Why “the Birds and Bees” Can’t be Just One Talk
“The Talk” just doesn’t cut it anymore.
Ultimately, the Birds & Bees curriculum gives parents clarity and confidence about a very confusing part of our culture, helping them raise their kids to steward their sexuality in a way honoring to the Lord. For more information about Birds & Bees or to enroll in their course, visit birds-bees.com. They also have a terrific podcast... Continue Reading
RUF Announces Resignation of Will Huss
Mr. Huss’ resignation will be effective June 27, 2025, following the regularly scheduled meeting of the General Assembly.
Over the last six years, Will Huss has served as the National Coordinator for RUF leading the ministry through a number of substantial organizational initiatives including growing to over 190 ministries, developing a new recruiting model for future ministry staff, securing the cooperative ministry agreements, as well as celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ministry. ... Continue Reading
What Will Help Those Who Love a Person with Dementia?
Approach the dementia sufferer as one made in the image of God.
Endurance is tested when ministering to a person with dementia. The family may listen to repetitive questions and stories. Patience is needed while the sufferer struggles to express a thought. The loved one may react with stubbornness or anger when attempts are made to protect them from danger or when a familiar routine must change.... Continue Reading
Introducing the Bible Answers Project
The goal of the Bible Answers Project is to connect unchurched people with presbyterian and reformed churches
“The good news is that every day, 100,000s of online searches (Google, Bing, etc.) are conducted for search queries related to the Bible and Christianity. The bad news is that, more often than not, search results for Bible-related queries never connect people back to confessional Presbyterian and Reformed churches — despite our robust commitment to... Continue Reading
Ministerial Platforms, Self-Praise, and Self-Glory
John the Baptist understood that he was just meant to prepare the way and stay out of the way. He was merely a pointer and not the point.
Someone rightly said, “If all people see is you and your efforts to build a platform, then you are stealing the show.” The clamour for people’s attention in a minister should be of concern. With the rise of social media, the temptation is ever real. Where does one draw the line? On the one hand, it... Continue Reading
Good Authority Submits
It’s hard to say it loud enough: good authorities submit. If you cannot listen and follow, you should not lead.
A leader who doesn’t view himself as being inside an accountability structure effectively becomes a law unto himself. He teaches everyone under him to fear him, when it’s only God whom we should fear. Loyalty to a leader is indeed a good thing, but good loyalty is loyalty to his leadership under God and anyone else... Continue Reading
Why Are They Sad? The Loneliest Time of Year
As sure as fall gave way to winter, winter will give way to spring. Though we weep now, the Lord will in His time wipe away all our tears.
We followers of Christ are not exempt from sorrow, grief, sadness, and heaviness. Jesus himself wept. He wept over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41) and wept at the death of his beloved friend Lazarus (John 11:35). He was distraught at the loneliness he would endure on the cross. The thought of the suffering he would bear brought... Continue Reading
A Survey of Presbyterian Mission History in Africa, Whytock, 2023
This book will be an important resource for studies of not only missions, but also Christianity in Africa. The West is in some ways as ignorant of Africa as the nineteenth century missionaries that entered its unknown regions.
A Presbyterian missionary to Africa told me several years ago that Africa is large with peoples of many cultures and languages distributed over its varied topography that provides a spectrum of climates from Cape Town to Casablanca to Cairo. Africa is a mission field that is complex with unique challenges. The nearly 800 pages of... Continue Reading
What Is So Difficult About Being a Pastor?
In no other job are you required to go from studying an ancient document to counseling someone who just got cancer, to leading a board room meeting, to writing a public speech, to burying a dead person, all in the same day.
The Spirit must descend and produce new birth. Pastors are primed to long for the Holy Spirit. Every day, they are being backed further and further into the corner of God’s sovereignty, where they realize that they are weak, fearful, trembling, unpersuasive, and unwise (1 Cor 2:3-4). Many will dig a hole in the ground,... Continue Reading
Prison Bars & Rental Cars
I had the honor of teaching a class of sophomores in an accredited college program in a prison near Houston.
It’s a journey that can begin from anywhere, but, no matter where it is entered, it always leads to the same place, to the same person. He’s the way, the truth, and the life. I had to go to prison to be reminded of the joy of knowing Jesus. That’s really what I learned from... Continue Reading
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