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John Spencer (1920 – 2012): Relentless Servanthood
By Zoe Erler
Men of God like John Spencer are needed in even greater numbers for the church-at-large and the PCA in particular.”
Five Aims for Holiday Family Gatherings
By KATHLEEN NIELSON
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…
I have read the Word and preached the Word to young men who should have been working on their daddys farm but who lay wounded in hospitals, or in coffins before me.
When Christians abandon the public square, what happens to community values? To ethics? To moral standards?
A Common Faith, A Common Mission
By L. Roy Taylor, Stated Clerk, PCA
What do we have in common with other evangelicals and branches of the church beyond the Reformed tradition? We share the Early Churchs common faith and a common commitment to the Great Commission
The PCA is 40 years old. It seems sad, then, that we’re still learning, only by fits and starts, that the mature way to define boundaries of doctrine and practice is by study, first in presbyteries — praying, reasoning, and arguing in a setting where relationships are strong and needed time can be taken —…
The failure of the majority side to provide grounds for its committee recommendation was telling. The overture marshaled an impressive list of arguments: biblical (Jesus Eucharistic words), theological (the sacrificial meaning of the separation of the body and blood), historical (two Western church councils and the uniform practice of Reformed Protestantism), and constitutional (the language…
The Protestant Church has often struggled with the notion of art, and in just about every medium. Fear of spectacle, of the fantastic, the ornamental, the iconic and symbolic, and the apparent falsehood of fiction has roiled deep in the Reformed Christian consciousness.
Gods call to welcome the stranger has become a bridge from St. Louis to Bhutan, Nepal, and India.
If mankind’s sexual revolution offers death, broken promises, and shamlessness, God’s revolution offers life and truth and the opportunity to be unashamed.



