Our culture has accepted two huge lies: The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear them or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate. Rick Warren
Thinking About Pastoral Ministry?
I thought I would put a plug out there for our Greyfriars’ Hall: Ministerial Training School. We have openings and if you’re qualified, we still have time to accept you. You should know that the workload is prodigious. Students read at least a book a week, meet with various pastors, work alongside ministers, meet with […]
Christian Education
CREC churches share a deep commitment to the pursuit of Christian education. We are convinced that the world must be understood in a distinctively Christian way, and young saints are to be trained up into that way of thinking about it. The reason the world must be understood in a Christian way is because the […]
Tatoos
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a comment on what we wear and how we dress. I included a comment near the end about tattoos being something we wear and forgot to add the link. Here you go. I don’t know anything about the web site in general, I just liked what they had to […]
Child Communion
At the very center of the strong family emphasis that you will find in our churches, you will also find our practice of communing our children at the Lord’s Table. This is unusual in Protestant churches, and in some places it is even controversial, so here are a few words of explanation. Children have their […]
Church Membership
Because we live in a casual and breezy age, many Christians are unfamiliar with the idea of a covenanted church membership. CREC churches usually have a formal membership roster, and for some this may require a brief explanation. The biblical basis for this is found in Hebrews 13:7, 17. Verse 7 speaks of Christian “rulers” […]
Wine in Communion
Most people come to our churches from the broader evangelical world. If you grew up Roman Catholic or Lutheran, you are accustomed to the use of wine in communion. But if you ‘come to one of our services from an evangelical or Baptist background, the use of wine can be quite a surprise. And because […]
Optimism About the Future of the Church
A doctrinal emphasis that you are very likely to find in CREC churches is, oddly enough, a doctrinal point that is not actually required by any of our approved doctrinal statements. When it comes to the question of eschatology (what will happen at the end of the world), the only thing that the universal Church […]
Biblical Sermons
There is an old joke among preachers that sermonettes are for Christianettes. Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. The Scriptures are our life. Believing what we do about the absolute authority of the Bible, it only makes sense that the sermon would be […]