The issue of gays in ministry often has been divisive among church congregations, and now it’s affecting the 5,000-member First Presbyterian Church in Colorado Springs. The church has joined a growing national movement within the Presbyterian denomination. The movement, called the Presbyterian Fellowship, opposes a pending vote by parent organization Presbyterian Church (USA) that could... Continue Reading

Sunday AM Updates from MTW missionaries Dan Iverson and Abi Lowther, plus a testimony from a non-Christian observer in Japan Update from Dan Iverson, Japan Team Leader (from MTW website) With the exception of the ongoing nuclear crisis, you have probably noticed that news from Japan has slowed to a trickle. There are fewer and... Continue Reading

Sunday AM updates from OPC Disaster Response Coordinator, Dave Nakhla and Japan Missionaries Cal Cummings and Woody Lauer Update from David Nakhla, OPC Disaster Response Coordinator; Three weeks have now passed since the news of the earthquake and tsunami hitting right off the coast of Japan, near Sendai. As this story slides from the top... Continue Reading

Mormon President Thomas S. Monson, his two right-hand men and 12 apostles will take to the podium at this weekend’s (April 2-3) General Conference and offer sermons that many Mormons will treat like faxes from God. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consider these 15 men “prophets, seers and revelators” and... Continue Reading

A Presbyterian Church (USA) appeals court has affirmed an earlier ruling that the Rev. Dr. Jane Adams Spahr violated the Presbyterian constitution and her ordination vows for marrying more than a dozen same-sex couples during the brief window when it was legal to do so in California. Spahr, 68, was found guilty in August after... Continue Reading

At a meeting of the congregation of First Presbyterian (ARP) in Columbia, SC on Sunday Morning, March 27, Dr. Derek Thomas, currently on the faculty at RTS Jackson and Minister of Teaching at First Presbyterian (PCA) in Jackson was approved as the new Associate Pastor at FPC Columbia Thomas will begin his duties after the... Continue Reading

As the modern “home church” movement continues to gain momentum and threaten the peace and unity of congregations in every denomination, it behooves all who love Christ’s church to speak the truth in love to home church advocates. Therefore, I offer this pastoral advice: Distinguish and Appreciate If by “home churching” a person simply means... Continue Reading

Dubbed “Free to Fly,” the campaign funded an out-of-court-settlement with the Synod of the Pacific, ending a six-year battle with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The church property is valued at an estimated $10.5 million. Settlement with a Presbyterian Synod: $1.1 million. Attorney fees: $100,000 Clear title to church property: Priceless Located near Sacramento, Fair Oaks... Continue Reading

R. Albert Mohler Jr, said it was unfair to accuse churches of discrimination because that word implied something “wrongful.” “Both the logic of Scripture and the centrality of marriage in society,” he said, justify “the strong inclination of congregations to hire a man who is not only married but faithfully married.” Like all too many... Continue Reading

Others have protested inclusion of speakers who are prominently recognized as Calvinists and the fact that the Pastors’ Conference is heavily subsidized by the SBC operating budget. The president of the 2011 Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference defended a program he’s put together for June 12-13 in Phoenix, Ariz., saying critics who find it outside the... Continue Reading