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The Aquila Report is an independent web magazine for news and information from, for and about the Presbyterian Church in America and other churches in the Reformed community. The editor, Dominic Aquila, is a PCA minister and president of New Geneva Theological Seminary in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was moderator of the 34th PCA General Assembly (2006), the founding editor of the former PCANews.com

, and past editor of the Byfaithonline Newsletter. You will find current news and information about churches, people and events in the PCA and other churches. There will also be articles addressing issues of interest to the church. Watch for other features that will be introduced over time that will enhance your visits to this web magazine. Articles and news items may be submitted to [email protected]

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Our greatest need is to know God, love God, delight in God, and make much of God.Written by Darryl Dash | Thursday, Janu...
24/01/2025

Our greatest need is to know God, love God, delight in God, and make much of God.
Written by Darryl Dash | Thursday, January 23, 2025
It’s easy to think the world is out of control and our lives are random. When things are hard, it’s easy to stop believing in God and doubt if He’s real. Then Revelation 4 comes along and shows us what’s really happening in this world. God occupies the throne of heaven. He is infinitely beautiful and glorious. He is the center of all creation and is worshiped by angelic beings. There is nobody like Him. Nobody deserves our allegiance or worship other than Him. There’s nobody worth building our lives around other than Him.

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God has promised to conform all His children to the image of Christ.Written by Le Ann Trees | Thursday, January 23, 2025...
24/01/2025

God has promised to conform all His children to the image of Christ.
Written by Le Ann Trees | Thursday, January 23, 2025
Christians do need to obey God’s command to gather regularly with their fellow saints under the oversight of a faithful minister (1 Peter 5:2–3). This is the way God has ordered his church on earth so that his sheep are properly cared for and guarded from the snares of the evil one (Hebrews 13:17). You can be confident about your spiritual growth in Christ, because God is in control (Ephesians 1:11–12).

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What is the relevance for today of God’s ancient promises to Abraham?Written by O. Palmer Robertson | Thursday, January ...
24/01/2025

What is the relevance for today of God’s ancient promises to Abraham?
Written by O. Palmer Robertson | Thursday, January 23, 2025
The question for today is, Is an unbelieving Israelite “according to the flesh,” an heir of the promised blessing of righteousness? Is he a “justified” person, declared righteous by God so that all his sins are forgiven, without having personal faith in the sacrificial offering of Jesus Christ the Son of God?

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Moral relativists believe cultures and people groups create their moral codes rather than discover them.Written by J. Wa...
22/01/2025

Moral relativists believe cultures and people groups create their moral codes rather than discover them.
Written by J. Warner Wallace | Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Cultures may recognize and employ moral principles, but this doesn’t mean they created these principles. In fact, many scientists and philosophers are suspicious about any causal relationship between evolution and moral virtue. The evolutionary process often results in disharmony and strife; morality seems to require us to overcome the “evolved beast” in each of us.

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Like David in Psalm 8, we should look in awe towards our Creator.Written by Justin Puckett | Wednesday, January 22, 2025...
22/01/2025

Like David in Psalm 8, we should look in awe towards our Creator.
Written by Justin Puckett | Wednesday, January 22, 2025
It is important to build your understanding of the Trinity from the Scriptures, which are perfect, and not an external source, which is imperfect. Extra-biblical sources can be very helpful in explaining and understanding what the Bible teaches, but the foundation must be Scripture.

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If we are going to make progress in the world, we must make plans and keep them.Written by David S. Schrock | Wednesday,...
22/01/2025

If we are going to make progress in the world, we must make plans and keep them.
Written by David S. Schrock | Wednesday, January 22, 2025
What does God have for me on earth, while I await heaven? Or better, how I do God’s will on earth as it is in heaven. If that is the prayer Jesus teaches us to pray (Matt. 6:9), how then should we live? As new creations in Christ, how do we order our steps? Do we make plans like we did before Christ, only acknowledging Christ now? Or does our planning look entirely different?

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Reading the Bible with astonishment.Written by Seth Porch | Tuesday, January 21, 2025Astonishment receives God’s word wi...
21/01/2025

Reading the Bible with astonishment.
Written by Seth Porch | Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Astonishment receives God’s word with humility. We have no claim to our Creator’s words, no right, yet he speaks to us freely, opening his heart to us, showing us his character, inviting us to fellowship with him. By such gracious speech, he shatters our pride and sheds light on our dark ways.

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When we are willing to be honest, it lays the foundation for genuine repentance and change.Written by Brad Hambrick | Tu...
21/01/2025

When we are willing to be honest, it lays the foundation for genuine repentance and change.
Written by Brad Hambrick | Tuesday, January 21, 2025
As you get deeper into addiction, you get better and better at covering your tracks and deceiving other people. You believe your own lie that, “Things aren’t that bad.” You learn to hide your actions from family and healthy friends. You avoid God and the thought of God in every way you can. Honesty may sound simple and not complicated, but it may be the hardest part of recovery.

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Younger Americans are not learning how to stand on their own two feet.Written by Brad Littlejohn | Tuesday, January 21, ...
21/01/2025

Younger Americans are not learning how to stand on their own two feet.
Written by Brad Littlejohn | Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Many baby boomers removed the burden of social expectations and duties from their children (including the duty to provide grandchildren) in the name of freedom. But it turns out that there is no freedom to move in zero gravity—you just float aimlessly. By refusing to weigh their children down with norms and hard economic realities, parents have left them unable to stand at all on their own two feet.

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It is a text that captures the essence of the Christian life.Written by David Huffstutler | Wednesday, January 15, 2025A...
15/01/2025

It is a text that captures the essence of the Christian life.
Written by David Huffstutler | Wednesday, January 15, 2025
As we are transformed by the renewal of our mind (informed by Scripture and illuminated by the Spirit), we will be better able to discern and choose what God wants us to do and how to obey the instructions that follow this passage in Romans.

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Why not be positive at the start of the year?Written by Stephen Kneale | Wednesday, January 15, 2025I am grateful to be ...
15/01/2025

Why not be positive at the start of the year?
Written by Stephen Kneale | Wednesday, January 15, 2025
I am grateful to be in a church that values the Word. I am encouraged that, even when we disagree with one another (as we inevitably do sometimes), the question always boils back to this: what does the Word say?

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The Bible does not advocate a sit-back-and-wait model of godliness.Written by Andy Stearns | Wednesday, January 15, 2025...
15/01/2025

The Bible does not advocate a sit-back-and-wait model of godliness.
Written by Andy Stearns | Wednesday, January 15, 2025
The Pharisees famously attempted to carry out some of the practices of those who follow the Lord. Yet, while they honored God with their lips (and some actions), their hearts were far from God…When we engage in the externals of devoting ourselves to God, but we don’t actually love Him with our heart, soul, mind, and strength, we show false devotion.

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There can only be one God that is the source of all things: the God of scripture—the Great I Am.Written by Doug Eaton | ...
14/01/2025

There can only be one God that is the source of all things: the God of scripture—the Great I Am.
Written by Doug Eaton | Tuesday, January 14, 2025
In his book ‘None Greater’, Matthew Barret tells us that God is not a mere instance of divinity. He does not measure up to some standard of divinity that exists apart from him. This is not so for us humans and our human-ness. There is a category of being called human, and you and I are merely one example of that type of being. Divinity is not a category of being of which God is one example. God is divinity itself. He is God-ness itself (the “I Am’).

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To claim to know God’s love while refusing to let go of hatred betrays that we have not yet experiences the mercy and lo...
14/01/2025

To claim to know God’s love while refusing to let go of hatred betrays that we have not yet experiences the mercy and love of the Savior.
Written by Forrest McPhail | Tuesday, January 14, 2025
As we travel on life’s journey as believers in Jesus Christ, we learn more and more about what God’s love for us means. We increasingly understand what God has done for us through His love in Jesus. The temptation to hatred radically lessens, even if much pain still remains, as we realize more clearly the love and mercy of God toward us. For this reason, it is completely inconsistent with the Christian faith to hate anyone

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Hope is a strong preservative against the power and force of temptations. It guards the main part of a Christian, and ke...
14/01/2025

Hope is a strong preservative against the power and force of temptations. It guards the main part of a Christian, and keeps resolutions after God untouched and unmaimed.
Written by Hugh Binning | Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Now, my beloved, would you know the fountain and origin of these sweet and pleasant streams? It is the God of hope, and the power of the Holy Ghost. There is no doubt of power in God, to make us happy and give us peace. God is the chief object of hope, and the chief cause of hope in us too. Therefore we should look up to this fountain, for here all is to be found.

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How pastors finish well.Written by Ajith Fernando | Monday, January 13, 2025When you read Deuteronomy 33:27 — “The etern...
13/01/2025

How pastors finish well.
Written by Ajith Fernando | Monday, January 13, 2025
When you read Deuteronomy 33:27 — “The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms” — you find a solid foundation for security. Our identity in him takes away the shame that society, with its competitive ethos, inflicts upon us. For “those who look to him [daily] are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed” (Psalm 34:5).

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The problem for the church is not a culture to be fixed with a different moral ordering, but a spiritual problem of men ...
13/01/2025

The problem for the church is not a culture to be fixed with a different moral ordering, but a spiritual problem of men and women in need of reconciliation to God.
Written by Bruce A. Little | Monday, January 13, 2025
Looking and sounding like the world mutes the true spiritual difference between the world and the Christian message. The entire progressive project is an attempt to create an ethos within the church to address the problem of church attendance as if that was the first concern of the church. Now the music, the message, the mission are all choreographed to make people feel comfortable, that is at home.

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We have the supernatural gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ at work in our hearts.Written by Jamie Dunlop | Monday, January...
13/01/2025

We have the supernatural gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ at work in our hearts.
Written by Jamie Dunlop | Monday, January 13, 2025
I think consumerism particularly bites hard against God’s plan for a church made of people who share little in common other than Jesus Christ. The fact is that we have the gospel at work in our lives, and we want to show it off. It’s like you have the special edition Camaro. You don’t want to drive it twenty-four miles per hour in a subdivision. You want to take it on the track. You want to see it go.

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The Aquila Report is an independent web magazine for news and information from, for and about the Presbyterian Church in America and other churches in the Reformed community. The editor, Dominic Aquila, is a PCA minister and president of New Geneva Theological Seminary in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was moderator of the 34th PCA General Assembly (2006), the founding editor of the former PCANews.com, and past editor of the Byfaithonline Newsletter. You will find current news and information about churches, people and events in the PCA and other churches. There will also be articles addressing issues of interest to the church. Watch for other features that will be introduced over time that will enhance your visits to this web magazine. Articles and news items may be submitted to [email protected] Facebook comment policy: 1. Any foul, rude, or name calling language will be deleted. 2. Please keep comments on the topic of the article. Off topic comments, including those which bash the author will be deleted. 3. If you have a questions about post or about why a particular article has been posted, please send a private message or email the editor at [email protected]. 4. Repeated violations may result in users being banned from commenting.