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PCA Ruling Elder James Solis joins us to talk about his recent Substack article on celibacy ( https://noxvenit.substack.com/p/gay-and-celibate ) and Side B gay Christianity. PCA pastor Stephen Spinnenweber also joined our panel. 

We present the audio from a live Twitter Space where nearly 100 listeners joined in and more than a dozen spoke with us about everything from VBS biscuits in South Carolina to county fair cheese curds in Wisconsin...and the joys and trials of church life and ministry.  

PCA pastor Joe Cristman of Chicago joins us to wrap up the 2022 PCA General Assembly once and for all with the story of two important overtures from his church and encouraging words about the future of the denomination. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieGi5LshvCw

We present a fine sermon by Sean Morris entitled "God and Sinners Reconciled." This sermon from Ephesians 2 has much to say about the church as one of the great benefits of the gospel. Morris is associate pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Oak Ridge, TN.

Pastor Chris Drews helps us work through the truths and implications of the  ninth chapter of the Westminster Confession of Faith, Of Free Will. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3jTmrlLVvg

We were the definition of diversity with two teaching elders and two ruling elders (and a Wresby) to discuss the 2022 PCA General Assembly. We covered the most significant actions and the prospects for passage for three Book of Church Order amendments. Pastors Todd Pruitt and Ryan Biese, and experienced ruling elder Doug Sharp provided encouragement and perspective in the wake of the Birmingham as...

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/w...

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.