With Presbycast For Festivus 2024

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on December 27, 2024 | Comment

Dr Clark joins HRA board members Brad Isbell, Dr Dan Borvan, Chris Gordon, as well as Presbycast co-host Wresbyterian, and HB contributors Sean Morris, Zoe Miller, and remarkably, the late Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones to air grievances and to crack jokes as we . . . Continue reading →

Vos: Christ Is On Every Page

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on December 26, 2024 | Comment

The genuine believer takes the whole of Scripture as a living organism produced by the Holy Spirit to present Christ to him. On every page of Scripture, he finds traits and traces of the Mediator. Geerhardus Vos | Reformed Dogmatics, ed. Richard . . . Continue reading →

Rejoice! The Lord Has Come

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on December 25, 2024 | Comment

And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled . . . Continue reading →

Ferguson On Celebrating Christmas

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on December 24, 2024 | 7 Comments

It’s often said that Christmas is actually a pagan holiday based on the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. But that is a bit like saying that Reformation Sunday is a pagan celebration because it coincides with Halloween. Some churches started holding a Reformation . . . Continue reading →

The Recovery Of The Call To Worship

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on December 21, 2024 | Comment

Over the past several years, I have taught seminary courses on the theology and practice of worship in the Reformed tradition. The syllabus requires students to interact with worship services posted online, evaluating the elements, coherence, and execution of the liturgy. The . . . Continue reading →

A Confession Of Sin Regarding The Sabbath

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on December 20, 2024 | Comment

O Lord, we admit today that even as we consider your goodness, we also see our failures. We find faults in our working, when we do too little, or do too much. We see wrongs in our resting, when we treat each . . . Continue reading →

Video: The Aim Of Preaching

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on December 20, 2024 | Comment

Rev. Dr. Jon D. Payne and Chris Gordon look to define “preaching”, and how to do it effectively, and discuss the two broad aims of sharing the word of God. They talk about the pressures pastors face from behind the pulpit, the . . . Continue reading →

Priscilla Discovers The Reformed Confession

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on December 17, 2024 | Comment

The teenage version of me would be very shocked to find me in the Reformed faith. To be fair, my teenage self didn’t really understand what it meant to be a Reformed Christian. I grew up in a Christian home with two . . . Continue reading →

What We Can Learn From 1524

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on December 14, 2024 | Comment

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Half a millennium ago, as Europeans entered the year 1524, they were gazing at the heavens in trepidation, fearful of a Grand Conjunction that was set to occur. Johann Stöffler, a professor . . . Continue reading →

Video: The Suffering King: Psalm 31:1-8 | Rev. Dan Borvan

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on December 13, 2024 | Comment

God hears the lament of his people and preserves them unto salvation. Continue reading →

Another Win For Religious Freedom And Freedom Of Speech

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on December 13, 2024 | Comment

A Virginia public school district has agreed to pay $575,000 to resolve a lawsuit brought by a Christian teacher who was fired for refusing to use the self-declared pronouns of a trans-identified student. The West Point School Board reached a settlement with . . . Continue reading →

A Tale Of Two Kingdoms

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on December 12, 2024 | 3 Comments

Ranging from William Parry’s “Jerusalem” (popularized in the hit film Chariots of Fire) to the Social Gospel to Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is a Place on Earth”, modern history has witnessed a struggle to define the proper expression of the kingdom of God “on . . . Continue reading →

Swiss Evangelicals Banned From Using Lake Geneva For Baptisms

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on December 11, 2024 | Comment

An evangelical church in Cologny, in the Swiss canton of Geneva, has decided to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the Federal Court’s decision against public baptisms on Lake Geneva. It has done so supported by the the Swiss Evangelical Alliance (SEA-RES) . . . Continue reading →

How the Americans Revised The Westminster Confession Regarding The Magistrate

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on December 10, 2024 | Comment

The version of the Westminster Confession of Faith used by most Presbyterians in America is not identical with the version approved by the Westminster Assembly in 1646. Most of the differences between the historic text and the text used by the Orthodox . . . Continue reading →

Charlotte IHOP To Pay $40K To Christian Cook Over Refusal To Grant Him A Sabbath

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on December 7, 2024 | Comment

A Charlotte IHOP franchise will pay $40,000 to settle claims of religious discrimination and retaliation. Suncakes NC, LLC, a North Carolina-based company, and Suncakes, LLC, a Texas-based company doing business as IHOP, will pay $40,000 and provide other relief to settle a religious . . . Continue reading →

Video: A Critical Conversation On Christian Nationalism

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on December 6, 2024 | 1 Comment

Rev. Gordon and Stephen Wolfe discuss Christan Nationalism. Stephen is the author of the controversial and often criticized book, The Case For Christian Nationalism. He has gained a substantial following on social media for his frank and sometimes harsh statements, and has . . . Continue reading →

Trueman On Where Reformation Christians Go From Here

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on December 5, 2024 | 11 Comments

One thing remains true about twenty-first-century America, regardless of recent election results: the USA is a post-Christian culture and that is not going to change in the near future. Indeed, all the signs are that it will only become less sympathetic to . . . Continue reading →

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