In the ongoing debate between form and freedom in worship, says the Rev. David Hall, there tends to be more emphasis on the freedom side. Yet, Hall believes, there is great value in the forms.

If work is seen as a means to a greater end, then God can use it—and us—to do great things.

God wants us to be free and creative and productive — and to use wealth to promote justice and help those in need.

The Church cannot say and do nothing in the face of the “industrialized negation” of God’s good creatures.

“She was always improving my ministry at almost every stop we made,” says PCA founder Kennedy Smartt about his late wife. “She could correct me and do it in such a way that it was like a doctor giving me a painkiller.”

As pastor of Redeemer Church in Mason, Ohio, Marc Champagne accepted the challenge not only of planting a church, but also of reaching the nations with the Gospel.

In this Information Age, plagiarism of sermons is a greater temptation. The Church needs to deal appropriately with it. But what constitutes plagiarism of sermons is a complex issue.

“The change is the culmination of a process begun in September 2008 as CEP discussed the need to change the name of the committee to better reflect its work in the denomination.”

The Committee on Mission to the World (CMTW) is pleased to announce the nomination today of Dr. Lloyd Kim of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to serve as the next coordinator of Mission to the World.

The Rev. William S. Cain, chairman of the Erskine Board of Trustees, announced today that Dr. Paul Kooistra of Suwannee, Ga., has been appointed president of Erskine College and Theological Seminary.