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What is Truth? Compromising for the Culture

Fidelity to Biblical teaching is the standard by which doctrine must be judged.

Written by Joseph Horton | Tuesday, August 23, 2022

The nature of truth is under attack in our culture and we are woefully unskilled in debating truth. Truth is debated in the public square with snarky memes. I’ll admit that I like snarky memes, but let’s be honest, memes do not educate or persuade. We need church leaders who will stand for truth regardless... Continue Reading

Efficiency Is Not Our Highest Goal

The church doesn’t exist merely as a vehicle to get stuff done, it is a group of people bounded together in Christ who serve together in the cause of the gospel.

Written by Stephen Kneale | Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Our process, in the church, typically protect us as leaders. Multiple leaders let us share the burden of responsibility. Proper discussions amongst the elders, and real consultation with the membership, mean that more people can be brought onboard with whatever it is we hope to do.   If you are all about efficiency, the fastest... Continue Reading

Corporate Social Responsibility and its Newest Version: ESG

The current guise adopted by the CSR folks is called ESG: Environmental, Social, Governance scores.

Written by Mark W. Hendrickson | Monday, August 22, 2022

To get swept up in the latest CSR or ESG fad is bad business. By pursuing partisan political goals instead of traditional business goals, business leaders offend some consumers, demoralize or anger some employees, and poorly serve their shareholders. Since consumers, employees, and shareholders are the members of society that a business affects most directly,... Continue Reading

The Benefits to the Congregation of Corporate Regulated Worship

Consequences abound when we point to anything but God during worship.

Written by Charles B. Jacobi | Sunday, August 21, 2022

What of the homogenous singing and liturgy in regulated worship? Doesn’t it, too, pressure the corporate body during worship? One could object that the environment’s reverence and uniformity cripples genuine emotion on the same token as the contemporary environment. But here the attention is pointed towards God, not a select group. The uniformity of regulated... Continue Reading

Are We Stuck in the Reformation Period?: A Brief Diatribe

Remaining in the culture of the Reformation period without expanding our defense of the faith against modern insurgent movements bent on destroying our church, then we are in great danger.

Written by Larry Ball | Friday, August 19, 2022

Neo-Marxists are re-creating history, inventing a new language, targeting the Christian family, and are seeking to eradicate the two sexes that God created in the Garden of Eden. Children are being chemically castrated and physically mutilated in order to change genders. A justice who sits on the Supreme Court who cannot define what a woman... Continue Reading

Christianity and the Working Class

One challenge for the church is that working-class Americans are increasingly unchurched.

Written by Scott Yenor | Friday, August 19, 2022

How can churches become more welcoming to blue-collar Americans? The first step involves seeing them as “our people.” Nothing about the decline of America’s working class is irreversible. The middle-brow contempt for the working class must be replaced with a spirit of brotherhood and a sense that we are in the same boat. They are... Continue Reading

Glorifying God Includes Enjoying His Good Gifts

We may love the Lord, but can’t bring ourselves to love his gifts.

Written by Stephen Kneale | Thursday, August 18, 2022

But what about us? We might not be calling evil good, but we do call what is good evil, do we not? For what is it when we call wine evil when God himself says it is a gift that gladdens the heart and is for us to enjoy? What is it when we sniff... Continue Reading

Dining Out on the Lord’s Day

Legalism pertains to finding loopholes in order to “obey” or not “disobey” by way of technicality.

Written by Ron DiGiacomo | Thursday, August 18, 2022

Now for a blind spot to something no less obvious: Most elders in the Reformed tradition take exception to the Reformed view of Christian Sabbath recreation as taught in the Westminster standards. As unfortunate as that is, many among that number go even further by supporting going to restaurants and ordering out food on Sundays, which... Continue Reading

Should Self-Described Homosexuals Hold Office in the PCA?

If unnatural sexual desires characterize a man such that he thinks he should publicly identify with them, then he is not fit to hold office in the church.

Written by Steven Warhurst | Tuesday, August 16, 2022

If a man feels honestly compelled to describe himself as a homosexual Christian, and the description is accurate, we heartily commend his honesty and desire to help him overcome this sin, but he is not qualified to hold office in the Presbyterian Church in America. If, however, homosexual lust no longer dominates a man, he... Continue Reading

Why “Cool Church” Is No Longer Working with Millennials and Gen Z

So, what do they want? Depth.

Written by Benjamin Windle | Tuesday, August 16, 2022

To lead a generation with no biblical background or common knowledge, the church must assume just that: that there exists a fundamental need to provide Bible teaching and basic doctrine.  We must lay the foundation.   I am a Millennial. I almost left church. For me, the exodus of Millennials and Gen Z leaving the... Continue Reading

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