Prayer for PCUSA presbyteries
On Wednesdays, we pray for presbyteries of the PCUSA. This week’s intercession includes: Genesee Valley Geneva Giddings- Lovejoy Glacier
On Wednesdays, we pray for presbyteries of the PCUSA. This week’s intercession includes: Genesee Valley Geneva Giddings- Lovejoy Glacier
An Ohio congregation became the 100th church to join the newest Presbyterian denomination. Bethel Presbyterian Church’s dismissal from the Presbyterian Church (USA), approved at a Nov. 19, 2013, meeting of Scioto Valley Presbytery, allowed the congregation to officially become a member of ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians on Jan. 1, 2014. The Columbus…
In a February 18 Canon & Culture post entitled “Is Homosexual Orientation Sinful,” Biblical studies and ethics professor, Denny Burk challenges the current thinking that has led many evangelicals to parse sexual orientation from sexual practice. The Bible teaches that God condones no sexual relations outside of the marriage of a man and woman and…
Menlo Park Presbyterian Church’s exodus from the Presbyterian Church (USA) is a step closer to completion following Tuesday’s vote at the Presbytery of San Francisco stated meeting. The presbytery voted to approve Menlo Park’s dismissal from the national denomination, allowing the church of more than 3,000 members to depart the PCUSA and align with ECO:…
Last Wednesday (March 5) I had the joy of talking to Janet Mefferd on her national radio program. The topic at hand was the horrific Zionism Unsettled study, which I critiqued this week here at Layman.org (excerpt below): And yet the Presbyterian Church (USA) is demonstrating to the world an interest in stirring the proverbial…
A third candidate has emerged for the post of moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s 221st General Assembly (GA). Teaching Elder Kelly Allen, pastor of University Presbyterian Church in San Antonio, Texas, was endorsed as a moderator candidate by Mission Presbytery during its March 1 meeting following a resolution from her church in support of…
“Give peace a chance,” the adage goes, but in reality, some have become so enamored with the fighting that efforts to produce peace are thwarted. Speaking to some 14,000 people at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Polity Conference held recently at the Convention Center in Washington, D.C., the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin…
The feeling that the Presbyterian Church (USA) was pulling way from its Reformed roots and straying from God’s Word was enough to lead a Pennsylvania congregation to seek affiliation with another denomination. The 106-member Bridgewater Presbyterian Church, located in Beaver County of western Pennsylvania, was dismissed from Beaver-Butler Presbytery and the PCUSA effective Jan. 1,…
The congregation of Westminster Presbyterian Church from Fruit Heights, Utah, has been dismissed from the Presbyterian Church (USA). Westminster (WPC), which changed its name to Mountain Road Church, became the first church to be dismissed by the Presbytery of Utah during a Dec. 14, 2013, meeting. The presbytery voted by 94 percent to approve WPC’s…
A pair of congregations in northern California find themselves affiliated with a different branch of the Presbyterian tree after being dismissed from the Presbyterian Church (USA). McCloud Community Presbyterian Church and Grace Community Church, each found in Siskiyou County, are now part of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) following their dismissal by Sacramento Presbytery. The…