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The cutting edge of Scripture The Layman March 2005 Volume 38, Number 1, he’s passing it on in the form of the New Living Translation, which builds on his father’s work but delves more deeply into Biblical scholarship for accuracy. Having involved 90 evangelical scholars in the work, the New Living Translation is believed to…
The spotlight turns to New Wineskins The Layman August 2005 Volume 38, Number 3, another group has stepped forth as a herald for Biblical faith. They call themselves the New Wineskins Initiative. They produced a proposed constitution that includes “theological essentials” and “ethical imperatives.” They called for a wholesale transformation that would make higher governing…
The sad, silent evil of ‘religious’ freedom The Layman August 2005 Volume 38, Number 3, however, having done away with the standard for discerning good and evil, there is no such thing as heresy. Thus, the institutionally religious continue to go about their business, presuming that it is God’s business. And that’s the sad, silent…
Task Force should seek harmony with God’s Word The Layman September 2003 Volume 36, Number 5, notwithstanding Jesus’ commitment to the moral law of God. In another study, led by Sara Sanderson Doughty, a pastor in Lowville, N.Y., the task force considered the “inclusiveness” of the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15) in which church leaders accepted…
To the greater glory of God or the pursuit of mammon? The Layman April/May 2007 Volume 40, Number 1, members of the Protestant mainline denominations are waking up to discover that bureaucrats are seeking to stifle their growing theological dissent by coercing their ministers and lay leadership and by confiscating the property of their congregations….
With Kirkpatrick and Ivory gone, what is the future of the PCUSA? The Layman October-November 2007 Volume 40, Number 3, the Presbyterian Church (USA) stands at a crossroads: Will the denomination’s decades-long slide into theological pluralism continue its ongoing dilution of the Gospel in the world, the hemorrhaging of its members and churches, the reduction…
PCUSA’s use of ‘true church’ is contrary to its meaning The Layman November 2006 Volume 39, Number 5, compared to 350 to 400 before the “schismatics were turned over to Ceasar,” as the denomination’s once-secret legal strategy phrases it. Meanwhile, there remains a “true church” in Findlay. It consists of those who voted to leave…
Amusing ourselves to death The Presbyterian Layman March/April 2001 Volume 34, Number 2, the Areopagus is fully functioning in the Presbyterian Church (USA). It is like sidewalk theater where people literally are amusing themselves to death by reincarnating ideas plagiarized from pagans. Turning the deaf ear To sustain their whimsy, some Presbyterians turn a deaf…
A lesson from above originally hoped to weld all U.S. Protestant denominations into a single superstructure. That attempt having failed, proponents now advocate a more amorphous intermingling. A key feature of the current plan is its refusal to address substantive theological differences among denominations. We can learn a valuable lesson from our northern neighbors. The…