presbycast

Brad drives to work and talks about the clergy-laity divide over Revoice, Side B, and SSA issues in the PCA. Referenced articles: https://news.yahoo.com/im-gay-celibate-pastor-conservative-120126716.html https://presbycast.substack.com/p/a-minute-with-the-minutes

Old friend and small-town pastor Chris Ames (aka Twitter's Chuck Finney) joins us to talk about money, the Gospel-Industrial Complex, conference culture, and sustainable and scalable church. Chris offers a model of success and contentment not tied to size and celebrity. 

OPC pastor Chris Drew joins us again as we examine the critical chapter of the Westminster Confession of Faith that deals with covenant -- the key structure of Reformed theology and the crucial way that God has chosen to deal with man. View our talk on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ktfeJLu5Do

PCA pastor Sean Morris preaches an excellent sermon on the Lord's Day and the importance of worship, delight, and fellowship in the life of the believer.  https://westpca.org/people/sean-morris/

Originally recorded in 2020, this episode commemorates the death of J. Gresham Machen on Jan. 1, 1937 in a tiny North Dakota hospital, alone and separated from friends or family save the Rev. Sam Allen, whose account we read. We also have context from Machen's biographer Ned Stonehouse. Here is the edition of The Presbyterian Journal (https://opc.org/cfh/guardian/Volume_3/1937-01-23.pdf) that marked Machen's death and a downloadable PDF (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MYfMayCxpWqtw8_Gp2rpHsvyzPGZaund/view) of the article by Rev. Samuel Allen (https://opc.org/today.html?history_id=533). 

Church historian D.G. Hart joins us for a review of 2021 plus a fascinating breakdown of a little-known but very significant church planting network with clips from the "Rise and Fall of Mars Hill" podcast. Dr. Hart suggested this series as well for those interested in church planting: Church Planting 1: The Movement | StartUp (gimletmedia.com)

Our longest, most well-attended, and most boisterous Festivus celebration ever...with THE Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones and THE Dr. R. Scott Clark, plus THE Bishop of Western Festivus Dan Borvan...also a doctor!

Well, everyone asked to 'hear women', so here we are, filling a need. Your introduction to Zoe (a precocious college student) and Sarah (a multi-talented homeschooling pastor's wife) includes the tale of how they met, why they care about any of this complicated churchy jargon, and what is so important about laypeople being involved in denominational arguments. Replete with castigation of therapeutic language and the bumper music, which we are happy to report is not changing. The inaugural episdode was not streamed live, you can view the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXT3w9fuxr4

Dr. Jonathan Master, president of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, wrote a thoughtful review of Greg Johnson's new book about "gay Christian" issues, Still Time to Care. We ended with some excerpts from a recent interview with Johnson from another podcast.  Here's the print review: https://gospelreformation.net/a-review-of-greg-johnsons-new-book-still-time-to-care/

Pastor Chris Drew guides us on our walking tour through the Westminster Confession of Faith, this time chapter 6 -- Of the Fall of Man, of Sin and of the Punishment Thereof. Depravity, federal headship, and the remedy for sin were all treated in this surprisingly edifying discussion.