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Overture 14 Would Require Officers to Testify

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.

Singer Laura Story to Speak at at GA Women’s Event

Story is the senior worship leader at Perimeter Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. She wrote the Chris Tomlin hit “Indescribable,” and won Dove, Billboard, and GRAMMY awards for her 2011 album “Blessings” and its title song.

Wert, Keller, and Williams to Preach at General Assembly

Jim Wert Wert  serves as moderator of the 2015 Assembly, is a ruling elder in Metro Atlanta Presbytery (MAP), and a founding member of Intown Community Church in Atlanta. Wert grew up in North Carolina and came to faith under the Rev. John Neville, Jr., one of the PCA’s early fathers. A graduate of University of North…

MNA Coordinator, Gospel Encourager

Paul Hahn’s 25-Year 
Career Comes Together

The Mission to North America (MNA) Committee will present the Rev. Paul Hahn to the 2016 General Assembly as its recommendation to be the next MNA coordinator. Hahn will replace Jim Bland, who retires in June. For Hahn, it feels as though all his work, experience, and training are now coming together. “Everything I’ve done…

The Past, the Trinity, and the Community

Reflections on Race and the PCA

The PCA needs confession and dialogue in order to live out the implications of our theological commitments – to pursue the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Such truth-telling is an outworking of what it means to image our Triune God.

An Overview of 42 Race-Related Overtures

Of the 63 overtures submitted to this year’s General Assembly, 42 deal with the confession and repentance of race-related sins.

Frank Collins Horton

1917-2016

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.

Harold Arnold “Arnie” Maves, Jr.

1929-2016

“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.”

It Is Good to Say Amen

We Should Savor the Opportunity

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.”

Flirting With Darkness?

The Prince of This World Is at Work

“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.”

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