This Day in Presbyterian History

December 29: John Boyd & The First Presbytery (1706)

With the settling of the American colonies, scattered congregations and groups of people ready to be gathered into churches, together with the small number of ministers anxious for mutual encouragement…

archivist 29 December, 2014

December 28: Sermon by Lardner Moore

We look today at a sermon delivered by the Rev. Lardner Wilson Moore, who was born on May 20, 1898, in Osaka, Japan. His father was the Rev. John Wallace Moore…

archivist 28 December, 2014

December 27: Rev. Robert Jefferson Breckinridge

Today's post is an excerpt from a longer article written several years ago for the PCA Historical Center by Dr. Barry Waugh. Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, a leading figure among Old…

archivist 27 December, 2014

December 26: Auburn, Machen, & the Virgin Birth

The Auburn Affirmation was first issued on December 26, 1923, in response to the action of the 1923 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. It was then published in its…

archivist 26 December, 2014

December 25: In Love, God Sent His Son

Tell Me the Old, Old Story — Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census…

davidtmyers 25 December, 2014

December 29: John Boyd & The First Presbytery (1706)

December 28: Sermon by Lardner Moore

December 27: Rev. Robert Jefferson Breckinridge

December 26: Auburn, Machen, & the Virgin Birth

December 25: In Love, God Sent His Son

April 8: Rev. Charles Ware Stewart

April 2: The Last Time the General Synod Met

March 26: Death of Rev. Lapsley

March 7: The Ordination of Theron Hawkes