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CW & Wresby record live at PCAGA 2018 with a wrap-up of the first day and a preview of the days to come.

Ride with Brad as he talks about his visit to the 2018 Associate Reformed Presbyterian General Synod, compares it to the PCA General Assembly, and previews Presbycast's PCAGA plans. More about the ARP:  http://arpchurch.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate_Reformed_Presbyterian_Church Clarifying/corrected info from a Twitter follower: "Enjoyed your comments on Synod. Just to clarify, the ARP as it is was founded in 1822 (not the 1900s) and each particular church sends one lay elder delegate or more depending on congregation size."

A helpful sermon on the Lord's Supper from Dr. C.N. Willborn of Covenant PCA in Oak Ridge, TN -- The Table is a Call to Unity, 1st Corinthians 11:17-30. https://www.covenant-pca.com/ https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=covenantoakridge

PCA pastor and Mortification of Spin co-host Todd Pruitt joins to help preview the 2018 PCA General Assembly. Here's are this year's overtures: http://www.pcaac.org/general-assembly/overtures/ Our talk was somewhat abbreviated by technical issues, but we covered most of what we intended. 

Seminarians Ben Woodring and Nate Paschall join us to talk all things seminary. 

CW talks about the high point of his visit to Savannah, GA -- visiting Independent Presbyterian Church, one of America's most beautiful church buildings. See the IPC website for a number of resources on worship.

CW talks PCA overtures for what *could* be an uncontroversial PCA General Assembly. See all the overtures in question here. Discussed: Sex -  Deacons -- 9 &25 Marriage -- 1, 2, 5, 24 Race - 31  REPORT OF THE AD INTERIM COMMITTEE ON RACIAL AND ETHNIC RECONCILIATION TO THE FORTY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA (PDF link)  

Dr. C.N. Willborn discusses the life and work of PCA and Reformed Theological Seminary founding father Dr. Morton H. Smith (1923-2017). Dr. Willborn taught with Dr. Smith at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and shared his interest in Southern Presbyterian history. This is episode will be followed by another in a few weeks which examines his role in the founding of the PCA and his legacy. We also presented an address by Dr. Smith in an earlier episode. Here is Dr. Smith's obituary. And here is a link to an address he delivered at the founding of the PCA. Here is the text of a memorial overture that will be received by the 2018 PCA General Assembly.  Learn more about Dr. Willborn here. He has pastored Covenant PCA in Oak Ridge, TN for the past 10 years.  

Wresby and CW talk about how to deal with a church that's less than ideal...as all are. Our apologies for the mysterious sunspot-related interference towards the end when the guys turn to a decidedly darker subject. 

Dr. Darryl Hart of Hillsdale College joins us again for part three of our "Life of Machen" series covering the late 1920s to 1935 in this episode. The opening and closing songs are Machen's favorite hymn "There is a Green Hill Far Away" The opening version is a quartet recording from the 1920s. Here's the book that tells the story of Machen's years of controversy better than any other: https://www.amazon.com/Defending-Faith-Gresham-Conservative-Protestantism/dp/0875525636