Providence Presbytery has sent an overture to the 44th General Assembly, seeking to amend BCO 35-1. The amendment would require church officers to testify in cases against them when the accusations concern their doctrinal views. The proposal is nearly identical to one narrowly defeated by the last General Assembly.
Two great lies have been promoted in our culture during the past 20 years. They are told to children in school, students in college, and workers throughout the business world.
He served on the Board of Directors of the Pensacola Theological Institute, was one of the five founders of Reformed Theological Seminary and served on the Board of Trustees as Secretary of that institution for 43 years.
“He was part of eight PEF evangelists that the Lord used to bring our new denomination into existence. Arnie obeyed the call of the Lord to go to Eastern Europe and strengthen the underground churches at great risk to his own life.”
The spoken “Amen” of a brother or sister assures us that we do not stand alone but that our prayer has become “the joint and humble supplication of hundreds of penitent and believing souls, all engaged in pouring out their hearts to the God of salvation.”
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils,” C.S. Lewis observed. “One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.”
John Buswell was the beloved husband of LaVon Witmer Buswell and the loving father of Elizabeth and Kathleen. He was born in Wheaton, Illinois, in 1928, to Helen Spaulding Buswell and James Oliver Buswell, Jr., who was then president of Wheaton College. Both John and LaVon graduated from Wheaton College in 1949 and were married…
So what makes a woman a woman? Maybe the better question is who makes a woman a woman? God does. And we are a diverse group of necessary allies.
While the couple has always talked about adopting, they are finding that caring for children in crisis, and the emotional roller coaster of dealing with an unpredictable legal system, can be hard, lonely work.
Covenant is a promise that stretches from Genesis to Revelation: “I will be your God, you will be my people, I will live among you.”