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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

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 1...

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

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  

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

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 artic...

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

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 upo...

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

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

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

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 chape...

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...

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

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

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.

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 Engl...

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

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

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  

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  

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  

(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...

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  

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