I attend a church in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). The PCA is one of the more “conservative,” or biblically sound, denominations in the United States. Yet over the last 25 years the woke progressive movement has been making inroads into the PCA like it has in many other denominations. These inroads have been…
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Rescued from Exile: A Homily on Ezekiel
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you are trying to accomplish something but the information you have to sort through to do so is so overwhelming that you are tempted to give up? One example of this is the costs I incurred after my car engine stopped working one afternoon. It turns…
God’s Mercy
God’s mercy constantly amazes me. And one aspect of His mercy is common grace, which he bestows on all people, saved and unsaved alike. We all know that this means, for instance, that it rains for all of us. But common grace, along with the fact that everyone is made in God’s image, allows even…
Will Christians Embrace the Ideology of Climate Change?
I came of age politically in the age of William F. Buckley, Jr and Ronald Reagan, which means I escaped being indoctrinated into the progressive ideology behind John Maynard Keynes’ economics and Rachel Carson’s environmentalism. So I was baffled by a recent article in World Magazine discussing how many of today’s young “conservatives” embrace the ideas I avoided…
A PCA Worth Having is a PCA Worth Fighting For
by Brad Isbell – Aquila Report “In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.” These words are from the stirring opening paragraph of J….
The PCA Has Fallen into Error, and Can’t Get Back Up: Part 4-General Assembly
I did not know anything about reformed theology when I first came to the PCA in 1998. What I did know, after spending the first five years after my baptism in the Episcopal Church, was that I was not being fed with the whole counsel of the Word of God. Some friends convinced me that…
Three Cheers for Cultural Christianity
by Timon Cline It is presently in vogue amongst evangelical cultural elites to decry “Cultural Christianity,” or alternatively, “Bible Belt Religion.” Ray Ortlund’s tweet from April 12th encapsulates this mood. “I rejoice at the decline of Bible Belt Religion,” he wrote. “It made bad people worse—in the name of Jesus. Now may we actually believe in Him,…
The PCA Has Fallen into Error, and Can’t Get Back Up: Part 3-David Frenchism
One of the most fascinating phenomena of our time is the number of evangelical Christians brought up in the wake of dispensationalism coming to grips with the problems of the church abandoning the culture. Now, I understand that dispensationalism, and its reformed cousin–Two Kingdoms (R2K) theology, don’t use the term, “abandon the culture.” And both…
The PCA Has Fallen into Error, and Can’t Get Back Up: Part 2-Racism
Just like the 1980’s era TV commercial picturing senior citizens struggling after fall and unable to get up to call for help, the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), like all churches, struggles to address the cultural issues facing our country today. In this series, I am providing a brief history of the errors of the…
The PCA Has Fallen into Error, and Can’t Get Back Up: Part 1-Creation
Given the number of related meme’s populating the web, quite a few people still remember the 1980’s era TV commercial encouraging senior citizens to buy a device that would call for help in the case they fall and are not able to get up to reach a phone. Though a lot of people have made…