New Category/Topic: Preaching

’ve added a new category to the website: Preaching.
I preach occasionally at our church and have recently come to be more interested in what it means to preach Biblically, clearly, and to the heart. It’s not completely outside of the realm of this website, either, given that it is an integral part of the [...]

PCA General Assembly Worship Services – Closing Thoughts

ver the past few weeks, I’ve posted several reviews of the worship services at General Assembly. I appreciate the comments and discussion that those posts have inspired. A few closing thoughts today:

As I’ve stated in a couple of venues, I think the variety that the Central Florida Presbytery brought to the worship services [...]

PCA General Assembly Worship Services – Worship Service 2

he second worship service, held on Wednesday, June 17, was called “A Renewed Church”. Music was led by musicians from Christ Kingdom Church, University Presbyterian, Willow Creek Presbyterian and Laura Story Elvington, a guest artist from Perimeter Church in suburban Atlanta.
We sang the following hymns/songs:

Awesome is the Lord Most High

Words and Music: Cary Pierce, [...]

PCA General Assembly Worship Services – Service 1

uesday evening’s worship service was entitled “A Renewed Church Leadership”, going along with the theme for the week, “All Things New”. Music was led by the combined musicians of Orangewood Presbyterian in Maitland, Florida and Seven Rivers Presbyterian in Lecanto, Florida (as well as assembly organist Larry Roff leading us on a couple of [...]

PCA General Assembly Worship – General Reflections

ast week, I attended the 2009 General Assembly of my denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America. This year’s assembly was held in sunny Orlando, Florida at the Coronado Hotel and Convention Center at Walt Disney World. (It’s worth pointing out that the choice of Disney World was made several years ago, long before [...]

Skye Jethani on tactics

kye Jethani asks whether we are that different from the Crusaders in his new book, The Divine Commodity:
When Christians with a consumer consciousness try to wrap their imaginations around such a large undertaking [as the Great Commission], they will automatically think about products or corporations that have impacted the world and emulate the same methodologies. [...]