Adult Child Estrangement From Parents
Adult estrangement from parents is a current phenomenon.
A primary cause of estrangement is something called “anxious parenting.” There are so many things for good parents to legitimately be concerned about in the lives of their child – drugs, sex, gender identity, kidnappings, terrorism, school shootings, pandemics, bullying, school quality, socialization, moral and character development – as well as challenges to faith in... Continue Reading
Another Take on the Organ
For the organ to serve congregational singing, it must be played in a specific manner, utilizing appropriate ranks, performance techniques, and maintaining a volume which does not supplant the congregation’s voice with its own.
No musical style nor musical instrument can, on its own, please God in worship. Christian worship is only acceptable when it is wrought by the Spirit of God, offered in Christ Jesus, and rooted in his word; worship that pleases God is worship in spirit and truth: a Spirit-wrought response to God’s self-revelation. Neither homophonic... Continue Reading
First Presbyterian Church Session, Ft. Oglethorpe, GA, Report on the National Partnership
A report from the Session of First Presbyterian Church, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., on the National Partnership, a group within the Presbyterian Church in America.
In response to questions regarding the pastor’s role in disseminating files associated with the National Partnership that had previously been made public, Session was forced to consider the nature of those files before making any other determination. The report of that study is below. You may have been alarmed at the recent circulation of files... Continue Reading
A Big PCA Correction by a Small Text
There is no special carve outs for some sins. Let us stop reducing sanctification concerning sexual attraction to select persons, select sins, and a time later than the present.
Great reluctance exists in the PCA to embrace the simple truth that all of God’s people are being made holy in sexual desires, and that believing in this powerful grace is our duty. In this life, we have the covenanted hope of moving holiness in the direction of completion…To exclude such change in the category... Continue Reading
Should We Stay or Should We Go?
It is not time to depart the PCA. It’s time to contend for the PCA—to humbly contend for the biblical and confessional faithfulness of our beloved church.
Don’t give up on the PCA. Double down in your commitment to pray, stay informed, and get involved. Obviously, there may be a time in the future to organize and depart together as a large group of confessional churches. But now is not the time. There is much to be encouraged by after the last... Continue Reading
The Metaverse is the Next Generation’s Opium War
In the metaverse, you digitally create parallel universes to escape the reality of the one real universe in which you live. Why bother with the real world?
Meta and Mark Zuckerberg wish to make money. They will addict your children in order to do so. The next time you see your child slap on a VR headset, find out if they are entering the metaverse. You have a responsibility as a parent to know. If you are an adult emersed in the... Continue Reading
Relativism in the Church
It is interesting how many Christens and/or Christian organizations think God forms approval judgments based on relative righteousness.
The assumption is that if good outweighs wrong, then there should be no criticism. However, the economy of God’s Kingdom does not operate by weighing the amount of right against the amount of wrong as a way of justifying the wrong. It is not as if the right counterweighs the wrong then all is well. ... Continue Reading
The End of Christendom
Something very specific happened in America that brought Christendom to an end; was it in 2015 or in 1791?
A realistic assessment of our present situation in America would have to admit that overturning the 2015 Supreme Court’s decision legalizing gay marriage is at best improbable, and rewriting the First Amendment is nearly insurmountable. Of course, no Christian living in 312 A.D. could have imagined that a Christian empire would emerge just one year... Continue Reading
The Realpolitik of the PCA National Partnership
The National Partnership, while established in “confidence,” is a clearly organized political apparatus within the Presbyterian Church in America.
It is clear that, regardless of whatever disclaimers they proffer, and whatever misgivings its members have expressed in the past concerning the church’s enthusiasm for partisan politics in the national sphere, the National Partnership has essentially become a political party within its own denomination. It is time that the leadership of the National Partnership at... Continue Reading
The PCA and Homosexuality: Let’s Make It Real Plain
There are three positions on the status of those men who have made it public that are same-sex attracted (SSA).
There is a position that when a man makes it public that he has homosexual desires to have sexual relations with other men, and he practices celibacy because he believes that change is possible (although unlikely), and because he mortifies this sin every day, and because he is of good character in every other way,... Continue Reading
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