Last week in Birmingham, Alabama, the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) conducted its 49th General Assembly. Over 2,300 commissioners representing the denomination’s 1,911 churches and 378,389 members adopted a number of formal resolutions (referred to as overtures) for the life and business of the Church as a whole. One such resolution proposed by Ascension Presbytery […]
Snowy & Sunny at Old Antioch Church
Yesterday marked the first Lord’s Day we did not gather for corporate worship at Antioch Presbyterian Church (PCA) since our first service as a reorganized mission work of Calvary Presbytery on September 20, 2020. What was the culprit? See the lovely picture (below) snapped earlier today by one of our families in Woodruff. As they […]
Reflecting on Ruth
This past Lord’s Day, we concluded an eight-week sermon series on the book of Ruth. I entitled this series, The Search for a Redeemer. Blessed be the Name of the Lord, we found the Redeemer! He has come, and He is here. Before diving into a new series, two reflections are in order. First, the […]
A Resolution for the Church
Of the making of commitments there seems to be no end. Having formed any number of New Year’s Resolutions, we find ourselves bombarded by new pressures from within and without—and after nearly a month, perhaps we have already decided to call it quits. But what if we take a moment to step back from our […]
A Plain Presentation of the Glorious Gospel of God’s Saving Grace in Christ
Christians believe that the one living and true God spoke by His Spirit through chosen men to reveal Himself to us. The men through whom God chose to speak wrote down what He said through them, so that we would have a written testimony of Who God is and what God has done. From this […]
The Rule of Worship
As we saw in the previous article, worship is to be directed to God, for His glory. If this is to be the case, we must ask Him how He wants to be worshiped. The answer to this question is called the Regulative Principle of Worship. The principle is stated in our confessional documents: The […]
