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06/23/2026

"Doctrine is not decorative. It is constitutive. The church does not merely possess a creedal faith; she is shaped by it, governed by it, and sustained through it."

— Jonathan Emerson-Pierce

Doctrine is not decorative. It is constitutive. The church does not merely possess a creedal faith; she is shaped by it, governed by it, and sustained through it. When orthodoxy is quietly displaced, institutions may continue to function administratively, yet they no longer recognize their purpose.....

06/22/2026

“Similarly, Bavinck says that all genuine experience and all virtues works are not the roots but the fruits. Therefore, we as a believer cast our full confidence in the finished work of Christ and not in our righteousness.”

06/22/2026

"[I]f in prayer we habitually focus more on ourselves and our circumstances rather than on who God is, we are missing out altogether on the point of prayer: communion with our triune Creator."

— Taryn Chan

Adoration can not only anchor us but also lead to surprise, exhilaration, and joy as we realize that our God’s beauty and goodness are inexhaustible. The more we contemplate the character of our God, the more he shocks us with how well he deserves our cry, “Glory!”

06/19/2026

Be like the Bereans.

Listen to the full episode—link in bio.

06/18/2026

Reformed and Evangelical? Evangelical Influences on the Presbyterian Church in America

Dr. Richard Lints reflects on the history of the PCA's engagement with Evangelicalism and the difference it continues to make.

Evangelicalism may be the most studied and least understood of the major modern religious movements in the West. Its size and apparent influence over American religious sensibilities have positioned it to be well researched in the last 40 years. It elicits such wide-ranging confusion because of the....

06/17/2026

"Old Testament law also prohibited slave masters from the kind of cruelty American plantations became notorious for. If you struck your slave and knocked out their tooth, they could be granted freedom on the basis of your harshness."

— Adriel Sanchez

Throughout history, people have appealed to the Bible's teaching on slavery to justify their own practices. So is the Bible pro slavery? And what's the difference between biblical slavery and the American slavery of the not so distant past?

06/17/2026

One of the issues under consideration at this year’s General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America is a study committee on Artificial Intelligence. In this article, Joshua Torrey reflects on a particular biblical challenge of AI for pastors, parents, and children.

Throughout the Old Testament, the people of God are repeatedly warned about the making of idols and images which are false. This finds its most explicit articulation in the first two commandments of the Ten Commandments given on Mount Sinai (Exod. 20:4–5). Yet a few weeks later in the story, the p...

06/11/2026

Slavery in Old Covenant Israel and the transatlantic slave trade are fundamentally different institutions.

06/11/2026

“In The Case for Christian Nationalism, widely considered the strongest argument for this position, Stephen Wolfe contends that the “classical Protestant position is that the civil magistrate can punish external religion—e.g., heretical teaching, false rites, blasphemy, and Sabbath-breaking—because such actions can cause public harm, both harm to the soul and harm to the body politic.”

Late eighteenth-century Virginia Presbyterians would have vigorously disagreed. In fact, they championed disestablishment and religious liberty because they feared the opposite—that a civil magistrate enforcing religious conformity caused harm to individuals’ souls, the church, and the body politic.”

Full article from P. C. Kemeny below 👇

06/11/2026

Protestants need not be embarrassed by finding unity around doctrine and the gospel rather than a single polity.

— Rod Rosenbladt

https://pod.link/356920632/episode/NzJmYzJlYmUtN2NmMC00ZGZmLWEwMGQtMmZjNzM0MzFjZTA0