Robert Dabney is plain here: “Eushemonos” was that sedate dignity and seemliness which the gospel requires of the Lord’s freedmen, the same dignity, exalted and spiritualized, which the Greek ethics exacted of the free–born citizens. “komos” was condemned, partly because it was in contrast with this dignity.

Cherokee Presbytery claims 9,650 members. Following dissolutions and dismissals currently underway, that figure would drop to 8,276 – not counting whatever membership loss occurs from the Dalton and Silver Creek split. Eleven churches have not contributed per capita so far this year.

When is the last time you invited an unchurched person to church? When is the last time you offered to take a person to church, or, at the very least, meet him or her at church? It's a simple gesture, yet so few Christians do it.

Since certain activities in the life and ministry of a congregation–such as pastoral care–are often carried out by household rather than by individual persons, the pastoral care load of a congregation can actually increase while the individuals present decrease.

The youngest son told the AP in a February 2010 interview that Moon's offspring do not see themselves as his successors. "Our role is not inheriting that messianic role," he said. "Our role is more of the apostles, where we share … where we become the bridge between understanding what kind of lives (our) two parents have lived."

In this sinful world, God allows us to experience pain, sickness, and death. Through suffering, though, we are comforted that we are destined for a place where God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.

When you think of all the trouble the reformers went through to bring God’s Word back to the laity, it really does make you wonder why we would complain about actually learning what it says.

On August 30, 1979, the Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Guardian voted to merge the magazine with the Presbyterian Journal.

Romney’s campaign strategists now seem comfortable enough to begin to weave his religion into the personal narrative they are presenting to the public.

Loconte quotes a wonderful passage from C. S. Lewis, often quoted but worth hearing yet again: "Apparently, then, our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off … is no mere neurotic fancy, but the truest index of our real situation."