We Value Adventure

The Gospel is the ultimate action adventure story.  When the Lord Jesus calls us to follow him he is calling us to join the adventure.
Good stories have happy endings.  But to enjoy the story one must pass through all the twists and turns of the plot.  A good author doesn’t tell you how things will [...]

We Value Redemptive Outreach

The world is sold to sin but God has bought it back in Christ.  The redeeming work of Christ works through his redeemed children to redeem the world.
Redemptive outreach happens when we evangelize those living under the slavery of sin; it also happens when we perform works of mercy to those feeling the pain of [...]

We Value our Gifts

Sometimes preachers and theologians speak of “the priesthood of all believers.”   That’s a fancy way of saying that God has tasks for all his children to perform.
But since those tasks are varied, he gives a variety of gifts to his children to perform those tasks.  And since he wants us to work together, he never [...]

We Value Spiritual Formation

When God saves us he does all the work.  But when he saves us he also begins a good work in us.
He uses Bible reading and prayer, Sabbath worship and communion, among other things, to perform that good work.  He uses these things to form us and make us more like our Lord and savior, [...]

We Value Worship

In our entertainment crazy culture it is easy to think that the church is just one more place to be entertained.  The seating does remind one of a theater, after all.
But precisely the reverse is true.  We are not the audience; we are the performers.  God is not entertaining us when we worship him – [...]

We Value the Fellowship of the Local Church

Generally, when people attend PCM they say it is a warm and inviting place.  We intend to keep it that way!
Some people think focusing on God and using your mind for his glory makes you cold and indifferent to people.  Precisely the opposite has happened to us!  Understanding God’s grace has made us so grateful [...]

We Value a Reasoned Faith

There’s been a lot of disagreement about the relationship of faith and reason over the last 2,000 years.  Some folks have a hard time keeping them together – but we don’t!
We think believing in God is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.  Indeed, we think God gave us our minds and he wants us to [...]

We Value the Gospel

The Gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ.  Lots of churches believe the Gospel; but we believe the Protestant Reformation recovered a precious insight into the heart of the Gospel.  That insight has been summarized in what has been called “The Five Solas”.  Sola means “alone”.  Here’s a summary of it:  Salvation is by [...]

What we value: Values?

Every Christian church believes in the core doctrines historically embodied in the Apostle’s and Nicene Creeds.  Traditional Presbyterian churches like ours subscribe to the Westminster Confession of Faith. But is that all that we can say about PCM?  What makes our church distinctive?  This list of values is an attempt to say some things about [...]