Mark’s Gospel focuses on the theme of discipleship. From the beginning to the end, it’s about what it means to be called by and to follow Jesus Christ.
There has been and continues to be a considerable amount of talk about churches dying. And this has spawned work aimed at helping church’s die well, as well as work focused on breathing new life into declining churches.
Presbyterians know that whatever our doubts and fears about the Presbyterian Church (USA), we belong to God. The human institution that is the PCUSA may someday pass away, but God will never allow the church of Jesus Christ to die.
Studying theology can be hard––hard on us psychologically and spiritually, personally as well as interpersonally. We can find out more about ourselves than we ever wanted to know. Yet we can learn more about God than we could ever dream.
Those who oppose us and our convictions are not “the enemy” who attempts to take something precious away from us ––a place of and space for ministry within the PC(USA) ––and so we may be tempted to hold on to our stations ever more dearly. Instead, they who oppose us are the precious thing the enemy of the church attempts to take away from us and, thus, we are best advised to hold on ever more dearly to them.
An overture to this year’s PC(USA) General Assembly intends to force those of us who are officers in the church to affirm what we do not believe, thus violating our constitutionally protected freedom of conscience as well as the historic doctrines of creation and redemption well articulated in our confessions.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is threatened by a new Orthodoxy, a new brand of Fundamentalism, and a new breed of Fundamentalists who seek to impose new ordination standards.
Though he is beloved by many for his very personal and severely introspective autobiography––the Confessions ––this project was addressed to God alone. And though it...
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. It is one of the bestselling religious books ever published in...
Deuteronomy brings the Pentateuch and Moses’ life to their respective conclusions. These two important things are interrelated. Deuteronomy’s conclusion (34:1–12), in which Moses dies,...
Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575) is widely known as the author of the Second Helvetic Confession (1566). But his series of fifty sermons entitled Decades (1549–1551)...