Category: Church

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….

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

by Peter Leithart Scripture seems to be almost deliberately vague about the kingdom. It is like a seed, like leaven, like a sower going to sow His field, like a merciful master who forgives our debts. The kingdom is also a place where we enter to eat and drink with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus…

by Gary North Here, I deal with the framework hypothesis of Genesis 1 that was offered by Meredith Kline in the late 1950’s. I show why it is not biblical. The framework hypothesis denies that the six days of Genesis 1 were sequential. Instead, it says that the days were literary. Day 1 paralleled day…