Aquila Report Weekly Review

Shannon Harris Kissed Truth Goodbye The PCA at 50: Essential Elements from the Past Will Guide the Future Don’t Deny Our Fallenness Reining in the Presumptuous Parachurch You Probably Have a Good Pastor The Sons of God and the Daughters of Man, Part 2 Cessationist: The Film Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Goddess The Most Terrifying Verse in the Bible What the Jubilee of Aquinas Says About Rome and Roman-Protestant Relations (in Some Quarters)

The Train is Leaving the Station Ladies, Don’t Beat Your Pastors with the Rod of Titus 2 Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age Foreword Is the Tide Turning on Religious Belief? Why I Am Not A Christian Nationalist Beautiful Gospel Centered Ministry in the PCA We Are Repaganizing How C.S. Lewis Predicted the Forced “Pronoun” Push — and Showed Us How to Respond When Is a Question Better than an Answer? The Expectation of a New Covenant Sabbath

The Rise and Fall of the Evangelical Elite Why Most Anglican Clergy Now Approve Gay Marriage—and What This Means for the Future of the Church The Crushing Yoke of a Deconstructionist Pastor Can Mainline Protestantism Be Rebuilt? Biblical Love in a World Gone Mad Don’t Believe Culture’s Lies about Men and Women Why You Shouldn’t Use “Preferred Pronouns” and Other Ideological Language The Mormonization of American Christianity A Primer on Reformed Liturgics: Lessons from the Past Applied in the Present (Part One) Richard Dawkins Asks an Important Question and Here Is My Answer

Topics discussed include a tribute to scholar David C. Lachman, the church's relationship with politics, finding a good church, understanding catholicity, spiritual warfare, technology and parental rights, Nietzsche's will to power, and raising children in a religious culture.

In this podcast, the hosts discuss a range of interesting topics including Tim Keller's influence, the decline of religious movements, the impact of sharing articles, and the interpretation of Genesis 1-3. They also explore the controversy surrounding head coverings in the church and the decline of evening worship services. Furthermore, they touch on the importance of discussing obedience to God's law and the debate surrounding Bible translations.

Topics discussed include the influence of colonialism on Christianity in Africa, perspectives on observing the Christian Sabbath, LGBTQ influence on culture and analyzing the Mary Rose Museum through a queer lens, controversy over historical artifacts, the debate on paedocommunion, Stonewall Jackson's prayer life, and challenging the notion that Christianity in Africa was solely a result of colonialism.

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