Presbyterian Mission Agency god's grace Archives

Being good stewards of God’s grace

Posted June 24th, 2022

Presbyterians who agree to serve God and their congregations as ruling elders or deacons sometimes find they had little idea what they’ve gotten themselves into.

Getting ourselves out of a mess

Posted June 23rd, 2021

Sounds like the same old same old, doesn’t it? God’s people, called the “chosen ones,” are somehow unable to live faithfully in gratitude to God in spite of God’s love, grace and care for them. The psalmist attempts to voice God’s bounty and God’s faithfulness as well as God’s frustration that they cannot seem to embrace the values of the One who gave them life and who has promised to sustain them. Over and over again they become a disappointment. They are tempted by the “gods” of the cultures in which they find themselves, forgetting the source of the true freedom they have been given as God’s own children.

‘No Longer Shall They Teach One Another: The End of Theological Education’

Posted May 6th, 2021

The Rev. Dr. Ted A. Smith, Professor of Preaching and Ethics in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, presented the fourth and final 2021 Sprunt Lecture Wednesday, hosted by Union Presbyterian Seminary. The final virtual lecture was followed by a Q&A session on the overall lecture theme “No Longer Shall they Teach One Another: The End of Theological Education.”

Showing God’s grace in tangible ways

Posted December 1st, 2020

When the Rev. Dr. Fairfax Fair began her ministry at First Presbyterian Church of Pasadena (Texas), a city bordering Houston, on Dec. 1, 2019, she had a few scant months to see church members before the global pandemic shut everything down.

Everyday epiphanies

Posted January 23rd, 2018

The word “epiphany” (from the Greek epiphaneia or theophaneia) means “appearance” or “manifestation” of God, and has roots in the word for sunrise or dawn. In our lives of faith, some epiphanies are dramatic and send our lives down a different path. Others are subtler, even commonplace, and influence how we see ourselves and the world. Either way, whether God whispers to us or knocks us for a loop, we are in for a change.