by Andy Patton | May 6, 2025 | PCA, Pinned Post
With General Assembly before us, I thought it might be helpful to steal a line from an Indiana Jones movie (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) and offer a challenge that may serve to encourage those who attend. In spite of the fact that our passions are often most...
by Andy Patton | Apr 25, 2025 | Worldview
Christine Gordon interviews Katie Polski about her ministry at Trinity Churcgh Kirkwood. Katie is a writer, Bible teacher, and speaker. She is married to Chris, a pastor at Trinity church in St. Louis, MO, and is a mother to three wonderful kids and one wonderful...
by Andy Patton | Apr 18, 2025 | Church
Most of us deliberately avoid talking about the worst things that have happened to us, especially the grisly details. But in telling the story of Jesus, the Gospel writers go out of their way to linger with them. For the thirty years between Jesus’ infancy and his...
by Andy Patton | Apr 4, 2025 | Christian Thought
“Do you have a head-knowledge of God or a heart-knowledge of God?” I can still remember a youth leader and mentor in high school asking me a question, if not verbatim, then very similar to this. This somewhat common distinction in evangelical circles, drove at a...
by Andy Patton | Mar 28, 2025 | Jesus Christ
I exhort the elders among you…shepherd the flock of God that is among you…clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another… 1 Peter 5:1, 2, 5 Many good books are available to help church leaders reflect on the multiple aspects of their roles and...
