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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 ReformedContinue reading “Discipleship in the Reformed World”

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,Continue reading “Church Planting, the End Game of the Great Commission”

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,Continue reading “Vanguard Presbytery Calls for First General Assembly “

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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 theContinue reading “Church Power and Committees”

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 spiritualContinue reading “Pressing onto Maturity”

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. ItContinue reading “Shall the Westminster Confession be Amended?”

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. ItContinue reading “Vanguard Presbytery: Is Hyper-Cessationism a Fair Term? Part Two”

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 anyContinue reading “What is a Hyper-Cessationist?”