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The “Jonesboro 7” Submit to Edicts of Session Why We have a 37 Page Doctrinal Statement PCA’s Judicial Commission Vindicates the “Jonesboro 7,” Cites Abuse by Session Contrasting Perspectives on the Land Intersectionality Devolves The Very Heart of the Reformation Remember Sybil The LGBTQ+ Appeal: A Perfect Storm for Gen Z The Quest for Male Community The Scottish Reformation

Covenant Presbytery Denies Appeal of Jonesboro 7 Finding No Errors in Session Trial Trial at IPC Memphis for the “Jonesboro 7” The Church and Israel in the New Testament An Assessment of Andy Stanley’s Unconditional Conference Is It Wrong to Have Sex before Marriage? Tension in Our Polity: A History of the Assistant Pastor Thoughts on the Israel-Hamas War Civilizational Suicide 3 Core Beliefs of t...

Lessons from “The Jonesboro Decision” Transferring Church Membership is not a Violation of the Presbyterian Church in America’s Membership Vows: A Gentle Rejoinder to an Earnest Man The “Jonesboro 7” Indicted for “Imagined” Sin When Being Affirming Isn’t Loving Can a Temporary Session Impose a Pastor on a Church Plant? Critical Grace Theory My Take on the Hamas Attack on Israel In Contemplation of...

5 Warning Signs That a Pastor has Not Been Truly Called by God Andy Stanley’s Version of Christianity Christian Nationalism and Blasphemy Laws Streams in the Desert: Burning Man, 2023 Can We Really Believe in Demonic Possession? Misreading Scripture Cross-Culturally Reject Ritual Masking Take Heed Whom You Celebrate: Thoughts on John Brown and Evangelical Attitudes About Him Genesis: Bible Authors...

It Doesn’t Work: Presbyterian Church USA Ministry Moves Reported in 2023 The Cluster B Society Not Augustinian Enough The Secular Son Of Progressive Christianity Taylor Swift’s Popularity Is a Sign of Societal Decline But Johnny Can’t Spell G-A-Y The Great Schism of 1054 When Genuine Obedience Becomes Impossible, Hell Becomes Impossible as Well Definition of Puritanism

Shannon Harris Kissed Truth Goodbye The PCA at 50: Essential Elements from the Past Will Guide the Future Don’t Deny Our Fallenness Reining in the Presumptuous Parachurch You Probably Have a Good Pastor The Sons of God and the Daughters of Man, Part 2 Cessationist: The Film Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Goddess The Most Terrifying Verse in the Bible What the Jubilee of Aquinas Says About Rome a...

The Train is Leaving the Station Ladies, Don’t Beat Your Pastors with the Rod of Titus 2 Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age Foreword Is the Tide Turning on Religious Belief? Why I Am Not A Christian Nationalist Beautiful Gospel Centered Ministry in the PCA We Are Repaganizing How C.S. Lewis Predicted the Forced “Pronoun” Push — and Showed Us How to Respond When Is a Question Better than an Answer...

The Rise and Fall of the Evangelical Elite Why Most Anglican Clergy Now Approve Gay Marriage—and What This Means for the Future of the Church The Crushing Yoke of a Deconstructionist Pastor Can Mainline Protestantism Be Rebuilt? Biblical Love in a World Gone Mad Don’t Believe Culture’s Lies about Men and Women Why You Shouldn’t Use “Preferred Pronouns” and Other Ideological Language The Mormonizat...

David C. Lachman (1939-2023): A Tribute Politics, the Church, and Getting Our Story Straight 3 Questions to Ask When Trying to Find a Good Church Loneliness, Despair, and the Christian Countermeasure Reflections on Reformed Catholicity as Commonly Conceived Procreating Alone Are Children Now Creatures of the State? Don’t Blame Your Sins on Montana: Our Climate of “Cost-Free Moral Preening” Killing...

My Complicated Feelings about Tim Keller Why The Gospel Centered Movement Failed The Death of Church and Pub Am I a Kinist? Missionary Died Thinking He was a Failure; 84 Years Later Thriving Churches Found Hidden in the Jungle Head Coverings: An Opportunity to Encourage in a Day of Confusion The Creator’s Authorized Realistic Account of Creation: Interpretation of Genesis 1–3 Is Neither Literal no...

1.  Why Some Evangelicals Are Embracing Racism 2.  Considering Westminster’s “Recreations” Clause 3.  So It Begins: PCA Presbyteries to Vote on BCO Amendments 4.  Queering a Tudor Warship 5.  Become a Theological Myth Buster 6.  Is Paedocommunion Biblical? 7.  The Prayer Life of Stonewall Jackson 8.  Conservatives’ Bud Light Boycott has been One of the Most Successful in Recent History 9.  Marriag...

TAR Top 10 List 1. Russell Moore Loses His Religion 2. Review: Losing Our Religion 3. Somber Thoughts on a Contemporary Difficulty in the Evangelical Churches 4. Avoiding a Second Civil War 5. The Reformation of Worship 6. Not Without Prayer 7. Reformed Worship and the Regulative Principle of Worship 8. Canada’s Suicidal Slide 9. Two Kinds of Sermons that Seem Expositional but Really Aren’t 10. Wo...

TAR Top 10 List 1. Big Eva Says Out with Complementarianism, In with Anti-Fundamentalism 2. Officials Charge Retired CRC Pastor In 1975 Cold Case Murder Of Delco 8-Year-Old 3. When Biology Matters, Sort Of 4. Irony & the PCA: Analyzing Growth 5. Our Ancient Challenges 6. What Makes a Bible Translation Really Bad? 7. Now the Word “Equity” Is Being Hijacked! 8. Be Convinced That the Sabbath Is t...

1 =  https://theaquilareport.com/a-response-to-music-at-the-ga-and-the-pca/ A Response to: “Music at the GA and the PCA”One of the great privileges we enjoy in the PCA is gathering each year with like-minded commissioners and guests at our annual General Assembly. Written by Larry Roff | Friday, July 21, 2023 2 =  https://theaquilareport.com/global-methodist-united-methodist-churches-split-on-nice...

TAR Top 10 List 1. The PCA’s Principle on Non-communing Members – A Halfway Covenant? 2. Music at the GA and the PCA 3. Why Are So Many of Our Youth Identifying as LGBTQ+? 4. The Story of Us 5. Fellowship Before and After Sunday Services 6. Does Amillennialism Really Need a Rebrand? 7. Why Machen Is Important for the Church Today: A Reflection on Ch. 7 of Christianity and Liberalism (Part 2) 8. Wh...

TAR Top 10 List 1. Movie Review: Nefarious 2. An Excerpt from “Irony and the Presbyterian Church in America,” An Informed History of the First Half Century of the PCA 3. Heresy at the Heart of Derek Webb’s “Boys Will Be Girls” 4. Abuse, the PCA, and Her Constitution 5. PCA Minister George C. Miladin, 88, Called Home to Glory 6. Uganda and Its Opposition to LGBTQ Normalization 7. The Trans Tide Is...

1.  Summary Report of the Christian Reformed Church Synod 2023  2.  A Summary Report of the Reformed Presbyterian Church Synod 2023  3.  Ruling Elder Renaissance  4.  Queering Jesus: How It’s Going Mainstream at Progressive Churches and Top Divinity Schools  5.  Toe the Government Line or Lose Your Kids  6.  Encouragements from the Jubilee Assembly  7.  3 Things a Christian Should Consider Before...

TAR Top 10 List 1. PCA GA 50: Summary of 20 Key Events & Highlights 2. Report on the PCA’s Jubilee Assembly 3. A Political View of the PCA Jubilee General Assembly 4. Retraction Refused: The PCA’s Magazine Stands By Its Claims in David Cassidy’s “Prayer and Work in the Face of Violence” 5. 2023 Orthodox Presbyterian Church General Assembly Report – UPDATED 6. Thoughts on Female Deacons 7. How...

TAR Top 10 List 1. COVID-19 Reflection 2. Final Tally From PCA Presbyteries on Overture 15 3. Rick Warren Knows Exactly What He Is Doing 4. Thoughts on the ARP Special Committee on Women Deacons Study 5. PCA Post-Memphis: Revive or Divide? 6. PCA Officers & Their Pronouns 7. Second Thoughts About the Proposed Witness Overtures 8. As a Christian, I Went Down the AI Rabbit Hole. Here Are 12 Thin...

TAR Top 10 List 1. Tell the PCA’s Magazine to Issue a Retraction 2. The PCA—Tent or House? 3. We Are Already Defeated 4. Words as Weapons: Why We Must Stand Our Ground over Pronouns 5. Something is Amiss 6. Schaeffer: “We Live in a Post-Christian World. Do Not Take This Lightly!” 7. A Challenge to the “Spirituality of the Church” 8. The Different Shades of Christian Nationalism 9. Did the Puritans...

TAR Top 10 List 1. PCA Minister, Rev. Harry Reeder, Briarwood Senior Pastor, Killed in Car Accident 2. Tim Keller Called Home to Glory 3. Schools in the Presbyterian Church in America 4. Machen and the PCA Today 5. A Response to an Employer’s Request for Pronouns 6. Defending the Idol 7. The Two-Kingdoms Theology and Christians Today 8. The Emergence of a New Paganism: An Interview with Chantal De...

TAR Top 10 List 1. Scott Sauls, Author and Nashville Pastor, Placed on Indefinite Leave of Absence 2. Dennis Prager’s Troubling Defense of Pornography 3. So Calling God “Mother” Is No Big Deal After All? 4. A Resilient Church on the Fringe 5. 9 Microstresses of a Pastor 6. Arkansas Enacts Given Name Act. 7. Scott Sauls: Apologist for Homosexual Christianity? 8. The Great Hope of Amillennialism 9....

TAR Top 10 List 1. The PCA’s Denominational Magazine Goes Political: A Rejoinder to David Cassidy’s “Prayer and Work in the Face of Violence” at By Faith Online 2. Targeting Transgenderism: Two Overtures to the PCA 50th GA 3. Conservative Presbyterians Lay Out Why Mainline Cousins Are Losing Members: ‘Supernatural Battle’ 4. An Overture on Titles & Ordination 5. Collusion in Blatant Misogyny 6...

TAR Top 10 List 1. Are There Trustworthy Protestant Universities? 2. America’s Imperial Ideology 3. The Lord’s Day Minimum Daily Requirement… Beggars Should Be Choosers (Part 3) 4. Don’t Leave Well Enough Alone: Why I Am Preaching at Satancon 5. Bruce Pardy: Agatha Christie Revisions are the Writing on the Wall 6. Our Lost Boys 7. Book Review: Understanding Ex-Christian America 8. In Praise of the...

1 Parents and the Apostacy of Covenant Children 2 Female Pastors, LGBTQ, and the Future of the SBC 3 Forgiving Each Other with God’s Immanence and Transcendence: A Corporate Call for Doctrine (Part Two) 4 Does The Church of England Need Evangelicals? 5 On Naivete and Moral Numbness: A Rejoinder to Russell Moore 6 To Whom Will You Liken Me? The Biblical Prohibition of Images (Part 1) 7 Does Singlen...