One of the most basic aspects of Christian worship is the celebration of the Lord’s Supper. Churches of various denominational affiliations observe this ordinance. It isn’t unique to Baptists…
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ChurchConfessionalLeadershipMinistryTheology
The PCA at a Crossroads
A Word from Jon D. Payne | GRN Executive Coordinatorby Jon Payne September 14, 2020Dear Friends of the GRN, Warm greetings from Charleston, South Carolina! Like many of you, I missed attending the 48th PCA General Assembly in June. Our annual summer gathering…
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ChurchMinistrySanctificationTheology
A Response to the PCA’s Ad Interim Report on Human Sexuality
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Good News for the Restless Soul
A Gospel Letter to an Unchurched Friend during the COVID-19 Crisisby Jon Payne May 8, 2020The following article is written in the form of a letter to an unchurched friend. It’s written for the purpose of clearly explaining the nature of the gospel and…
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ChurchReformationTheologyWorship
How Long, O LORD?
COVID, Calvin, and Our Need for the Psalmsby Timothy Gwin May 7, 2020How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have…
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SanctificationTheology
God’s Greatest Blessings Often Come through Difficulty
by Guy Richard April 26, 2020One of my favorite hymns of all time is the classic, “God Moves in a Mysterious Way,” by William Cowper. Many years ago, when I first heard the lyrics…
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ChurchConfessionalReformationTheology
Don’t Lay an Egg
The Danger of Doctrinal Minimalismby David Gilbert April 10, 2020It’s an oft quoted phrase in the history of the Reformation that Luther hatched the egg Erasmus laid. For while God used the humanistic scholar, Erasmus, to drive a…
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One of the great debates in the nineteenth-century American Presbyterian church centered around Roman Catholic baptism.[1] As large numbers of people were emigrating to the United States from Roman…
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A Time of Pestilence, a Time of Thanksgiving
by Zachary Groff March 17, 2020When German Lutheran pastor, Martin Rinkart (1586–1649), penned the familiar hymn “Now Thank We All Our God” as a prayer to be offered before meals, he probably was not…
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ChurchConfessionalTheology
Striking at the Vitals of Religion
The Courage to Discipline Theological Errorby Nick Willborn February 25, 2020One of the marks of a genuine church of Jesus Christ has, for centuries, been the proper biblical discipline of those who sin and live in that sin in…