Tim Bayly
After ten years in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and twenty in the Presbyterian Church in America, Bayly joined Evangel Presbytery. Resigning his call to Trinity Reformed Church in 2022, he's presently teaching in New Geneva Academy. Married 48 years, Tim and his wife, Mary Lee, have five children, many grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
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Churches need elders: both down and up
Churches aren’t buildings but people, so conflict is no surprise. Scripture recounts an abundance of conflict within the New Testament church, but notice what these conflicts accomplished: [W]hen you come together in church, I hear that schisms exist among you;... read more
UK Brother David Skinner wins at court; thanks Pres Trump & VP Vance
Over in the United Kingdom, godly preachers of righteousness are thanking President Trump and Vice President Vance for publicly shaming UK civil authorities over their censorship and judicial persecution of Christian witness against the ongoing UK genocide against... read more
Jesus and Jewish nationalism
NOTE TO THE READER: This article is an effort to open up the nature of the Kingdom of God brought in by Jesus through His death and resurrection, doing so by opening up the kingdom of God that our Lord Jesus refused to bring in despite pressure from everyone to... read more
Joel & Judy Linton: Christianity in Taiwan
Joel and Judy Linton, missionaries and church planters in Yilan County, Taiwan, join Pastor Tim Bayly. Judy recounts the immense suffering her family endured at the hands of political operatives by Chiang Kai-shek. She shares her own harrowing experience of being... read more
Christian nationalists and sacramental nominalism
The pursuit of earthly kingdoms and power in the Name of Christ was on full display across the medieval world presided over by Rome The more familiar one becomes with today’s Christian nationalists, the more apparent is the tendentiousness of their version of... read more Pacifism, Military Conscription, and American Hegemony
Jürgen von Hagen, pastor and former professor of economics at the University of Bonn, again joins OOOM to discuss pacifism, military conscription, and the impact of global economics on the spread of democracy around the world. How should Christians serve their... read more
Tony Gonzalez: adultery, death, and repentance
This is a followup to my recent comments on socials concerning the adultery committed by Texas Rep. Tony Gonzalez which resulted in the self-immolation of the adulteress—leaving her husband a widower and her eight-year-old son motherless. Quoting Gonzalez’s... read more
Let us now praise God for J. K. Rowling, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and John Kluge
Eight years ago, John Kluge was fired for refusing to call his students by their preferred pronouns. John was a former member of our congregation who moved up to Indianapolis, joined Clearnote Church (Evangel Presbytery), and took a job as a music teacher in a public... read more Immigration: Who Is My Neighbor?
We are all in the habit of putting obedience to God on a shelf when our political commitments come into play. We refuse to acknowledge the way our political affiliations corrupt our obedience. Few things expose this tragic truth more than our contempt for immigrants... read more