PCA General Assembly does not condemn or even mention federal vision

The PCA needs, but apparently does not have many, Confessionalists—men who confess, teach, and defend the Reformed Confessions. It needs men who will maintain the confessions as the standard of truth and orthodoxy and insist adherence to the standard. It needs men who will insist on adherence to the

Third General Assembly, PCA

Certainly, the PCA has not reached perfection. The optimism among Reformed men is guarded. Protestant Reformed readers will no doubt find some of the things mentioned less than thrilling (i.e. NAPARC and the joint venture in Christian Education). Being of similar views, this writer is not completely

PCUSA and PCA General Assemblies, and CRC and URC Synods

Pastor of the Wingham PRC in Wingham, Ontario, Canada As many of you know, the very liberal Presbyterian Church in the USA (PCUSA) began its downward spiral into apostasy already well over a hundred years ago. J. Gresham Machen wrote a famous book in the 1920s contrasting true Christianity from the

Difficulties in the PCA / Herman Dooyeweerd: 1894-1977 / Roman Catholic—Reformed Lord’s Supper? / Schuller’s Branch Church

Difficulties in the PCA The recently formed denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America, is having difficulties -- judging from recent issues of the Presbyterian Journal. This young denomination originated out of the Southern Presbyterian Church (P.C.U.S.) because of the liberalism in the latt

Young, Restless, and Reformed today: A highlight of the PCA’s 49th General Assembly

Having myself grown up in a conservative Reformed denomination (PRC), like many of you, I am not really a participant but more an observer of this YRR movement. As an outsider looking in, I found Jeff Robinson's insider critique helpful for understanding some of the good and bad aspects of the movem

Five RCA Churches Join the PCA, A Sixth May Soon Follow / Defining the Church

Five RCA Churches Join the PCA, A Sixth May Soon Follow Below is a December 26, 2014 article posted on The Aquila Report (theaquilareport.com). Five Illinois Churches in the Reformed Church RCA) in America have voted to affiliate with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). The PCA's Chicago Met

The PCA Has Failed to be Meaningfully Confessional

Why the PCA is a Safe-Haven for the Federal Vision Heresy

A Presbyterian Amalgam? (2) / Reactions to the Merger Proposal / CRC Decision on the Boer Gravamen / Addition to Editorial

To: The General Synods and General Assembly of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod, the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Subject: An invitation to participate in steps designed to effect one church among us. Brethren:  Greetings in t

General Synods and Assemblies (2)

After two full days of debate, including 67 speeches, sandwiched around a Lords Day interlude, the OPC assembly finally voted 78-68 for J & R -- 20 votes short of the two-thirds majority required in order to send the proposal down to the 12 presbyteries. The action, in response to an invitation issu