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December 7: Concluding their First General Assembly (1973)

New Church Sends Communication to All Christian Churches It was at the close of the First General Assembly of what was originally named the National Presbyterian Church (a year later, renamed…

Wayne Sparkman 7 December, 2018

December 6: Day 3 of that First General Assembly

The first General Assembly of the National Presbyterian Church, as it was initially named, took place in Birmingham, Alabama, December 4-7, 1973. On their third day of business, the Assembly…

Wayne Sparkman 6 December, 2018

December 5: Day Two of the PCA’s First General Assembly

The First General Assembly of the National Presbyterian Church (i.e., the PCA) by Rev. David T. Myers As the newly formed denomination met that December in 1973, there was much…

Wayne Sparkman 5 December, 2018

December 3: The First Covenant Subscribed (1557)

“The first godly band” by Rev. David T. Myers A covenant can most easily be thought of as a contract between God and man. As Presbyterianism was gaining ground in…

Wayne Sparkman 3 December, 2018

November 30: Jonathan Parsons

One More Presbyterian Minister Stands for Liberty by David T. Myers. “Men of America,” the Presbyterian minister in Massachusetts preached, “citizens of this great country hanging upon the precipice of…

Wayne Sparkman 30 November, 2018