Since The Intolerance of Tolerance was published, readers have been sending me new examples they have spotted-examples of egregious intolerance masquerading in the name of tolerance. Sometimes these examples have been accompanied with a plea to incorporate them in any revised edition that might be called for. Of course, I too have spotted a handful…
“Men of God like John Spencer are needed in even greater numbers for the church-at-large and the PCA in particular.”
On Thanksgiving morning, November 22, John Edward Spencer went home to the Lord, following pulmonary complications. Described by his son John Spencer. Jr., as a “humble servant,” John left marks of his servant’s heart across the PCA — from his role as a longstanding elder at Briarwood Presbyterian Church (Birmingham, Ala.) to his commitment to…
Four more presbyteries have voted on proposed changes to BCO 58-5. The changes, if approved by two-thirds of the PCA’s 80 presbyteries, would prohibit the practice of intinction (partaking of the Lord’s Supper by dipping bread into the wine). Most recently: Iowa voted 4 in favor of the change, 16 against, with 3 abstaining. Western…
Served the PCA in many capacities, and was on the board of Covenant seminary for more than 20 years.
Holiday family gatherings are right ahead! Are you ready? Even those who anticipate them with uncomplicated joy still ponder the wrinkles involved in merging family units with unique habits and rhythms of life. Starting to navigate this sometimes complicated season, I wrote down my top five family-gathering aims, as a believer in Christ who is…
Mission to the World is offering a two-day intensive training on raising support Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, 2013, at MTW headquarters in Lawrenceville, Ga. This event, “Raising Support Successfully: A Team Approach to Ministry,” is open to anyone with an interest in raising financial support and will prove helpful to both novice and veteran…
Does Monday morning excite you? If so, good for you(!), but that’s not where many of us live. Our jobs challenge and (threaten to) consume us. So what does devotion to Jesus Christ look like in competitive—and often cutthroat and insecure—workplace environments? How about in painfully mundane ones? In his new book, Every Good Endeavor:…
I have read the Word and preached the Word to young men who should have been working on their daddy’s farm but who lay wounded in hospitals, or in coffins before me.
During my senior year of high school, and through junior college, I worked in a retail store that was turned around by a visionary manager who led it to profitability. Interestingly, his first move was the most difficult. He declared that he wanted to be able to see from one end of the store to…