Lots of important news and details about the entire situation in Japan is contained in the following email which was sent by Pastor Shigeru Takiura (pastor of the Keiyaku RPC near Kobe, Japan) to Dr. Jonathan Watt, Executive Secretary of RP Global Missions, located in Pittsburgh. We will any further posts from the RPC churches... Continue Reading

The Richmond Study Center has formally defined their mission to bring gospel transformation to individuals and communities within the greater Richmond area by fostering serious consideration and discussion of a biblical worldview and its bearing on every area of life and culture. PCA Teaching Elder Chris Daniel was ordained by James River Presbytery to serve... Continue Reading

Danny Iverson left Japan, where he grew up, to return to the U.S. for college. Afterwards, he moved to New Jersey to work with his grandfather, Bill Iverson – a PEF Evangelist – and helped develop an inner city ministry. He then moved with his wife and children to Orlando where he is attending RTS... Continue Reading

Barna’s latest published divorce statistics say one-third of all adults, including “non-evangelical born again Christians,” have ended a marriage. Barna’s statistics are tied to its highly specific—and controversial—definitions of born-again Christians and evangelicals. It’s been proclaimed from pulpits and blogs for years—Christians divorce as much as everyone else in America. But some scholars and family... Continue Reading

PCA Missionary Tom Hudson provided the following information to The Aqulia Report this evening (Tuesday, 11:25PM EDST) The following is a report we received this evening from Rev. and Mrs. Koji Easaki. Koji is Japanese and is a graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary. He ministers in the Nagoya area, about 160 miles west of Toyko.... Continue Reading

You have, no doubt, watched the unfolding of the crisis in Japan following the massive earthquake and tsunami. We are grateful that our missionaries and their families are safe, but they are also grieving for this country whose people they love. Our missionaries and the churches with which they are affiliated are making an immediate... Continue Reading

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the value of a real time video of a Tsunami’s impact? Below you will find one of the most vivid video’s of what happened in real time during the Tsunami’s rush. The video was taken from a cornerr of Kesennuma, in Miyagi Prefecture. Had someone... Continue Reading

Update from the OPC’s Disaster Response web site describing their overall situation in Japan; new prayer requests from Cal and Edie Cummings An update on the OPC’s Japan Disaster Response Web Site We give thanks in all of God’s good providences. The more we learn about the devastation of the earthquake and tsunami, the more... Continue Reading

A sack of 50 kilograms of maize and another of rice fed the Lwakatale family of 15 for a month. The father, Ponsiano Lwakatale, a pastor in Kampala, Uganda, took note of each grain. When cholera swept the Lwakatales’ neighborhood in 1998, their youngest daughter, Omega, 8, began sneaking scoops of maize and rice to... Continue Reading

As long as Islamic studies uncritically defers to Islamic theology the situation will never improve. This is because Islamic theology, compared to the theology of the other great faiths, is extremely intolerant of everything that does not support its own viewpoint and aggressively seeks victory over, rather than an understanding of, opposing views. D. Wayne... Continue Reading