The foundation for trust in the Bible is its inspiration. A number of men over several centuries penned the words of Scripture, but the enduring constant is that God inspired every word.
Her memorial service was held at New City Fellowship on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. The pews were filled with family and friends and the attendees vehicles spilled out into the surrounding streets, much further than even the average Sunday. As in all of Aunt Collyn’s life, the gospel was forefront in the celebration of her homecoming.
A mission trip to the Middle East has the power to bring intractable regional conflicts to a personal level — with names, stories, and an unshakeable plea — “please pray for me.”
Since the videos were released, “it has been amazing to see how people have used them personally and corporately as they lead others in the local church,” Hodge says.
Covenant College alumna Kathryn Kimball ’09 has been selected to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Kimball’s clerkship will run during the 2018 Supreme Court term. Around thirty-six law clerks are annually chosen to serve with the Supreme Court.
In seven years Morwood has had 15 dancers come through her Bible study, which provides a space where dancers push aside perfectionism and deal honestly with life’s struggles. They hold each other accountable and model humility to others by admitting mistakes and asking for forgiveness.
“I think the passing of Overture 43, and the fruit that will come of it, will be a help in recruiting African-American pastors into our denomination. It demonstrates to them that we are real, not trying to cover up sins of the past or present, but owning them and seeking to grow from them.”
Collyn, a native of Iowa where her immigrant father operated several meat markets, began her relationship with the college in 1959 when Covenant was still located in St. Louis, Mo. She then played a variety of roles with Covenant over the next 40 years.
Robertson describes how, through the “messy work of the Gospel,” God has taken a congregation from its racist past to aggressively becoming a multi-ethnic congregation.
Recently, the PCA Foundation reached the major milestone of $150,000,000 in total distributions to PCA churches, PCA Committees and Agencies, and other Christian ministries.