Jason Meyer, 36-year-old Assistant Professor of New Testament for Bethlehem College and Seminary (and a PhD from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), is the elders’ recommendation for congregational consideration and vote at a special May 20 all-church meeting. Bethlehem Baptist is one step closer to commissioning John Piper from the local church pastorate to greater involvement... Continue Reading

One Cleveland sportswriter, Jodie Valade, wrote last August, “It might be nice, perhaps, if one day Justin Masterson really exploded, really expressed the emotions churning beneath that perpetually cheerful exterior. … If he spouted off the bitterness everyone knows must be simmering somewhere deep down, if he’d stop being so gosh-darn merry and upbeat about everything tossed... Continue Reading

This Wednesday, March 28, John Piper and Tim Keller will team up in New York City for a conversation, moderated by Anthony Bradley about the gospel and race. Christians have a Gospel that is profoundly influential, transformative, and significant in the way we think about race, said author and pastor John Piper. Piper, of Bethlehem... Continue Reading

Donald L. Friederichsen, a resident of New Providence, New Jersey, was ordained and installed as the fifth Pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) of Millburn and Short Hills. The ordination and installation service took place at the church on Sunday, March 25, at 5:00 pm. Pastor Friederichsen will serve as the new Pastor of the... Continue Reading

He said listening to a half-hour sermon on Sunday morning does not make a person Reformed and then asked if the preachers present were following the pattern of Calvin, who preached every day, gave Wednesday fully to prayer and, if the lay people present were “gathering every Wednesday when the people of God give themselves... Continue Reading

Covenant Seminary accounted in a letter to Faculty, Staff, Students, Alumni and Board members on March 20, 2012 the details of Dr. Guthrie’s move. The announcement was in the form of a letter from the seminary VP for Academic & Faculty Development, Mark Dalbey It is with great personal sadness that I write to tell... Continue Reading

Tebow, he suggests, could choose from The Journey Church in Manhattan or Queens, Redeemer Presbyterian Church (home of pastor Tim Keller) or a Churches of Christ congregation. Pundits couldn’t contain themselves over the news that quarterback Tim Tebow is joining the Jets — and I don’t mean sportswriters worried about Mark Sanchez’s confidence. Many just... Continue Reading

Dr. Doriani is the senior pastor at Central Presbyterian Church (EPC) in Clayton, Mo., and serves as an adjunct professor of New Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis. Pastor and author Dr. Dan Doriani will visit Geneva College as part of the J.G. Vos Memorial Lecture Series, “God and the Riddles of Life:... Continue Reading

Dr. Robert H. (Bob) Orner, a Teaching Elder in the PCA, has been named the Dean of students at Reformed Theological Seminary’s Orlando campus and will take on those responsibilities on June 1, 2012, when the current Dean of Students, Scott Redd, becomes the president of RTS’s Washington, D.C., campus. “Bob Orner brings a wealth... Continue Reading

“There’s always been a caution against nepotism in all kinds of work,” said Michael Cromartie, vice president of the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center. “Why shouldn’t it also extend to Christian ministries?” On Sunday, Pastor Sheila Schuller Coleman appeared for apparently the last time before some 800 people at the morning service of the... Continue Reading