The Post-War Consensus Controversy – Another Perspective
A disagreement over the concept behind the term “Post-War Consensus” (PWC) has arisen among fellow believers.
The PWC centers around the traditional interpretation of numerous elements of War World II as it relates to some main players such as Churchill, and the degree of the severity of the Holocaust. The challenge to the PWC is being called antisemitic. In other words, the standard narrative popular after the war (Post-War Consensus) of... Continue Reading
An Example of Why We Must Emphasize That Unnatural Lusts Disqualify for Office: A Reading in Missouri Presbytery’s 2020 Report on Allegations Against Greg Johnson
The constitution of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) prohibits the ordination of men who experience unnatural lusts, prudence also recommending against it.
Those and many other things in our theory and practice of church government follow from an inference, and in many cases one that is much less clear and logically necessary than the inference that it is imprudent in the extreme to ordain men given to unnatural lust, or that the church may act on such... Continue Reading
Praise: The Doxology’s Descant
Let’s join the centuries of Christians in praising God for Who He is with our doxologies of praise!
From time to time we enjoy either singing or hearing a hymn with a descant. The descant is a melody or counterpoint sung above the simple melody, usually by sopranos. As the descant rises distinctively above the simple melody, so praise rises above simple thanksgiving. The Scriptures abound with plaudits of praise to God.... Continue Reading
Dr. Robert B. Strimple, 89, OPC Minister and Seminary Professor, Called Home to Glory
Dr. Robert B. Strimple (April 18, 1935-November 17, 2024) was a retired minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and former professor of systematic theology at Westminster Seminary (Philadelphia) and Westminster Seminary (California),
Strimple was always forward and outward looking. At the tenth anniversary celebration of WSC he articulated this in his address entitled “For All People—One Christ, One Gospel, One Mandate.” This passion for carrying the gospel into the world had already been expressed in his inaugural address as the first president of WSC, in which he... Continue Reading
The Serpent That Deceived Eve Deceives Women Today
The Serpent continues to use the same tools to deceive us that we can be like God.
The nature of this current deception involves the serpent seducing women to take God’s prerogative and decide the life or death of their child in vivo by abortion. This is accomplished by convincing her that the nature of her pregnancy is not two persons but just about her body alone. The living entity she carries,... Continue Reading
Further Reasons Why the Presbyterian Church in America Ought Not to Ordain Men Who Experience Unnatural Lusts
The constitution of the Presbyterian Church in America prohibits the ordination of men who experience unnatural lusts.
Perhaps the most obvious corruption of our thought upon this point has been the substitution of “same sex attraction” for “lust.” …working off of Scripture’s framework, our constitution and ethical tradition know nothing of mere attraction, especially where it is conceived as a potential weakness or liability rather than as the sin of unnatural lust.... Continue Reading
A Physicist’s View of Nonbinary Sexuality
Like in magnetism, so in people, opposites attract; if we try to change the rules then the foundation of an ordered society crumbles.
The world has believed that marriage is for a man and a woman. Men and women are different. Viva la difference! They were made to complement one another and to be close, just like the positive and negative charges in physics. This was part of God’s created order. From God’s creation comes order, predictability, productivity,... Continue Reading
A PCA Founding Minister, Kennedy Smartt, Celebrates His 100th Birthday
Born during Calvin Coolidge’s presidency, Kennedy is now living under his 17th president.
He is a prayer warrior. He prays. He prays for missionaries. He uses the MTW directory. He prays for pastors. He uses the PCA’s gray book listing all the ministers to do so. He prays through CMPC’s church directory. He prays for all of us. A Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) founding father, Kennedy... Continue Reading
Seeking a More Balanced Perspective: A Response to Ann Hall’s Review of Alongside Care
In this response, I hope to present a more balanced perspective of the authors’ message in “Alongside Care” and answer questions raised by Mrs. Hall’s review.
When it comes to women caring for women in our churches, Alongside Care seeks to provide a framework that honors God’s Word and His prescribed order for gender roles and church leadership. There may be differences in the terminology we use and the specific ways we implement such a ministry. Some churches may not need... Continue Reading
J. H. Merle D’Aubigné, Reformation Historian & Apologist
Anyone familiar with books published about the history of the Reformation the mention of D’Aubigné is likely associated with his historical studies of the era.
The fifteen years that D’Aubigné was away from Geneva had seen an increase of those concerned about the views presented by the Academy of Geneva’s theological faculty. In response to the situation in 1831, the Geneva Evangelical Society was founded with one of its goals being the establishment of a seminary faithful to Calvin’s design... Continue Reading
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