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FATHERS & BROTHERS: "I Wanted to Be a Bodybuilder" - Jeff Stivason talks to Jim McCarthy

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Release Date: 05/06/2025

Reports from the ARP & OPC Meetings w/Ben Glaser & Chris Drew show art Reports from the ARP & OPC Meetings w/Ben Glaser & Chris Drew

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Ministers from the ARP and OPC, Ben Glaser and Chris Drew, join us for reports about their recent synod and assembly. We also discussed issues of kinism and race realism on the margins of the presbyterian and Reformed world and Glaser's statement on these issues, which was commended by both the RPCNA and the PCA. Watch:

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AI enhancement helped us overcome an audio disaster (which we explain in the intro and allows us to share this conversaton with long-time ruling elder Melton Duncan and pastor Nick Bullock, who joined us for a review of the just-completed PCA in Chattanooga, TN and for a preview of the PCA study committees just instituted, including one on Christian Nationalism. Special thanks to Stephen Spinnenweber for allowing us to turn his luxury suite into Presbycast Studio Two for the week. Mel Duncan is a cradle presbyter who serves Calvary Presbytery as clerk and is on staff as a ruling elder at...

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RE Matt Fender discussses the actions of the overtures and assesses the tone and tenor of the proceedings on day zero of the PCA General Assembly, which officially opens on 6/24/2025. Watch:

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Live from the Presbaru—commentary on a former PCA minister's appeal to undo the action of accepting the Stated Clerk's retirement...and it comes at a very bad time, just days before the opening of the PCA General Assembly. Here's the article:

info_outline FATHERS & BROTHERS: Turning the Ear Into an Eye FATHERS & BROTHERS: Turning the Ear Into an Eye" - Dr. Neil Stewart talks to Jim McCarthy

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Dr. Neil Stewart has served churches in the ARP and PCA for the last 22 years and is currently the pastor of the historic Frist Presbyterian Church in Columbia, SC. He has contributed to a handful of theological magazines and books including A Pastor’s Heart, the Life and Ministry of Harry Reeder. You can access his excellent sermons .  If you like this show, you’ll love Greenville Seminary’s new podcast, the Dead Presbyterians Society. This podcast is built on a very simple conviction: in order to be faithful in the present, we must be rooted in the past. The old...

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Four PCA ministers join us to discuss the scintillating practices of minute-keeping, records review, and confessional subscription....and it was a hundred times more exciting than that sounds! Thanks to pastors Matt Adams, Jonathan Brooks, Ryan Biese, and Jason Piland.  Watch:

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This sermon was preached on 6/8/2025 by Dr. C.N. "Nick" Willborn, senior pastor at Covenant PCA, Oak Ridge, TN. We love to share teaching on worship, the church, and the offices since sermons on these subjects are somewhat rare. Dr. Willborn is widely considered to be an authority on the office of deacon and has written extensively on the subject. The opening music is an a capella verse of Psalm 150C from the Trinity Psalter Hymnal.

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PCA pastor and former GA moderator Fred Greco shares advice on important overtures to the upcoming assembly and provides a user's guide for new presbyters, spectators, or viewers of the assembly.  Watch:

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Pastors Scott Edburg and Jared Nelson of the Polity Matters podcast join us along with Presbygirl Zoe Miller to wade through a flood of overtures for the 2025 PCA General Assembly. See all the overtures here: Watch:  

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Dr. Sean Morris, associate pastor of Covenant PCA of Oak Ridge, TN, preaches on the ascension from Acts 1:1-11. 

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Jeff Stivason has served Christ and his church as a gospel minister for the past 30 years. He currently pastors Grace Reformed Presbyterian Church in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, and teaches New Testament Studies at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He also serves on the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals board and as the editor of Reformation21. Check out his sermons here and his articles here and here.  Also, listen to our RPCNA brothers sing Psalm 100 here.

Brothers in ministry, Greenville Seminary invites you to their 2025 Summer Seminar: Contemporary Challenges in Pastoral Ministry. Carl Trueman and David Hall will join us on campus for a series of lectures on preaching, pastoral communication, pastoring and people, and the pastor's personal life. August 5-7 in Greenville, SC. Registration is $125/person. You can sign up here.

Special thanks to Nathan Clark George for our opening and closing instrumental. Nathan serves as the Pastor of Worship alongside Kevin DeYoung at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, NC. You can access Nathan's fantastic catalog here.