“It was a response to the Gospel calling us to love our neighbors as ourselves,” Anderson explains. “The church wanted to bring a balance between word and deed ministry and create an appealing service opportunity for men.”

In this new monthly feature, PCA leaders discuss the topics that are most on their minds.

UKP seeks to help foster and fund indigenous church planters in the United Kingdom who hold to the tenets of the Reformed faith.

Seeing what’s happening now as we see them forced into boats and crossing the ocean, trying to find safety — I feel like their plight should be well-known and well-understood to us by now. And yet it’s not.

Words can heal or hurt, tear down or build up, inspire or provoke, which is why we must choose and use them wisely.

“The church should be leading the charge in this area,” said Collins. “We have a biblical mandate to protect children so that they can understand the Gospel without the trauma of child sexual abuse interrupting their growth.”

Instead of surrendering the new frontiers of technology to an unbelieving world, we should follow the example set in Scripture and use the technologies at our disposal for kingdom work — but wisely.

Thomas and co-founder Tami Resch launched Parakaleo in 2005. To date, the ministry has served more than 300 women in 16 networks, and thousands of women have attended Parakaleo training events and workshops.

The scar of slavery remains on America’s soul. Times of racial violence, like those this summer, expose the scar and reopen old wounds.

Whether it’s the horror of war in a faraway land or the horror of abortion here at home, our fallen humanness allows us, enables us, tempts us, and encourages us to keep those things that are out of sight, comfortably out of mind.