Updated NIV Bible Text Released for Viewing Online – Text and Translators Notes Available
Biblica and Zondervan announced today the online release of the highly anticipated update to the text of the New International Version of the Bible (NIV). The updated text is available for viewing at both www.BibleGateway.com and www.Biblica.com along with an overview of the translation methods and approach used by the Committee on Bible Translation (CBT).... Continue Reading
Actress Hilary Swank, Prison Fellowship Team Up to Fight Injustice
Two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank paid a visit to Prison Fellowship headquarters in Virginia last week to discuss her new movie “Conviction” and the role faith can play in fighting injustice. “I’ve met 12 other exonerees since the movie has come out,” she told The Washington Post ahead of a panel discussion at the... Continue Reading
Unlikely partnership, including evangelical Christians, builds university in North Korea
Sixteen professors from the United States and Europe arrived last weekend. For now, no South Korean professors are allowed, because of recent political tensions between the Koreas. Of all the fantastic tales to come out of North Korea – the country’s leader is injected with the blood of virgin girls, he made 11 holes-in-one during... Continue Reading
Halloween Brings Out Ghosts, Ghouls and (Some) Christians (Including a PCA Pastor)
The Rev. Ken Pierce, commented to the Clarion Ledger. “It’s not going around to strange houses. It’s an opportunity the culture presents us to share the Gospel with those who may not otherwise come to the church.” Halloween is upon us once again and, like the year before, remains to be a date that Christians... Continue Reading
Introducing BibleStudyCourses.org – Online Bible Studies Written from a Reformed Perspective
The primary purpose of BibleStudyCourses.org is to proclaim the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ to the unbeliever with the intention that he might meet the Savior as He offers Himself to us in the Scriptures and that he might put his faith in Him and become His disciple. BibleStudyCourses.org is a new... Continue Reading
PCA’s Mission To North America Thanksgiving Offering – Mentoring leaders for our diverse communities
The MNA Thanksgiving Offering provides grants to help support those who have been called by God to minister to ethnically diverse communities across the nation – people groups who are currently not well served by the PCA. The face of North America is rapidly changing. Although Caucasians continue to make up the largest percentage of... Continue Reading
Aiming Higher – Covenant College Admission office takes on the tough economy
“I don’t mean to sound insensitive, but here we are at a mostly white college, living on top of a mountain in a largely white, upper-class community, going to largely white churches.” In a year of recession, as many colleges are scaling back and forced to compromise admissions standards, Covenant College, an institution in the... Continue Reading
A gift to the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies – 2,500 volumes
“He is one of North America’s foremost social historians of the Genevan Reformation,” said Fields. “He knew Geneva forwards and backwards.” Back in May, Paul Fields, the theological librarian and curator of the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, rented a truck and drove to Madison, Wisconsin. Waiting for him there was a whole... Continue Reading
New Barna Report Examines Diversity of Faith in Various U.S. Cities
“Practicing Christians” are defined as those who identify as Christian; who have attended a religious worship service at least once in the past month; and who say their religious faith is very important in their life. There is little debate that most Americans are faith-oriented people. Yet how does spirituality and religion differ from one... Continue Reading
Review of the First Annual Reformation Worship Conference
Held in the Midway Presbyterian Church sanctuary…these services demonstrated the usefulness of the historic reformed liturgies in our modern context. While we live in a day when traditional reformed worship is charged with being irrelevant and outdated, October 21-24 pastors, musicians and congregants from 17 states and a variety of denominations rediscovered how very far... Continue Reading
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