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By Edward Lee Pitts
Jim DeMint will leave the Senate to help rally the conservative movement as president of The Heritage Foundation
As of Dec. 5, 2012, 28 of the PCA’s 80 presbyteries have reported their vote on a proposed amendment to Book of Church Order 58-5. If passed, the amendment would prohibit intinction (dipping bread into wine) as a method of observing the Lord’s Supper. Ten presbyteries have now passed the amendment, thereby voting to prohibit…
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.”
On Thanksgiving morning, November 22, John Edward Spencer went home to the Lord, following pulmonary complications. Described by his son John Spencer. Jr., as a “humble servant,” John left marks of his servant’s heart across the PCA — from his role as a longstanding elder at Briarwood Presbyterian Church (Birmingham, Ala.) to his commitment to…
Four more presbyteries have voted on proposed changes to BCO 58-5. The changes, if approved by two-thirds of the PCA’s 80 presbyteries, would prohibit the practice of intinction (partaking of the Lord’s Supper by dipping bread into the wine). Most recently: Iowa voted 4 in favor of the change, 16 against, with 3 abstaining. Western…
John Edward Spencer: 1920 – 2012
By Birmingham News
Served the PCA in many capacities, and was on the board of Covenant seminary for more than 20 years.
Mission to the World is offering a two-day intensive training on raising support Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, 2013, at MTW headquarters in Lawrenceville, Ga. This event, “Raising Support Successfully: A Team Approach to Ministry,” is open to anyone with an interest in raising financial support and will prove helpful to both novice and veteran…
Does Monday morning excite you? If so, good for you(!), but that’s not where many of us live. Our jobs challenge and (threaten to) consume us. So what does devotion to Jesus Christ look like in competitive—and often cutthroat and insecure—workplace environments? How about in painfully mundane ones? In his new book, Every Good Endeavor:…
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.
Artists who possess an uncanny ability to create the kind of art that, at its best, forces us to look up and within.
