December 4: 1st General Assembly of the PCA
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the organization of the Presbyterian Church in America. The denomination's First General Assembly met December 4-7, 1973. Policy wonks can view the Minutes…
December 3: An Ordination in 1870
December 3, 1870, and You Are There. A nice review in a newspaper of the time, covering an ordination in a Presbyterian church, not quite one hundred fifty years ago.…
December 2: Rev. C. C. Jones
A Martyr in His Missionary Zeal to Evangelize Blacks We hear much in this twenty-first century about the treatment of blacks before the Civil War. And the fact that slavery…
December 1: Thornwell, on the Necessity of the Atonement.
Mercy Gives Rise to Atonement. An important sermon by the Southern Presbyterian pastor and professor, James Henley Thornwell. The text of this sermon, as originally printed, was 72 pages long…