Articles by Vanguard Presbyterian Church
Discipleship in the Reformed World
The following article was written by a minister in Vanguard Presbyterian Church, TE Ryan Denton, who is ordained as an evangelist. This article first appeared on Reformation 21. When I was a Southern Baptist pastor, all I heard about was discipleship. It was their “thing,” almost to a fault. When I moved into the Reformed…
Church Planting, the End Game of the Great Commission
The following article was written by TE Al Baker, an evangelist who serves in that capacity with Vanguard Presbyterian Church and with Reformed Evangelistic Fellowship. It encapsulates what I have contended about evangelism in the Scripture, that such evangelism had the endgame or goal of planting New Testament churches. The modern church, in my opinion,…
Vanguard Presbytery Calls for First General Assembly
Vanguard Presbytery was birthed on February 6, 2020 with the reception of two ministers, TE Dewey Roberts and TE Michael Frazier. The congregation of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Destin, FL soon voted to follow their pastor, TE Roberts, into Vanguard Presbytery. Other congregations and pastors began to follow and Vanguard held a Convocation in Nashville,…
14th Stated Presbytery Meeting
Morning Worship Sermons and Season of Prayer available on SermonAudio and the link below
REF Disaster Relief
click the link to view a slideshow of the Disaster and Relief Response in Tennessee and western North Carolina from hurricane Helene
Church Power and Committees
The 1879 Book of Church Order of the PCUS gave a definition of church power that is exactly the same as can be found in many more recent BCO’s, including those of the PCA and Vanguard Presbyterian Church, to wit: “The power which Christ has committed to His Church vests in the whole body, the rulers and the…
Pressing onto Maturity
One of my favorite books is Learning in Christ’s School by Ralph Venning, a Puritan who was a lecturer at St. Olave’s Church in the Southwark borough of London until he was forced out in 1662 by the Act of Uniformity. In this book, Venning masterfully covers the growth of Christians through the various stages of spiritual…
Shall the Westminster Confession be Amended?
One of the primary matters that led to the formation of the Presbyterian Church in America in 1973 was the adoption of the Confession of 1967 by the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS). That Confession was a hodgepodge of liberalism, neo-orthodoxy (or, modernism), and social justice. It left out many important points of theology. It…
Vanguard Presbytery: Is Hyper-Cessationism a Fair Term? Part Two
By Ryan Denton I am encouraged by the amount of interest my article on hyper-cessationism has received (link article). It has reinforced my suspicion that the Reformed world is hungry for warmer expressions of orthodoxy, and that our spark has been waiting for us all along in the original material of the 16th and 17th centuries. It…
What is a Hyper-Cessationist?
The following article was written by TE Ryan Denton, the organizing pastor for the Lubbock Reformed Church (Vanguard Presbytery) in Lubbock Texas. It was also printed recently on Reformation21. What is a Hyper-Cessationist? As a capital “R” Reformed person, I would call myself a cessationist. This simply means that I believe God has “ceased” giving any…
The Federal Vision and Sin
My wife and I have recently started reading through J. C. Ryle’s Holiness, one of the greatest Christian books of all-time in my opinion. In his first chapter on “Sin,” Ryle wrote: “People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.…
The Gospel According to Progressives
One of the problems facing Christians today is that progressives have subtly deleted important doctrines from the gospel to supposedly make it more palatable to modern man. Those deleted doctrines are not enumerated by them, so Christians have to pay careful attention to their pastors in order to identify their errors. These modern progressives still…
Prayer Meetings
The following article was submitted to me by Vanguard Presbyterian Church evangelist, TE Ryan Denton, who is the organizing pastor of the Lubbock Reformed Church in Lubbock, Texas and has also been instrumental in assisting the startup of several other churches in Texas and New Mexico—particularly in Clovis, New Mexico; Midland, Texas; and. Roswell, New…
Groundskeeping
July 2024 Devotional: Groundskeepingby Dr. Joshua LightTeaching Elder, Vanguard Presbyterian Church “That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things…
Every Believer an Evangelist
When John Murray was professor of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA, he was once asked by a student if there were any verses that taught every believer is to be a witness for Christ. Murray certainly could have answered that question immediately, but it was his custom to give carefully considered answers. Thus, he…
Pastoral Job Posting
Below is the Pastoral Job Posting from Eastern Heights Presbyterian Church in Bristol, Tennessee. Email: EHPCPulpitCommittee@gmail.com
Biblical Conflict Resolution
The following article on “Biblical Conflict Resolution” was written by the newest minister to transfer into Vanguard Presbytery, TE William (Bill) Hill, pastor of Providence Presbyterian Church in Evansville, Indiana. His subject, and particularly his use of Matthew 18:15-18, is about the most basic principle of church government found in the Scripture. Sadly, it is also…
Why Vanguard is New Side, not Old Side
Vanguard Presbytery as a denomination is decidedly and unashamedly New Side and Old School in our views. Every officer in Vanguard Presbytery is required to affirm their agreement with the New Side Presbyterians of the 18thcentury and and Old School Presbyterians of the 19th century. denomination. The Old School—New School division of the 19th century and is…
Defending Biblical Creation
youtube Series by Rev. Jeff Sheely and Grace Presbyterian Church in Hanover, Pennsylvania
No Exceptions, No Executive Committees, No BCO Changes
When I realized back in 2018 that it was going to be necessary to start a new denomination, one of the first things I did was to study what went wrong with the PCA, the PCUS, and other reformed denominations. If we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.…
Spiritual Mysticism Entering the Church
Here are articles and video interviews that Gwendolyn Rodriguez has been involved in. The last one is the most recent. It was only a couple weeks ago but has over 15 thousand views on YouTube. “I highly encourage you to read Silent God Silent Man to know what is going on in Evangelicalism — perhaps even in…
Does God Foreordain Evil and Evildoers?
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 23, number 20, May 16, 2024. I am the Lord, and there is no other, the One forming light and creating darkness, causing well being and creating calamity. I am the Lord who does all these, Isaiah 45:7. The attacks of 9/11, killing nearly three thousand people, were acts of…
Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a term that originated in the 1980s. It is built upon the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Friedrich Hegel and his best known disciple, Karl Marx. CRT makes what they call race the lens through which they analyze all aspects of American life. There are…
Update on Our Progress
Vanguard Presbytery met at Eastern Heights Presbyterian Church for its Spring meeting on April 19, 2024. Dr. Rick Light is the pastor of the host church. There were many family members and guests who were there for the meeting, though several ministers and ruling elder commissioners were unavoidably absent. Overall, the meeting was, in the…
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