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The Confessional Presbyterian Journal - Volume 20 (2024) is available. I have a review of Nathan Eshelman's I Have a Confession: the...

Five hundred years ago, covenant theology was born.  There were complications at the birth.  It would be simple to say that it happened...

There is a simple narrative which links the American revisions to the Westminster Confession of Faith’s chapters on the Liberty of...

Some years ago, I took friends on a brief tour from my folks' place in East Kilbride to see the battlefield at Drumclog. We never got...

In our text, the apostle is under a constraint to preach the gospel. From our reading (Galatians 1), it is clear that it is the gospel...

A sermon preached at a Communion Service in Chesley, ON, by the Rev. D. D. Gebbie. The readings were Psalm 103 and Romans 8. The text...

A SERMON ON HEBREWS 4:15. By the Rev. James MacLagan[i] FOR WE HAVE NOT AN HIGH PRIEST WHICH CANNOT BE TOUCHED WITH THE FEELING OF OUR...

“These lines are likely to go up to God from many millions of tongues for many generations: it were a pity but all possible diligence...

1. Matters in Westminster When the first nineteen chapters of what would later come to be known as the Westminster Confession of...

Early Reformation Covenant Theology: English Reception of Swiss Reformed Thought 1520-1555. Robert J. D. Wainwright. Phillipsburg: P&R,...

A personal reflection by D. D. Gebbie We declare the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms to be founded upon and agreeable to...

So, today, my wife wanted to show me something posted on Facebook by a friend of ours. In taking her phone from her, I, as I invariably...

At the 2022 Presbytery Meeting held in the Abe Martin Lodge at Brown State Park, Indiana, Dr James Hoffman and Mr Alexander Paunovic were...

In 1964, my family left East Kilbride to return to my folk’s home village of Cambuslang. We had outgrown our apartment and were moving...

In this year's Journal, I have a sermon on Luke 14: 12–24, "The Great Supper", on page 30; a review of The Whole Counsel of God, Volume...

Having spoken of the streams of which the Presbyterian Reformed Church is the confluence, it is time to speak of something which flowed...

The Presbyterian Reformed Church begins at the confluence of two streams. Usually, it is thought of as the coming together of two...

Doctrines do not evolve from a lungfish stage to that of homo sapiens sapiens. Their development is much more like a family tree. There...

The Presbyterian Reformed Church (PRC) is an indigenous North American denomination whose roots are in the Scottish Reformation. We...

John R. Bower. The Confession of Faith: a critical text and introduction. Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2020. Hardback. ...