The Presbytery of the West has also assumed full ecclesiastical authority over the clergy serving the congregations whom we have received. We currently have 12 Teaching Elders and two Commissioned Ruling Elders serving within our bounds, as well as three Teaching Elders who serve ECO churches while retaining membership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Those persons serving the churches whose memberships are still pending total 8 more Teaching Elders and another Commissioned Ruling Elder.

"It appears that the Kirk is saying the Bible's wrong, sin doesn't matter. The more the church tries to align itself with secular society the more it will weaken itself. Who does the Kirk think will fill this church now we're gone? The congregation they imagine will replace us is fictional."

The culturally relevant progressive gurus within evangelicalism who desperately want to be popular are going to try to move towards the culture rather than be marginalized, and the church administrations, pastors, and theological professors who follow them around like besotted puppies are going to want to do the same.

It wasn’t déjà vu. The reason the sermon sounded entirely familiar was because it was. The minister lifted the majority of his sermon from a commentary. He spoke the words as if they were his own. He didn’t introduce the source from which he attained the information nor did he remotely hint that these weren’t his ideas. All of the illustrations and the majority of his points were word-for-word from someone else. Is this dishonest?

The play may owe one of its biggest debt to Choi's church, Grace Toronto (a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America. Calling itself "a church for the city in the city," in highly secular Toronto, the church pledged the rehearsal space and financial support for a weeklong workshop in 2009. With Grace Toronto dollars, Choi hired professional actors to rehearse the script and stage a public reading of the play, a process that proved critical to revising the script and no doubt contributed to its success.

There are a number of issues related to the fiscal cliff that should be of special concern to Christians: Reduction in contributions to charities and ministries; The adoption tax credit could expire; Increased unemployment

But Christianity and its religious counterparts were not developed with just the present generation in mind, kinetic as it is in style and digital in its favored literary constructions. The inherited forms, though in need of revision, in any case often speak with an authenticity that demands some patience, while the quickly formulated and celebrity-endorsed versions may go as they came.

Today, as we well know, the Court is sharply divided between liberals and conservatives, the appointment of justices subject to politicization like never before. The suspicion and bitterness of the culture wars is in no small part due to conservatives’ feelings of betrayal by the judicial establishment, feelings that go back to 1937 but that run through numerous controversial cases in the following decades, the most divisive of which is perhaps Roe v. Wade.

This plan has included an increase in digital publishing and the receiving of additional support from the Ministry Shares program of the Church's synod. The synod's additional funding was approved at the annual meeting held in the summer. The reduction will involve cutting some positions and not filling others

In light of these passages we see that to downplay sanctification is to undercut a large portion of the biblical basis of assurance. I hope these remarks are helpful in clearing up what I think are misconceptions about justification and sanctification.