How One Christian School Addressed Critical Theory
“The Augustine School Statement on Social Theory” to help us navigate some of the harmful ideologies and social theories of our day.
More than twenty years ago, my wife and I helped found Augustine School, a classical Christian school in Jackson, Tennessee. Every Christian institution, if it is to remain faithful, must understand the times (1 Chron. 12:32) and articulate the gospel as perplexing ethical challenges emerge. The following statement is one model for how a Christian... Continue Reading
A Review and Rebuttal: ‘Heavy Burdens, Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church’
In the guise of grace, Rivera calls on the church to stop being Christian and to choose interpretations of Holy Scripture which accommodate sexual passions.
As a Side B lesbian, Rivera assists those who choose to become Side A, providing a stream of justifications for doing so. Her teaching is conducive to the LGBTQ way of life, part of the broad way: “… the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction” (Matthew 7:13). The narrow... Continue Reading
SE Alabama Presbytery Holds Second Annual “With Much Advantage” Deacons’ Conference
In exercising his authority deacons, “are stewarding the gifts and administering them in the life of the congregation.”
Deacons are to be affirmed in this life is instructive: “For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a high standing and great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus” (I Timothy 3:13). In contrast, the elder’s affirmation comes later: “. . . when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will... Continue Reading
New Book Addresses How to Handle Misconduct Allegations in a Ministry
“Handling Allegations in a Ministry” is a new book providing beneficial and proactive guidelines to churches and ministries.
“Telios Law has broken the mold of scorched-earth institutional defense/plaintiff recovery to develop a restorative method of ministry investigations. The Telios method does not conform to the winner-take-all patterns of American law but strives to transform and renew the parties and the past.” PCA member, attorney, and Telios Law founder, Theresa Sidebotham, has recently... Continue Reading
The End of Accommodation
Schaeffer calls accommodation the grossest form of worldliness.
This is where accommodation leads; start down the path of cultural relevancy and one will soon be entangled by an accommodation to the spirit of the age. In addition, it leads to a most catastrophic move by evangelicals to reimagine Christianity which follow a weakened view of Scripture. In the end, not only is the... Continue Reading
“Where Is God When … ?”
Where is God when the darkness seems never to let up?”
God is creating a great tapestry of which we are a part, even our dark threads. We sometimes have doubts and confusion about this divine tapestry because, even though the Artist knows, sees, and continues to create the intricate design woven on the upper side, we see the tangled lower side with dangling threads and... Continue Reading
When Justice is Out of Order
Church discipline will lose its “moral and spiritual force” when, at the end of the day, the sheep don’t perceive any justice in the discipline.
When a woman’s case is twice as likely to be blocked on procedural grounds, it is difficult indeed to perceive “that our system is just.” Based on the data alone, it looks quite unjust. And the men who made that statement were aware that “perception [of justice in the PCA system] is essential to the... Continue Reading
Catholicism’s Mary
When a contrast is made between the biblical Mary and the Mary of Roman Catholic tradition, the result is two very different portraits of Mary.
Salvation through the Catholic faith is not possible without Mary. Mark Miraville, a leading advocate of Marian theology, states, “It is in the light of Mary’s unique and intimate cooperation with the Redeemer, both at the incarnation…and at the work of redemption at Calvary…that the Church has invoked Mary under the title “Coredemptrix.” Have... Continue Reading
Unwitting Reformer: God’s Sovereignty Displayed in the Reformation
In God’s sovereign purposes, Erasmus produced the Greek Testament that led to the salvation of many and served as the foundation for translating the New Testament into common tongues.
“The influence of this work [Erasmus’ Greek New Testament] on the Reformation was incalculable,” is an understatement. The pent-up soul-anguish among students at Cambridge and Oxford, and a parish priest in Zurich found life in the Greek Testament. Luther devoured it and used it to translate the Scripture into the German vernacular. Tyndale did the... Continue Reading
Presbyterian Church (USA) will Gather Nonbinary/Genderqueer Statistics for Its Membership
As the PCUSA has become more “inclusive,” from 2016 membership dropped precipitously 1.48 million to 1.1 million, churches from 9,451 to 8,813, and attendance nearly 50% over the past decade to 425,000.
In 2015, PCUSA amended its constitution to change the definition of marriage to read in part, “Marriage involves a unique commitment between two people, traditionally a man and a woman, to love and support each other for the rest of their lives.” The prior year, the General Assembly had allowed pastors in the PCUSA to... Continue Reading
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