In a culture suspicious of institutions and authority, consistency is a rare and powerful testimony. A church that knows what it believes and faithfully practices it demonstrates stability in a world of confusion. Of course, confessional integrity requires courage. Our culture pressures pastors to soften hard doctrines or to recast biblical truth in language more... Continue Reading

The three Creeds, Nicene Creed, Athanasius’s Creed, and that which is commonly called the Apostles’ Creed, ought thoroughly to be received and believed: for they may be proved by most certain warrants of holy Scripture. The pursuit of a wholesome goal of sound doctrine, increasingly valued and ever incisively probed, healthy living permeated by love... Continue Reading

The Committee is working to form a search committee for the next Coordinator. Please join us in prayer for the Ince family, the PCA, the MNA staff, and the search committee. Pray also for God’s blessing on MNA’s commitment to church planting and church vitality.   The following is a statement from the permanent committee... Continue Reading

I am well aware that this may be met with outraged protests and shocked denial. Yet I am certain what I describe here is a real phenomenon, and that it needs to be said. I write in the abstract so that the message may be clear without creating undue or unintended offense. I believe one... Continue Reading

In a fatherless and identity-confused age, even clothing becomes a tool for discipleship. Boys and young men need visible models of honorable, masculine presence—starting with how a man presents himself to the world.   In a time when cultural confusion about gender identity is rampant, the call for Christian men to live, and dress according... Continue Reading

Men, when you take a wife, you are taking responsibility for a covenant. You are not signing up for self-fulfillment, but for self-denial. Your vows are not the start of a fairy tale. They are the beginning of a funeral—for self. To love your wife as Christ loved the Church means to die daily. To... Continue Reading

Rough days are coming in the PCA. This incident will cause weeping, gnashing of teeth, sending of letters, and having of meetings. But controversy (and the fact that something like this, which I’ll call Tibergate, is still controversial) is good. It proves one of Machen’s famous lines: “In the sphere of religion, as in other... Continue Reading

Surviving Mainline congregations in future years will reorganize into new networks and collaborations that we cannot now imagine. Some congregations that are dramatically heterodox will survive but most will not. They will no longer have the buffer of supportive denominational structures. Ultimately, nature reasserts itself in churches. Orthodox theology that feeds souls wins and attracts... Continue Reading

NiNOs aren’t aligned with organized religion but still pray and maintain belief in God. Rather than assuming they’ve rejected Christianity (as the Dones have), we can understand better by simply listening to them. We might be surprised to find they’re unaffiliated with organized faith not because they’ve rejected it but simply because they’re unfamiliar with... Continue Reading

A letter, signed by the head of the Anglican Church of Pakistan, bishops, and officers of the Church of Pakistan, stated that the appointment of an open homosexual feeds hostile narratives in a country like Pakistan, where homosexuality is illegal and Christians are an often-persecuted minority.   The chorus of concern about the appointment of... Continue Reading