Again this year we are featuring a summary of the top 50 stories.  We are breaking the list into 5 parts, 10 a day; starting from the bottom and going up with 40 through 31

Number 40

PCA Gospel Reformation Network Meeting Focuses on the Gospel for Life and Ministry

Written by Staff | Thursday, February 9, 2012

The discussion between the various groups has been framed in terms of opposite poles, the place of God’s law and God’s grace, legalism and antinomianism. The consultation recognized that the issues in this discussion are as old as church history, with just about every generation of the church wrestling with them, and is now a…

Number 39

Can Baptists Be Reformed? Is this a contradiction in terms?

“Reformed” and “Baptist” don’t go together any more than Darryl and the Bayly.

Written by William H. Smith | Thursday, June 28, 2012

Now I married a blond, green-eyed Baptist. This does not put me in the category of Hosea, but it does say that what I saw trumped theological differences. Moreover, I have had and have quite a few Baptist friends. (In the South one would be hard up for friends if he did not include Baptists.) I have also had Baptists preach in my pulpit a number of times

Number 38

What happened to popular Presbyterianism? Boice, Ferguson, Sproul, Frame

Somehow “Reformed” today (2012) is more associated with Baptists (or Baptistic folks)

Written by Anthony Bradley, The Institute | Monday, June 25, 2012

In the 1980s and 1990s when I was first introduced to Reformed theology three names dominated the seen were James Montgomery Boice (Senior Minister at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia), Sinclair Ferguson who was teaching full-time at the time at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, and R.C. Sproul. They are all Presbyterians. In those days “Calvinism”/”Reformed” and Presbyterian were synonyms.

Number 37

Misrepresented by Leading Pastor (Tim Keller)

Written by Ken Ham, AIG | Monday, February 27, 2012

I don’t necessarily believe that people like Tim Keller have deliberately misrepresented me and others like me who take the stand we do on Genesis. I think they haven’t really understood what we are saying in relation to the loss of biblical authority. And I personally believe one of the reasons they don’t understand is…

Number 36

God Is Laughing Especially Hard Today

Whether Romney of Obama wins, both of them are ultimately controlled like a watercourse.

Written by Stephen Altrogge | Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Aaaah, election day. You can almost taste the fear and money in the air. Political signs are lined up six deep along the road, and the Facebook posts are flying fast and furious. Over the past months politicians have spent billions of dollars on ads that go something like this:

Number 35

The Resilient Kim

Kimberly Alden Grimsley Smith, 39, went to God on November 8, 2012

Written by William H. Smith | Friday, November 9, 2012

Kimberly Alden Grimsley Smith, 39, went to God on November 8, 2012. Present with her at the time of death were her husband, Calvin, her mother, Jeneane Grimsley, and her in-laws, Death is not beautiful. It is ugly, totally unnatural. But, as Kim drew near to death the minister with her assured her she was…

Number 34

The PCA Ohio Presbytery ‘Receives’ Committee Report on Intinction

Written by Staff | Monday, February 6, 2012

The PCA Ohio Presbytery, at it stated meeting on Feb. 4, 2012 at Cornerstone PCA in Youngstown, Ohio, voted to receive its study committee report on intinction. The study committee was formed at the Nov. 6, 2010 Presbytery meeting in Columbus in answer to an overture from the Session of Zion Reformed Church (PCA) in

Number 33

Ten Contemporary Sacred Cows that Need to be Tipped

Written by Jared Moore | Tuesday, May 1, 2012

1 – Entertainment-based Sermons, 2 – Bribes, 5 -Atmosphere-induced Nostalgia, 7 – Relativistic Interpretation, 10 – Demigod Evaluations (and much more) 1. Entertainment-based Sermons Pastors/elders/teachers want to be liked. Some want to be liked so much that they’re willing to entertain their hearers while preaching the Bible. They wrongly assume that because people enjoy their…

Number 32

Worship: Evangelical or Reformed?

Written by W. Robert Godfrey | Tuesday, May 15, 2012

One great difficulty that we Reformed folk have in thinking about worship is that our worship in many places has unwittingly been accommodated to evangelical ways. If we are to appreciate our Reformed heritage in worship and, equally importantly, if we are to communicate its importance, character, and power to others, we must understand the…

Number 31

Prodigal Children: If It Can Happen to John Piper, It Can Happen to You

There’s nothing we fallible parents can do to ensure our kids will keep the faith.

Written by Marlena Graves, CT | Monday, June 25, 2012

“One of the most resilient and cherished myths of parenting is that parenting creates the child…Many Christian writers and parents have…drifted into what could be called spiritual determinism. We have absorbed the cultural belief in psychological determinism but spiritualized it with Bible verses, and one verse in particular.” –Leslie Fields