Pastor's Corner A Repeating Story in the Bible: Human Oppression Followed by Divine Liberation The defining story in Judaism is the Exodus story, God’s liberation through Moses of the Israelites from their slavery to the Egyptian Empire. The defining story in Christianity is God sending Jesus the Messiah to be born in a Jewish outpost in the midst of the oppressive Roman Empire, and his good news proclamation of a new life-giving alternative to Rome and all other empires, which was a...

Pastor's Corner A Theological View of America’s 250th Birthday On July 4 of this year we celebrate America’s 250th birthday. On this occasion, I thought it might good to review the Biblical guidance on Christians’ proper relationship with their country and government. The two most important scriptures in attempting to answer this question are Romans 13 and Revelation 13. Romans 13 represents the apostle Paul’s positive view of the Roman government as “God’s servant for your good” (Romans...

Pastor's Corner I can’t recall another confession that uses the word love so many times... Special thanks to Dwight C. for bringing to our attention the new confession of faith being proposed at this year’s General Assembly. I was not aware until Dwight mentioned it that a new confession was even in the works. You can read the draft of the confession for yourself at https://www.pc-biz.org/search/3001517 . Like Dwight, I, too, would like to comment on parts of the confession that stood out...