The 37th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America will be held June 16-19, 2009, in OrlandoFlorida. The following overtures have been sent from Presbyteries; they can be read at PCA GA Overtures. Overture 1 from Missouri Presbytery is entitled “Amend BCO 37-7″ (no text is available for the overture yet), which is the... Continue Reading

2009 Mercy Ministries Conference Sponsored by Christian Education and Publications and Mission to North America of the Presbyterian Church in America The 2009 Mercy Ministries Conference will be March 12-14, 2009. We are excited about the conference speakers that we have lined up and the topics that will be presented. These subjects are very timely... Continue Reading

On Feb. 12 we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. The relatively short history of our nation makes this a particularly momentous milestone. Of all of our leaders after the founders, only Franklin Roosevelt approaches Lincoln’s renown and stature. In poll after poll, historians and political scientists rate Lincoln as one of our... Continue Reading

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently provided a stark illustration of the fundamentally divergent worldviews of big-government liberalism and free-market conservatism. She told ABC’s George Stephanopoulus of the intention of her and House Democrats to include hundreds of millions of dollars for Planned Parenthood and contraceptives in the economic “stimulus bill.” “Well, the... Continue Reading

Christian Newswire — Dr. Peter Lillback, a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), president of Westminster Theological Seminary, and senior pastor at Proclamation Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr, Penn., will be hosting a weekly television program, “Proclaiming the Word with Peter Lillback.” The NRB television Network, DirecTV and ION Networks recently made this... Continue Reading

The Board of Directors of Providence Christian College in Ontario, Calif., has unanimously approved the appointment of Dr. J. Derek Halvorson as the College’s 2nd president, effective July 1, 2009. Halvorson, currently serving as Regional Director of Development for CovenantCollege in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, will succeed Dr. Jim Den Ouden, who is retiring after serving... Continue Reading

Each year Christian Education and Publications (CEP) and Mission to North America (MNA) call the Presbyterian Church in America to 50 Days of Prayer for our General Assembly. This year, Mike Ross, pastor of ChristCovenantChurch in Matthews, North Carolina, will explore the great themes and lessons found in the prophets and so relevant to ministry... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: The “V&V Q&A” is an e-publication from The Center for Vision & Values at Grove CityCollege. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we hope will prove illuminating to readers everywhere. In this latest edition, Dr. Paul Kengor, the executive director of The Center, interviews Dr. Jeffrey... Continue Reading

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. – Once one of the nation’s most popular televangelists, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller is watching his life’s work crumble. His son and recent successor, the Rev. Robert A. Schuller, has abruptly resigned as senior pastor of the Crystal Cathedral. The shimmering, glass-walled megachurch is home to the “Hour of Power” broadcast,... Continue Reading

This column originally appeared in the April 26, 1996 issue of World Magazine. The annual National Prayer Breakfast meets “in the name and the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” Pastors at the recent Promise Keepers National Clergy Conference affirmed their unity by shouting “Jesus” in answer to the call to name “the Messiah in whom you... Continue Reading