http://opc.org/feature.html Recent Featured Articles en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 00:02:01 EDT Copyright 2007-2008 Orthodox Presbyterian Church Orthodox Presbyterian Church http://opc.org/feature.html?feature_id=57 Summertime in the church means more than church picnics and swatting mosquitoes in the parking lot after evening services. It also means VBS--vacation Bible school. Many Orthodox Presbyterian churches have their planning down to flow charts with folks volunteering for the same job year after year. Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 EST http://opc.org/feature.html?feature_id=57 http://opc.org/feature.html?feature_id=56 The Bible is the church's prize possession. In it we find the good news of salvation. In it we learn about God and his dealings with people down through the centuries. And in it we find instruction and encouragement for our lives. But the Bible is more than a book of important spiritual information. It is the very Word of God (Heb. 4:12). This means that God has uttered the words written in the Bible. "God," we are told, "spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets" (Heb. 1:1). Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EST http://opc.org/feature.html?feature_id=56 http://opc.org/feature.html?feature_id=55 Which is it--reformed or reforming? The church is at its best when it is both. Even in modern America, with its ethical relativism, radical individualism, and menu of religious choices, people are interested in a Reformed church. One reason is that "Reformed" communicates that there is something fixed and unchanging about who we are because we serve a God who has given us his infallible, sufficient Word. "Reforming," on the other hand, suggests that we recognize that we are fallible in interpreting that Word. We are ever in need of renewing, reevaluating, and deepening our knowledge of Scripture. As children of the Reformation, then, we must ever be both reformed and reforming. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://opc.org/feature.html?feature_id=55 http://opc.org/feature.html?feature_id=54 On the sixth day, God contemplated his finished creation in its vast splendor and saw that it was "very good" (Gen. 1:31). But he did not yet see the "very best." That was because even before he created, God had decreed that "the best of all possible worlds" was not to be at the beginning, but rather at the end of history. That, too, was why he made Adam and Eve to be his image bearers--to give them the privilege and responsibility, unique among his creatures, of working for their Creator-Lord and so to bring the creation to its intended consummation. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://opc.org/feature.html?feature_id=54