Don Clements. Does it matter if I know all that stuff about Martin Luther and John Knox? Does it matter if I know what has happened in the PCA for the past 30 plus years? All I really care about is my own local church and my own personal ministry - and I just don't have time to worry about all th...
Tag: Church Leadership
Why Should I Study Church History and Tradition?
God has given us his Word as his revealed will, but has also given us hundreds of years of church history to help us better understand and apply his Word to our life and world. The Apostles passed on that tradition to the early church and through the church to us today. We do not worship in a tim...
How is the Church to be in the World but Not of it?
The framework for the church to be in the world but not of it requires knowing the Word, knowing what we believe and why, and knowing the transforming effect truth is to have upon our lives. Included in the framework is the need to understand the world--not only to keep ourselves unspotted from t...
Enlarging Worlds: Hunstville Southwood PCA “Adopts” Strapped Elementary School – and It’s Families
By Amy Sherman. The members of Southwood Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama, are heavenly minded--and earthly good. The most visible example of this is the giant replica of the solar system they've constructed for Lincoln Elementary School, where 94 percent of attending children are poor ...
Stewardship in a Postmodern World
One issue that makes stewardship a struggle for Christians is the culture of postmodernism. Dr. Albert Mohler wrote, "The postmodernists reject both the Christian and modernist approaches to the question of truth. According to postmodern theory, truth is not universal, is not objective or absolut...
Realizing God’s Covenant for Children
In a training session with children's ministry leaders, a somewhat inclusive question came to us regarding infant baptism, election, covenant and evangelism. Volumes have been written on each of these, but we can only make a short response here. If you read through the PCA Book of Church Order, e...