Mothers & Sisters - "Never Say Never" - Kerry Anderson Talks to Kristin Pickett
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Kristin Pickett is married to Jesse, pastor & planter of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Hilliard, FL.
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Hart, Clark, and Gordon on Machen's Concern for the Church and the Gospel
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Drs. D.G. Hart, R. Scott Clark, and T. David Gordon react to a 1925 letter from J. Gresham Machen to a Southern presbyterian missionary. We talked about how the correspondence shed light on Machen the man and his past, present, and future as a growing churchman, as well as pragmatism, respectability, church decline, and the temptation to compromise. See and read the letter here: Watch:
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Machen Day 2026 - A Letter to a Southern Churchman
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For the 145th anniversary of Machen's birth, here's a reading, with brief comments, of Machen's 1925 letter to a southern pastor and missionary. Stay tuned for a full episode on the context and implications of this letter. Read (and see) it here:
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Fathers & Brothers - "You Can Eat Without a Stomach" - Cancer Survivor Pastor Evan Gear
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Jim McCarthy talks to cancer survivor Evan Gear, associate pastor at Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, GA. 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 .
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The Duncan Brothers - Mel, John, & Ligon on Loving the PCA & Presbyterianism
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PCA elders Mel, John, and Ligon Duncan, three scions of an intensely presbyterian family, join us to talk about their love for the church and each other. You'll want to hear what they have to say about the past, present, and future of the PCA. Watch:
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PCAGA Day Zero: The Kentucky Chainsaw Massacre (of Overtures)
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First-time Overtures Committee member ruling elder BL Peters joins us briefly to review day zero of the 2026 PCA General Assembly in Louisville, KY, where the committee dealt (sometimes harshly) with about half of the 91 overtures submitted this year. Enjoy the old-time technical difficulties that are always associated with GA live shows! Stay tuned for more wrap-up shows this week. Watch:
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Happy 90 Years of the OPC & 10 Years of Presbycast w/Darryl & Chris
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We celebrate 90 years of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church with pastor Chris Drew and ruling elder D.G. Hart, review the just-completed OPC General Assembly, and talk about 10 years of Presbycast with these men, two of our most prolific guests. A good and ecumenical time was had by all, most of the time. Watch:
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Fathers & Brothers - "I Am My Father's Son" - Mel Duncan Talks with Jim McCarthy
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Ruling elder Mel Duncan is the church administrator at Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC. He has served his church, presbytery, and the Presbyterian Church in America for decades and comes from a notable family of "intense presbyterian" churchmen. Be sure to register for Greenville Seminary's GA lunch on Wednesday June 24th . 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 .
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The ARP Report on Kinism & Race Realism with Ben Glaser & DeMyron Haynes
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ARP pastor Ben Glaser and PCA pastor DeMyron Haynes join us to talk about the draft report on kinism and race realism prepared for the upcoming Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church synod. Watch: Report:
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Fathers & Brothers - "Pray More" - Peter VanDoodewaard Talks to Jim McCarthy
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Peter Van Doodewaard has served as the Pastor of Covenant Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Taylors, South Carolina for 18 years. Check out his excellent sermons . Also, be sure to register for Greenville Seminary's GA lunch on Wednesday June 24th . 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 .
info_outlineWe talk worship with pastors Aaron De Boer and Dr. Sean Morris with special attention to liturgy and practicalities that promote reverence and awe with Westminster's Directory for Worship as our guide.
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNxWFYs8QZk
A portion of the text:
Of the Assembling of the Congregation, and their Behaviour in the Publick Worship of God
WHEN the congregation is to meet for publick worship, the people (having before prepared their hearts thereunto) ought all to come and join therein; not absenting themselves from the publick ordinance through negligence, or upon pretence of private meetings.
Let all enter the assembly, not irreverently, but in a grave and seemly manner, taking their seats or places without adoration, or bowing themselves towards one place or other.
The congregation being assembled, the minister, after solemn calling on them to the worshipping of the great name of God, is to begin with prayer.
“In all reverence and humility acknowledging the incomprehensible greatness and majesty of the Lord, (in whose presence they do then in a special manner appear,) and their own vileness and unworthiness to approach so near him, with their utter inability of themselves to so great a work; and humbly beseeching him for pardon, assistance, and acceptance, in the whole service then to be performed; and for a blessing on that particular portion of his word then to be read: And all in the name and mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
The publick worship being begun, the people are wholly to attend upon it, forbearing to read any thing, except what the minister is then reading or citing; and abstaining much more from all private whisperings, conferences, salutations, or doing reverence to any person present, or coming in; as also from all gazing, sleeping, and other indecent behaviour, which may disturb the minister or people, or hinder themselves or others in the service of God.
If any, through necessity, be hindered from being present at the beginning, they ought not, when they come into the congregation, to betake themselves to their private devotions, but reverently to compose themselves to join with the assembly in that ordinance of God which is then in hand.