. . by Joe Renfro, EdD The Bible condemns complaining and discontent. Our society is being educated to chaos to a great extent because of this, that I pray we can get past. The concluding commanding of the Ten Commandment is against covetousness, and I Timothy 1:6 says that “Godliness with contentment is great gain.”  Discontent is destructive! Bible texts such as Matthew 5:44 relate to this attitude of discontent, where the Lord Jesus says: “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which ...

. . The upcoming June 2024 Presbyterian Church in America General Assembly (PCAGA) marks thirty years since the Rev. Dr. Edwin P. Elliott Jr. was censured on the floor of the 1994 PCAGA for reporting in the Christian Observer (CO) that “Concerned Presbyterians” told the CO of financial improprieties in regard to $5.8 million of designated funds for Mission to North America (MTA) and Mission to the World (MTW) that had been diverted to the Presbyterian Investors Fund (PIF), later Cornerstone Ministries Investments (CMI), for purposes other than for where the donations had been designated. To its credit, ...

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. . “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] Pastor Suspended as Pennsylvania Church Continues Fight to Leave Evangelical Presbyterian Church [2] ...

. . By Joe Renfro, Ed.D. We are living at a time of great conflict in the ideas battling it out, and the solution is not to seek to accommodate ideologies that cannot fit together. Vain deceit can never be true Colossians 2:8 well warns, saying: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”  This can apply to this situation! In the mist of the political chaos of our time, we need to gift of discernment to see what is evil and to take a ...