Ministry

Dear Pastor, I know I haven’t been the best husband or father in the past. I just feel that the reason my wife and kids don’t believe is because…

We all need mentors. With so many voices telling us what to do, it’s vitally important that we have godly, thoughtful, experienced people showing us what to do. Preparing for a…

Introduction As October 31 approaches, it seems the whole world  is carving pumpkins, dressing up, and gearing up for large amounts of candy. But for the church, this date…

Introduction Three miles North on Main Street from where I am writing sits the campus of a well-known Christian college founded within the Restoration (or Stone-Campbell) movement. This movement,…

Among the seven distinctives that the Gospel Reformation Network hopes to encourage among all the churches of the PCA is Earnest Prayer and Expository Preaching. Rather than innovations, each…

Some presbyters seem to believe that entering the arena of ecclesial/denominational controversy is—to quote the military supercomputer in the prescient 1983 teen movie WarGames—“a strange game. The only winning move…

Dear Friends of the GRN, Godly ruling elders are essential to the spiritual life and health of the local church. They are also key to long-term denominational fidelity. It’s…

Multiple news outlets have reported the Church of England is no longer describing their new church start-ups as church plants. A new study says the Church is opting for…

In 1997, Rosaria Butterfield was a professor at Syracuse University. She was in a long-term lesbian relationship, an active member of a Unitarian Universalist cult, and hostile to Christianity.…

I remember the first day a dear saint darkened the doors of my former church. She was in her sixties and had not been to a church in nearly…