In 1997, The Mississippi Joint Committee unanimously opposed the proposed change for the restructure of Reformed University Ministries as it applies to the Mississippi Joint Committee. Also, the Committee is prepared to voice this opposition to the member Presbyteries. TO: The MNA Appointed Study Committee for Reformed University Ministries to Study Presbytery Overtures 17, 18,... Continue Reading

Stetzer points to what he calls the “Willowback phenomenon” as a cause. Thousands of churches now follow the methods of two super-size megachurches — Willow Creek Community Church in Barrington, Ill., and Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. Both stress contemporary music and sermons and services that make the unchurched feel at ease. Both downplay... Continue Reading

More fundamentally, the new mandate by the Presbytery of Wabash Valley also violates state and federal constitutional guarantees. Just as the state cannot tell a pastor what he must preach, so an ecclesiastical body cannot order a civil corporation to amend the deeds to its property. Just a few days before Thanksgiving 2010, at a... Continue Reading

The committee appointed to investigate the allegations raised in the Letter of Concern reported its findings in a 51 page report. At a called meeting of Missouri Presbytery on January 8, 2011, TE Jeffrey Meyers was exonerated of allegations that had been raised against him. Meyers is pastor of Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church in St.... Continue Reading

I think one of the most distressing and unexpected things I have experienced in 25 years of ministry in Gospel ministry in an evangelical Reformed, Bible believing denomination, is the occasional tendency towards petty legalism. By this I don’t mean what I would call Gospel legalism (an oxymoron but you know what I mean) –... Continue Reading

Initially ordained in the PCUS in 1970, John Holmes served as a Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church in America from 1973 until 2005 when he and the church he pastored withdrew from Pittsburgh Presbytery for independency. Years ago, Rev. John Holmes was pastoring a church in Tennessee when two members volunteered as tutors at... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: The following is a letter sent by a Session through its pastor to the PCA Administrative Committee through the Stated Clerk, Dr. Roy Taylor. The proposed AC Funding Plan is included in the amendments to Book of Church Order 14-1 and 14-2. “Dear Dr. Taylor, “Our treasurer is sending the Administrative Committee a... Continue Reading

We renew our recommendation that Presbyteries vote against adopting the BCO 14 amendments and seek improved formulations. Moreover, it is hoped that any Presbyteries which have not yet voted on the proposals will at least engage in deliberative study of this overture or other prudent alternatives prior to voting on the AC Funding Plan. The... Continue Reading

In announcing their selection of the Dr. Liam Goligher of Duke Street Church, London as their candidate to the congregation for the pulpit at Tenth Pres, the Pulpit Search Committee presented a 12 page booklet to the congregation. That booklet was published on the Blog of Teaching Elder Marion Clerk, Executive Minister, and with his... Continue Reading

Christmas celebrates the birth of a Jewish boy to Jewish parents in Bethlehem. With no sence of irony, the Swiss-based World Council of Churches (WCC) convened over two dozen church women in Bethlehem to rally against today’s Israel just in time for Christmas. Having come to “Palestine” to “listen,” the women fulfilled their assigned mission... Continue Reading