Live from the raucous MORE in the PCA ruling elder gathering of several hundred presby souls, we speak to our good friends Aldo Leon, Dominic Aquila, WCF Linux, and Scott Edburg about the 2022 PCA General Assembly.
Day Zero? Yes, because much of the important business of the PCA General Assembly happens the day before the GA opens. Our panel were not, ahem, a bunch of zeroes: Charlie Nave, Scott Edburg, Job Dalomba, and Stephen Spinnenweber joined us to reflect on the fate of important SSA-related overtures and more. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pERhU_ZjkC8
Elders from the ARP, OPC, and PCA join us to review their just-completed assemblies or preview one yet to come (PCA). Pastors Andy Webb, David, Carnes, and Ryan Biese were our guests. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAXv4qQ1Lfc
Three young churchmen join us to break down the overtures before the 2022 PCA General Assembly. Pastors Jared Nelson, Scott Edburg, and Stephen Spinnenweber provided insight, information, and speculation. This show was decent...and orderly, more or less. Find all the overtures here: https://pcaga.org/resources/#overtures Watch: https://youtu.be/fgvZLFKwnVE
Here we go—more than one hour of music from the Presbycast genre: some real gems and some truly frightening stuff in celebration of six years of podcasting.
A cast of characters including Dr. Dominc Aquila, Camden Bucey of Reformed Forum, and the late Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones joined us to celebrate six years of strange presby podcasting. And, boy, did we cover some ground.
Here's a reading (with brief comments) of a 1923 J. Gresham Machen sermon that is shockingly relevant 99 years later: "Isaiah's Scorn of Idolatry." Read it here: https://www.readmachen.com/pg/isaiahs-scorn-of-idolatry.pdf
Dr Ian Hamilton delivers the address "The History and Theological Declension of the Church of Scotland" at the recent 2022 Gospel Reformation Network conference. Dr Hamiltion is president of Westminster Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Newcastle in England, and has pastored for decades in Scotland and Cambridge, England. https://www.presbyterianseminary.org.uk/
Church history professor and author Dr. R. Scott Clark joins us to talk about the history and present character of evangelicalism and revivalism from a Reformed perspective. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjYjwgqzZLk
PCA pastor Jon Payne speaks at the recent Gospel Reformation Network 2022 conference. Used with permission. View at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCmUU4JFcIc
Writer and Twitter maven Bethel McGrew helps us review the recent political and social issue-related controversies concerning the social media effusions of a certain big city pastor. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNv9x-R_5ic
Two bright young churchmen and Zoe join us to talk about day one of the 2022 Gospel Reformation Network conference in Birmingham plus the prospects for the PCA as the 2022 General Assembly grows ever closer. This show spanned three time zones. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9L0ii1EPJY
Rosaria Butterfield joins Sarah and Zoe for a frank and fiery discussion of "Side B Gay Christianity," sin and repentance, church as family, and radical hospitality. WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvOuBdsFmU8
This sermon based on Acts 13:1-3 by Pastor Peter Szabo of Budapest, Hungary was preached on April 24, 2022 at Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Oak Ridge, TN. Szabo is a minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Central and Eastern Europe ( RPCCEE ) and has been interviewed on two previous Presbycast shows.
OPC pastor Bob Tarullo and ruling elder/seminarian Rob McKenzie join us to talk about Machen's Christianity & Liberalism, a book they have serialized on their own podcast Theology Simply Profound. https://reformedforum.org/programs/tsp
Jon Payne, pastor of Christ Church Presbyterian (PCA) in Charleston, SC and executive coordinator of the Gospel Reformation Network joins us to talk about the 2022 GRN conference, the organization's history, and current PCA events and their implications for this summer's PCA General Assembly. And remember...he asked for that outro. https://gospelreformation.net/ Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAkhk6Bdu8w...
The recent republication of John Frame's article "Machen's Warrior Children" by a PCA blog spurred our discussion of the merits, relevance and context of the piece with two men who were "there when it happened"—church historians and serial Presbycast guests D.G. Hart and R. Scott Clark, together for the first time. Article: https://www.semperref.org/articles/machens-warrior-children
Zoe and Sarah are joined by Sarah's husband pastor Sean Morris and his fellow PCA pastor Stephen Spinnenweber for a discussion of how presbyterian church government ought to protect members and why it sometimes fails to do so. In a clear tribute to early Presbycast shows, the Presbygirls treat us to a bit of challenging audio...just like old times.
We present an archival recording of a packed PCA General Assembly seminar from 2009 with Dr. Ligon Duncan and Tim Keller discussing their differing views on deacons, deaconesses, offices, and more. Be sure to hear the question and answers in the last 30 minutes or so.
URC minister Chris Gordon joins us to discuss his article "The Domino Theory and Egalitarian Pulpits." We also briefly discussed CW's article on instances of females seeming to preach in PCA churches. https://agradio.org/the-domino-theory-and-egalitarian-pulpits https://www.reformation21.org/blog/lady-preachers-in-pca-pulpits View here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRPbVcaW_sM...
Out windows, under buses...a diverse all-star Tour de NAPARC cast discusses current events in the PCA and beyond and...Mean Girls? A Cantina classic!
Oh nothin', just 22 amazing tunes from the alternately dark, sincere, entertaining, confused, and confusing musical underbelly of 20th-century American Christianity with context and commentary only Presbycast can (or would) provide.
Pastor Chris Drews helps us work through the truths and implications of the great eighth chapter of the Westminster Confession of Faith, Of Christ the Mediator . Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI60gzUfbYk
American Family Association researcher and author M.D. Perkins shares some of his findings about the Side B movement (and a notable book) along with PCA minister Stephen Spinnenweber who has also written on the subject. M.D.'s e-book: https://afa.net/alittleleaven
Dr. Dominic Aquila joins us to unravel the PCA SJC decision on the case against Memorial PCA for hosting the first Revoice conference. https://byfaithonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SJC-2020-05-Speck.Final-Decision.3-3-2022.pdf
PCA pastor and host of the Mortification of Spin podcast Todd Pruitt joins us talk about the impotance of staying informed and staying involved as church members and church officers. The interview was recorded in-person at the 2022 Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary conference at Woodruff Road PCA.
Live from the Presbaru: Our first ever Twitter Space featured quality commentary from a few of our friends on the late-breaking PCA judicial decision on a Revoice-related case...yes, it was recorded in a car, but it wasn't half bad.
Peter Szabo, a Hungarian pastor in the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Central and Eastern Europe (RPCCEE), joins us to talk about the needs of the Ukrainian churches in their denomination and how churches are meeting those needs...and how you can help. https://reformatus.net/en/how-can-you-help
Brad's latest article is the starting point for an interstate soliloquy about contextualization and the ever interesting, always hard-to-figure PCA. Read the article here: https://heidelblog.net/2022/02/shall-the-radical-contextualizers-win/
Dr. Darryl G. Hart of Hillsdale College joins us to announce the return of the much-loved and much-missed Nicotine Theological Journal, a feisty, Old School presbyterian favorite that published from 1997 to 2012. And since it's 2022 we wrapped up by talking about the perplexing turmoil in the PCA.
