The summer avalanche of GAs is over. Here a quick roundup and links to further info. The PCA GA has video archives here. Rev. Dr. Bryan Chapell was elected moderator, the Cooperative Ministries Committee identified five key issues for future focus, and a universally approved Overture 6 to protect children. The statistics for 2013 are […]
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Archive | July, 2014
The Immigration Debate: Two Christian Perspectives
July 11, 2014 
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Immigration reform has been a major topic of discussion for quite a while, but it seems to have gained a bit more attention lately. First I heard about InterVarsity Press’s release of Immigration: Tough Questions, Direct Answers by Dale Hanson Bourke, and then last week I read this interview of Bourke at Christianity Today. And then today, I […]
Continue readingTransformationalism Is Not About Relevance
July 10, 2014 0 Comments
Look at all of these lost souls. There must be some way of getting through to them! But they’re bored with the gospel. They’ve heard it plenty of times before, and they just don’t care about the message of salvation by grace through faith. The church needs a new approach for a new generation… I […]
Continue readingIn the Covert of Thy Wings, by Abraham Kuyper
July 10, 2014 0 Comments
4. In The Covert Of Thy Wings THE deepest question that governs our Christian life is that which touches our personal fellowship with God. And in the Book of Psalms, which is the richest outpouring of a devout heart, you see how the inmost longings ever and again go out after this Divine fellowship. Certainly […]
Continue readingDoes Evolution Explain Religious Beliefs?
July 10, 2014 2 Comments
I just finished reading this interview at The Stone, where Gary Cutting talks with philosopher Dr. Michael Ruse about atheism, evolution, and religious belief. I must admit, I found Ruse’s comments to be surprisingly refreshing. Even though he’s a committed atheist, he exhibits none of the scorn or sarcasm of the Richard Dawkins-types (in fact, he expresses […]
Continue readingThe “Evangelicals” Who Are Not Evangelicals
July 9, 2014 1 Comment
Over at The Anxious Bench, Thomas Kidd has written this post discussing four groups of people who are commonly—and erroneously—labeled “evangelical.” Theological liberals. Often these folks come out of mainline Protestant denominations, but many are now associated with the emergent church movement. Reformed/confessionalist Christians (like myself). It might surprise some readers to learn that this […]
Continue readingNot Rich Toward God, by Abraham Kuyper
July 9, 2014 0 Comments
3. Not Rich Toward God Jesus understood the seriousness of the conflict between God and money, which constantly presses itself upon us; and one may safely say, that in our Western lands this conflict is more fierce than it ever was in the Eastern regions where Jesus ministered. and where the ordinary wants of life […]
Continue readingMore Archaeological Support for the Bible?
July 8, 2014 0 Comments
For the better part of the past thirty years, being a conservative biblical archaeologist wasn’t very popular. The prevailing wisdom was that the further back in time the biblical narrative goes, the more fictional it becomes. Most scholars questioned whether there ever was a united Israelite monarchy, and whether David and Solomon were anything more than the ancient Jewish […]
Continue readingThe Souls Which I Have Made, by Abraham Kuyper
July 8, 2014 0 Comments
2. The Souls Which I Have Made There is subtle charm about the thing that we have made, and this is by no means always because of its intrinsic value, but rather because we have made it ourselves. He who has studied portrait painting and for the sake of perfecting himself in his art copies […]
Continue readingThe Labor of Love
July 7, 2014 0 Comments
At Spiritual Friendship, Chris Damian has posted this piece on the true meaning of love. He pushes back on the idea of “love at first sight,” which is really a selfish love. It is based on how the other makes one feel rather than on true knowledge of the other. Here is the meat of his […]
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