The Present Emergency

ABOUT THE MESSAGE:

“The Present Emergency and How to Meet It” was the title of the first radio recording in a series of talks from J. Gresham Machen to the American public. This message, when heard alongside his inaugural lecture as a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, gives us a sense of Machen’s unwavering convictions. In this lesson, Dr. Nichols explains how, despite change, Machen’s answer to present emergencies was the Bible and its message.

ABOUT THE SERIES:

In 1923, J. Gresham Machen wrote his classic work Christianity and Liberalism. Machen understood that he lived in a time that needed answers. People needed to know the fundamental doctrinal convictions of Christianity in an age of compromise. Modernism was threatening the church, and liberals within the church were seeking to accommodate it, calling into question bedrock doctrines of the faith. In this teaching series, Dr. Stephen J. Nichols reminds us of who Machen was, why his book is still important, and how it teaches us that there is only one true, uncompromising Christian faith.