A PCA Founding Minister, Kennedy Smartt, Celebrates His 100th Birthday
Born during Calvin Coolidge’s presidency, Kennedy is now living under his 17th president.
He is a prayer warrior. He prays. He prays for missionaries. He uses the MTW directory. He prays for pastors. He uses the PCA’s gray book listing all the ministers to do so. He prays through CMPC’s church directory. He prays for all of us. A Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) founding father, Kennedy... Continue Reading
Marianna Slocum – Bringing the Good Seed to Mexican Tribes.
Marianna was able to hold the first edition of her newly-translated New Testament in 1956, fifteen years after her arrival.
“When we had left in 1965, there were 72 congregations of Tzeltal believers. Now, in 1985, there were 322. When we had left, there were over 6000 believers. Now there were some 44,000 on the church rolls, including children. … Where once we had faced nothing but heartbreak and disappointment, now we saw one-fourth of... Continue Reading
J. H. Merle D’Aubigné, Reformation Historian & Apologist
Anyone familiar with books published about the history of the Reformation the mention of D’Aubigné is likely associated with his historical studies of the era.
The fifteen years that D’Aubigné was away from Geneva had seen an increase of those concerned about the views presented by the Academy of Geneva’s theological faculty. In response to the situation in 1831, the Geneva Evangelical Society was founded with one of its goals being the establishment of a seminary faithful to Calvin’s design... Continue Reading
Rebecca Protten
Rebecca Protten’s life was one lived radically for Jesus, with remarkable fruit. In the eighteenth century, no one expected a black woman, especially one who had been enslaved, to do anything important.
After some years of widowhood in Germany, during which her daughter also died, she was married to a mixed-race Moravian, Christian Protten. Together they resolved to take the gospel to the heart of slave trading communities in West Africa. Though the route into this ministry was complex and arduous, and their marriage put under great... Continue Reading
Katharina von Bora: A Perfectly Free Christian Single
What can we learn from Katie? She clearly believed that Christian freedom applied to her too.
By marrying Luther, Katie chose a position that enabled her to use her home as a hospital during the Black Plague, take in orphans, host dignitaries and scholars from around the world, and be the deepest encouragement to her husband. Her life was a life of service, in true freedom. If you were a... Continue Reading
Why Spurgeon Refused to Name Names in the Downgrade Controversy
He never provided the names of these teachers for at least three reasons.
Spurgeon would not name names was because he did not want to make this fight about himself. The encroaching downgrade and modernist theologies were not an offense against Spurgeon personally. Rather, they were an offense against God. Spurgeon was “extremely anxious to avoid personalities,” because he had no desire to make the controversy about himself,... Continue Reading
Sons of Charlatanry
On Peter Bell, host of the upcoming "Sons of Patriarchy"
It was our intention to keep this as an ecclesiastical matter beyond those items that were already public. This was in part to spare Bell’s reputation and grant him opportunity for repentance. However, because Bell has re-emerged as a public figure seeking to teach and instruct churches within the Presbyterian and Reformed world (though no... Continue Reading
Marie Durand—Part 2: Daughter of the French Reformation
Calvin’s Reformed teaching of the Scripture underpinned her theology and her decision to endure decades of imprisonment rather than abjure her Protestant faith.
Marie Durand…was born into a church whose beliefs and practices were deeply rooted in the sixteenth-century Reformation and the labours of John Calvin, one of France’s greatest sons and exiles. We must come to His Word and be ordered by it. —John Calvin, 1536 An intelligent and educated nineteen-year old woman like Marie Durand... Continue Reading
Transgenderism and Homosexuality: Hindu Monism’s Philosophical Triumph
Education will undermine the fear of God (the true source of wisdom), individualism will weaken the family, and state education will make students immoral.
Mann, a Unitarian, said that the Church should not educate because it teaches “divisive doctrines” such as the Trinity. According to Mann, children do not need to learn Truths (doctrines) such as Trinity. They need to learn Virtue (ethics): to honor parents, elders, and teachers; to not covet or steal someone’s pencil or pear. The... Continue Reading
The 95 Theses: A Reformation Spark
Intending to engage in academic debate, Luther’s 95 theses became a rallying point for Reformation in the Western Church.
Luther’s 95 Theses decried the sale of indulgences by developing a number of themes: First, the Christian life is to be one of repentance and daily turning from sin rather than doing things (penance) to obtain pardon and removal of penalty. Here he was critiquing the Roman Catholic sacrament of penance. Second, the Church, and... Continue Reading
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