The Meaning of Reconciliation
1959 Christianity Today pieces on reconciliation: God reconciles sinners through Christ’s atoning death, linking reconciliation to justification and the sacraments.
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The Meaning of Reconciliation
Two Misplaced Stanzas
Short devotional pieces urging believers to guard, cleanse, and tenderize their hearts; critique hymnbook omissions and Marian invocations; affirm Christ's uniqueness and warn of sin's lasting effects.
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“This Congregation Sits About the Table”
Advocates placing the Lord’s Table centrally to express the priesthood of all believers and corporate communion, rejects chancel/altar elevation; warns of spiritual heart-trouble.
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Architecture Suited for Presbyterian Worship
New-Year prayer urges seeking heavenly things, repentance over worldly prosperity. Essay defends Presbyterian worship architecture, opposing pictorial altars and upholding preaching and sacraments.
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Builds According to Presbyterian Worship: Saves $10,000
Southern Presbyterian Journal (Oct 29, 1958) advocates Table-centered Presbyterian worship and historic architecture, urges sacrificial Christian living, and reports strong youth responses to Billy Graham.
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Calvin’s Tolerance and Intolerance
Argues America and the church need revival, listing spiritual maladies, then surveys Calvin's balanced tolerance—firm on doctrine yet conciliatory in practice.
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The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Argues for the bodily resurrection of Jesus as a historical, sensory-attested event central to the kerygma, salvation, and Christian hope of future resurrection.
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Preaching Jesus Christ and Him as Crucified: Baccalaureate Sermon Delivered at the Fortieth Anniversary of His Graduation from Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia
Sermon urging preaching Jesus Christ crucified as the true gospel—salvation by His incarnation and atoning death, granted by the Spirit as faith. Warns against substituting human wisdom for Christ.
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The Headship of Christ
Defends the sole headship and kingship of Christ over the Church, asserts Scripture as the unique rule for faith and worship, and affirms the Church's independence from state control.
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The Distinctions God Has Made Equality: Modernistic or Calvinistic?
Journal criticizes religious modernism, defends Calvinist theology and traditional gender roles and church order, and protests TV censorship of a Martin Luther film.
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In the New Testament We Find Female Missionaries, But Not Women Elders
Advocates Bible-centered preaching and Presbyterian polity: upholds Scripture's authority, affirms women as missionaries but argues there is no scriptural warrant for women elders.
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The Reformed Doctrine of the Bodily Resurrection of Christ
Defense of the bodily resurrection of Jesus as a historical, physical event central to the gospel. Argues the resurrection grounds justification, eyewitness testimony, and Christian hope.
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The Sufficiency of Scripture and Women Elders
Affirms the sufficiency of Scripture to rule out women elders, citing Pauline texts and the Book of Church Order. Emphasizes the church’s primary mission to preach the Gospel, not act as social experts.
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A Biblical Study of the Place of Women in the Church
Biblical study of women's place in the church: affirms the church's divinely-ordained offices, notes women's biblical service but limits on authoritative roles, and unity in Christ.
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The Sword of the Spirit Which Is the Word of God
The Holy Spirit accompanies and empowers the preached Word and the sacraments; faith comes by hearing, and baptism and Eucharist serve as means by which God quickens and seals believers.
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The Use of Pictures of Jesus for Worship
Editorial urges Christians to support fiscal responsibility and warn against reckless national debt. Also: a Reformed critique of using Jesus' pictures in worship and a defense of Christ's bodily resurrection.
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The Kingship of Christ and the Plan of Union in Our Book of Church Order and in the Form of Government
Southern Presbyterian Journal defends justification by God's free grace and Christ's kingship, critiquing the 1954 Plan of Union for departing from Westminster standards and church order.
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It Is God That Justifieth
A 1954 Presbyterian article affirms justification as God’s free act through Christ’s righteousness, not human merit. It upholds the Confession and Christ’s kingship within Presbyterian order.
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An Open Letter
1953 Southern Presbyterian Journal urging strong Bible preaching and affirming Christ's sole kingship over the church; defends Westminster standards, Book of Church Order, and Presbyterian union principles.
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The Church Union Issue
Southern Presbyterian Journal rejects a Plan of Union with the USA church, warning it undermines Christ's sole lordship, ordination vows, and congregational property. It also urges prayer for Korea and warns against pride.
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