Several facts evince that Charlie Kirk strove to be the sort of friend who speaks difficult, but healing words. To begin, he kept engaging the secularists and progressives with whom he disagreed as one who had sincere hope for them. He certainly had not written off his opponents as beyond repair or “good for nothing.”... Continue Reading

Four recommendations emerged from my research. First, pastors must pursue emotional maturity through self-awareness and resting in God’s love. Second, pastors should stay connected to people by utilizing healthy differentiation, family systems theory, and spiritual practices. Third, pastors must embrace a shared mission that emanates from the covenant with Abraham for the church to be... Continue Reading

We don’t know how to mourn with those who mourn. To acknowledge tragedy without filtering it through a partisan framework. To consider how we have lost our way—and if it’s possible to find our way back again.   On September 10, 2025, a family was destroyed when Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah... Continue Reading

We cannot allow evil to draw us into folly. To do so would be to let one act of evil multiply into many. Instead, we must show that wisdom is possible—that the disciplined spirit can still build, and that Christ’s people will not be ruled by rage but by hope. The choice is plain: the... Continue Reading

What a scene it was to see these four girls all seek to be as close to their father as possible showing great affection for him, as he showed to each one and all equally. For the children of three church leaders to respond to their fathers so lovingly speaks volumes of their commitment as... Continue Reading

Machen saw the encroaching menace of the National Football League, which held its first championship game (later to become the Super Bowl) eight months later. Interestingly, Machen argued against “commercialized” Sunday sport not from the First Table, but from a sort of natural law/common good perspective.   Machen loved football. In fact, during his days... Continue Reading

From Rev. Dr. Charles Coffin to President Andrew Jackson in 1829: “Permit me . . . to remark, that from the time it was made clear, what an overwhelming majority of the American people had called you to the high and responsible office of their first magistrate, I have felt an ardent desire to address... Continue Reading

Having grown up at First Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Chattanooga, Shelby felt the Lord’s call to enter the ministry. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in trumpet performance, after which he graduated from Columbia Biblical Seminary in South Carolina. It was at Lexington Presbyterian Church in South Carolina that he met his wife... Continue Reading

If Paul had not insisted with such determination and without compromise that the true gospel of Christ must focus on all nations and all peoples rather than continuing to center on Israelite peoples, this concrete expression of unity among all believers never would have happened…In the past, the pious commitment of religiously dedicated Judeans to... Continue Reading

Robert Smith was a faithful and often honored churchman. In 1760, he received the Doctor of Divinity from the College of New Jersey. In 1772, he was appointed a trustee of the College of New Jersey and served as such for the rest of his life. Due to the extent of influence upon successive generations... Continue Reading