. . [Editor's Note: Chuck Huckaby is an Associate Editor of the Christian Observer, and played a key role in the October 31, 2008 launch of the online version of this publication] . Originally published by WorldViewChurch.org. Reprinted with permission. By Chuck Huckaby Rosaria Champagne Butterfield lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina, where her husband pastors the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham Rev. Chuck Huckaby is the Minister of Congregational Life at First Protestant Church in New Braunfels, TX. His video reviews are also available on Youtube. ___________________________________________________________________________ Rosaria Butterfield’s “Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert An English Professor's ...

. . A Note to Follow “So”: “Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?” Romans 3:3 Geneva Bible . “Do we then make void the law of God through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law” -Rom. 3:31 . Hammerstein’s Oversight? Oscar Hammerstein II’s “ note to follow So” in The Sound of Music (1959) is conspicuous by comparison with the more imaginative, creative lyrics aligned with the other notes of the scale.  How much better it could have been simply to characterize “La” ...

Just War A Kingdom Catechism A just war has purposes in line with the Law of God and the demands of justice. Q 115: How do the redeemed of the Lord wage just war against enemies? A 115: The redeemed of the Lord wage just war against enemies by employing all spiritual weapons against the enemies of our soul and supporting the state as it bears the sword against evildoers. (Eph. 6:10-20; 2 Cor. 10:3-5; Rom. 13:1-4; Deut. 20:1-18) We may not like the language of war, or the thought of going to war, but Christians must acknowledge that we are at all times engaged ...

. . Presbyterians Week Headlines [1] Federal Judge Reinstates Geneva College Lawsuit Challenging Obama Administration Contraception Mandate [2] Assyrian International News Agency Reappears on the Internet [3] 2013 General Assembly of Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) [4] Presbytery of the United States of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) to Hold Family Conference 5-9 August 2013 at Highland Retreat in Bergton, Virginia [5] American Pro-Life Leaders to Deliver Gosnell Grand Jury Report to Members of the Irish Parliament After Prayer Walk to Keep Ireland Abortion Free [6] United Church of Christ Leaders, Pastors Celebrate another Win for Marriage Equality in Delaware [7] News ...

. . In the United States of America over the past fifty years we have observed a great shift of opinion in what is regarded as right and what is wrong.  Rights are the focus. But teaching rights over righteousness is not right!  Promoting situational ethics has become dominant, and much of this is evidenced by political decisions in respect to education.  We have powerful influences in our government, media, and educational establishment that are very much seeking to indoctrinate the new morality of rights over righteousness! Change has come, but it not good change.  The focus has been ...

. . By David Tulis - republished from a 11 January 2013 article in Nooganomics.com, which covers the local economy and free markets in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and beyond. . If you touch a Chattanoogan on the forearm, you will feel heat. Blood runs through his veins. But the blood is cool. Its vigor is less than his forebears’ in 1861. There’s a bit of a pallor on the man’s face. He doesn't speak loudly any more. He is rarely excited. He’s overweight. Chattanoogans are members of a once-free people of Tennessee, the volunteer state. ...