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Is it Okay to Doubt?

March 20, 2023

"Is it okay to doubt?" is a question that I received recently from a young woman in my congregation. This is a broad question, but one that I think is important for young

Nathan Eshelman Nathan Eshelman

Introducing the Blue Banter Podcast!

March 20, 2023

Yes, your read that title correctly. A new podcast has started called Blue Banter. Two recent Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary graduates have started this conversational podcast where they interview an RPCNA minister. As

Barry York Barry York
pastors

Remember your Leaders

March 17, 2023

On 4 March our congregation lost the man who had pastored the church for 35 years before me. I want to share the main points of the two messages I preached the day after his death.

Warren Peel Warren Peel

A Pastoral Lesson from the Past

March 16, 2023

In 2024 I will have been in the pastoral ministry for thirty years. However, almost twenty years ago I started reading some books that have become a yearly literary staple.  They are the

Jeffrey A Stivason Jeffrey A Stivason
Amos

Amos - The Lion Roars & Redeems

March 15, 2023

Amos - The Lion Roars & Redeems Have you ever tried to memorize the order of the minor prophets before? Let's be honest, have you tried, got it down for a day or a

Bryan Schneider Bryan Schneider

Leaving and Beginning

March 14, 2023

One of the hardest decisions for a pastor is to leave a congregation. When there is a call to a new field there must also be a release from the present minister setting.

Kyle E. Sims Kyle E. Sims

3GT Episode 283: Loving Our Enemies in a Wicked Age

March 14, 2023

With all the guys in the studio again, they are putting the 3 back into 3GT! With the increasing hostility in the culture against Christ and the church, they discuss the subject of

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Love Your New Testament: Machen on Studying Scripture

March 10, 2023

In his excellent work, Selected Shorter Writings, J.G. Machen – founder of the OPC denomination as well as Westminster Theological Seminary – has a very helpful article on loving your Bible. The essay is

Matthew Everhard Matthew Everhard
Genesis 18

Intercessory Prayer

March 09, 2023

Introduction In light of huge need, before the Coming of the Lord, it is good to be reminded of the call to intercede. Context How does Abraham, the Man of Faith, who had

Andrew Kerr Andrew Kerr

Love Is

March 08, 2023

Love is a mother, retching in the toilet every day, filled with wonder at the tiny human growing inside her. Love is giving up sleep for years, as pregnancy gives way to newborn

Vanessa Le Vanessa Le

Tribute to Pastor Edward "Ted" Donnelly

March 06, 2023

Thirty-five years ago this summer, I came to Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary for a preliminary class before my fall entrance into the Master of Divinity program. In those days, beginning pastoral students needed

Barry York Barry York

Restore Us Again: A Presbytery Sermon on Psalm 80.

March 06, 2023

There’s a certain level of honesty that is needed when we assess where we are as the Great Lakes Gulf Presbytery of the RPCNA. It has been said that in the last

Nathan Eshelman Nathan Eshelman

3GT Episode 282: Presbyterian Shepherding

March 03, 2023

Well, the boys are back together again! With all three of them on their mics, they jest about the worst episode ever, their Argentinian listeners (or lack thereof), and Barry’s ability (?) to

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Forgiveness

Letham & Turretin Debate Forgiveness

March 01, 2023

I love a good systematic theology.  Benjamin B. Warfield reminds the preacher that systematic theology is indispensable to the preacher.  So, being a preacher, not long ago I took Robert Letham’s Systematic

Jeffrey A Stivason Jeffrey A Stivason
God's Love

Does Jesus Love Me?

February 28, 2023

It is a question that many believers have asked. It is often on the mind of the downcast and discouraged: “Does Jesus love me?” It may be a nagging doubt or an agonizing cry of the heart—“God, do you really love me?” What is the Bible's answer to this pressing question?

Keith Evans Keith Evans
ninth commandment

Breaking the Ninth Commandment on a Global Scale - and what confessional, Reformed Christians can do about it . . .

February 27, 2023

God has provided us with unprecedented means to redress an egregious historical and ongoing defiance of his holy law . . .

Rut Etheridge III Rut Etheridge III

Shattered

February 26, 2023

One year ago this Lord's Day evening, on February 27th, 2022, right before midnight, I received "the" phone call from my daughter. Emory, her voice filled with emotion, informed me that her husband,

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the objectivity of hope in Scripture

February 25, 2023

Isn’t it true that the word hope, in ordinary conversation, can be used in at least three ways? 1. We utilize the word hope to express a desire.  "I sure hope the

Timothy McCracken Timothy McCracken

I Just Preached a Terrible Sermon: Now What?

February 24, 2023

Last week I just wasn't feeling it up there. I have several good excuses, but I probably shouldn't take the time to list them off to you as they all sound pretty lame

Matthew Everhard Matthew Everhard
Genesis 16

Anything you can do....

February 23, 2023

We are called to walk by faith, through which we are also justified. Far too often, believers including mature saints, even in top ecclesiastical posts, seek to further God's work by resorting to

Andrew Kerr Andrew Kerr
Christian hope

Hope for a Hopeless Nation

February 22, 2023

One nation is enlisted by God to discipline another and then they themselves are disciplined for their own idolatries and immoralities. But, in the midst of this series of ruined nations, a kingdom was established with an eternal King.

Kit Swartz
Black History Month

Black History Month: Francis James Grimke

February 22, 2023

We all would do well to examine ourselves under this penetrating critique by a highly esteemed black pastor.

Kit Swartz

Liberal Christians: A Hundred-Year Oxymoron

February 20, 2023

One hundred years ago this month, in February of 1923, J. Gresham Machen published Christianity and Liberalism. Dedicated to his mother, J. Gresham would, with the charm of a gentleman and the power

Nathan Eshelman Nathan Eshelman

Salvator Mundi: I Can't Imagine it!

February 17, 2023

In 1978, art historian Joanne Snow-Smith quietly began a movement. She argued that a dark and ominous painting of Jesus Christ called Salvator Mundi was a long lost Leonardo Di Vinci. Through the

Nathan Eshelman Nathan Eshelman
Day of Judgment

He comes to judge the earth

February 17, 2023

The Bible tells us about an event that causes the heavens to be glad and the earth to rejoice. What is it?

Warren Peel Warren Peel
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