Should We Stay or Should We Go?
It is not time to depart the PCA. It’s time to contend for the PCA—to humbly contend for the biblical and confessional faithfulness of our beloved church.
Don’t give up on the PCA. Double down in your commitment to pray, stay informed, and get involved. Obviously, there may be a time in the future to organize and depart together as a large group of confessional churches. But now is not the time. There is much to be encouraged by after the last... Continue Reading
The Metaverse is the Next Generation’s Opium War
In the metaverse, you digitally create parallel universes to escape the reality of the one real universe in which you live. Why bother with the real world?
Meta and Mark Zuckerberg wish to make money. They will addict your children in order to do so. The next time you see your child slap on a VR headset, find out if they are entering the metaverse. You have a responsibility as a parent to know. If you are an adult emersed in the... Continue Reading
Relativism in the Church
It is interesting how many Christens and/or Christian organizations think God forms approval judgments based on relative righteousness.
The assumption is that if good outweighs wrong, then there should be no criticism. However, the economy of God’s Kingdom does not operate by weighing the amount of right against the amount of wrong as a way of justifying the wrong. It is not as if the right counterweighs the wrong then all is well. ... Continue Reading
The End of Christendom
Something very specific happened in America that brought Christendom to an end; was it in 2015 or in 1791?
A realistic assessment of our present situation in America would have to admit that overturning the 2015 Supreme Court’s decision legalizing gay marriage is at best improbable, and rewriting the First Amendment is nearly insurmountable. Of course, no Christian living in 312 A.D. could have imagined that a Christian empire would emerge just one year... Continue Reading
The Realpolitik of the PCA National Partnership
The National Partnership, while established in “confidence,” is a clearly organized political apparatus within the Presbyterian Church in America.
It is clear that, regardless of whatever disclaimers they proffer, and whatever misgivings its members have expressed in the past concerning the church’s enthusiasm for partisan politics in the national sphere, the National Partnership has essentially become a political party within its own denomination. It is time that the leadership of the National Partnership at... Continue Reading
The PCA and Homosexuality: Let’s Make It Real Plain
There are three positions on the status of those men who have made it public that are same-sex attracted (SSA).
There is a position that when a man makes it public that he has homosexual desires to have sexual relations with other men, and he practices celibacy because he believes that change is possible (although unlikely), and because he mortifies this sin every day, and because he is of good character in every other way,... Continue Reading
BCO Amendments 23 & 37 (3 of 3): Have You Ever Known A Dry Drunk?
The amendments provide a stipulated requirement for courts to persist in distinguishing members from officers: a credible profession of faith for members from an exemplary piety for PCA church offices.
In so far as these amendments about church officers address homosexuality (and they simultaneously address by name financial folly, relational abusiveness and racial wickedness), they simply parallel the common grace observation of AA. The absence of alcohol or of sex truly is significant, but it is not inherently decisive in the discernment for ordination. Gay... Continue Reading
Are We Bowing to America’s Golden Image?
Nations have the potential to attempt to unify their people under a new form of religious devotion, one that attempts to assert itself against the Lord and against his anointed.
Covid-19 has exposed that we live in a paper palace and that our economic strength hangs by a thread. Leaders are feeling the pressure and nothing is going well. Like Nebuchadnezzar, our government is in search of a unifying power to unite the people under an image. If the story of Daniel offers us any... Continue Reading
Watch Out for Millstones
One of the great signs of degradation in our present culture is the attack progressivism has made and is making on our children.
The problem gets worse. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a form of political Oneism, because it denies individual distinction. The concept of individual rights is a political form of Twoism, that is, it affirms that every individual, made in the image of God with rights from the Creator, is different and distinct and deserves the... Continue Reading
Reassembling the Wreckage of Religious Freedom: Why Now *Is* The Time For Urging Liberty of Conscience and Supporting Those Seeking Religious Exemptions
Let’s end the crusade of binding the consciences of brothers and sisters in Christ on disputable matters and let’s love our neighbor by advocating for the freedom of conscience—even if we disagree with the exercise of such conscience.
If we are to enjoy any religious liberty going forward, we cannot take a strategy that waits for worse cases to arise. Rather, we need to reintroduce, rewaken, and reinforce the arguments for religious liberty. This must be done in the public square and in countless conversations with Christians and their neighbors. In fact, this... Continue Reading
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