As the fourth installment in P&R Publishing’s Blessings of the Faith series, Jonathan Master’s Reformed Theology presents “a fairly mainstream, middle-of-the road definition” of the Reformed theological tradition (p. 95). Master writes with verve and clarity, and his phrasing is memorable at more than a few points. This book is an excellent go-to handout book […]
Growing Together Podcast: Restoring a Church to New Life
Pastor Zachary Groff recently sat down with the Presbyterian Church in America’s Mission to North America Church Planting & Vitality Coordinator Chris Vogel to discuss the ongoing reorganization work at Antioch Presbyterian Church. From a personal perspective in a casual interview setting, Pastor Groff described the beginning of the most recent reorganization effort (which began […]
Review: Well Ordered, Living Well by Guy Prentiss Waters
This book review originally appeared on the Presbyterian Polity website here. The venerable ecclesiastical word “Presbyterian” has fallen on hard times. The Twentieth Century played host to a fierce contest between so-called Modernists in one corner and so-called Fundamentalists in the other. Christians of every denominational stripe were caught between the opposing forces of theological […]
The Apostle Paul’s Pastoral Practice
To watch or listen to a recording of this material as a Sunday School class, click here or use the embedded players below. In a previous post, we identified three ways in which “Jesus Christ is the church’s paradigmatic pastor.” From John 4 and 8, we considered that Christ demonstrates pastoral compassion in addressing spiritual needs through […]
Polity Protects the Pulpit
The following article was originally published on the Presbyterian Polity blog at pcapolity.com. After the 50th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), I had the unique privilege to spend 8.5 hours in my car with a founding father of the denomination. Dr. Joseph A. Pipa, Jr. and I made the long drive from Memphis […]
Presbyterianism & the Regional Church
The following article was originally published on the Presbyterian Polity blog at pcapolity.com. What makes this church over here Presbyterian and that church over there Episcopalian or Lutheran or Congregational or Baptist or Pentecostal or Anglican or Independent? In other words, what’s in a name? From where do we derive the nomenclature which we have […]
