In 2008, Larry R.*, a MINTS professor and president of the Global Institute for Ethical Leadership, received a call from Greg Hauenstein, the president of MINTS International Seminary. “How would you like to go to Nepal?” he asked. That was the beginning of MINTS’ involvement in Nepal. Through Boca Raton Community Church and Rev. Bill […]
A Confessional Reformed Fellowship By the 1990s it was apparent that a serious alternative to AIPRAL (the liberal Reformed association) was needed if any coordination and mutual support were to occur in Latin America among the confessionally Reformed churches. CLIR was founded in 1993 as a joint effort of the Mexican National Presbyterian church and […]
In three or so articles I would attempt to connect two incomprehensible beings. The one is God. The other is the tween. God, of course, does not need help. He connects with whom He will. Tweens, however, need help connecting with God. With their connecting with, their believing, their understanding, drawing near to, and serving […]
In City on a Hill, Phillip Ryken asserts that “a Church for post-Christian times is a teaching church.” He goes on to say that “the only church that will survive in post-Christian times is a church with a passion for God’s Word.”1 As elsewhere, in Mark 10 Jesus sets a pattern for the teaching church […]
It’s been said that self-esteem is the single greatest need facing the human race today. One prominent pastor, in defending this thesis, has defined self-esteem as “pride in being a human being.”1 A sincere study of Scripture, however, seems to suggest that self-esteem, rather than being our greatest need, might be part of humanity’s problem. […]
The Heidelberg Catechism’s doctrine of the Holy Spirit is most expansively taught in His work upon the Christian. From the beginning of our new life to our goal of eternity, and at every step in between in the ordo salutis, the Holy Spirit is central to our Christian life. In this we see that the […]
This past Friday [June 26, 2015] is already designated as one of the most historic victories in the history of the United States as a divided Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples can now marry nationwide. This landmark opinion, as it’s being described, opens the door for all gay and lesbian couples to have legally […]
The following are two overtures from Classis Pacific Northwest to Synod Wyoming 2016, to be held on June 13-17, at Bethany URC in Wyoming, Michigan. Overture re-union with the Canadian Reformed Churches: Classis Pacific Northwest overtures Synod Wyoming 2016 of the United Reformed Churches to direct CERCU to discontinue all further action, advancement, processes, efforts […]
Introduction On a hot summer night in Visalia, California, four men sat down together for a theological conversation, a colloquium. The night was June 4, 2014. The discussion, or colloquium, took place in the middle of the schedule of the Synod of the United Reformed Churches in North America (URCNA), in the presence of all […]
Following the fall 2014 meeting of URC Classis Pacific Northwest, it was clear that the landscape with regard to unity discussions between the United Reformed Churches in North America (URCNA or URC) and the Canadian Reformed Churches (CanRC) had become muddy. This particular classis forwarded two separate overtures from two of its member churches for […]