Home Missions ~ 2025 Thank Offering
The Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension (CHMCE) supports congregations and presbyteries of the OPC as they seek to make new disciples and establish new congregations. At the end of 2024, the OPC had three hundred established…
Even More Trouble with Aging
When we are younger, we tend to breeze through life with naivety and a lack of awareness. Of course, there can be young people who are wise and mature beyond their years, but with the passing years of life comes gained life experience…
Christian Education ~ 2025 Thank Offering
This week’s video features the work of Christian Education. Your giving to Worldwide Outreach will assist the Committee on Christian Education as they assist in ministerial instruction and training and produce New Horizons, the monthly magazine of the OPC…
The Trouble with Aging
Over the last two weeks, we have been considering what I call the “8 Ds of Aging”—eight different struggles we experience as we age, progressing through this journey called life in a fallen world. They are: Dissatisfaction, Disorientation, Discouragement, Dread…
Foreign Missions ~ 2025 Thank Offering
This week’s video features the work of Foreign Missions. Your giving to Worldwide Outreach assists the Committee on Foreign Missions as they send missionaries to plant churches and presbyteries and train pastors all over the world…
The 8 Ds of Aging
Last week, we considered four realities that every person might experience in their life as they get older: dissatisfaction, disorientation, discouragement, and dread. At some point, you will lose the expectancy, vibrancy, hopefulness, and courage of your youth…
Am I Old Enough for a Midlife Crisis?
It was a warm, sunny afternoon, and I was walking through the center of downtown as I often do. A beautifully refurbished classic muscle car pulled up to the red light, with music blasting and its convertible top down. In the driver’s seat sat an older man, probably in his late 50s…
What Is Will Never Always Be
It was 5:30pm at the end of a very normal mid-week workday. I was just about to leave my office when I got a call from my brother, Tedd. Tedd is a very level person. If plan A doesn’t work, he is always able to conceive plan B and C all the way to triple Z. He seldom seems distressed or out of sorts…
Strangers at Christmas Dinner
It was Christmas Day in the Tripp household. I wish I could say it was Christmas of last year, or even five years ago, but it must have been 20 years in the past now. We had just finished our wonderful Christmas Day feast, consuming more food than any one family should eat in a single sitting (though we tried)…