Video: Bob Godfrey On The Life And Significance Of “Sister”

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on May 23, 2025 | Comment

Rev. Chris Gordon and Dr. W. Robert Godfrey delve into the fascinating and complex life of Aimee Semple McPherson, a pivotal figure in the development of both evangelicalism and Pentecostalism. They explore her groundbreaking role as a female preacher, her innovative methods . . . Continue reading →

It’s Too Easy To Think The Worst

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on May 22, 2025 | 2 Comments

The importance of Christian charity was first impressed upon me in university by a friend named James. He was the older brother of a close friend, doing graduate studies in history. We were involved together in an evangelism project on our university . . . Continue reading →

Baillie Versus Tombes (3): How The Particular Baptists Appeared To Early Presbyterians

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on May 19, 2025 | 9 Comments

This great execution upon them together with the diligence of Luther and other Divines to inform their minds did for some time much compesce [to restrain] that evil spirit and so much fright him out of all the bounds of upper Germany, . . . Continue reading →

Video: Guilt, Grace, Gratitude: A Reformed Look at Hebrews

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on May 16, 2025 | Comment

Join Rev. Chris Gordon (Escondido URC, Westminster Seminary Graduate) and Dr. Steve Baugh (Professor Emeritus, Westminster Seminary California) as they delve into the Book of Hebrews. They discuss the central theme: the call for persevering faith in Christ alone. Dr. Baugh explains . . . Continue reading →

Tennessee Valley Overture On Christian Nationalism

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on May 16, 2025 | 1 Comment

Whereas, the duties of Christian citizenship are often disputed and prove perennially difficult for both elders and church members to discern; and Whereas, confusion exists about the proper relation between church and state; and Whereas, due to recent movements, publications, popular teachings, . . . Continue reading →

Machen Was Right

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on May 15, 2025 | Comment

The old mother kirk of American Presbyterianism holds treasures of the mind and heart that few have ever seen. She has lived through a Revolution with England; divided over Black slavery only to be united again; welcomed seceding (Associate and United) Presbyterians . . . Continue reading →

Dear Pastor, Do Not Be Surprised By Troublemakers In The Congregation

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on May 14, 2025 | 3 Comments

The pastor need not be surprised if he finds troublers in his church. The discovery of such persons among the professed people of God sometimes shocks ministers, especially inexperienced ones, and discourages them, and sometimes leads them unwisely to give up their . . . Continue reading →

Baillie Versus Tombes (2): How The Particular Baptists Appeared To Early Presbyterians

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on May 13, 2025 | 4 Comments

When the light of the Gospel from the Lamp of Luther did begin to shine in all the corners of Germany high and low, the aforementioned unhappy men Stock and Müntzer, did begin also to breath out a pestiferous vapor for to . . . Continue reading →

Baillie Versus Tombes (1): How The Particular Baptists Appeared To Early Presbyterians

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on May 10, 2025 | Comment

The late patrons of Anabaptism among us would make the world believe that this Sect had for its Author the famous Berengarius, and for its fomenters four hundred years ago, the old predecessors of Protestants, commonly called Albigenses: but who will be . . . Continue reading →

Video: The Compassionate King: Unpacking Matthew’s Gospel

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on May 9, 2025 | Comment

In this episode, Dan Borvan and Chris Gordon return to the mic to reflect on the physical and emotional toll of the devastation, analyze what may have gone wrong, and examine the belief some have that these fires are a manifestation of divine judgment. Continue reading →

Must We Forgive The Impenitent?

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on May 8, 2025 | Comment

Forgiveness is one of the most difficult things required of us. You might almost say it goes against human nature. “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” That was Alexander Pope’s conclusion in “An Essay on Criticism.” [1] Christians generally know they . . . Continue reading →

This Is What Intellectual Honesty Looks Like

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on May 7, 2025 | 2 Comments

It’s time to come clean. I was gullible. I took someone else’s word for it and didn’t do the research for myself. I should have searched the Scriptures “see whether these things were really so,” but instead I took the word of . . . Continue reading →

We Live Between The Now And Not Yet: Meilaender’s Critique Of Retrospective Romanticism

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on May 6, 2025 | Comment

In Book IV of Paradise Lost, John Milton introduces “our first father” and “our general mother,” ancestors of the human race: “Adam, the goodliest man of men since born / His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve” (Milton 2000, 86, 83). Together . . . Continue reading →

Paul Wooley And Meredith Kline On The Spiritual Mission Of The Visible Church

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on May 5, 2025 | 1 Comment

The undersigned dissent from the decisions of the Committee on Foreign Missions to appoint medical specialists as members of the staff of the Eritrean Mission and from its decision to establish a hospital as part of that Mission. Our dissent is necessitated by the following convictions: 1. There is no . . . Continue reading →

The Red Scarf Girl And The Natural Rights Of Parents

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on May 3, 2025 | Comment

In her celebrated book “Red Scarf Girl,” author Ji-li Jiang recounts growing up during the Cultural Revolution in China. She and millions of others had to choose between obeying the country’s communist government or obeying her parents. “’Now, you have to choose . . . Continue reading →

Harrison Perkins—The Non-Insistent Pastor: Conscience And Submission In History, Theology, And Churchmanship (2)

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on May 2, 2025 | Comment

This talk is part two of Westminster Seminary California’s Student Association 2025 Spring Convocation. RESOURCES Subscribe To The Heidelblog! Download the HeidelApp on Apple App Store or Google Play Browse the Heidelshop! The Heidelblog Resource Page Heidelmedia Resources The Ecumenical Creeds The . . . Continue reading →

NW Georgia Overtures PCA GA to Create Committee to Revise Directory For Worship For Authoritative Use

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on May 2, 2025 | 5 Comments

Whereas even prior to the establishment of constitutional documents in American Presbyterianism, American Presbyterians utilized the Westminster Form of Government and Directory for Public Worship, as adopted by the Synod of Philadelphia in 1729, thereby affirming the historic practice of ordering worship according . . . Continue reading →

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