Tag Archives: PCA

To Ask and Tell, or Not to Ask and Tell: This is the Contradiction

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 2, 2010

Rabbi Bret is baaaaaaack from vacation (apparently) and he didn’t waste anytime piling on his favorite virus – the infectious disease known as Radical 2K. He reports that the URCNA Synod has decided to send a letter to the U.S. Armed Services official, drafted by the Presbyterian and Reformed Joint Commission on Chaplains and Miltary… Read More→

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Tim Keller Should Join the OPC Where Fighting Is A Virtue

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 30, 2010

Those not going to Nashville for the PCA’s General Assembly may be interested to know that Tim Keller is appearing with Ligon Duncan at a mid-Assembly seminar for what looks like round two of their debate/discussion on the PCA’s identity. For those who want to know what Keller is going to say, no reason to… Read More→

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The Corporate Gullibility of the Church

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 22, 2010

Call it harmonic divergence, but I couldn’t help but read the transcript Tim Keller’s remarks on “gospel ecosystems” in the light of J. Gresham Machen’s remarks about the corporate responsibility of the church. I happened to be teaching on the latter during adult Sunday school and reading the former after a holy day feast and… Read More→

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Lillback on Machen on Beck

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 21, 2010

(Or, why isn’t Christianity and Liberalism outselling Sacred Fire at Amazon?) PCA pastor, Peter Lillback, invoked J. Gresham Machen the other night on the Glenn Beck show to clear up the host’s confusion about social justice and the churches. Beck, of course, thinks “social justice” is code for liberalism, big government, and Obamanian tyranny. But… Read More→

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Why the PCA Needs the Spirituality of the Church

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 4, 2010

Regular readers of Oldlife know about the imbroglio between the Brothers Bayly and those who hold two-kingdoms and the spirituality of the church. The major objection apparently is that these doctrines won’t let the church do what activists on certain moral issues want the church to do in the public square (you know, bad ju… Read More→

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What’s the Difference between the OPC and PCA?

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 4, 2010

In 1986 the OPC almost became part of the PCA. In the General Assembly report that laid out the rationale for Joining & Receiving, the OPC’s committee on ecumencity noted the following characteristics of the two communions. (Keep in mind that one of those denominations was 50 years old, the other only 14.) Strengths PCA… Read More→

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Dual Citizens

By admin | Published: December 11, 2009

by Jason Stellman Endorsements For too long I struggled to recommend reading on the subject of living the Christian life as “resident aliens.” Often I was reduced to directing readers to liberal Methodists (such as Hauerwas and Willimon) as the best embodiment of Christian convictions. At last I can point to practice that is firmly… Read More→

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Too Cool for You? Whither the PCA

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 16, 2009

Calvary OPC in Glenside, Pennsylvania is a fairly vanilla Orthodox Presbyterian congregation.  Granted, the exterior is aesthetically quirky,  and the constraints of parking leave visitors wondering if they’ll be left behind should the rapture occur during a service. But the services are modest, centered on the word read and preached, the hymns are traditional; the Supper is… Read More→

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