Moderator’s Articles
Who Are We?
By: Nathan M. Frazier, Ph. D. Our Scottish roots tap into the powerful Reformation emphases on grace, the Puritan attentiveness to the affections of the heart, and evangelical zeal for the revival of Church and nation. This identity of fierce piety and fervent...
The Need to Consider the Ancient Paths
As I begin to write today, the Supreme Court of the United States has just announced the ruling in the case of Obergefell v Hodges, the matter of homosexual marriage. The public reaction has been predictable. For my part, I am impressed again of the need to hear and...
Insight for Hopeful Ministry Today
The Motivation of Pentecost by Matt Lucas Gospel ministry in the church is an impossible task. The church is comprised exclusively of sinners. We are broken, weak, and corrupt. As we minister to one another, we discover wounded souls filled with pain, bitterness,...
Fresh Insight from Ancient Paths
It is my privilege, duty, and honor to participate in a deeper way in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. In these months since being elected moderator, I have had opportunity to attend many committee and board meetings. Up-close, I have seen the work being...
Gratitude and the Imprint of God
By Lee Shelnutt I have been asked to write on the role gratitude plays in our reflection of God’s imprint. As I do so, I am sitting in a local coffee shop with a large cup of this magic elixir we call coffee. I am looking out at the bustle of 21st century Americana...
Protector of the Imprint
Love is the Father's imprint Which cancels all my fear; Love remakes me like Jesus, And love draws me near. Character is Jesus' imprint Upon any the Father calls; His mark is everlasting And that one never falls. The Spirit imprints holiness In a life born...
Imprint of Christ on Our Lives
“As those marked eternally with the Father’s love, Jesus’ character, and the Spirit’s holiness and fruit, we have the privilege and responsibility to make His imprint on our world today.”
Marked for Eternity
By: Larry Littlejohn When I originally thought aboutGod's eternally imprinting His own,Revelation 22:3-4 came to mind: No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his...
Empowered By The Holy Spirit
It was the 1940s, writes Ron MacDonald in the current issue of Friends Journal. “My white father who lived in Arkansas was visiting Michigan for a Methodist conference when he found his assigned roommate was a black man. Outraged, he thought about requesting a...
A Ghost in the Family
Have many of you thought much about the third person of the Trinity?