4 December 2013

Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 22:26

This news item was posted in Presbyterians Week category.

“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” [Ephesians 6:12]

Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] New Christian Observer Articles for December 2013

[2] Dwindling Congregation of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Hungarian Reformed Church No Longer Able to Pay Township Cemetery Maintenance Fee

[3] Fourteenth Annual Reformed Congregational Fellowship Conference Scheduled for 25-27 March 2014 at the Wonderland Conference Center in Sharon, Massachusetts

[4] RPTS Webinar “What Does Reformed Mean?” Scheduled 3 P.M. EST on Thursday 5 December 2013

[5] The Reformed Apprentice Volume 2: A Workbook on the Doctrine of Scripture and Biblical Interpretation Available from The Puritan Shop

[6] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

[7] Articles from LifesiteNews.com

[8] The Thinning Blue Line

[9] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

[10] The Religion of Peace

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[1] New Christian Observer Articles for December 2013

New Christian Observer articles for November 2013 include:

— Evil from the Hand of God?: “Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?” – Romans 3:3 Geneva Bible – by Christian Observer Contributing Editor David Brand – Part 22 in a continuing series examining the effects upon the church of the change in meaning of the Greek word pistis from faith to faithfulness by the English Revised Version Committee that began meeting in February 1870;

— The Laodicean ‘Man of God’ in the Hands of the Righteous God – by Mel Everingham – A call to courage, strength, and faithfulness by the ‘Men of God’ in the U.S. whose apathy, spiritual impotence, and denial of the realities of the apostate U.S. invite the Judgement of God;

— The Contemporary Educational Trinity Brews Destruction – By Christian Observer Contributing Editor Dr. Joe Renfro – How the No Child Left Behind, the Common Core Curriculum, and misuse of technology brew the destruction of the culture;

— Equal Treatment of Gays = Unequal Treatment of Marriage – By Christian Observer Contributing Editor David Tulis – How the effort in Chattanooga, Tennessee to make homosexual unions equal to the covenant of marriage draws its strength from below rather than above;

Plus, regular features including weekly Sabbath School Lessons by Christian Observer Assistant Editor Dr. Robert LaMay, and Daily Devotionals by T.M. Moore, dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe.

+ Christian Observer, Post Office Box 1371, Lexington, Virginia 24450, christianobserver@christianobserver.org

[2] Dwindling Congregation of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Hungarian Reformed Church No Longer Able to Pay Township Cemetery Maintenance Fee

A 27 November 2013 The Tribune-Democrat editorial titled “A Matter of Grave Interest | Should Township Take Control of Cemetery?” reports that the Hungarian Reformed Church on Chestnut Street in the Cambria City section of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, has only fourteen congregants attending the twice monthly services, and the church is no longer able to pay the US$400 annual cost to maintain its cemetery in Richland Township.

The church’s pastor the Rev. Albert Kovacs (Calvin Synod) explains that the church is having financial difficulties and is unable even to adequately maintain the church building. He has asked the Richland Township supervisors to take over maintenance of the cemetery.

The Tribune-Democrat editorial does not think it appropriate that the township taxpayers pay the cemetery maintenance costs, and instead asks for any willing volunteers to agree to maintain the cemetery that is such an important part of the historical record of the region.

[Editor’s Note: If there are no volunteers to continue maintaining the cemetery, perhaps someone in the Calvin Synod community familiar with the social network fundraising tool GoFundMe can set up a possible means of meeting the cemetery maintenance costs.]

+ The Tribune-Democrat, 425 Locust Street, Post Office Box 340, Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15907, 814-532-5000, Newsroom@tribdem.com

+ Calvin Synod, C/O Stefan Torok, General Secretary, sctorok@comcast.net

+ GoFundMe, Contact Page

[3] Fourteenth Annual Reformed Congregational Fellowship Conference Scheduled for 25-27 March 2014 at the Wonderland Conference Center in Sharon, Massachusetts

The Fourteenth Annual Reformed Congregational Fellowship Conference is scheduled for 25-27 March 2013 at the Wonderland Conference Center in Sharon, Massachusetts.

The annual Reformed Congregational Fellowship conferences are born out of the conviction that creeds and confessions are vital to the fundamental health and security of the church. The upcoming conference will be engaging chapter 20 of the Savoy Confession, a thought provoking consideration of the Gospel and how, and to what extent, God’s grace makes it effectual for the conversion and salvation of sinners.

+ Reformed Congregational Fellowship

[4] RPTS Webinar “What Does Reformed Mean?” Scheduled 3 P.M. EST on Thursday 5 December 2013

Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary Adjunct Professor the Rev. John Tweeddale will present a webinar titled “What Does Reformed Mean?” on Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 3 p.m. EST. The webinar will present an overview of Reformed Theology. Click on the link below to connect to the webinar:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4771896212129545217

+ Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 7418 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15208, 412-731-8690, Fax: 412-731-4834, info@rpts.edu

+ Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA), 7408 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania15208, 412-731-1177, Fax: 412-731-8861

[5] The Reformed Apprentice Volume 2: A Workbook on the Doctrine of Scripture and Biblical Interpretation Available from The Puritan Shop

The Puritan Shop is now offering The Reformed Apprentice Volume 2: A Workbook on the Doctrine of Scripture and Biblical Interpretation by C. Matthew McMahon in electronic form for US$9.99 and in printed form for US$21.99 plus shipping.

C. Matthew McMahon is a Reformed theologian, adjunct professor at Whitefield Theological Seminary, and founder and chairman of A Puritan’s Mind.

This is the 2nd volume in the workbook series, teaching Reformed Theology in a simple but interactive manner. It covers the Doctrine of Scripture and the science of hermeneutics. The main purpose of the workbook is to come into a deeper knowledge and relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ as he has revealed himself to the church in his Word and by his Spirit through the centuries in Reformed Theology. The workbook quotes the early church fathers, the Reformers, the Puritans, and Reformed theologians in order to aid the Apprentice in understanding how the Bible is God’s Word, and how to interpret it both exegetically and practically.

There is nothing like this series of interactive workbooks anywhere in the Reformed community. It was created to engage the student of Scripture to be apprenticed under the teachers of Reformed Theology as a Reformed Apprentice.

+ The Puritan Shop, Contact Page

[6] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

— U.S. Centers for Disease Control: Sixty-Two Percent of Men Who Know They’re HIV Positive Have Unprotected Sex with Men

— Mom Offers to Sell House to Fund Daughter’s Suicide at Swiss ‘Clinic’

— Bombshell Study Finds Forty-Four Percent Increased Breast Cancer Risk for Women Having Abortions

— British Authorities Abduct Child from Mother’s Womb via C-Section

— Report: 1,100 Home Care Patients in England Dehydrated to Death since 2003

— Homosexual Men Push to End Thirty-Year Blood Donation Ban

— Cowardly Gulf Cartel Animals in Mexico Hang Two Teen Girls

— Obamacare “Death Panel” Mimics Hitler’s T4 Eugenics Program

— Couple Wins Suit, Doctor Didn’t Suggest Aborting Baby with Spina Bifida

— Expert Compares United Nations Goals to the Ten Commandments: Calls for Aggressive Population Control in Africa