Granted, it may very well be that I am telling myself all of this so I can sleep at night and function during the day. Churches may be small due to theology, choice, geography, backwardness, style, character or a host of other reasons. For my part, being smaller isn’t necessarily bad. Frankly, I really like... Continue Reading

Joan Johns, clerk of session for Kingman, said the move away from the PCUSA was one needed for the church. “Ours is an older congregation, a little long in the tooth to put it one way, but we still believe in the Bible and the way it was written,” Johns said. “When it was said... Continue Reading

All men will speak well of you if, after preaching no matter how unpopular a Gospel on Sunday, you will only vote against that Gospel in the councils of the church the next day; you will graciously be permitted to believe in supernatural Christianity all you please if you will only act as though you did... Continue Reading

College Hill Presbyterian Church is recognized as the oldest church in Lafayette County and for its rich history of serving the Oxford and Ole Miss family, after all the College Hill Church and the University of Mississippi grew up together. The church building was constructed in 1846 while laborers were constructing the Lyceum Building, which... Continue Reading

“The question is, ‘When you’re finished, will there be any money left or will you be out of money?’ It comes down to which gets finished first — the money or the building,” Ramp said. “We have $2.4 million in insurance and I believe it’s going to take every bit of that and probably even... Continue Reading

Reports were also heard from the Rev. Canon Alan Hawkins, Vicar of Anglican 1000, the initiative that seeks to plant 1,000 new parishes in the first five-years of the Province’s existence; over 300 parishes have been planted since 2009 and the 1-2-3 Challenge seeks to build on that by using a variety of strategies. Reports... Continue Reading

Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptists’ Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and Archbishop William Lori, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ ad hoc committee for religious liberty, sent a joint letter to Congress on Friday urging lawmakers to pass the conscience protection legislation. “Both of our denominations value God’s gift of procreation,” Moore... Continue Reading

The irony should not be missed. The very gospel Western missionaries took to Africa, Asia and Latin America is now coming back to the West with an educated fervor for the Good News that even the Wesley’s could not match. It is darkest before the dawn, but the dawn we do know comes. We only... Continue Reading

So where does this leave us all? In a confused mess. I do not think that it is sinful to stay in the Church of Scotland. However it is sinful to stay, talk of reformation and renewal and yet not fight for it. We must not hide behind pietism, truisms, or a distorted view of... Continue Reading

The Rev. Richard W. Gray, then pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church in Willow Grove, Penn., was an architect of the 1965 union of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Synod [1833-1965] and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church [1961-1965] that produced the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod (RPCES), which in 1982 was received into the Presbyterian Church in... Continue Reading