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Just a couple of PCA Teaching Elders doing Teaching Elder things! You love to see it.
A new episode of "Reformed by the Word: A P&R Podcast" is available from @prpbooks. Dr. Douglas Sean O'Donnell (of @crossway) and I had a wide-ranging discussion on strategies for reading Ecclesiastes, important literary and theological features, and points of application. I especially enjoyed our sidebar on the Protestant work ethic! Take a listen on @Spotify, @ApplePodcasts, @amazonmusic, or wherever you stream your podcasts. Links in thread below...
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It is so encouraging to see the regional church courts following the General Assembly's directive to hosts days of fasting and prayer. Kudos to @CalvaryPresby
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What are the "three Ms" of church revitalization?
Missional Champion (MC)
Money
Manpower
Read the article linked in the thread below for information on how they work together in the renewal, restoration, and reformation of local churches.
If you love Presbyterianism (and biblical church polity), consider supporting this historic LITERAL “Old School Presbyterian” church. Antioch (est. 1843) has experienced a recent revitalization-by-reorganization: a true Presbyterian story.
From @GeorgeSayour - "While unbelieving visitors will not understand all the terms and things that are being said, and may not know about the characters being referenced, they ought to leave our churches with it clear in their mind that we love Jesus..." Read more in link 👇
Presbyterian church-planting should be thoroughly biblical, Christian, and Presbyterian.
But we repeat ourselves.
If the PCA is going to become a more vital church-planting body in the future, what is it going to take? What needs to characterize our church-planting efforts? Three essentials must mark our efforts: missional clarity, proactive integrity, and compelling leadership.
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One of the most revealing features of modern life is that abundance does not seem to have made us more content. Our standard of living would have appeared almost utopian to earlier generations, yet we remain restless, anxious, and dissatisfied. - RE Rich Leino
Link below
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The Church has wrestled for centuries with how women should participate in its ministries of mercy and service... But that is not the same as saying the Church has debated for two thousand years whether men and women should be ordained interchangeably to a common diaconal office.
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Read more from RE Rich Leino here: pcapolity.com/2026/09/01/the…
Looks like a great resource for our Presbyterian churches, men's groups, and families!
Provide and Protect by my friend @BrianCosby18 is now available for purchase (on @amazon and B&N - links in thread below). I heartily endorse this new book, and Antioch Presbyterian Church - PCA will be using it in our Men of the Covenant ministry.
Here's what I had to say about it: "In Provide and Protect, Brian Cosby has given men a field manual for countering the three-headed spiritual insurgency of wokeness, weakness, and compromise so prevalent in our society (and churches) today. There are many helpful books out there on leadership, personal discipline, work, and masculinity from both biblical and not-so-biblical perspectives. What sets Provide and Protect apart is its usefulness as a balanced theoretico-practical manual for how to be about the daily business of taking on the cultural forces that are poisoning and emasculating modern men who know they were made to exercise Christ-exalting dominion where God has placed them. As a guide for pursuing a truly biblical masculinity, I cannot think of a better resource out there today. May it be used by men of good faith to great effect in our families, churches, workplaces, schools, and commonwealth."
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RE Joshua Torrey puts forward an argument in favor of Item 1 before our presbyteries this year. Read in link below:
"The difficulty, as I see it, is not merely that Protestant views no longer dominate the public square. It is also that the very structures of local community have weakened so dramatically that the church is often expected to replace what has disappeared."
Read more in thread:
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"In this 250th anniversary year of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Penn, we thank You for the United States of America and the “state of liberty” which You, our covenant-keeping God, have graciously established and preserved in this land."
Very important thread/question. Think about it.
Who did you find yourself on the other side of an issue at #pcaga that you give thanks for and respect?
We should thank God for those of good character we disagree with at General Assembly, as Thomas Murphy once wrote:
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During Thursday's business, the 53rd General Assembly of the PCA formally thanked God for the United States of America on the 250th Anniversary of the Nation's Founding. Moderator Mel Duncan then invited TE Zachary Groff to offer a prayer from the Assembly floor. Link to text 👇
May and June already have proven exciting for churchmen of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), and this coming week promises to bring us together for vigorous deliberation. What is a commissioner to do to get the most out of, or give the most into, the 53rd GA?
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"I believe the function of who is to shepherd the church is clearly taught in Scripture." - TE Thomas Rickard in "Christ's Officers Are Sufficient"
More quotes & link in thread below
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