Gary Ogrosky, a retired orthodonist now PCA Teaching Elder, is joining the staff as MNA Second Career Director. Ogrosky will be responsible to do the following: Strengthen and build awareness for this vital ministry. Identify and develop ministry sites, e.g., churches, mission churches, campus ministries, disaster response sites, short term mission sites, etc. that can... Continue Reading

Jeff Jeremiah, Stated Clerk of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, simplified it, saying, “Stop shouting in order to make your point.” With the election process in full swing, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) asked its Board of Directors for suggestions on increasing civility in public discourse. Leaders responded with variety, but one common thread was... Continue Reading

Joe Bayly at his Pastor’s Blog gleaned this piece of wisdom from R. B. Kuiper’s book “The Glorious Body of Christ.” The book was published by Banner the year after Kuiper’s death, yet what he wrote in 1966 still sounds right 45 years later. What few Christians seem to realize is that a church may... Continue Reading

Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have succeeded in getting a lawsuit dismissed against a chaplaincy endorsing organization that was being sued over allegations that a chaplain affiliated with the group solicited imprecatory prayers which the plaintiffs considered to be “terroristic threats.” The lawsuit, which defined imprecatory prayer as “prayers for the Lord to protect the... Continue Reading

Nine out of 10 Shorter University faculty members who responded anonymously to a survey said they disagree with a “personal lifestyle statement” adopted last fall that prohibits, among other things, homosexuality and drinking alcohol in public. Results of the survey published by the Rome (GA) News-Tribune found fewer than half of those polled plan to... Continue Reading

In fact things got worse as I spiralled down into a deep pit of depression. I lost over two stone in weight, was an emotional wreck who wept at the least thing, and I became reclusive, not wanting to see or talk to anyone other than my family. I had no energy and spent the... Continue Reading

What happened in all that? First, we moved from parachurch to church-based ministry (though the parachurch continues). In doing so, we segregated youth from the rest of the congregation. Students in many churches no longer engaged with “adult” church and had no place to go once they graduated from high school. They did not benefit... Continue Reading

The speaker for the inaugural Spurgeon Lectureship will be Dr. John Piper, popular author and pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in the Minneapolis area. The lecture, which is open to the public, will be Wednesday evening, April 10, 2013, on the RTS Orlando campus. Reformed Theological Seminary is pleased to announce the opening of the... Continue Reading

A suspect was detained Monday in a shooting attack at an Oakland Christian university……Officer Johnna Watson did not give any other details about the arrest. “I can confirm that we do have one person who has been detained that we believe is possibly responsible for this shooting,” Watson said. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)— A gunman opened... Continue Reading

B.B. Warfield, the Princeton theologian who coined the term “inerrancy,” held to theistic evolution, so clearly one can adhere to both. And J. I. Packer, one of the framers of the Chicago Statement on Inerrancy, holds to EC, so evidently he views EC as compatible with inerrancy as expressed by the Chicago Statement. This post... Continue Reading