Articles

Introduction Many in the church know that ordination is important, but they may struggle to articulate why that is the case. Ordination is one of the hidden gems of…

*This article is a follow-up from Dr. Guy Waters’ article “What Is Biblical Ordination?“* Introduction In recent years, few debates in the Presbyterian Church in America have proven as…

Introduction When I first started in ministry, I had the opportunity to fill the pulpit of a very gifted preacher while he was on vacation. As the day approached,…

Introduction “Tolle lege, Tolle lege.” Those were the words that Augustine heard spoken by a little boy or girl (or angel) over a thousand years ago on the day…

Introduction “It had hardly begun,” Jack E. Davis says in The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, “when just before midnight on August 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille swept…

Introduction My family loves Christmas. We enjoy decorating our home, not least with a tree adorned with beautiful ornaments. Over the years, we’ve acquired quite a collection of Christmas…

Introduction The practice of women wearing cloth head coverings in worship may not be the most pressing theological issue for most. The topic is only broached once in Scripture…

Introduction My first ordained ministry position was in a church plant that grew from just under 200 to over 1,000 in less than five years. As pastor of evangelism…

Click here for Part 1 and Part 2. Introduction In our previous articles on the glorious subject of preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ, we’ve explored two aspects of…

Introduction Corporate worship is the chief means of Christian discipleship (WSC Q.89). By “worship,” the Westminster divines included the reading, preaching, and singing of Scriptural truth, together with the…