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Joseph D. Small
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The Reverend Joseph D. Small has served as pastor, was the former director of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Office of Theology and Worship, and now serves as a consultant to the Presbyterian Foundation.
“All The Ministers Shall Meet Together”
When Martin
Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses on true repentance at the Wittenberg
Castle church in 1517, John Calvin was an eight-year-old French...
Orthodoxy at Stake
For over a century, a small gem has been embedded in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Book of Order: the “Great Ends of the Church.” Six great purposes of the church’s life – the life of every congregation and of the whole denomination.
Church and Culture
Clothes Make the Man (or the Woman)?
Do we still believe in the notion of the “preaching office” or the “pastoral office”? Or have we joined the ranks of so much American “free church” congregationalism that replaces the notion of “office” with that of mere “function”?
Sacraments
Can the Lord’s Supper Be “Online”?
The notion of “online Communion” has some real problems to it.
2020 Conference Keynotes
Jesus Christ is the Life – Part 2
Just how, as Christians, do we receive this life?
2020 Conference Keynotes
Jesus Christ is the Truth – Part 2
Confessing Jesus Christ as the way, the truth, and the life means he is not merely one truth among others. He is the truth by which all others are measured.