BCO Amendments 23 & 37 (3 of 3): Have You Ever Known A Dry Drunk?
The amendments provide a stipulated requirement for courts to persist in distinguishing members from officers: a credible profession of faith for members from an exemplary piety for PCA church offices.
In so far as these amendments about church officers address homosexuality (and they simultaneously address by name financial folly, relational abusiveness and racial wickedness), they simply parallel the common grace observation of AA. The absence of alcohol or of sex truly is significant, but it is not inherently decisive in the discernment for ordination. Gay... Continue Reading
Are We Bowing to America’s Golden Image?
Nations have the potential to attempt to unify their people under a new form of religious devotion, one that attempts to assert itself against the Lord and against his anointed.
Covid-19 has exposed that we live in a paper palace and that our economic strength hangs by a thread. Leaders are feeling the pressure and nothing is going well. Like Nebuchadnezzar, our government is in search of a unifying power to unite the people under an image. If the story of Daniel offers us any... Continue Reading
Watch Out for Millstones
One of the great signs of degradation in our present culture is the attack progressivism has made and is making on our children.
The problem gets worse. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a form of political Oneism, because it denies individual distinction. The concept of individual rights is a political form of Twoism, that is, it affirms that every individual, made in the image of God with rights from the Creator, is different and distinct and deserves the... Continue Reading
Reassembling the Wreckage of Religious Freedom: Why Now *Is* The Time For Urging Liberty of Conscience and Supporting Those Seeking Religious Exemptions
Let’s end the crusade of binding the consciences of brothers and sisters in Christ on disputable matters and let’s love our neighbor by advocating for the freedom of conscience—even if we disagree with the exercise of such conscience.
If we are to enjoy any religious liberty going forward, we cannot take a strategy that waits for worse cases to arise. Rather, we need to reintroduce, rewaken, and reinforce the arguments for religious liberty. This must be done in the public square and in countless conversations with Christians and their neighbors. In fact, this... Continue Reading
On Reading
If a book is bad, stop reading it. If a book has good information but is badly written, skim it.
My series of reading lists, many thousands of books long, grows faster than I read and is regularly culled. I’m sure that most of them would be helpful, or interesting, or provocative. I won’t read even half of them. That someone else likes a book matters to me. If they’re a flesh and blood person... Continue Reading
Covid-19 Vaccines And Vaccination Mandates: How Should Christians Respond?
So many voices. So much confusion. So much fear, pressure, and division. How should Christians respond to Covid-19 Vaccine and Mandates?
My message is divided into three parts. First, I discuss whether Christians should be vaccinated with one of the new genetic vaccines. Second, I discuss how I believe Christians should respond to vaccination mandates. And third, I offer of a list of resources on this subject that have helped me greatly. My goal is to... Continue Reading
Making Sausage with the National Partnership
On the evening of October 26, I (along with others) was sent a cache of emails exchanged among the leadership of the National Partnership.
Among their efforts is identifying the men who their members should not vote for if they are nominated for committees or agencies. For instance, one well known Ruling Elder with a well-earned reputation for faithful service to the Lord and the PCA was recently nominated to serve on the Standing Judicial Commission. In one email... Continue Reading
Tears for the National Partnership™
Whether it was Presbyleaks, or NatPartnergate or the “We Got Owned Scandal,” the National Partnership emails (or some portion?) from 2013-2021 were . . . forwarded, leaked, stolen, made available.
There is a profound and disturbing conundrum humming in the background of these eight years and many emails: the secrecy of the majority. By repeated assertion and articulated reasoning, these emails show a small group of officers claiming to stand for the majority in our communion. Their discussion manifests a concern to ensure that the... Continue Reading
The ‘Good News’ of Marxism—Part 5
Classical Marxism is about economics and Frankfort School Neo-Marxism is about culture
The classical Marxist is concerned mostly with equality of outcome. By abolishing private property and with workers in charge of production, everyone theoretically ends up with the same number of eggs in the fridge at the end of the week. That, of course, is an absolute impossibly because of man’s inherent greed and avarice. Some,... Continue Reading
The Apostles of Marxism—Part 4
The men of the Frankfort School can be likened to apostles, because they delivered their message to the entire world.
While the Christian church continued to spread its message through missionary efforts, the Neo-marxists did it through what we call “the slow march through the institutions” and herein was their genius: they were still preaching the false god of revolution, but it no longer sounded like revolution. It actually sounded like good news. The... Continue Reading
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