AI enhancement helped us overcome an audio disaster (which we explain in the intro and allows us to share this conversaton with long-time ruling elder Melton Duncan and pastor Nick Bullock, who joined us for a review of the just-completed PCA in Chattanooga, TN and for a preview of the PCA study committees just instituted, including one on Christian Nationalism. Special thanks to Stephen Spinnenweber for allowing us to turn his luxury suite into Presbycast Studio Two for the week. Mel Duncan is ...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 19 min
RE Matt Fender discussses the actions of the overtures and assesses the tone and tenor of the proceedings on day zero of the PCA General Assembly, which officially opens on 6/24/2025. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq5FzYbaOng
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Live from the Presbaru—commentary on a former PCA minister's appeal to undo the action of accepting the Stated Clerk's retirement...and it comes at a very bad time, just days before the opening of the PCA General Assembly. Here's the article: https://theaquilareport.com/an-open-letter-to-my-beloved-presbyterian-church-in-america/
Jun 18, 2025•27 min
Dr. Neil Stewart has served churches in the ARP and PCA for the last 22 years and is currently the pastor of the historic Frist Presbyterian Church in Columbia, SC. He has contributed to a handful of theological magazines and books including A Pastor’s Heart, the Life and Ministry of Harry Reeder. You can access his excellent sermons here . If you like this show, you’ll love Greenville Seminary’s new podcast, the Dead Presbyterians Society. This podcast is built on a very simple conviction: in o...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr 50 min
Four PCA ministers join us to discuss the scintillating practices of minute-keeping, records review, and confessional subscription....and it was a hundred times more exciting than that sounds! Thanks to pastors Matt Adams, Jonathan Brooks, Ryan Biese, and Jason Piland. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzVZT9Hx1tU
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 36 min
This sermon was preached on 6/8/2025 by Dr. C.N. "Nick" Willborn, senior pastor at Covenant PCA, Oak Ridge, TN. We love to share teaching on worship, the church, and the offices since sermons on these subjects are somewhat rare. Dr. Willborn is widely considered to be an authority on the office of deacon and has written extensively on the subject. The opening music is an a capella verse of Psalm 150C from the Trinity Psalter Hymnal. https://www.covenant-pca.com/our-pastors...
Jun 09, 2025•38 min
PCA pastor and former GA moderator Fred Greco shares advice on important overtures to the upcoming assembly and provides a user's guide for new presbyters, spectators, or viewers of the assembly. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rlcSQQqKlU
May 30, 2025•1 hr 40 min
Pastors Scott Edburg and Jared Nelson of the Polity Matters podcast join us along with Presbygirl Zoe Miller to wade through a flood of overtures for the 2025 PCA General Assembly. See all the overtures here: https://pcaga.org/resources/#overtures Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3fCIE_0ncA
May 14, 2025•1 hr 23 min
Dr. Sean Morris, associate pastor of Covenant PCA of Oak Ridge, TN, preaches on the ascension from Acts 1:1-11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unk3QHXXUSw
May 09, 2025•31 min
Jeff Stivason has served Christ and his church as a gospel minister for the past 30 years. He currently pastors Grace Reformed Presbyterian Church in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, and teaches New Testament Studies at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He also serves on the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals board and as the editor of Reformation21. Check out his sermons here and his articles here and here . Also, listen to our RPCNA brothers sing Psalm 100 here . Brothers in ministry , G...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Pastor Stephen Spinnenweber joins us to talk about his new book "Loving the Law." The book can be found at many outlets, including the Christian Focus website: https://www.christianfocus.com/en-us/product/9781527112520/loving-the-law-paperback Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo2mC0nDmeY
May 02, 2025•1 hr 24 min
Pastor Chris Drew is our guide as we walk through Westminster Confession of Faith chapter 19, Of the Law of God. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxOWdAHeXLE CHAPTER 19 Of the Law of God 1. God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which he bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience, promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it, and endued him with power and ability to keep it. 2. This law, after his fall, c...
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 17 min
Our guest was Jonathan Landry Cruse, pastor of Community Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His authorial output is approaching 10 books (including What Happens When We Worship ) and his new book in the Christian Focus "Track" series, A Student's Guide to the Church . Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JyW97XTIrE...
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 20 min
Pastoral intern & proud son of the PCA Robert Hasler joins Sarah and Zoe to discuss the seeming decline of interest in traditional Protestantism and Presbyterianism, and how we might recover from this through a high view of the ordinary means of grace and ordinary faithfulness. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea5qDfR2Pxw
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 30 min
Pastors Joe Cristman and Zach Byrd, Presbygirl and pastor's wife Zoe, and Justen the fighter pilot-ruling elder help us assess some controversial new overtures that will come before the PCA General Assembly in June. See overtures 26-28 here: https://pcaga.org/resources/#overtures Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCGDD5HT3wg
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 31 min
Brad addresses the ByFaith/Barth article controversy and what it says about the past, present, and near future of the PCA. Here's an archived version of the removed Barth article—judge for yourself if it's helpful: https://web.archive.org/web/20250408203510/https://byfaithonline.com/karl-barths-doctrine-of-prayer/ And yes, the referenced 2008 article at ByFaith about Memorial Presbyterian's chapel ministry is still up: https://byfaithonline.com/goin-to-the-chapel-a-sanctuary-for-the-arts/...
Apr 09, 2025•34 min
Lowell Ivy is a long-time friend and fellow GPTS alum who pastored Reformation Presbyterian Church, an OPC church plant, in Virginia Beach, VA, for seven years until being called in 2024 to serve as the Executive Director of the PCA's Metanoia Prison Ministries. Lowell is uniquely suited for this role as the Lord wondrously converted him in prison while serving a 15-year prison sentence for armed robbery. He is a trophy of God's grace and a testament to the saving power of God's truth. You can l...
Mar 31, 2025•2 hr 9 min
Never have five persons had such a good time talking about the Trinity and how to promote the blessed doctrine in our churches. PCA ministers Sean Morris and Derrick Brite plus OPC minister and prolific author Harrison Perkins were our guests. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3c4Ha4S5n4
Mar 28, 2025•1 hr 22 min
Pastors Matt Adams and Scott Edburg joined us for a surprisingly salty first look at the 22 overtures to the PCA General Assembly received thus far. Track here: https://pcaga.org/resources/#overtures Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITATv8zYZ6M Substack article re: Christian Nationalism study committees: https://presbycast.substack.com/p/who-knows-about-christian-nationalism...
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 17 min
Our friend pastor Derrick Brite of Aliceville, AL preached this encouraging sermon from John 17 at Wayside Presbyterian Church (PCA), Signal Mountain, TN on 3/16/2025.
Mar 17, 2025•35 min
Dr. Ian Hamilton is Professor of Historical Theology at Westminster Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Newcastle, England, Adjunct Professor of Applied Theology at GPTS, a long time trustee of the Banner of Truth Trust, and a prolific author and speaker. He served as pastor of Loudoun Church of Scotland for twenty years before being called as the minister of Cambridge Presbyterian Church in England where he served for 17 years. You can find his books here and his sermons here . Fathers & B...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Ashes, ashes, we all...avoid being Erdmans! What about lent and Ash Wednesday and why are they a "thing" (if only a small thing) in Presbyterian and Reformed churches in the 21st century? We examine these questions with Dr. D.G. Hart (a scholar and OPC ruling elder), PCA pastor Jacob Gerber, and Kevin White, an ecclesially well-traveled polymath. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxIXlAFhUnI
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 26 min
Two young PCA pastors joined us to talk about the catechism they have produced on worship—private, family, and public. The sections will roll out over the coming weeks on Matt Adams' Substack: https://substack.com/@mdadams Watch: (skip forward several minutes due to technical difficulty) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUCBRvv03-w
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 38 min
PCA pastor Scott McDermand recounts his experience of working to reform the ministry of a small church...which just happens to be in the metropolis of Bad Axe in the thumb of Michigan. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgJ33CcrYkM
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 14 min
URCNA minister Rev. Brian Lee joins us to talk about pastoring in the challenging city of Washington DC (very near Capitol Hill) and his denominations new church planting manual which can be found here: https://www.urcna.org/file_retrieve/113352 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkcOE4y6CSk
Feb 12, 2025•1 hr 17 min
URCNA pastor Chris Gordon joins us to discuss his ongoing dialogue with Stephen Wolfe concerning living in exile as Christian citizens and church officers. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8FJCXQ9ntM Watch the original Abounding Grace Radio video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8FJCXQ9ntM
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 38 min
(You may need to delete and re-download the file—initial upload was partial.) David Gilbert is the Senior Pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Douglasville, GA. He also teaches preaching at GPTS, has written for Tabletalk Magazine and has become a regular on the American Reformed & Presbyterian conference circuit. You can listen to his sermons here. Special thanks to Nathan Clark George for our opening and closing instrumental. Nathan serves as the Pastor of Worship alongside Kevin DeYoung...
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 55 min
The Presbycast Radio Players stage a silly live radio remote from the fictional Xanders's Xian Lifestyle Store and then express their appreciation for their respective Reformed churches. Come for the fun, stay for the encouragement. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PGE6lFNWo
Jan 28, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Brad reads and expands upon his short Substack piece prompted by 1926 newspaper ads about dueling sermons from J. Gresham Machen and a Social Gospeler in St. Louis. Read the article and see the ads: https://presbycast.substack.com/p/a-presbyterian-historical-snippet . Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZf6pe7R5fU
Jan 20, 2025•30 min
Here's a sermon from Hebrews 13 on the offices from Dr. Nick Willborn of Covenant Presbyterian Church, Oak Ridge, TN , which preceded officer elections for the church. There is a lengthy introduction concerning Moses and Jethro from Exodus 18. There's also some good unaccompanied congregational singing of a psalm and hymn. Listeners may notice that the sermons we post generally concern ecclesiology or worship—two topics not often covered by preachers....
Jan 16, 2025•38 min
