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 10 through 1

Number 10
Seven PCA Ministers from Metro New York Presbytery Transfer to the EPC
Ministry views more in accord with the EPC
Written by Staff | Thursday, November 22, 2012
The PCA’s Metro New York Presbytery (MNY) approved the transfer of seven of its ministers to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). On November 13, 2012, MNY acted on the request of the seven ministers, all serving at Brooklyn Presbyterian Church, to have their membership transferred to the EPC.

Number 9
Bryan Chapell steps down as President of Covenant Theological Seminary; appointed to new position of Chancellor
Written by Staff | Saturday, April 28, 2012
The following news release was sent out by Mark Dalbey, Acting President of the Seminary “At our spring stated meeting of April 27-28, 2012, the Board of Trustees of Covenant Theological Seminary voted to approve the transition of Dr. Bryan Chapell from President to Chancellor, effective June 1, 2012. The Board appointed Dr. Mark Dalbey

Number 8
Is It OK for a Christian to vote for Mitt Romney?
Why [are] people who have been theocratic Reconstructionists for longer than some of these guys have been alive…willing to support him now?
Written by James B. Jordan | Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Yet, who cares? Let’s stay home and let the country burn to the ground. Let’s stay home and not vote, trusting like fools that King Jesus will actually honor our manipulations and do a miracle for us. No guys. I don’t think Jesus likes being manipulated.

Number 7
What’s so uncool about cool churches?
Unintended Consequences: How the “relevant” church and segregating youth is killing Christianity.
Written by Matthew Marino | Tuesday, September 25, 2012
What might we do instead? The opposite of giving people what they want is to give them what they need. The beauty is that Christianity already knows how to do this. Once upon a time our faith thrived in a non-Christian empire. It took less than 300 years for 11 scared dudes to take over the most powerful empire the world had ever seen. How did they do it? Where we have opted for a relevant, homogenously grouped, segregated, attractional professionalized model; the early church did it with a multi-ethnic, multi-social class, seeker INsensitive church

Number 6
A Voice Was Heard in Ramah, A Voice Was Heard in Newtown
Some Pastoral Thoughts about the Connecticut School Shooting
Written by Andy Webb | Saturday, December 15, 2012
If we learn anything from this, let us learn that the ultimate cause of the massacre in Newtown, the massacre in Bethlehem, and countless other massacres in between was nothing less than the total depravity of the human heart, and let us remember that it was for this reason that Jesus was born.

Number 5
Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day: A bold mistake
The event also sends a message of separatism and territorialism
Written by Barnabas Piper | Wednesday, August 1, 2012
I do not question the motives of Mike Huckabee or those thousands joining him, but what about the wider effects? How is the Kingdom of God served by this? Is Jesus represented well to the gay community and the politicians pandering to them?

Number 4
An Open Letter to Praise Bands
The other problem with praise-band churches is that they tend to punt the other elements of worship.
Written by Timothy Hammons | Friday, August 17, 2012
When the amped sound of the praise band overwhelms congregational voices, we can’t hear ourselves sing–so we lose that communal aspect of the congregation and are encouraged to effectively become “private,” passive worshipers.

Number 3
Why I Cannot Vote for Mitt Romney – A Response to James Jordan
The continuing debate on Christians voting for a Mormon candidate.
Written by Jason Cunningham | Saturday, August 25, 2012
While it is true that many Christians have avoided altogether any discussion over Romney’s profession of faith in a false god, yet the objections to Romney, as a Mormon, are overturned or dismissed via a historical answer that has been used before in past candidates; namely that Obama is much worse. No doubt this statement…

Number 2
First They Came For…Then They Came For…
It is not homosexuals, but Bible believing Christians who are facing increasing discrimination in society
Written by Andrew Webb | Wednesday, July 4, 2012
We evangelicals are currently going through the process of demonization, the fact that evangelicals as a group are the most charitable people on earth, or that they have created the freest and most tolerant societies is being conveniently forgotten, and the myth of the ignorant, ranting, gay basher is being spread far and wide.

Number 1
Ana Grace, Killed at Sandy Hook School, Sings Unto the Lord
Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, one of the children killed in Sandy Hook Elementary School, sings
Written by Staff | Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Ana Grace Márquez-Greene was one of the children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on December 14, 2012. Ana and her family had recently moved to the US. Her mother, Nelba, asked that this video, of Ana singing “Come, Thou Almighty King” accompanied on the piano by her brother, “Be shared…