Top 50 Stories on The Aquila Report for 2023: 41-50
Numbers 41-50 of the top 50 articles for 2023
In keeping with the journalistic tradition of looking back at the recent past, we present the top 50 stories of the year that were read on The Aquila Report site based on the number of hits. We will present the 50 stories in groups of 10 to run on five lists on consecutive days. Here... Continue Reading
The Heart of the Home
Embracing family worship in the Reformed and Presbyterian tradition.
The Reformed tradition, with its rich legacy of psalmody and hymnody, offers a vast reservoir of spiritual songs that teach theology, recount God’s mighty acts of creation and redemption, and express the joys and sorrows of the Christian life. Singing these truths embeds them deeply in our hearts, often becoming a source of comfort and... Continue Reading
Bishops around the World Are Divided over Vatican’s Same-Sex Blessing Declaration
In at least three countries — Kazakhstan, Malawi, and Zambia — Church leaders are refusing to implement the Vatican declaration in any way.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement that highlighted the “distinction between liturgical (sacramental) blessings and pastoral blessings” and said: “The Church’s teaching on marriage has not changed, and this declaration affirms that, while also making an effort to accompany people through the imparting of pastoral blessings because each of us needs... Continue Reading
Respectability and Hospitality (and Friendship and Fidelity)
While hospitality is principally a gift for the receiver, God has designed it to also bless the giver, and if we love our pastors, we will want these blessings for them.
Hospitality is especially important for elders because their teaching and ruling responsibilities do not necessarily require them, unlike deacons, to be mixing regularly with strangers, the lonely, widows, and the poor. And yet in too many churches pastors and other elders are not expected to exercise hospitality. Now this may be because churches are sensitive to... Continue Reading
The United Methodist Reckoning
This was a year of splintering for America’s second largest Protestant denomination.
In following the developments over the past four years, one thing has been clear: The name United Methodist is not enough to hold together groups that no longer see one another as united. For a movement which once boasted of a church in every county in America, the splintering of this denomination is a time to... Continue Reading
Why Are Wilson’s Children Warriors?
There is something missing in the modern Reformed world, and a multiplicity of young men are flocking to Wilson and others to fill that vacuum. It is more than just a mood.
Modern America is now Gomorrah in the hands of Cultural Marxists. We tend to forget and ignore the fact that Marxism itself has a history, and its history always results in the shedding of the blood of millions of people. We must be pro-life, not pro-death, even beyond the womb. For non-cultural theologians, their hope... Continue Reading
Questions a Pastor Doesn’t Want to Ask
Good questions answered honestly can prompt more questions, which can lead to conversation that encourages and refines.
It’d be easier not to ask. It’d be easier to accept the niceties and generalities. But it wouldn’t be right, not if this pastor will be a shepherd after God’s own heart. Reflecting on my own ministry, I recall instances when I should have listened to that shepherd-sense to press harder, to go deeper, to... Continue Reading
This Is Not What the Sheep Need: Reflections on Credo Magazine’s Book Awards
Credo Magazine, with its 2023 book awards, has revealed in what direction it imagines Evangelicals should turn.
Our scholars should not, as such, be commending Roman academics with awards. They should be calling them to repent of their communion’s notions which twist and deny Scripture, and to use their talents and devotion to promote sound doctrine. For Christ said “if you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples” (Jn. 8:31),... Continue Reading
Contributions Sought for the ‘Mark and Priscilla Lowrey Relief Fund’
An opportunity to aid and assist Priscilla Lowrey with Mark’s medical and end-of-life expenses by contributing to a fund set up through the PCA Foundation.
You may or may not be aware that Mark suffered medical difficulties for over a year now. He encountered great difficulty, suffering the neurological loss of his limbs and bearing up under physical pain. Despite being treated by some of the best doctors, this was all compounded by tremendous difficulty in diagnosing the problem. Recently,... Continue Reading
Three Marks of Progressive-Lite Evangelicals
In the name of “niceness,” they are dulling the sharp edge of the call for repentance that our world desperately needs to hear.
For all their talk of evenhandedness, winsomeness, and giving others the benefit of the doubt, these ideals are tossed out the window the minute the discussion turns to matters that conservatives deeply care about and are willing to advocate for at the political level. As Christians, we should call out this double standard for what... Continue Reading
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