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The apostle Paul, in his epistle to the Ephesians, exhorts God’s people to “walk as children of light…and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord” (Eph. 5:8b,10).…

When 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…

Being raised in a non-Christian home, I didn’t have a healthy model of a biblical pastor or church. I began ministry nearly 40 years ago and, while I had…

One 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…

When you think of church discipline, what comes to mind? Those with more colorful imaginations may think of the Spanish Inquisition. Others may think of a pastor with a…

In the first part of this article, I attempted to lay out the biblical call and necessity of unity in the visible church. One implication is that the church…

Presbyterian churches are deliberative bodies. When decisions are made, they are determined through voting and majority rule. This process is biblical. This process maintains the unity of the church.…

As a teenager, I longed to be whatever my father was not. If he wore a dress shirt and khakis, I sported a t-shirt and jeans. If he listened…

The preaching of God’s Word is the pulse-beat of our confessional heritage. It’s the Reformed church’s highest priority. Christians need faithful preaching. The Presbyterian Church in America needs faithful…

Everyone has a regulative principle of worship. Everyone regulates what they do in worship either by the past, the pragmatic, by personal preference, or by the unprohibited. Sola Scriptura,…