Jemar Tisby Appointed Director of African American Leadership Initiative At RTS
While at RTS, Tisby co-founded AALI, which recruits and trains students for ministry in African-American, multi-ethnic, and urban contexts.
As Director, Jemar will be responsible for discipling students in the program as well as recruiting and networking. As Special Assistant to the Chancellor, he will work with the Chancellor to increase African American engagement and enrollment at RTS and cultivate biblical diversity and inclusion. He begins his new position on July 1. Reformed... Continue Reading
An Overview and Assessment of the OPC General Assembly in The Appeal of John Carrick
Confronting and overcoming a culture of skepticism about disability in the church
I maintain that at the heart of this case is Linda Carrick and her disability and chronic illness and that we cannot, we must not forget that. When an event like this takes place, we bear a responsibility to seize the opportunity to stop, to reflect on and to reform our attitudes towards fellow believers... Continue Reading
Dylann Roof And The Danger of Identity Idolatry
Dylann Roof — the Charleston gunman, the domestic terrorist — ultimately loved his ethnicity
“What hand did Satan play in Eden? He laid his regular ace: attacking identity. He tempted Eve to believe God was not who he said he is. Adam negated his identity as a male, as one who was to protect and lead; Eve wandered outside of Adam’s authority, foiling her womanhood.” Nine people are dead. Before we... Continue Reading
The Tragedy of Apostasy
As our leadership team has had to grapple with this recently, we wanted to share a few things we’ve learned from the tragedy of apostasy
As Octavius Winslow wrote, the apostate will for all eternity cry out, “God is holy; I was a sinner; I rejected His salvation, I turned my back upon His gospel, I despised His Son, I hated God Himself, I lived in my sins, I loved my sins, I died in my sins, and now I... Continue Reading
Tullian Tchividjian Resigns And The Age of the Unknowable Pastor
A member of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church expressing his feelings about this resignation and comments on the life of ministry today
To anyone who is reading this and pastors a tiny congregation: if you feel or are made to feel as though you aren’t as “effective” as others, allow me to encourage you. What makes a church effective is that they are making disciples and teaching the gospel with clarity in and out of season. The... Continue Reading
God Stepped In, Says Debbie Dills, Who Spotted Alleged S.C. Killer
Debbie Dills is the woman who spotted, reported, and followed the vehicle driven by Dylann Roof; is considered a hero, but she says God alone should get the credit.
Dills’ expression of gratitude is deeply theological. Underneath her deflection of glory is a robust confidence that the world is governed by a sovereign God whose ways we may not always understand, but whose ultimate purposes are good. This God is active in the world, restraining evil and unleashing good, often through ordinary followers of... Continue Reading
Faith Drives Golden State Warriors Point Guard Stephen Curry
"I remember it like it was yesterday, the day I gave my life to Christ. I was in fourth grade, and I recall hearing and understanding the Gospel of Jesus Christ...”
“I know that in the grand scheme of things, this is just a game that can be taken from me at any moment, but I love that basketball gives me the opportunities to do good things for people and to point them towards the Man who died for our sins on the cross,” Curry wrote. ... Continue Reading
The Benefits of Catechetical Preaching
Catechism preaching is another kind of Bible preaching
The Catechism can help us better plumb the depths of the riches of our great salvation. When blessed by the Holy Spirit, catechism preaching kindles in our hearts a love for the God who has saved us by his boundless grace. Isn’t that what all preaching is meant to do? How would you respond... Continue Reading
Praising a Matriarch: The Honoring of Elisabeth Elliot
For sixty years she carried the cross of Christ around the world
“Heaven has received a truly beautiful woman, but the church has lost an incredible matriarch. Therefore, in an attempt to be one of her children and “call her blessed,” it is fitting to present some of her most famous quotes. As we read, let us thank the Lord for this spiritual helper he provided for... Continue Reading
Slain S.C. Pastor Clementa Pinckney Was ‘A Giant, A Legend’
Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., was among nine people killed by a gunman at the church on June 17.
Pinckney, 41, was married with two children and had served in the state Senate since 2000, according to an online biography on the church’s website. The pastor was a magna cum laude graduate of Allen University with a degree in business administration and went on to earn a master’s degree in the same subject at... Continue Reading
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