Articles: Church
A Sad Day
It was a very sad day for the Christian church, for Protestantism, and particularly for Presbyterianism. May 10, 2011 the Presbytery of the Twin Cities, Minnesota, voted to remove all restrictions on practicing homosexuals (and practicing fornicators for that matter) from serving as clergy. Because it was the 87th Presbytery to do so, their vote to amend the church’s constitution confirmed the action last summer of the PCUSA’s General Assembly, opening the door for their ordination. The new policy will be effective July 10. How do things like this happen? How can it be that the denominational heirs of John Calvin and John Knox, of Archibald Alexander and Charles Hodge, of B. B. Warfield and J. Gresham Machen, have come to this? more...
The Worship of the Ancient Church
The elements from the ancient Church of preaching, public reading of Scripture, prayer, hymnody and psalmody, and the Lord's Supper, as well as the observance of the Lord's Day and the development of feast days, will be examined and developments evaluated. more...