PCA Ruling Elder John Edward Spencer (April 16, 1920 – November 22, 2012) lived in Birmingham, Ala., and served his local church and the PCA for many years. The following is the sermon preached by Dr. Harry Reeder, Senior Pastor of Briarwood Presbyterian Church, at RE Spencer’s memorial service on November 27.   On Thanksgiving... Continue Reading

“He had lost everything,” the Rev. Morgan Roberts said, … “He had lost his position. He had lost his reputation, which was huge in the denomination. Fortunately he hadn’t lost his marriage….” Mulder himself says, “What I did was terribly wrong. It was a violation of my marriage vows, my ordination vows. I will always... Continue Reading

Francis Turretin…argued that the Great Commission was grounds for baptizing both adults and infants. I did not see how that was possible until I considered the Greek, but it was not as if only paedobaptists recognized the construction of the Greek grammar. Baptists fully acknowledged it, too

So much of this astonishing life was hidden from his son, who was moved by the story the Sunday Telegraph was able to share with him. Bishop Welby did not know, for example, that his father had Jewish ancestry, or an older sister called Peggy. He continues to wonder whether he has secret brothers or sisters.

I still wanted to know whether children were in the covenant. Romans 11:13–24 and Ephesians 2:11–22 seemed to suggest they were. Paul did not equivocate that the familial structure of the covenant had changed although gentiles were grafted into it. If that were true, then the covenant still included parent(s) and their children.   Are... Continue Reading

Homemade goods are popular enough among Wheaton's student body that students even sell some of their creations to their classmates. At a craft fair hosted last week by Wheaton's graduate program, handmade cards, jewelry, bags, hats, scarves, headbands and candles covered tables set up as makeshift booths. Melinda Hammond, a doctoral student, sold headbands, yarn tutus and crocheted hats with Sesame Street character's faces woven into them. This year's fair is the largest it has ever been, reflecting the interest in handcrafted materials, she said.

Did Tim Tebow change when he moved from Denver to New York? Did his faith and public declarations of belief become less meaningful? No, it was his position on the team that became less meaningful. Instead of leading game winning drives he now holds a clipboard. And so his celebrity luster diminished, as did our estimation of him.

In Washington, especially after the death of his son, Lincoln regularly attended New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. Sometimes he even came to the midweek prayer service but remained in a side room out of view of the congregation.   (Editor’s Note:  D. James Kennedy taught that Lincoln privately made a profession of faith and joined NYAPC... Continue Reading

Graham told a story about his father speaking at a 2000 news conference with George W. Bush in Jacksonville, Florida, on the Sunday before Election Day. That year, after a protracted recount, Florida wound up determining the election’s outcome for Bush. “Now don’t you think that was worth some votes in Florida,” Graham asked, referring to his dad’s appearance with Bush

Andy says it was after that exchange that he started popping up in his father's sermons, not as the heir apparent, but as the Old Testament villain, Absalom. Absalom was the charismatic but treacherous son of David who tried to snatch his father's kingdom away from him through war. "My dad at the time fashioned me as an Absalom who had rebelled against him," Andy says. But Andy himself felt betrayed.