbyterian Synod: $1.1 million. Attorney fees: $100,000 Clear title to church property: Priceless Located near Sacramento, Fair Oaks... Continue Reading

R. Albert Mohler Jr, said it was unfair to accuse churches of discrimination because that word implied something “wrongful.” “Both the logic of Scripture and the centrality of marriage in society,” he said, justify “the strong inclination of congregations to hire a man who is not only married but faithfully married.” Like all too many... Continue Reading

Others have protested inclusion of speakers who are prominently recognized as Calvinists and the fact that the Pastors’ Conference is heavily subsidized by the SBC operating budget. The president of the 2011 Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference defended a program he’s put together for June 12-13 in Phoenix, Ariz., saying critics who find it outside the... Continue Reading

Thursday AM Report Update on Lauers and Yaegashis from Mark Bube, General Secretary of the OPC Foreign Missions Committee Please keep the Lauers in your prayers, as they prepare to make another trip from Numazu up north with much needed supplies. Laurie Lauer writes: Just a quick update before we sleep. Tonight, we received the... Continue Reading

Thursday Morning updates from CRASH Japan, MTW, and Family forum Japan Update from CRASH Japan – Number One Need is Hope Using networks of local Japanese church contacts, CRASH Japan teams are getting aid to people and gathering valuable information for future teams. Assessment teams consisting of CRASH Japan and partnering international organizations have been... Continue Reading

Tony Carnes and I met for breakfast at Penelope, a homey little cafe across Lexington Avenue from First Moravian Church. Penelope sits one block north and three avenues east of Marble Collegiate Church, where Norman Vincent Peale preached for 52 years, and it is a 2.8-mile drive from Sons of Moses, the tiny Lower East... Continue Reading

A newcomer to the religious scene in Holland, Pastor John Kim of Korea shares a common affinity with the city’s first pastor for daily prayer meetings. Holland’s founder, the Rev. Albertus Van Raalte, observed how prayer meetings out of a Dutch reformed church started a nation-wide revival in the mid-1850s — and thanks to Kim,... Continue Reading

Church policies and values that cause black seminarians to scorn their own culture or that fail to recognize black pastors as full partners in ministry can only produce churches in the favored mold rather than dignify other ways of thinking and doing church in the PCA. I live and work in an urban community undergoing... Continue Reading