I am all for supporting the AC. I like what the AC does. I love my brothers who serve in various capacities in the AC. All that being true doesn’t change this fact: the proposed plan is not biblical. Therefore, I oppose it. The PCA Administrative Committee (AC) posted a number of video interviews on... Continue Reading

Wayne Grudem explained that profit is “fundamentally good and provides many opportunities for glorifying God.” Profit is an indication of good stewardship. If the newly reconfigured Congress is concerned about America’s economic recovery one would hope that lawmakers would want to create the best possible environment for businesses to make profits. Profitable companies provide jobs.... Continue Reading

I am convinced that if younger PCA pastors comprehend that the apostles, the New Testament elders, and the New Testament deacons all possess derived authority, then they will understand why the same questions are asked of both elders and deacons… I want to continue to consider the biblical concept of “ordination” in this installment, along... Continue Reading

The KJV, wrote linguist David Crystal in 2004, “has contributed far more to English in the way of idiomatic or quasi-proverbial expressions than any other literary source.” In the past week or so, anyone following the news might have read that Jon Stewart is “a thorn in the side of politicians”; that Senator Harry Reid... Continue Reading

Evangelicals typically make the fatal mistake of assuming that the wider world actually cares about what they think. It does not: it increasingly regards us as fringe lunatics, rather as it did in the first century. Thomas Jefferson was no orthodox Christian but I have a deep suspicion that he should take significant responsibility for... Continue Reading

…Philip Yancey…says he moved from the Authoritative God of his youth — “a scowling, super-policeman in the sky, waiting to smash someone having a good time” — to a “God like a doctor who has my best interest at heart…” If you pray to God, to whom — or what — are you praying? When... Continue Reading

In the late 19th century Charles Hodge…complained that voluntary giving by congregations and individuals was not raising enough money…and proposed an obligatory “tithe” …. In objecting to this, Dr. Thomas E. Peck wrote probably the best critique regarding compulsory giving. After some study of this issue, I find that Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is... Continue Reading

Euphoria swells in the hearts of many today as we hope and pray for a change in government policies which will better reflect the government we find in the Bible. I join in that hope. On the other side of the election, what can we learn? What can we expect? For the believer, our lessons... Continue Reading

The election results of 2010 will lead to big changes in Washington and far beyond. That in itself is good news. But all this must be put in a truly Christian context. The meaning of the 2010 election is destined now to be the Great Debate of the next political season. While this is true... Continue Reading

So, who really did invent the doctrine of the Inerrancy of the Bible? One of the odd things I have noticed in recent years is the historical isolationism of certain streams of Anglican evangelicalism. It manifests itself in a number of ways: a disparagement of the Book of Common Prayer; the downplaying of systematic theology... Continue Reading