Based on the prominence public reading of Scripture has had through the millennia, Timothy Raltson said, “Public reading and preaching within worship exposes His demands, our inadequacy and His grace. It calls for covenant renewal and lies at the heart of spiritual revival. Therefore, how can we offer acceptable worship if His Word does not... Continue Reading

My aging mind cannot understand how so many of my dear brothers in Christ in the PCA can even conceive of the Administrative Committee “funding plan” as being pleasing to the Lord. I do not find a justification for “pay-to-play” in the Scripture. Editor’s note: Many PCA Presbyteries will be holding their winter stated meetings... Continue Reading

It seems to me that it is important that everyone involved in journalism ought to read the material they publish. And every once in a while, something you read might even cause you to change your mind. Such was the result of the case former PCA Moderator Ruling Elder EJ Nusbaum made in yesterday’s The... Continue Reading

It is as if we are now living on a new planet — one in which all the natural boundaries of sex and reproduction have been left behind. The technologies of reproduction are redefining sex, marriage, relationships, family, and the human story. At some point, anticipated and even feared by some parents, every child asks... Continue Reading

Horton’s description of the Anabaptist and pietist streams that has “evangelicalism” in its current state of confusion has infected Reformed and Presbyterians circles so profoundly that our emphasis on covenant theology is disappearing. Evangelicalism does not promote covenant theology. As such, you can’t name a celebrity “Reformed” pastor that tweets or preaches “covenant theology.” Michael... Continue Reading

The great point of the “faith chapter” is that the believers who lived in the typological periods of redemptive history did have, by faith, the benefits promised in the covenant of grace. They had an immutable covenant. God would be their God and their children’s God. The universality of the covenant of grace throughout redemptive... Continue Reading

Since the denomination began, the AC has clearly and regularly communicated to the churches the need for support. Those efforts have only resulted in a 45% participation rate. It is time to admit that what we are doing is not working. To pass more resolutions encouraging giving is not going to fix the problem. Editor’s... Continue Reading

Someone has said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. If so, then New Year’s resolutions are responsible for several lanes of that highway to perdition. Every year we complete our Christmas festivities just in time to drag ourselves to the end-of-the-year finish line. On New Year’s Eve, weary of the failures... Continue Reading

Jesus came to redeem those who were under the law, whether expressed in creational or Mosaic terms. Ultimately it’s all the same thing: do this and live. Adam was under a “do this and live eschatologically” principle. He failed. The Second Adam was born of a woman, under the (Mosaic and creational) law to fulfill... Continue Reading

The true Christ of Scripture deserves more than our admiration. That is because He is the eternal Word become incarnate in Jesus of Nazareth. He is God and man in one person and deserves worship as the only mediator between God and human beings. There is no more important biblical truth for the life and... Continue Reading