At the 41st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America this past June, during the presentation of the Study Committee Report on Insider Movements, the hottest issue was the concern of the use of “Allah” for God and the possible confusion or identity of the God of the Bible with Allah of the Quran. 

The material immediately below is taken from the volume, REFORMED MEANS MISSIONAL: FOLLOWING JESUS INTO THE WORLD. This volume was compiled by the WRF and will be published by New Growth Press in mid-August, 2013. New Growth's website is here - http://www.newgrowthpress.com/

Recent allegations of sexual abuse and cover-up within a well known international ministry and subsequent public statements by several evangelical leaders have angered and distressed many, both inside and outside of the Church.

The material immediately below is taken from the volume, REFORMED MEANS MISSIONAL: FOLLOWING JESUS INTO THE WORLD. This volume was compiled by the WRF and will be published by New Growth Press in mid-August, 2013. New Growth's website is here - http://www.newgrowthpress.com/

Remember a few weeks ago how North Korea’s current Dear Leader, Kim Jung Un, threatened to launch a nuclear war against South Korea and even the United States?

Theological training is becoming more impersonal than ever before.  We can submit applications to institutions online and once enrolled we can submit our assignments online.  Online theological courses offer immense scope to those seeking to upgrade their education. 

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Latin America is not known as a bastion of Reformed thinking.  Woody Lajara and I were in Costa Rica at the end of January for a week of teaching Pauline epistles in San Jose.  For the past three or four years we have been using  III Millennium study courses produced by WRF member Richard Pratt in Orlando, Florida,

Last week, the Supreme Court issued rulings that boosted the cause of same sex marriage by a 5-4 decision, and ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional.

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Last Sunday’s New York Times published, “The Gospel According to Me,” an Opinionator blog critiquing America’s spiritual quest for “the authentic self” as ultimately selfish and one that dead-ends at cynicism.

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When ‘no’ means ‘yes’.

If we say that there is no possibility of something happening, how does this develop into a situation where it does happen? Only by torturing language and allowing ‘no’ to become ‘yes’.

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Rob Bell spoke, back in March, at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. In response to a question about gay marriage he said,  "I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. I think the ship has sailed and I think the church needs -- I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are."

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Like many other evangelical and Reformed Christians (both in the United States and around the world), I disagree with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions which seem to recognize both the legal and the moral legitimacy of gay marriage.