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TAR Top 10 List 1. Russell Moore Loses His Religion2. Review: Losing Our Religion3. Somber Thoughts on a Contemporary Difficulty in the Evangelical Churches4. Avoiding a Second Civil War5. The Reformation of Worship6. Not Without Prayer7. Reformed Worship and the Regulative Principle of Worship8. Canada’s Suicidal Slide9. Two Kinds of Sermons that Seem Expositional but Really Aren’t10. Worshipping God’s Way: Deuteronomy 12 and the Regulative Principle

TAR Top 10 List 1. Big Eva Says Out with Complementarianism, In with Anti-Fundamentalism2. Officials Charge Retired CRC Pastor In 1975 Cold Case Murder Of Delco 8-Year-Old3. When Biology Matters, Sort Of4. Irony & the PCA: Analyzing Growth5. Our Ancient Challenges6. What Makes a Bible Translation Really Bad?7. Now the Word “Equity” Is Being Hijacked!8. Be Convinced That the Sabbath Is the Sacred Day of God9. Foundations of Biblical Worship10. “Avoid Such People”

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, 20232 = https://theaquilareport.com/global-methodist-united-methodist-churches-split-on-nicene-creed/Global Methodist, United Methodist Churches Split on Nicene CreedIn United Methodism, it has become painfully obvious that there are no clear, consistent, and effective doctrinal boundaries.Written by John Lomperis | Sunday, July 16, 2023 3.  https://theaquilareport.com/a-new-history-of-the-pcas-first-50-years/A New History of the PCA’s First 50 YearsSeveral early debates over confessional adherence would grow into later actions that moved away from either the earlier or the presumed view of doctrinal adherence.Written by David W. Hall | Monday, July 17, 2023 4.  https://theaquilareport.com/good-advice-for-living-a-countercultural-life/Good Advice for Living a Countercultural LifeI Am Not My OwnWritten by Kevin DeYoung | Sunday, July 16, 2023 5.  https://theaquilareport.com/goodbye-local-church/Goodbye Local Church?The Christian ConsumerWritten by John Benton | Thursday, July 20, 2023 6.  https://theaquilareport.com/courage-is-a-christians-only-path-forward-from-the-legal-hell-the-winsome-gospel-wrought/Courage Is a Christian’s Only Path Forward from the Legal Hell the ‘Winsome’ Gospel WroughtThe world hated Him, and so it will hate His disciples too.Written by Kylee Griswold | Monday, July 17, 2023 7.  https://theaquilareport.com/megachurches-are-getting-even-bigger-as-churches-close-across-the-country/Megachurches are Getting Even Bigger as Churches Close Across the CountryFor the last several years, Liquid Church has been one of the fastest-growing churches in the nation, and a big part of its success has come through assimilating smaller, more traditional congregations. Four of its seven campuses — all in New Jersey — have come through these mergers.Written by Scott Neuman | Friday, July 21, 2023 8.  https://theaquilareport.com/irony-the-pca-the-first-fifty-years/Irony & the PCA: The First Fifty YearsAmong the most significant accomplishments for the first decade of PCA life were adoption of confessional and constitutional documents.Written by Ryan Biese | Thursday, July 20, 2023 9.  https://theaquilareport.com/sparkle-creed-is-dim-dull/“Sparkle Creed” Is Dim & DullThere will always be “sparkle creeds” trying to displace more traditional creeds like the Nicene and Apostles Creed.Written by Mark Tooley | Monday, July 17, 2023 10. https://theaquilareport.com/reformed-political-theology-today/Reformed Political Theology TodayThere is an unbridgeable gap between the spiritual and temporal kingdoms that places a necessary limit on the kind of good that can be achieved in this life.Written by Simon P. Kennedy | Tuesday, July 18, 

TAR Top 10 List 1. The PCA’s Principle on Non-communing Members – A Halfway Covenant?2. Music at the GA and the PCA3. Why Are So Many of Our Youth Identifying as LGBTQ+?4. The Story of Us5. Fellowship Before and After Sunday Services6. 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. Why Elisabeth Elliot Changed Her Beliefs about Finding God’s Will9. Little Voices in the Pews10. Of Atheists and Oaths

TAR Top 10 List 1. Movie Review: Nefarious2. An Excerpt from “Irony and the Presbyterian Church in America,” An Informed History of the First Half Century of the PCA3. Heresy at the Heart of Derek Webb’s “Boys Will Be Girls”4. Abuse, the PCA, and Her Constitution5. PCA Minister George C. Miladin, 88, Called Home to Glory6. Uganda and Its Opposition to LGBTQ Normalization7. The Trans Tide Is Turning8. Problems with Preferred Pronouns9. Faith, Family, and Church Community See Jeff and Mariah Windt Through the Challenges of Aphasia: Chapters 2-410. Reinterpreting Church History: A Response to Mimi Haddad, “History Matters”

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 Serving in the Military 8. Two Sexes, Created to Be Distinct 9. There Are Plenty of Good Fish in the Sea 10. Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Colorado Graphic Designer Who Refused To Create Same-Sex Wedding Websites

TAR Top 10 List 1. PCA GA 50: Summary of 20 Key Events & Highlights2. Report on the PCA’s Jubilee Assembly3. A Political View of the PCA Jubilee General Assembly4. 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 – UPDATED6. Thoughts on Female Deacons7. How Should We Then Repent? A Response to “COVID-19 Reflection”8. PCA Elders and Members Were ‘Fools for Christ’ At the First Annual GA Evangelistic Outreach9. Christianity & Progressivism: A Pastor’s Perspective10. A Confession Rejected and a Denomination Undone

TAR Top 10 List 1. COVID-19 Reflection2. Final Tally From PCA Presbyteries on Overture 153. Rick Warren Knows Exactly What He Is Doing4. Thoughts on the ARP Special Committee on Women Deacons Study5. PCA Post-Memphis: Revive or Divide?6. PCA Officers & Their Pronouns7. Second Thoughts About the Proposed Witness Overtures8. As a Christian, I Went Down the AI Rabbit Hole. Here Are 12 Things I Discovered.9. Contextualization10. Thoughts on the Church’s True Nature and Mission: A Partial Rejoinder to Larry Ball’s Challenge to the Spirituality of the Church

TAR Top 10 List 1. Tell the PCA’s Magazine to Issue a Retraction2. The PCA—Tent or House?3. We Are Already Defeated4. Words as Weapons: Why We Must Stand Our Ground over Pronouns5. Something is Amiss6. 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 Nationalism9. Did the Puritans Agree on Eschatology?10. Girls and the Transgender “Hockey Stick”

TAR Top 10 List 1. PCA Minister, Rev. Harry Reeder, Briarwood Senior Pastor, Killed in Car Accident2. Tim Keller Called Home to Glory3. Schools in the Presbyterian Church in America4. Machen and the PCA Today5. A Response to an Employer’s Request for Pronouns6. Defending the Idol7. The Two-Kingdoms Theology and Christians Today8. The Emergence of a New Paganism: An Interview with Chantal Delsol9. UMC Bishops Request 2026 General Conference as Hundreds More Churches Disaffiliate10. Faithful, Fruitful, and Forgotten