By Lee Taylor. When women begin to examine their role in today’s church, one of the first issues that arises is ordination of women. Let’s set that issue completely aside for the moment. With
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The Uniqueness of Jesus Christ
By Linleigh Roberts. When the “God-is-dead” theology emerged a couple of decades ago, the question was asked, “If those men really believed that, why don’t they forget about theology altogether and do something else?” Certainly, an alternative occupation would seem to be the logical course of action. The issue, how
PCA Celebrates Fifteenth Anniversary
On February 15, 1973, forty-five men knelt in prayer at the Hilton Inn near the Atlanta airport. Many of them wept. They prayed for God to guide them as they acted upon a motion that would change their lives forever.
The praying men represented the four conserva
A Devilish Christmas: A Purloined Screwtape Letter
Editor’s Note: The Screwtape Letters are a series of devilish advice-filled letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to a junior devil, Wormwood. These letters were compiled by the late Professor C. S. Lewis, a large number of which fell into his possession. Recently an epistle between these same devils – though concerning the temptation of an American “human” -fell into my grasp. Like the Lewis letters, the opinions expressed are diabol
A Most Unusual Church
By Sharon Kraemer. A core group of 150 adult believers? Sunday afternoon worship and Sunday school? Becoming an “organized church” only ten weeks after the first worship service?”Somebody doesn’t have their facts straight,” you’re thinking. “New churches just don’t begin like that.”
But Christ Community in Franklin, Tennessee, was not your ordinary mission church, and God had been preparing Scotty Smith for a special challenge. To set the scene, the North Carolina native moved to Nashville in August of ’79 to become Cortez Cooper’s youth pastor at First Presbyterian. Fifteen months later both men withdrew from the EC.U.S. Within nine weeks Cooper and Smith were called by approximately 700 adults to be the pastors of what became Christ Presbyterian, PCA five months later. Most of the people had been mem
At the Helm of the PCA
By Sharon Kraemer. The diversity of gifts in the Body of Christ can be readily seen in the ten men who lead the committees or boards for our PCA program com