“The PCA is on the verge of a catastrophic misjudgment. We will wrongly demean a longstanding servant of Christ, do significant harm to the office of the State[d] Clerk, and thus to the health and peace of our denomination.”   Fathers and brothers (and others), Over the last few days I have been deeply engaged... Continue Reading

Seizing those opportunities [currently available to the PCA] will require organizational competence, high character from our leadership, and a recovery of relational trust across the denomination. If we can address these problems, the potential good that might be accomplished through the PCA is significant. We should labor toward those ends. Should we fail, it will... Continue Reading

“I brought unwarranted disrepute upon persons identified in the screenshot. For this wrongdoing I repent to my Lord and I apologize to the individuals, their families, and the church I serve. I have begun, and will continue, personally to ask forgiveness from those I harmed. I also confess the seriousness of these errors and sin.”... Continue Reading

Houses have doors that can open wide or be locked tight, windows that let in light or air or keep out rain. To the officers of the church have been given the keys to a kingdom whose subjects, for now, reside in the house of and family of God on earth. No one has keys... Continue Reading

Since the podcast episode aired, denominational members have made multiple formal requests for investigation into Chapell’s Christian character on the grounds that his list may violate the Ninth Commandment, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” (Exodus 20:16).   Bryan Chapell, the chief administrative officer of the Presbyterian Church in America, gestured to... Continue Reading

It’s not the Mission of the Church to celebrate various cultures. There is much to be celebrated in various cultures and about our civil relations and social histories. But the Church must remain above such things and reflect the glorious, heavenly culture with the diversity, unity, and peace that Christ brought to us. In the... Continue Reading

Unbiblical ideologies are rarely adopted wholesale overnight; instead, they are often introduced and consumed bit by bit. Thus, when any Christian leader seriously errs, it is worth asking whether such error is an anomaly or part of a larger pattern of error and compromise.   In his epistle, James cautions his readers that “not many... Continue Reading

I totally believe wisdom has many counselors, and I learn from a ton of people and a ton of organizations. But there’s a world of difference between springboarding off others and relying on others to think for you. True creativity is risky. It means you don’t know how it will turn out. It means you... Continue Reading

A shepherd carried a staff with both ends necessary for his job. The top end was that of a hook. This end was designed to grab around the neck of a wandering sheep and pull it back into the fold. So much of pastoral ministry and the work of the ministry among fellow church members... Continue Reading

The reporter described the unseating of three “Machenite” commissioners, “ all members of the rebel Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions,” and quoted the response of conservative leader and Machen ally, H. McAllister Griffiths: “The machine may find out that its high-handed tactics have at last awakened the Church to Modernist tyranny.” What the “Machinists”... Continue Reading