Pastor Rick Warren to Host Saddleback Civil Forum on Leadership and Compassion and Question Candidates on Faith and the Common Good   Christian Newswire — Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, respective presumed Republican and Democratic presidential nominees, will end the primary season by making their first joint appearance of the 2008 campaign at... Continue Reading

Christian Newswire — The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 23, 2008 ruled that the city council of Fredericksburg, Virginia had proper authority to require “non-sectarian” prayer content and exclude council-member Rev. Hashmel Turner from the prayer rotation because he prayed “in Jesus’ name.” Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing the decision,... Continue Reading

  The book with this title is a new book by Joel Beeke on the Puritan exposition of the doctrine of adoption. This book has a rather amazing amount of content for only 134 pages of text plus 16 pages of prefatory material. Adoption is almost ignored today in systematic theology. Certainly, it is not... Continue Reading

  July 23, 2008   The following statement is being posted per the instruction of Rev. Charles McGowan, Chairman of the Institutional Personnel Committee.   The administration and Prof. Peter Enns wish to announce that they have arrived at mutually agreeable terms, and that, as of 1 August, 2008, Prof. Enns will discontinue his service... Continue Reading

  USA Today and NewsMax, along with a number of blogs, report that on July 9, 2008 a man from Michigan is suing two Christian publishers for $70 million for emotional distress and mental instability he received during the past 20 years from versions of the Bible that refer to homosexuality as a sin.  ... Continue Reading

  Pierre, SD – The state of South Dakota will begin enforcing an abortion law that tells women the practice will kill a unique human being. South Dakota Attorney General Larry Long says the law will go into effect on July 19, 2008 following a decision earlier this month by a federal appeals court saying... Continue Reading

  One of the doctrines people commonly associate with Presbyterianism is predestination. Actually, this is not a peculiarly Presbyterian doctrine – at least not historically. The Church of England (transplanted to America, the Episcopal Church) traditionally confesses this truth, as do all the Reformed churches of Europe. So do some Baptists (there is a movement,... Continue Reading

  God’s Word, Global Distribution Made Easy via Web   Christian Newswire — Faith Comes by Hearing website, the virtual home of the world’s foremost Audio Bible ministry, was recently updated and now serves as an online Audio Bible distribution center. Internet surfers, webmasters, bloggers and social network users have the ability to spread the... Continue Reading

  Alex and Brett Harris have just come out with a book entitled Do Hard Things. There are few books more counter-cultural or necessary for teens to read. As a pastor I often weary of trying to minister to teens who will not be impressed by anything because they expect the church to spoon-feed/entertain them... Continue Reading

  Over recent months our adult Sunday school class has been covering the material that was used in the ancient church for the instruction of new converts. This was the plan followed: I. What Christians Believe: The Apostles’ Creed; II. How Christians Live: The Ten Commandments; and III. How Christians Pray: The Lord’s Prayer.  ... Continue Reading