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Seeking to highlight, support, and encourage pastoral and confessional accountability in the PCA by raising awareness of the beauty of the Reformed Faith and the teaching of the Scripture as summarized in the Westminster Standards. The official podcast of Jude 3 & the PCA.
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Has a new day dawned in the PCA with the nomination of TE Fred Greco to serve as Stated Clerk? If elected, will TE Greco serve more as a mailman or a mascot for the PCA? The panel discusses the reasons for TE Chapell's unusually short tenure as Stated Clerk as well as two new overtures from Northwest Georgia Presbytery; one that seeks to address creative and imaginary titles for non-ordained people another seeks to expand Ruling Elder Participation at General Assembly.TEs Job dalomba & Seth Miller, REs Matt Lee & Justen Ellis, Senior Correspondent Zoe Schimke Miller
TEs Chas. Stover & Thos. Rickard along with RE Tim Rice join to analyze the "PCA Prayer and Lament" Document. Is it a biblical lament or merely another progressive airing of grievances? https://www.pcaprayerandlament.comhttps://cstover.substack.com/p/lamentable-slanderhttps://pcapolity.com/2026/01/01/a-presbyterian-call-to-prayer-lament/https://medium.com/@thomas.rickard/response-to-pca-prayer-and-lament-fd5266704b8c
PCA TE Dr Scott Cook rehearses last year's controversies with MNA and looks to the future of this vital PCA Committee to outline a path forward for the next coordinator to both be effective and avoid being a source of division and contention within the Assembly. https://pcapolity.com/2025/10/28/the-next-coordinator-of-mna/
TE Ken Wojnarowski joins the program to discuss recent holiday advice from the PCA's Refugee & Immigrant Ministry that was picked up by Conservative Twitter. Was the advice all that controversial? A judgment of charity suggests it was not, but does raise concerns when viewed in the wider context.
TE Thomas Rickard, clerk of Westminster Presbytery, overviews the 17(!) Overtures sent to PCA General Assembly from his presbytery.
TEMatt Cline details his involvement in the #SavethePCA movement and the urgency of maintaining our polity with integrity in order to promote purity and peace in the PCA. https://x.com/MrMRCline
TEs Andrew and Aaron Halbert talk about how God blesses and prospers the ordinary means of grace through church planting in Latin America .
REs Matt Lee and Justen Ellis discuss their recent articles assessing potential threats to the PCA and the credibility of reports regarding constitutional innovation and deviation.RE Lee: https://theaquilareport.com/the-foster-report-is-a-credible-report-functional-female-officers-in-the-pca/RE Ellis: https://pcapolity.com/2025/10/13/pca-threat-assessment/RE Donahoe's response: https://pcapolity.com/2025/10/21/another-pilots-perspective/RE Ellis followup: https://pcapolity.com/2025/11/05/honing-our-tactics/
Mrs Benj. Dunson and Mrs Seth Miller going Drs Benj. Dunson and Scott Cook as well as TE Ryan Biese to discuss the role of women in the Church and whether the historic polity and ministry of the Church leave women on the sidelines.Mrs Dunson's article: https://americanreformer.org/2025/10/sidelined/https://a4mr.org/pursuing-a-unified-vision-for-mission-and-renewal-in-the-pca/https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zd2ktgsgmpe8ce48gwuta/transcoded.mp3?rlkey=vrql41h8abez1pxiu34z0faug&dl=0
In this Reformation Week episode, the panel discusses the importance of maintaining a distinction between Romanism and the True Reformed Religion. TEs Thomas Rickard & John Orlando join with Rev Bart Gingerich. https://pcapolity.com/2025/09/13/striking-the-word-alone-the-error-of-rome/ https://wng.org/opinions/religious-liberalism-at-work-1757474679
Pastor David Hall previews this year's conference and reviews his wife's article on Alongside Care published on Ref21
The BPC votes to request to join NAPARC. Pastors Kevin M. Backus and Doug Douma join the program to discuss!
TE James Baird and Prof Michael J. Lynch, PhD discuss the calling of the magistrate to maintain piety, justice, and peace within the commonwealth as described in Baird's forthcoming book: https://press.founders.org/shop/king-of-kings/
TE Matt Adams reflects on his tenure as GA NomCom chairman and an article he wrote on niceness and the danger of therapeutic language. https://gospelreformation.net/when-therapeutic-language-affects-the-gospel/
What can we expect from the PCA's Study Committees? Terry Johnson, Thomas Rickard, Steven Warhurst & Ben Dunson join to discuss.
TE Ryan Denton discusses the work of God going in Texas and New Mexico through street preaching, evangelism, church planting, and even changing city ordinances.
John Orlando, Timothy Brindle, Charles Stover & Mark Robison have a conversation on the how unity in Christ is exhibited the Church and what we are to make of the various statements by the PCA on Race & Racism. 2004 GA Pastoral Letter on Racism: https://pcahistory.org/pca/digest/studies/racism.pdf
From the Weighed in the Balance Podcast : What really happened on the floor of the 2025 PCA General Assembly? Was Teaching Elder Timothy Brindle unfairly cut off? Did Moderator Kevin DeYoung cross a line—or keep things from crossing it? In this special edition of Weighed in the Balance, Jonathan Brooks is joined by Ryan Biese and Nathan Xanders to unpack the clash between parliamentary order and rising tensions around the reelection of Dr. Irwin Ince. Along the way, we respond to Doug Wilson, CrossPolitic, and the growing conversation about race, power, and polity in the PCA. Was it a kerfuffle... or a crisis? You decide.
Thanks to the folks at IPC Savannah for sharing this episode of INTO THE STUDY podcast. https://ipcsav.org/media/kskhm8z/episode-161-christian-nationalism
A truly all-star panel of TEs Fred Greco, Josh Walker & Steve Tipton joined by REs Melton Duncan, Steve Dowling & Bob Mattes to discuss the implications, accomplishments, and significance of this year's #PCAGA.
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