Aquila Report Weekly Review: Recent Episodes

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1. An Open Letter to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC)
2. Courage in the PCA
3. RE Steve Dowling Elected Moderator of the 51st PCA General Assembly
4. Covenant Presbytery Apologizes, Bringing Closure to Jonesboro 7 Ordeal
5. Was Jesus in the Grave for Three Days?
6. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
7. Why Teachers are Fleeing Public Schools
8. Are Israel and the Church Two Distinct Peoples of God?
9. Intinction
10. As for Those Rich in Books in this Present Age

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1. A Sidelight on a Recent Controversy in the Presbyterian Church in America: The Church’s Independence Asserted
2. Update on Overtures to the 51st General Assembly
3. The Methodist Surrender
4. Apple’s ‘Crushing’ of the Good and Beautiful Is Step One in Demanding Our Compliance
5. Honorable Conduct in the “Negative World”
6. And So It Begins. What Was Predicted on Assisted Dying Has Come to Pass
7. What Should We Think about Paedocommunion?
8. American Missionaries Killed by Haitian Gangs
9. Evangelical Worship and Chronological Snobbery
10. Leading Together: Elder Teaming Together to Shepherd the Flock

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1. The Most Significant Edit to the Declaration of Independence
2. How Pop Nietzscheanism Masquerades as Christianity
3. This, Too, Could Pass: Christian Group’s Rule Keeping Beaches Closed on Sunday Mornings May End
4. Introducing the Bible Answers Project
5. The NFL’s Condemnation of Harrison Butker Exemplifies the Left’s Anti-Christian Bigotry
6. Book Review: The (Not-so-Secret) Secret to Reaching the Next Generation
7. Respond to Conflict Like Francis Schaeffer
8. Harrison Butker Is Right
9. Why We Need Critical Theory
10. Do Not Be Conformed to the World of Sports: Relearning How We Think about, Feel, and do Sports as Christians (Part 2)

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1. Presbyterian Church In America Invites Professional Polarizer David French To Lecture Christians On Getting Along
2. What The Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Are Really About
3. Culturally Respectable Racism
4. Well, that Didn’t Take Long
5. Stonewall Jackson: Saved by Providence
6. A Review: ‘A Christian Guide to Mental Illness’ by David Murray and Tom Karel Jr
7. Paedo-Baptism, Yes; Paedo-Communion, No.
8. Providence Christian College Board Calls Dr. Steven B. Kortenhoeven As President
9. Will the End of Protestantism be the End of America?
10. Overture 26 to Assist the Accused To Be Considered By the 51st PCA General Assembly

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1. America’s Campus Meltdown
2. The Church Should Mind Its Spiritual Business
3. The Evolution of Protestant Politics
4. Learning from The Exvangelicals
5. Do Not Deprive One Another
6. Something Must Be Done Syndrome
7. The Futureproof Leader
8. Entertainment and the Death of a Culture
9. How Plain-Spoken Courage Can Move the Overton Window
10. Saying It Out Loud

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1. Postmillennialism: A Reply to Doug Wilson
2. The Gateway Drug To Post-Christian Paganism
3. Lessons Learned from a Wolf Attack
4. Against Brokenness Theology
5. Dystopia Check-In
6. About That One Barth Quote
7. The Real Function of Third Way Rhetoric
8. Salvation Out, Self-Help In
9. Book Review: ‘Two Cities, Two Loves Christian: Responsibility in a Crumbling Culture’
10. Wholesome Protestant Doctrine

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1. Postmillennialism: A Reply to Doug Wilson
2. The Gateway Drug To Post-Christian Paganism
3. Lessons Learned from a Wolf Attack
4. Against Brokenness Theology
5. Dystopia Check-In
6. About That One Barth Quote
7. The Real Function of Third Way Rhetoric
8. Salvation Out, Self-Help In
9. Book Review: ‘Two Cities, Two Loves Christian: Responsibility in a Crumbling Culture’
10. Wholesome Protestant Doctrine

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1. Carl Trueman on Trump vs Biden
2. Reasons to Oppose Background Checks in the PCA
3. A Brief Review: “The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story”
4. The Dangerous Logic of Hate Crimes
5. About “Close” Confessional Communion
6. We Need to Support the PCA’s Agencies
7. 10 Lesser-Known References to Jesus in the Old Testament
8. As Christianity Declines, We Must Confront the Threat of Pagan America
9. A Stone of Stumbling and a Rock of Offense: A Response to President Trump’s New Pro-Choice, State’s Rights Position on Abortion
10. As a Bloke, I Had a ‘Barbie’ Moment Reading This Book on Masculinity

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1. Jesus Calling: The PCA’s Yuck Factor
2. Complementarian Confessional Conflagration
3. A Review of Kevin DeYoung’s ‘Impossible Christianity’
4. Why Modern Prophecy Is False and God’s Word Is Inerrant and Sufficient: A Response to Sam Storms
5. When “Helping” Kids Hurts Them
6. Do Nine Out of Ten Churched Students Actually Drop out of Church after High School?
7. Institutional Triage
8. Assisted Suicide and the Happiness Imperative
9. Orthodoxy Is Not Optional
10. Song Lyrics Getting Simpler, More Repetitive, Angry and Self-Obsessed—Study

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1. Cru Employees Fired
2. What the EPC Can Learn from the PCA
3. A New and Rising Liberalism
4. When Evil Is Unmasked
5. 8 Characteristics Incompatible with Christian Contentment
6. Therapeutic Antinomianism
7. What’s Driving “Deconstruction”?
8. “Save Alive Nothing That Breathes”: How Should We Understand Divine Commands to Destroy? A Response to Paul Copan
9. Raising Neurotic Wrecks
10. Jackals in the Ruins

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1. It’s a Religious Movement, Not a Disease
2. Encouragement for Those Who Aren’t Resting on the Sabbath
3. It Eventually Comes to This
4. Against Requiring Background Checks
5. Phyllis Schlafly’s Tragic Failure
6. I Am One of The Eighty-Five Percent Who Did Not Persist in Pastoral Ministry
7. What God Is Jordan Peterson Wrestling With?
8. Woeful Woke Wonders Weakening the West
9. Antifragile Faith
10. Rumblings of Revival among Gen Z?

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1. Gender Confusion and the PCA
2. Presbyterian Church (USA) Considers Forcing LGBTQ Affirmation
3. SJC Announces Verdict in Metro New York Case
4. The Reformed Reckoning Continues
5. Further Thoughts on Wheaton College’s Institutional Fidelity
6. Exceptionalism in the PCA
7. The Dispensational Interpretation of the Revelation, with Amillennarian Replies
8. STDs in the USA
9. A Quarter of Mainline Methodist Churches Left the Denomination Last Year. Now What?
10. How Genesis Proves Postmillennialism

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1. A Ruling Elder Repents of Revoice Support, as Others Continue to Defend it
2. God’s Faithful Providences in Arkansas: An Addendum to the “Jonesboro 7” Series
3. The Predicted Push for Polyamory Is Out in Full Force
4. David Bahnsen Challenges Our View of Work and Retirement
5. On Consenting to Others’ Sins
6. The Verdict
7. Desecration at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
8. The Institutional Church, Spirituality and Christian Nationalism
9. He Was a Kind Man
10. A Crisis of Leadership and the Elder Solution (Part 1): Theology Is Upstream

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1. There Is No “Good News” in “He Gets Us”
2. He Gets Us Takes a Big “L” in the Superbowl
3. Controversy in the Church and the Evangelical Public Square
4. What Happened to the Young, Restless, and Reformed?
5. The Disco Church
6. This ‘He Saves Us’ Ad Redeems Everything Wrong with the ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl Spot
7. Ten Reasons Why a Christian Should Not Attend a Gay or Transgender Wedding
8. Covenant Baptism: A Primer for Baptists
9. What Happened When My Church Encountered Negative World
10. Playing Chicken with the Lord’s Day

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1. 4 Ways Jesus Fulfills Every Old Testament Promise
2. Thoughts on a Recent Accusation of Institutional Failure against Wheaton College
3. Greg Abbott, Alistair Begg, and the Law of Fashion
4. What Happened to the Asbury Revival?
5. True Compassion and LGBTQ Weddings
6. How Consumerism Trains Us to Devalue the Past
7. Who Ought to Read Scripture in Public Worship?
8. The Sabbath was Created for Man
9. Courageous Pastors or Overbearing Leaders: How Do We Tell the Difference?
10. The Hard, Valuable Art of Waiting

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1. Alistair Begg and the Loving Thing
2. Begg Digs a Deeper Hole
3. Chariots of Hire
4. A Response To “When the ‘Harvard of Christian Schools’ Goes Woke”
5. Can Christians Attend Gay Weddings?
6. When the ‘Harvard of Christian Schools’ Goes Woke
7. John MacArthur’s Lordship Salvation
8. Should Christians Attend “Gay Weddings”?
9. Groundhog Day. A critique of American culture
10. Ecclesiastical Suicide

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1. January 2024 BCO Amendments Update
2. 2016 All Over Again
3. The Film 1946 Is Wrong
4. Christians Are Not Being Persecuted in America – But That Doesn’t Mean All Is Well
5. PCA Petitions Biden Protesting Trans Surgeries for Minors: ‘Attempting the Impossible
6. Matching Actions and Words
7. Empathy, Feminism, and the Church
8. A Therapized Age
9. B. B. Warfield: On Christless Christianity
10. The Most Noble Profession

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1. Jesus Calling, “PCA, Lament and Repent!”
2. Do You Have a Pornographic Style of Relating?
3. GRACE Report and Tenth Presbyterian Church
4. Four Christian Practices for Surviving Artificial Intelligence
5. Reflections on the Evangelical Fracturing, Ten Years In
6. “Losing Our Religion” and the Fracturing of American Evangelicalism
7. Cremation or Burial: Why I’m Not Convinced It Matters Nearly as Much as Some Think
8. Israel and the Future
9. How to Properly Wrestle a Church Opossum
10. Calvin’s Political Theology Revisited

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1. It Doesn’t Work: Reformed Church in America
2. The Resistance Will Be Organized
3. Committee Report on Church Music
4. Damned be the Ties that Bind
5. Where are the Peaceable Presbyters?
6. Lessons from the Lutheran Tradition for 2024
7. How Not to be a Grumpy Old Man or Woman
8. Review: “Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot”
9. The Ruling Elder & the Ministry of Prayer
10. Destroying Marriage in Order to Save It

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1. Why Are Wilson’s Children Warriors?
2. 5 Days Per Week Bible Reading Program for 2024
3. Questions a Pastor Doesn’t Want to Ask
4. Naomi Wolf Wants Us to ‘Face the Beast’
5. Antichrist Blesses Same Sex Couples
6. The Pope, Same Sex Blessings, and Protestants
7. Some Conservatives Hate CRT for Wrong Reasons
8. Noah and the Curse of Ham
9. God Created with Functional Maturity, Not “Appearance of Age”

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1. Wilson’s Warrior Children
2. World Vision Serves as Stark Warning to Christian Ministries
3. On Satire, Moods, and What We’re Known For
4. The Mainline Question
5. Don’t Think about Pink Elephants: When Gay Conservatives Go Rogue on Orthodox Christianity
6. Debunking Popular Christmastime Myths: Temple Shepherds, Migdal Eder, and Swaddling Lambs
7. The Complicated Legacy of a Bishop Who Was Sincerely Wrong
8. No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men (Book Review)

9. Robust Biblical Theology Runs Along Diagonal Lines

10. Bill Gothard on Visualization as “One of the Most Basic Aspects of Faith”

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1. I Love My Transgender Child. I Love Jesus More.
2. One of the Most Remarkable Features of Early Christian Manuscripts
3. Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali Became a Christian
4. The Post-Christian Media Is Enormously Ignorant about Christianity
5. A Biblical Eldership Is a Male Only Eldership
6. Reformed Worship & Presbyterian Viability
7. Lamenting the Church Plant Fad
8. Celebrating Christmas B. B. Warfield
9. Daniel’s Prophecy of the Seventy Sevens: A Reformed Two-Advent View (Dan. 9:24–27)
10. The Ancient Paths, John Gill’s Four P’s of Masculinity

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1. No, I AM Spiritually Closer With Evangelicals Who Reject Certain Tenets Of “Classical Theism” Than With Classical Trinitarians Who Reject The Reformed Doctrine Of Justification
2. Protestants Need to Go Back to Basics
3. November 2023 BCO Amendments Update
4. Just What is Involved in Protestants Going Back to Basics? Reflections Spurred by Carl Trueman’s Recent Appeal
5. On Culture War, Doug Wilson, and the Moscow Mood
6. Ten Formative Books
7. Israel, Hamas, and Evangelicals
8. The Marxist Origin of Wokism
9. A Polytheistic Empire – A New Experiment About to Fail?
10. The Rise of Ethical Cannibalism

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1. Post Mortem: Lessons from a Failed Church Plant
2. Christianity and Functional Liberalism (or How Evangelicalism Denies the Faith)
3. What If a Criminal Justice System Isn’t Actually Just?
4. Polymorphous Perversity in the Heartland
5. The First Thanksgiving, Edward Winslow, 1621
6. A Simple, Sobering Explanation of Our Sick Society
7. What Makes an Ideal Elder?
8. This Is My Father’s World
9. The Curious Rise in Disability: How Changing Language Alters the Nature of Reality
10. Are Evangelicals Selling Their Souls for Israel?

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1. Reflections on the ‘Jonesboro 7’ and A Case for Church Discipline
2. The Slow Death of the Christian West
3. Four Perspectives on the Current Middle East Crisis
4. None But Zion’s Children Know
5. History of Membership Vows, Presbyterian Church in America
6. Lessons From the Soviets about Sexual Morality
7. Book Review: Butterfield and Five Lies of Our Age
8. Whence Eve?
9. Israel’s Last Battle: Ezekiel 38–39
10. Liturgical Legos and Gospel Logic

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1. The “Jonesboro 7” Submit to Edicts of Session
2. Why We have a 37 Page Doctrinal Statement
3. PCA’s Judicial Commission Vindicates the “Jonesboro 7,” Cites Abuse by Session
4. Contrasting Perspectives on the Land
5. Intersectionality Devolves
6. The Very Heart of the Reformation
7. Remember Sybil
8. The LGBTQ+ Appeal: A Perfect Storm for Gen Z
9. The Quest for Male Community
10. The Scottish Reformation

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1. Covenant Presbytery Denies Appeal of Jonesboro 7 Finding No Errors in Session Trial
2. Trial at IPC Memphis for the “Jonesboro 7”
3. The Church and Israel in the New Testament
4. An Assessment of Andy Stanley’s Unconditional Conference
5. Is It Wrong to Have Sex before Marriage?
6. Tension in Our Polity: A History of the Assistant Pastor
7. Thoughts on the Israel-Hamas War
8. Civilizational Suicide
9. 3 Core Beliefs of the Transgender Movement
10. Speaking Truth to Trans-Captured Public School Boards

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1. Lessons from “The Jonesboro Decision”
2. Transferring Church Membership is not a Violation of the Presbyterian Church in America’s Membership Vows: A Gentle Rejoinder to an Earnest Man
3. The “Jonesboro 7” Indicted for “Imagined” Sin
4. When Being Affirming Isn’t Loving
5. Can a Temporary Session Impose a Pastor on a Church Plant?
6. Critical Grace Theory
7. My Take on the Hamas Attack on Israel
8. In Contemplation of the Roman Empire
9. Distinguishing Marks of a Quarrelsome Person
10. Is Israel the Chosen People of God?

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1. 5 Warning Signs That a Pastor has Not Been Truly Called by God
2. Andy Stanley’s Version of Christianity
3. Christian Nationalism and Blasphemy Laws
4. Streams in the Desert: Burning Man, 2023
5. Can We Really Believe in Demonic Possession?
6. Misreading Scripture Cross-Culturally
7. Reject Ritual Masking
8. Take Heed Whom You Celebrate: Thoughts on John Brown and Evangelical Attitudes About Him
9. Genesis: Bible Authors Believed It to Be History
10. Euthanasia: Would It Bother Us More If They Used Pillows?

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1. It Doesn’t Work: Presbyterian Church USA
2. Ministry Moves Reported in 2023
3. The Cluster B Society
4. Not Augustinian Enough
5. The Secular Son Of Progressive Christianity
6. Taylor Swift’s Popularity Is a Sign of Societal Decline
7. But Johnny Can’t Spell G-A-Y
8. The Great Schism of 1054
9. When Genuine Obedience Becomes Impossible, Hell Becomes Impossible as Well
10. Definition of Puritanism

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

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

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

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1. David C. Lachman (1939-2023): A Tribute
2. Politics, the Church, and Getting Our Story Straight
3. 3 Questions to Ask When Trying to Find a Good Church
4. Loneliness, Despair, and the Christian Countermeasure
5. Reflections on Reformed Catholicity as Commonly Conceived
6. Procreating Alone
7. Are Children Now Creatures of the State?
8. Don’t Blame Your Sins on Montana: Our Climate of “Cost-Free Moral Preening”
9. Killing the Schoolmaster
10. Book Review: The Christian Manifesto

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1. My Complicated Feelings about Tim Keller
2. Why The Gospel Centered Movement Failed
3. The Death of Church and Pub
4. Am I a Kinist?
5. Missionary Died Thinking He was a Failure; 84 Years Later Thriving Churches Found Hidden in the Jungle
6. Head Coverings: An Opportunity to Encourage in a Day of Confusion
7. The Creator’s Authorized Realistic Account of Creation: Interpretation of Genesis 1–3 Is Neither Literal nor Figurative
8. Morning & Evening in the PCA
9. Wokism: The New Pagan Morality
10. Should I Leave My Critical Text Church

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1. Why Some Evangelicals Are Embracing Racism2. Considering Westminster’s “Recreations” Clause3. So It Begins: PCA Presbyteries to Vote on BCO Amendments4. Queering a Tudor Warship5. Become a Theological Myth Buster6. Is Paedocommunion Biblical?7. The Prayer Life of Stonewall Jackson8. Conservatives’ Bud Light Boycott has been One of the Most Successful in Recent History9. Marriage and Parental Consent10. Wasn’t Christianity in Africa a Result of Colonialism?

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1. Russell Moore Loses His Religion
2. Review: Losing Our Religion
3. Somber Thoughts on a Contemporary Difficulty in the Evangelical Churches
4. Avoiding a Second Civil War
5. The Reformation of Worship
6. Not Without Prayer
7. Reformed Worship and the Regulative Principle of Worship
8. Canada’s Suicidal Slide
9. Two Kinds of Sermons that Seem Expositional but Really Aren’t
10. Worshipping God’s Way: Deuteronomy 12 and the Regulative Principle

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1. Big Eva Says Out with Complementarianism, In with Anti-Fundamentalism
2. Officials Charge Retired CRC Pastor In 1975 Cold Case Murder Of Delco 8-Year-Old
3. When Biology Matters, Sort Of
4. Irony & the PCA: Analyzing Growth
5. Our Ancient Challenges
6. 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 God
9. Foundations of Biblical Worship
10. “Avoid Such People”

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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, 2023
2 = 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

1. 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

2. 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

3. https://theaquilareport.com/goodbye-local-church/Goodbye Local Church?The Christian ConsumerWritten by John Benton | Thursday, July 20, 2023

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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,

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1. The PCA’s Principle on Non-communing Members – A Halfway Covenant?
2. Music at the GA and the PCA
3. Why Are So Many of Our Youth Identifying as LGBTQ+?
4. The Story of Us
5. Fellowship Before and After Sunday Services
6. 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 Will
9. Little Voices in the Pews
10. Of Atheists and Oaths

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1. Movie Review: Nefarious
2. An Excerpt from “Irony and the Presbyterian Church in America,” An Informed History of the First Half Century of the PCA
3. Heresy at the Heart of Derek Webb’s “Boys Will Be Girls”
4. Abuse, the PCA, and Her Constitution
5. PCA Minister George C. Miladin, 88, Called Home to Glory
6. Uganda and Its Opposition to LGBTQ Normalization
7. The Trans Tide Is Turning
8. Problems with Preferred Pronouns
9. Faith, Family, and Church Community See Jeff and Mariah Windt Through the Challenges of Aphasia: Chapters 2-4
10. Reinterpreting Church History: A Response to Mimi Haddad, “History Matters”

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1. Summary Report of the Christian Reformed Church Synod 2023 2. A Summary Report of the Reformed Presbyterian Church Synod 2023 3. Ruling Elder Renaissance 4. Queering Jesus: How It’s Going Mainstream at Progressive Churches and Top Divinity Schools 5. Toe the Government Line or Lose Your Kids 6. Encouragements from the Jubilee Assembly 7. 3 Things a Christian Should Consider Before Serving in the Military 8. Two Sexes, Created to Be Distinct 9. There Are Plenty of Good Fish in the Sea 10. Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Colorado Graphic Designer Who Refused To Create Same-Sex Wedding Websites

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1. PCA GA 50: Summary of 20 Key Events & Highlights
2. Report on the PCA’s Jubilee Assembly
3. A Political View of the PCA Jubilee General Assembly
4. Retraction Refused: The PCA’s Magazine Stands By Its Claims in David Cassidy’s “Prayer and Work in the Face of Violence”
5. 2023 Orthodox Presbyterian Church General Assembly Report – UPDATED
6. Thoughts on Female Deacons
7. How Should We Then Repent? A Response to “COVID-19 Reflection”
8. PCA Elders and Members Were ‘Fools for Christ’ At the First Annual GA Evangelistic Outreach
9. Christianity & Progressivism: A Pastor’s Perspective
10. A Confession Rejected and a Denomination Undone

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1. COVID-19 Reflection
2. Final Tally From PCA Presbyteries on Overture 15
3. Rick Warren Knows Exactly What He Is Doing
4. Thoughts on the ARP Special Committee on Women Deacons Study
5. PCA Post-Memphis: Revive or Divide?
6. PCA Officers & Their Pronouns
7. Second Thoughts About the Proposed Witness Overtures
8. As a Christian, I Went Down the AI Rabbit Hole. Here Are 12 Things I Discovered.
9. Contextualization
10. Thoughts on the Church’s True Nature and Mission: A Partial Rejoinder to Larry Ball’s Challenge to the Spirituality of the Church

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1. Tell the PCA’s Magazine to Issue a Retraction
2. The PCA—Tent or House?
3. We Are Already Defeated
4. Words as Weapons: Why We Must Stand Our Ground over Pronouns
5. Something is Amiss
6. Schaeffer: “We Live in a Post-Christian World. Do Not Take This Lightly!”
7. A Challenge to the “Spirituality of the Church”
8. The Different Shades of Christian Nationalism
9. Did the Puritans Agree on Eschatology?
10. Girls and the Transgender “Hockey Stick”

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1. PCA Minister, Rev. Harry Reeder, Briarwood Senior Pastor, Killed in Car Accident
2. Tim Keller Called Home to Glory
3. Schools in the Presbyterian Church in America
4. Machen and the PCA Today
5. A Response to an Employer’s Request for Pronouns
6. Defending the Idol
7. The Two-Kingdoms Theology and Christians Today
8. The Emergence of a New Paganism: An Interview with Chantal Delsol
9. UMC Bishops Request 2026 General Conference as Hundreds More Churches Disaffiliate
10. Faithful, Fruitful, and Forgotten

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1. Scott Sauls, Author and Nashville Pastor, Placed on Indefinite Leave of Absence
2. Dennis Prager’s Troubling Defense of Pornography
3. So Calling God “Mother” Is No Big Deal After All?
4. A Resilient Church on the Fringe
5. 9 Microstresses of a Pastor
6. Arkansas Enacts Given Name Act.
7. Scott Sauls: Apologist for Homosexual Christianity?
8. The Great Hope of Amillennialism
9. REVOLT: 85% of Anglican Leaders Reject Head Bishop of the 3rd-Largest Christian Denomination
10. On Invasions of the Church

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1. The PCA’s Denominational Magazine Goes Political: A Rejoinder to David Cassidy’s “Prayer and Work in the Face of Violence” at By Faith Online
2. Targeting Transgenderism: Two Overtures to the PCA 50th GA
3. Conservative Presbyterians Lay Out Why Mainline Cousins Are Losing Members: ‘Supernatural Battle’
4. An Overture on Titles & Ordination
5. Collusion in Blatant Misogyny
6. Collective Cowardice: The Key to the Transgender Movement’s Success
7. Redeeming Neverland: The Question of Shame & the Crisis of Agency Facing Modern Men
8. A Newly Published Resource for Presbyters
9. A “Reset” of the Anglican Communion
10. Common Good Men

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1. Are There Trustworthy Protestant Universities?
2. America’s Imperial Ideology
3. The Lord’s Day Minimum Daily Requirement… Beggars Should Be Choosers (Part 3)
4. Don’t Leave Well Enough Alone: Why I Am Preaching at Satancon
5. Bruce Pardy: Agatha Christie Revisions are the Writing on the Wall
6. Our Lost Boys
7. Book Review: Understanding Ex-Christian America
8. In Praise of the Boring, Uncool Church
9. As Chasm Widens, Traditional Anglicans Plot Faithful Future
10. How Will Christianity Survive During Dark Times?

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1Parents and the Apostacy of Covenant Children

2Female Pastors, LGBTQ, and the Future of the SBC

3Forgiving Each Other with God’s Immanence and Transcendence: A Corporate Call for Doctrine (Part Two)

4Does The Church of England Need Evangelicals?

5On Naivete and Moral Numbness: A Rejoinder to Russell Moore

6To Whom Will You Liken Me? The Biblical Prohibition of Images (Part 1)

7Does Singleness Show Heaven?

8An Overview of “Embracing the Journey: A Christian Parents’ Blueprint to Loving Your LGBTQ Child” (2)

9A Pastoral Response to Gender Confusion: Caring for Those Caught in the LGBTQ Religion

10The Secret Benefit of Depression

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1. A Time to Keep Silence: A Dissenting Perspective on the Nashville Massacre
2. A Tsunami Warning for the SBC
3. Why I No Longer Use Transgender Pronouns—And Why You Shouldn’t, Either.
4. The Deep Heaven of The Gay Gods
5. Partial Preterists: Don’t Fudge
6. Are We The Byzantines?
7. The Beauty of Biblically Broad Complementarianism
8. Were Later Versions of Christianity Radically Different than Earlier Ones? Reflecting on Recent Scholarly Claims
9. “If Christ Is Not Risen…” — 8 Implications of Denying the Resurrection
10. Worship That Is Holy And Heavy

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1. Shooter Kills Three Children, Three Adults at Private Christian School in Nashville
2. Light to Dispel Darkness: The Gospel’s Hope Arising From A Senseless Act
3. Poking Holes in the Egalitarian Beachball: 7 Arguments against Female Pastors
4. Is It Loving for a Faithful Christian to Go to a “Gay Wedding”?
5. Everyone I Don’t Like is Literally Gothard
6. Jesus Revolution Presents a Relevant Revival
7. Preterism: Exposition and Critique
8. The Reality & Hope of Sanctification
9. On Images of Christ
10. Courage To Be Christian

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1. Why Do Parents of Gay Children Change Their Theological Minds
2. The Second Life of a Christian College in Manhattan Nears Its End
3. Taking a Dog by the Ears
4. The Comfort of His Coming: An Amillennial Interpretation 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:10, With a Critique of the Dispensational Interpretation of Dr. John MacArthur
5. Department of Education to Remove Protections for Religious Campus Groups
6. Christ or Chords? The Manipulated Emotionalism of Hillsong, Asbury, and Pentecostalized Evangelical Worship
7. On Culture, Caesar, and Biblical Critical Theory
8. Paul’s Teaching on Male Elders in 1 Timothy 2–3
9. Living Selflessly with Your Wife
10. PCA Minister Roland Barnes Reflects on 42 Years of Meals, Missions, And Memories

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1. How The Side B Project Failed
2. The Egalitarian Beachball is a Church Wrecking Ball
3. Learning Lessons From Scandals Close to Home
4. The Gospel Cancelation
5. The Scandal of “The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind”
6. A Wholesome Controversy? Please
7. Wokism and Silent Preachers – A Redux of Hitler’s Germany
8. An Essential Tenet Of Reformed Theology Is Determinism; The Reformed Need To Embrace It
9. Two Narratives Collided In A Wood
10. St. Patrick and His Confession

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1. You Reap What You Sow: The PCA’s Internal Difficulties and Membership Losses2. Unmasking Abusive Spiritual Leadership Part I: Shunning3. Tucker Carlson Calls Out the ‘Professional Christians’4. A Plea for Patience in the PCA (1)5. Unmasking Abusive Spiritual Leadership Part II: Marks of Hypocrisy6. Church Abuse Activism? Easy Targets and Misused Critiques7. Revival at Asbury: A Cold Take8. A Plea for Patience in the PCA (2)9. The Muddy Waters of the Enneagram10. The Church’s Two Laws

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1. Overture 15 Is Dead – Should We Now Leave the PCA?2. Mainline Presbyterianism & the LGBTQ Movement3. Machen Was Doomed, But The PCA Is Not4. Answering Objections to Saddleback’s Removal from the SBC5. 5 Things You Should Know about the Doctrine of the Trinity6. 8 Steps to Prepare Before Confronting Your Husband’s Use of Pornography7. The Gospel Preacher On The Titanic8. The Grammys Go Deeper9. Purpose Is No Substitute for Public Respect10. The Acts 13 Model

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1. Overture 15 Has Failed. It’s Time to Reconsider the Nature of the Debate2. Where is LeCroy’s Secret Council Meeting?3. PCA Sturm und Drang On The Horizon?4. Slander, For Unity’s Sake5. The Modernist Conflict in the American Church6. Wokeness Is Coming for Classical Christian Education7. Andy Stanley vs Joshua and Caleb8. Hey Pastor, You Killed My Friend…9. Yes, He Gets Us, but We Crucified the Lord of Glory10. Internet Sin vs. Biblical Sanctification

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1. Update on Votes on PCA Book of Church Order Amendments: Overtures 8 and 15 Have Failed2. Overture 9 from Arizona Presbytery Asks the 50th PCA GA to Amend BCO 7 By Adding a New Paragraph3. Why Women’s Ordination Cannot Be Tolerated4. Comparing the Minority Report on Overture 15’s Signers and Presbytery Votes5. Why Christians Shouldn’t Watch “The Chosen”6. An Open Statement of the Truth7. Thinking Carefully about Our Approach with Church Visitors8. Police Officer Resigns After Being Told not to Post “Offensive” Views on Biblical Marriage9. Misadventures in Retrieval: Further Readings in Credo and a Consideration of their Notions of Deification and the Beatific Vision in the Reformed Tradition10. Erring Shepherds, Ancient and Modern

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1. Encore: Evangelicalism in 2020 and Beyond2. PCA Members Should Speak Out on Overture 153. Leaving a Church Well4. Overture 29 Points To The Need For Overture 155. Our Culture Needs Less Beth Moore and More Jonathan Edwards6. The Megachurch Century7. Natural Law and Outhouses – What Do They Have in Common?8. Keeping the Faith: Spurgeon and the Downgrade Controversy9. Douglas MacArthur, Christianity and Japan10. A Nation of Biblical Illiterates

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1. Yes, Pastor Weidenaar, It Is Ontology With Regard to Overture 152. Words Matter. Definitions Matter.3. Restoring 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 as a Parallel to 1 Timothy 2:124. Diabolical Delusions Deceiving Many5. Public Schools Have Lost Over a Million Students. Here’s Where They’re Going.6. The Crushing Obligation to Keep Doing More and More7. How These Parents Helped Their Son Reject Transgender Lies and Affirm His Real Identity8. Church Leaders and Woke9. Conservative No More?10. The Second Commandment, Westminster and Images of Jesus

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1. False Teaching Among the Prominent Non-Confessional Reformed: From Lordship Salvation To Today’s Christianity And Culture In the PCA2. What is Orthodox Protestantism? A Brief Response to Rod Dreher3. Does the PCA Ordain Homosexuals? Well, “Yes, But” or “No, But”4. Three Reasons to Adopt PCAGA49’s Overture 155. Reformed Confessionalism v. The Genius Theologian6. About Confessional Presbyterian Church-Planting in Calvin’s Homeland7. “They Must be Vilified”8. What Gives Me Hope in The New Year9. The Decline of a Formerly Christian Empire10. The Path to Personal Integrity from First Command to Tenth

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1. On Sadness In the PCA: A Response to TE LeCroy’s ‘Sad Day’2. Top 50 Stories on The Aquila Report for 2022: 1-103. Presumed Guilty: Reformed Evangelical Men and the Assumption of Systemic Abuse4. A Superb Public Statement on Marriage, Sex, and Identity5. On Consorting With Theologians of Mean Reputation6. When My Iranian Friend Took Mohler’s Parking Spot7. Christian Witness in the Public Square? It’s Complicated8. The Census Taker In a Church Pew9. Reasons for PCA Presbyteries to Vote Against Amending BCO 15 Regarding Commissions10. The Theological World of the Nicene Controversy

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1. Homosexuality: To Affirm is to Apostatise — The Bible Demands That We Treat Human Sexuality as a First Order Salvation Issue2. 2023 Bible Reading Plans3. The Regulative Principle of Worship4. The Death of Football—and Common Sense, Sanity, and Reality5. Sex & The Final Christian Generation6. Stage is Now Set for SCOTUS to Overrule Obergefell7. Progressive Christianity’s Unwanted Progress8. Our Tender Shoots Ravaged by the “Mouse”9. Christian Life in a Declining Empire10. A Famine of Discriminatory Preaching

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1. Worship and the Body of Christ: A Response to Christopher A. Hutchinson2. Beware the Latitude of the Pharisees3. Identity Politics on the Right4. A Progress Report on “Christian Nationalism”5. The Big Tent Has Collapsed6. The Rapture and the Return of Christ7. Race, Homosexuality and Historical Confusion8. The Final Judgment9. Should Christians Use the Term “Eucharist” for the Lord’s Supper?10. The Most Passionate Science Deniers Are Pro-trans “Experts” Who Profit from Carving Up Kids

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1 .Memorial Church Pastoral Staff Released From Missouri Presbytery At Their Request

2. There Go the Churches

3. The Rise of Right-Wing Wokeism 1

4. New Bible Translation: The Anti-woke Version

5. “Whoever Looks at a Woman With Lust”: Misinterpreted Bible Passages

6. When Christian Leaders Capitulate on Marriage, Innocent Children Suffer

7. When God’s Sovereign Will Seems Inscrutable: Elisabeth Elliot

8. Hodge on Disestablishment

9. A Spiritual MRI of the Heart

10. Christianity and Equality: Why Bother?

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1. Don’t Look Now But Your “Reformed” Theology Might Not Be Confessional2. When Critical Theory and Perverse Sexuality Collide3. “The Shadowy Nature of Theonomy”? A Reply to Batzig4. Strange Lyre: The Pentecostalization of Christian Worship5. The Bleeding of the Evangelical Church6. The Shadowy Nature of the Theocracy7. Rethinking The Rapture8. Eastern University on Hold from CCCU after Dropping Ban on LGBTQ Faculty9. Why Has The Church Not Spoken Out?10. Why Is The Toy Market Targeting Adults?

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1. On Dialogue in the Contemporary Presbyterian Church in America 2. Memorial Presbyterian Church Votes to Leave PCA 3. Report Says Revoice Embraces Radical Gender Ideology 4. The Church of the Sexual Revolution 5. What You Should Know About the Respect for Marriage Act 6. 4 Questions about Headship and Head Coverings 7. Be Better 8. How (and How Not) to Keep the Sabbath 9. The End of Accommodation 10. Board of Trustees Retains Faculty Who Disagree with CRCNA on LGBTQ+ Relationships

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1. Response To Letter From Memorial PCA Member 2. Gay vs. Queer 3. The Free Offer of the Gospel…Not What You’ve Been Told! 4. Conservative Presbyterians Lay Out Why Mainline Cousins Are Losing Members: “Supernatural Battle” 5. Top 10 Things I Wish Worship Leaders Would Stop Saying 6. What Would Francis Schaeffer Say to Today’s Evangelical Church? 7. The LGBT Agenda is Trying to Destroy Children: Statistics Show it is Working 8. Drag Queens and the Queering of the Church 9. The New Paganism 10. Christopher Rufo Explains the Real, Dark Intentions Behind Drag Queen Story Hour

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1. Letter to Editor: From a Memorial PCA Member 2. Where Is There Side B in the PCA? 3. The End of the Beginning 4. Presbyterian Church (USA) Will Gather Nonbinary/Genderqueer Statistics for Its Membership 5. John Davenant, Another Enticement for the “Reformed” (In Name Only) 6. He Gets Us? But Who Is He? 7. 3 Ways to Turn Against Your Pastor 8. The Modern Myth of the Secular State 9. On The Chosen: Jesus Is Not the Law of Moses. He is Far Better. 10. Of Doctrinal Standards & Good Faith Subscription

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1. Does the PCA Ordain Homosexuals? Well, “Yes, But” or “No, But” 2. Hey PCA Friends, You Paying Attention? 3. Into The Anthropological Chaos 4. United Methodist Church Exits Accelerate 5. Another Jesus 6. The Ghastly Truth about “Gender Transitioning” Is Coming Out, and Liberal Elites Can’t Stop It 7. 5 Recommended Resources on the Westminster Confession of Faith 8. Winsomeness Redux: Focusing on the Virtues Expected of Christ’s Followers 9. Texas Megachurch Announces Decision to Leave United Methodist Denomination 10. The Boys Feminism Left Behind

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1. Memorial Presbyterian Church Session Calls Congregation Meeting 2. Tennessee Valley Presbytery Requests Missouri Presbytery to Investigate Memorial PCA Session 3. One Pastor’s Thoughts on This Year’s PCA Overtures 4. Two Final Pleas As PCA Presbyteries Vote on the Proposed BCO Amendments 5. Bible Presbyterian Church 2022 Synod Report 6. Why “Bros” Failed at the Box Office 7. A Whole New World? 8. What is the “Great Barrier to Church Growth” and Why has it Fallen? 9. Lay Elders, An Important Book for You, As Defenders of Truth 10. Baptism, Rightly Administered

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1. PCA Members Should Speak Out on Overture 15 2. The World’s Quickest Case of Christophobia in Action 3. Why Are Men in Crisis? 4. Proof Of Infant Baptism By Way Of Promise And Precept 5. Eight Short Lessons From the Essendon CEO Saga 6. Compromise in Biblical Inerrancy and Authority of the Bible is an Existential Threat to the Church 7. What is the Greatest of All Protestant “Heresies?” 8. The History of Covenant Theology 9. The Bitter Splinters of Marburg 10. Researching the Rationales of PCAGA49’s Proposed BCO Amendments

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1. Disney Airs Animated Series about Satan Impregnating a Reluctant Mother Who Births the Antichrist 2. When the Shorter Catechism Was Recited from Memory At Westminster Abbey! Really! 3. What the Federal Vision Still Does to the Definition of Faith 4. A Review of “Church Refugees” Leaving the Church But Not Their Faith Behind 5. A Christian Funeral Service or A “Celebration of Life” Service? 6. Gay Idioms Don’t Time Travel 7. A Consideration of Craig Carter’s Recommended Return to Scholasticism, Part One 8. A Superlative Guide to All 15 Elder Qualifications 9. What Does It Mean to Abide in Christ? 10. A Consideration of Craig Carter’s Recommended Return to Scholasticism, Part Two: Final Analysis and Rejoinder

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1. The Problem with Aquinas 2. Samford Turns Away Episcopalians, Presbyterians From Event Due to LGBTQ Views, Activist Says 3. Identity Confusion In The Church: Majority of U.S. Christians Don’t Know Who They Are, According To New Survey From Ligonier Ministries 4. Three Reasons to Adopt PCAGA49’s Overture 15 5. Reformed Theology 6. Should the Church Promote Deeds of Darkness for Missional Purposes? 7. The Fight of My Life: Why I Failed During the Time of Greatest Trial 8. King Charles III and Securing the True Protestant Religion 9. Other Billy Graham “Rules”? 10. Review of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s, “In the Fullness of Time: An Introduction to The Biblical Theology of Acts and Paul”

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1. Rosaria Butterfield: “I Reject the False Teaching of Revoice/Side B Theology” 2. Responding to the Leaven of Revoice 3. Celibacy Is Not Enough 4. The Cancellation of Dr. Nassif 5. The Quiet Faith of Queen Elizabeth II 6. Evangelical and LGBT+ Ally: Why You Can’t Be Both 7. Westminster Civil Ethics vs R2K Natural Law on Kidnapping 8. The First Two Minutes Matter Most 9. Remembering When I Saw the Queen 10. Franciscus Junius, Old Princeton, and the Question of Natural Theology

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1. Homosexuality and the True Division in the PCA 2. Does the Accuracy of its Second-Person Pronouns Commend the Continued Use of the AV in Public Reading and Preaching? 3. Passing Overture 15 4. Is It Time to Go Back to the Heart of Worship? 5. Talk About an Awkward Term 6. What is Coming Next for Canadian Churches? 7. A Response to J.V. Fesko’s “Should Old Aquinas Be Forgot?” In Defense of Protestant Evangelicals 8. O Beard, Where Art Thou? 9. Why Did Covid Enforcement Target Religion? 10. Loving Those That the Woke Leaves Broke

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1. The PCA Presbytery of The Ascension Receives Report On “Still Time To Care” 2. The PCA’s Overture 15 Must Be Adopted 3. Homosexuality, Concupiscence, and the PCA 4. What Is ‘Gay Christianity’? 5. Monkeypox and the Face of Gay Promiscuity 6. Does the Bible Trump the BCO? 7. Should Lay People Administer the Sacraments? 8. Why Christians Shouldn’t Support Student Loan Forgiveness 9. Death to the Patriarchy? 10. Will Trump Be Indicted? Why Christians Should Care

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1. An Open Letter With A Broken Heart to My Beloved Church 2. Should Self-Described Homosexuals Hold Office in the PCA? 3. Overnight Fire Destroys Historic PCA Church In Oxford- UPDATE 4. Dining Out on the Lord’s Day 5. Why “Cool Church” Is No Longer Working with Millennials and Gen Z 6. Are We Stuck in the Reformation Period?: A Brief Diatribe 7. What the Early Church Can Teach Us about Living in This Strange New World 8. Dear Christian, Stop Being Winsome 9. A Present Urgency 10. Kingdom Race Theology: Is This God’s Plan or Something Else?

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1. The Biblical Genius of PCA GA 49’s Overture 15 2. Battle Over “Wokeness” at Christian Colleges Isn’t Just About Politics, It’s About Dollars 3. “This is Your Brain on Depression. Any Questions?” 4. Divorce, Censure, and Session Responsibility 5. Before You Pack Up and Leave… 6. Christian Reformed Church Stands Strong for Biblical Sexuality 7. Same-Sex Marriage Bill Aims “to Crush Anyone Who Opposes Belief in Gay Marriage”: Senator 8. New Resolve After 55 Years in My Wheelchair 9. Don’t Sacrifice Your Children 10. As A White Christian, I’m Guilty of White Privilege: It’s Just Not What You Think

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1. The Christian Reformed Church Corrects Course 2. The Philosophical and Moral Impotency of Natural Law in Refuting Homosexuality 3. What’s Happening to Young Evangelical Women? 4. Study: Marry Young, Marry Your First, Stay Married 5. Footnotes to Lucifer: The 7 Most Destructive Philosophers in Western History 6. Homosexual Immorality Driving a World Health Emergency 7. The Speakeasy Churches of 2020 8. The Internet Deathtrap and the Need For Wisdom 9. The Transgender Fantasy 10. What is a Deacon?

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1. Gay and Celibate

2. A Response to “Exploring Overture 15 from the PCA General Assembly”- Revised

3. 6 Ways Christians Can Respond to Our Strange New World

4. Seeds Of Apostasy and Congregant Responsibility

5. Protecting Christian Liberty In The PCA

6. The Lasting Benefits of OPC Overture 2 – Part 1: The Overture Itself

7. Why I’m Giving Up Tenure at UCLA

8. Prism Holds First Annual Rainbow Gala at Hope College

9. Message to the Christian Churches

10. The Myth of The Modern Self

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1. Overture 15 – The Tipping Point for a Split in the PCA? 2. Why Your “Christian” Friends Have Become LGBTQ Allies 3. Evangelical Denominations Act on Biblical Morality and Their Future 4. Don’t Be Fooled By “Nice” 5. Ecclesial Disobedience 6. Suffering as a Christian 7. Faithfulness Is the Future of the Church 8. Does the Bible Support Female Deacons? No. 9. U.S. District Court Orders Law School to Rescind No-Contact Orders Issued against Christian Legal Society Faculty Advisor and Students Who Shared Their Religious Views with Another Student 10. Triage in the Trenches

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1. What To Do About Greg Johnson? 2. Exploring Overture 15 from the PCA General Assembly 3. A Plea to Missouri Presbytery From A Fellow Presbyter 4. A Response to the Notion of ‘Reformed Catholicity’ 5. The Purity and Peace of the Church 6. Christians Should Rejoice Over Dobbs 7. Questions For PCA Officers On…Offices 8. My Reconstructed Faith 9. How Childhood Innocence Strikes Terror Into Drag Queens 10.The Good News of Limited Atonement

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1. A Review of SJC Case 2021-13, Dudt v. Northwest Georgia Presbytery 2. Surfside Presbyterian Church Struck By Lightning, Catches Fire 3. Guilty of Christian Nationalism? 4. New DNA Technology Is Shaking Up the Branches of the Evolutionary Tree 5. Why Are Churches in Denial More Today Than Ever? 6. Tom Hanks Gets Empathy Wrong 7. The Work of Demons 8. What is the Presbyterian and Reformed View of Baptism? 9. Theology and the Peace of the PCA: Lessons from John Webster 10. You Know the ‘Thing:’ The Concept of Inherent Rights in the Declaration of Independence

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1. Report on the 49th PCA General Assembly 2. Some Early Reactions to the 49th PCA General Assembly 3. My Hope and Vision For The Future of The Presbyterian Church in America 4. Dr. Palmer Robertson’s Speech at the 2022 GA Supporting the Adoption of Overture 15 5. 2022 General Assembly Update: Good Things Are Happening In The PCA 6. Racism and the 2022 OPC General Assembly 7. Response to Bennie Castle’s “Lessons Learned? Allegations at the OPC General Assembly” 8. Can the Church Still Enact Justice When a Pastor Sues His Accusers? 9. Presbyterian Church in America Votes to Leave National Association of Evangelicals 10. What Happened at the RPCNA Synod 2022?

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1. Lessons Learned? Allegations at the OPC General Assembly 2. Paper Tiger PCA? 3. The Courage To Be Presbyterian 4. Christians Must Protest Pride Parades and Their Violent, Sodom-like, Riotous Stonewall Origin 5. The Story of COVID Cries Out for Common Sense 6. Reading the Domestic & Sexual Abuse Study Committee Report 7. What’s In a Denominational Name? 8. Are Southern Baptists Still People of the Book? 9. Seven Principles for Cultivating a Christian Posture Toward the World 10. “He Descended into Hell”

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1. The Standing Judicial Commission Just Violated the PCA Constitution and Standards—Again. 2. 2022 PCA General Assembly Preview 3. Orthodox Presbyterians Apologize for Racism at General Assembly 4. PCA Committees and Agencies Received At Least $13.5 Million From the Small Business Paycheck Protection Program in 2020 5. Missouri Presbytery Admits PR Mistakes But Nothing Has Changed 6. The Indelible Conscience and a Month of “Pride” 7. Update from the OPC General Assembly on the Report of Alleged Racist Remarks 8. Missouri Presbytery Reports on Second Hearing Regarding Revoice Conference 9. Queer Nation Is No Nation At All 10. Report of the 2022 General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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1. Targeting Homosexual Officers in the PCA Again: Are We Being Too Nice? 2. Overture 2 to the 2022 OPC GA: Help or Hindrance? 3. A New Proposed Overture 23 Before the PCA General Assembly 4. ‘What is a Woman?’ A Review 5. Dear SBC, the Answer to the Sex Abuse Crisis Is Not Pragmatism 6. Pastoral Accommodation of Same-Sex Relationships 7. Does God Care What We Wear at Church? 8. Dozens of Georgia Churches Split From United Methodist Church Over LGBTQ Issues 9. State Farm Ends Support for Supplying LGBTQ Books for Kids Amid Public Outcry 10. The Free Church General Assembly – Has the Free Church Plateaued?

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1. Desiring The True The Catholicity Of The Church While Maintaining Significant Distinctions 2. A Reflection on the Presbyterian Church in America’s Coordinators’ and Presidents’ Statement on Heinous Killings on the Occasion of its Second Anniversary 3. Welcome to Pride Month, Christian 4. The Problem is the Leaders: Why the Church is in Shambles 5. Is God A Therapist? 6. A Presbyter’s Progression 7. Jesus’ Response to Massacres – Why? 8. Sixteen Lies Satan Feeds Us About Worship 9. An Attribute of God Simply Too Serious to Ignore 10. Unless The Church of Scotland Returns To The Gospel, It Will Die

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1. Abuse, the OPC, and the Psychologizing of Sin 2. Deep State? What About Deep Church? 3. On Winsomeness 4. ‘Evangelicals,’ the ‘Christian’ Putin, and the War in Ukraine: A Response to Mindy Belz 5. How Polyamorous People Are Marking Commitment To Multiple Partners 6. On Baby Grands and Expensive Hymnals 7. The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism Debate 8. Church Of Scotland To Allow Same-Sex Marriages 9. Won’t Get Fooled Again 10. A Response to Sojourners’ President Adam Taylor’s Call to Protect Abortion Rights

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1. This Article Is Not About Tim Keller 2. Homosexuality Comes to Church: Standing Firm in a Culture That Embraces Chaos 3. Old New Calvinism: The New School Presbyterian Spirit 4. Foreword by Rosaria Butterfield to “The New Reformation Catechism on Human Sexuality” 5. Should the Visible Church, as an Institution, Form and Express an Opinion on Political Violence? 6. Postmodernism’s Revenge 7. 40 Random Pieces of Advice for the Christian Life 8. A Rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem? 9. Do Women in the Church Really Know God? 10. Why The Dobbs Leak Is Dangerous

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1. Testimony and Covenant of the Christ Reformed Presbyterian Church 2. A Defense of the Good Name of Vanguard Presbytery 3. Tim Keller & Myxomatosis Christians 4. PCA Grace Presbytery Sends Request to GA to Assume Original Jurisdiction Over TE Greg Johnson 5. Christian Leaders and Controversies: The Case of Francis Collins 6. The Divine and Adopted Son of God: A Response to Joshua Maurer and Ty Kieser 7. Lessons from Mainline Decline 8. Franklin Graham and the Mayor of Liverpool – Which One is the Real Hate Preacher? 9. Manitoba’s First Medically Assisted Death In A Church Was An ‘Intimate’ Ceremony 10. Brave Finns: 1939 and 2022

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1. Let’s Isolate our Differences, Explain our Views, and Persuade our Brothers 2. New Overtures for a Pressing Concern 3. Who is Permitted to Read the Word Publicly to the Congregation in the PCA? 4. Six Things I Hate About You 5. Letter from Scotland 1 – The Church of Scotland – the Final Nail? 6. Baylor University Charters LGBTQ Group 7. My Recent Trip To ‘Anxious Isle’ 8. We Will Answer for What We Watch 9. Female Ordination, the Gay Clergy, and the Crisis of the Modern Church 10. What Is Transgenderism?

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1. A Brief Word on the Explicit Endorsement of Side B in the PCA 2. PCA Southeast Alabama Presbytery Sends Request to GA to Assume Original Jurisdiction Over TE Greg Johnson 3. How A Gay St. Louis Pastor Triggered A War Within the Presbyterian Church In America 4. Overture 26 to PCA General Assembly: A Statement on Political Violence 5. Grove City College: Report and Recommendation of the Special Committee 6. Homosexual Acceptance Among Evangelicals 7. A Friendly Response to David French On CRT 8. Rowan Williams and Our Sentimental Age 9. Critical Race Theory Doesn’t Go Far Enough 10. Important Contexts for Understanding Reformed Theology

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1. Clarification and Retraction Re: Greg Johnson’s Book 2. Both Spouses Need Care After Sexual Infidelity 3. What I Wish I’d Known When I Was 19 And Had Sex Reassignment Surgery 4. De-Creation? 5. What Churches Can Do to Reconcile With Those Who Left 6. Court Rules Professor Can’t be Forced to Endorse Ideology Against His Beliefs 7. Don’t Let the Culture Train Up Your Children in the Way They Should Go 8. One of the Most Overlooked Arguments for the Resurrection 9. Mickey’s Mantle of Radicalism 10. Disney’s Business Model is Turning Kids Into Dysfunctional Adults

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3. Deuteronomy and Transgenderism

4. What A Tangled Web

5. Why Reformed Christians Are Vulnerable to Social Justice

6. The Forgotten Story of Harold Camping

7. Christian Leaders Write Anti-Christian Trans Letter

8. The “Young, Restless, Reformed” Movement Wasn’t Enough, But It Wasn’t a Mistake

9. The Five Emerging Factions in Evangelical Higher Education

10. Why Long-Range Planning Doesn’t Work

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1. Overture from Southeast Alabama Presbytery Asks the 49th PCA GA to Amend BCO 16 By Adding a New Paragraph 2. University Orders Christian Grad Student to have “No Contact” with Students Who Disagree with Her Viewpoint 3. Be Somebody or Do Something 4. My Doctoral Defense Did Not Go As Planned 5. How to Respond to “Trans” and Gender Ideology? Simple: Live Not by Lies 6. “Contextualization” Is a Bad Idea 7. 3 Prayers to Pray Before Going to Sleep Tonight 8. A Personal Report from the Ukrainian Battlefront 9. Grammar Guerrilla: Grammar Is For Everyone 10. The “Dumbest Generation” Has Finally Grown Up

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1. Lady Preachers in PCA Pulpits? 2. 25 Unbelievable Things Search Committees Said to Pastoral Candidates 3. Done with Dunking 4. Presbyterian “Quirks”: The Sabbath, Psalms-Singing, and Images of Christ 5. An Important New Book: Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies 6. Consider the Small Churches 7. Conservatives are Part of the Problem 8. 17 Reasons Why it is Irrational to Trust the Medical Community Regarding the Covid Vaccines 9. Two Kinds of Worship Music 10. AWOL Black Fathers

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1. Greg Johnson’s “Still Time to Care” Repeatedly Misrepresents the RPCES 2. Fallout over LGBTQ Spouses at Calvin University Captures Broader Evangelical Divide 3. A Review of “Still Time to Care” by Greg Johnson 4. The Third Great Awakening? 5. Choosing God Over College Basketball 6. See Something, Say Something: Straight Talk to Ruling and Teaching Elders in the PCA 7. Sexual Harassment Went Unchecked at Christianity Today 8. Do You Know What A Woman Is? Ketanji Brown Jackson Doesn’t. 9. Liturgy of the Powers 10. How David Brooks, Peter Wehner and Others Fail to Address Evangelical Divisions

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1. Doctrinal Latitude and the PCA 2. The Domino Theory and Egalitarian Pulpits 3. 19th Century Origins and the Power of the History of Ideas 4. How Partisan Politics Captured And Fractured The Evangelical-Industrial Complex 5. Are We All Barthians Now? 6. The Judgment of Charity in Questions of Official Misconduct 7. Church Membership in the PCA 8. Actually, We Do Care (3): A Forgotten Third Paradigm 9. End Times Fiction 10. 9 Ways to Love Women in the Church

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1. Overture from Hills and Plains Presbytery Asks the 49th PCA GA to Amend BCO 16 By Adding a New Paragraph 2. The PCA Standing Judicial Commission Rules in Favor in A Second Missouri Case 3. Leaving Lent Behind 4. Christian Writers, Preachers, and Organizations That Promoted Francis Collins Should Break Their Silence 5. Mea Culpa 6. What the Failure of Overtures 23 and 37 Means and the Way Forward 7. Effeminacy Is Not Working for the Christian Church 8. When Evil Is Called Good 9. Should Reformed Christians Be Supporting Putin? 10. A Second Fundamentalism and the Butterfly of American Christianity

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1. What Greg Johnson Won’t Tell You About “Double Repentance” 2. Why Did Overtures 23 and 37 Fail to Pass the PCA Presbyteries? 3. ‘Being Gay Was No Longer Who I Was’: The Supernatural Moment This Hollywood Designer Met Jesus Christ 4. Reality Check & the Future of the PCA 5. The Dogmas That Must Be Questioned 6. Anita Barker Barnes, Daughter of Frank and Barbara Barker, Dies Soon After Her Parents 7. A Sheep Speaks: A Testimony to the National Partnership, Part 5 8. Actually, We Do Care (Part 2): A Response To Greg Johnson’s ‘Still Time To Care’ 9. All Over-Realized Eschatologies Are Attempts to Change the Rules of the Game 10. Jesus and John Wayne: A Review

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1. The Rise & Fall of the Presbycrats 2. Actually, We Do Care (Part 1): A Response To Greg Johnson’s Still Time To Care 3. Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe 4. Gordon College Cancels Speaker For Describing “Culture in Chaos” 5. Christian Reformed Church Renewal Movement Stands Against LGBTQ Theology 6. Compromise Comes into the Church 7. Contending for Christ’s Bride 8. We Should Have Heeded Schaeffer’s Prophetic Warnings 9. Rise Up, Man! 10. A Sheep Speaks: A Testimony to the National Partnership, Part Three

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1. The End of Overtures 23 & 37 2. A Sheep Speaks: A Testimony to the National Partnership, Part One 3. Dissent, Response, & Concurrences in Speck v. Missouri Presbytery 4. The Slippage Needs to Stop: We’re Starting to Look Like the 1920s PCUSA 5. Positive Schedule Changes for the 2022 PCA General Assembly 6. It’s Not Time to Leave 7. A Word on Narratives 8. Standing in the PCA 9. Don Quixote Christianity: Why Many Heroic Stands of Today Are Like Tilting at Windmills 10. A Sheep Speaks: A Testimony to the National Partnership, Part Two

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1. Former Georgia OPC Pastor Pleads Guilty to Sexually Assaulting a Ugandan Minor on Missionary Trip 2. More on the PCA Standing Judicial Case Regarding Missouri Presbytery and Greg Johnson 3. Secret Caucuses & the PCA 4. A Brief History of Presbyterianism 5. In Europe, the Transgender Movement is Facing an Enormous Backlash 6. Support for Conversion Therapy Bans Are Revealing the Divide between Two Different Christianities 7. Finland Explicitly Puts the Bible on Trial 8. The Importance of Gathering for Worship 9. A Pastoral Statement Regarding Human Sexuality in Our Contemporary World 10. Puritans and Theonomy, Reconsidered

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1. “Presbyleaks” From a Business Analysis Perspective 2. The Use of Images Is an Indicator of the Functional Authority of the Standards in the PCA 3. West Lafayette [RPCNA] Pastor, Elders At Center Of IndyStar Investigation Resign 4. Just a Honeymoon Salad, Please! 5. Shall We Cancel the Theologians? 6. Three Books to Read on Homosexuality 7. Jordan Peterson: Why I Am No Longer a Tenured Professor at the University of Toronto 8. Canadian Pastor, Who Faced Six Years in Prison, $600,000 in Fines for Holding Worship Services, Receives Small Fine 9. The “Social Trinity” vs. Nicene Christianity 10. Is Celibacy Enough of Anything?

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1. The ARP Session’s Authority and Responsibility Concerning Public Corporate Worship 2. 5 Presbyterian Predictions for 2022 3. Why Overtures 23 & 37 Belong in the PCA BCO: Overcoming Objections 4. A Response to the Rio Grande Presbytery AC’s Recommendation to Vote Against Overture 23 5. In Ur, the New World Religion Was Launched On March 6, 2021 6. NASCAR Goes Gay: Every American Sport League Is Now Actively, Unashamedly Pro-LGBT 7. Church Planting In The Hood 8. Fauci’s War on Science: The Smoking Gun 9. Overtures 23 & 37: For Good Order & Sweet Ardor 10. Preparing Our Children for Babylon

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1. Conservatives Split From Reformed Church in America over LGBTQ Issues 2. Report from the 2021 RPCNA Synod Judicial Commission 3. The Preacher Who Died With Heaven On his Lips 4. An Overlooked Aspect of the Story: PCA Influence on Acts 29 and Mars Hill 5. Why We Are No Longer an SBC Church: A Statement by Josh Buice 6. Same-Sex Attraction, Sin, and Redemption: A Church Leader’s Story 7. Scientific American Goes Woke 8. What Is a Platonic Life Partnership? 9. The Strange Fate of “Hamilton” and “Harry Potter” 10. Realtor Ethics Case Involving Gay Rights, Montana Pastor Garnering National Attention

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1. ‘I Was A Mess’: Lesbian Professor Turned Christ-Follower Shares What Changed Her Heart 2. A Newcomers Guide to PCA Overtures 23 and 37 3. An Assessment of the New Revised Standard Version: Gaywashing in the Translation 4. Good News for the Reformed Churches: Small is in Again 5. The Religious Marriage Paradox: Younger Marriage, Less Divorce 6. When Pastors Aren’t Able to Pastor 7. Reasons to Vote in Favor of Amendments to the PCA’s BCO 16-4, BCO 20-4 and BCO 24-1 8. A Concise Case For Reformed Infant Baptism 9. 2022 Bible Reading Plans 10. UK Pastors Write Letter to the Government Explaining They Will Choose God

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1. A Single Woman’s Response to Greg Johnson 2. A Minute With the Minutes On Overtures 23 & 37 3. Why They’re Not Actually Your Friends 4. A Response to David Coffin Concerning Overtures 23 and 37—Part One 5. Frank Barker, Founding Pastor of Briarwood Presbyterian Church, Called Home to Glory 6. Archbishop Viganò’s Startling Warning to the American People 7. Sin and Sanctification According to TE Johnson 8. A Response to David Coffin Concerning Overtures 23 and 37—Part Three 9. A Response to David Coffin Concerning Overtures 23 and 37—Part Two 10. The Medical Profession Implodes

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1. Dissenting Opinion On the SJC Decision In the Missouri Presbytery - Greg Johnson Case 2. Do I Teach At A Woke School? 3. A Little Leaven: Confronting the Ideology of the Revoice Movement 4. Splinter, Split, or Stay in the Fight? 5. What Does the PCA Believe About Homosexuality? 6. The Trend Toward Normalizing Pedophilia Must Be Halted 7. Greenville Seminary Appoints William Vandoodewaard As Professor Of Church History 8. A Call Out to Physicians 9. How The Current “Systemic Racism” Argument Opens A Door To The Pagan Mind, For Those Willing To Walk Alongside 10. Alumni at Prestigious College Withhold Donations as Campus Restricts Free Speech

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1. Thoughts on the Present State of the PCA: A Series of Theses Presented by a Concerned Member—Part One 2. Thoughts on the Present State of the Presbyterian Church in America: A Series of Theses Presented by a Concerned Member—Part Two 3. Thoughts on the Present State of the Presbyterian Church in America: A Series of Theses Presented by a Concerned Member—Part Three 4. Thoughts on the Present State of the Presbyterian Church in America: A Series of Theses Presented by a Concerned Member—Part Four 5. In Case With Global Implications, Finland Puts Christians on Trial for Their Faith 6. What Does It Mean To Be “Confessional” (E.g., In The PCA)? 7. Did the RPCES have Deaconesses? Yes and No. 8. Contending Against Wokeness 9. The Joy-Robbing False Hope of Side B Gay Christianity 10. My Non-Woke “Solidarity Statement”

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1. The Vote Tally of PCA Presbyteries On Overtures 23 and 37 2. Urging the Current PCA Stated Clerk to Resign from the Standing Judicial Commission 3. 3 Surprises from New Research on “Progressive” and “Conservative” Christians 4. Leaked: Teachers Reveal How They “Stalk” Kids, Sideline Parents To Pull Middle Schoolers Into LGBT Groups 5. Adult Child Estrangement From Parents 6. Modern Fascism Revisited 7. Jordan Peterson: The Last Professor 8. With Much Advantage” Deacons’ Conference (Southeast Alabama Presbytery) 9. A Definite Atonement: John Murray’s Case for a Disputed Doctrine 10. Helpful Things You Can Say to Grieving Parents

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1. First Presbyterian Church Session, Ft. Oglethorpe, GA, Report on the National Partnership 2. Should We Stay or Should We Go? 3. University Professor’s Book Aims To Destigmatize Pedophilia Because There’s No ‘Immorality’ In Being Attracted To Children 4. Rev. Cotton Mather and the 18th-Century Battle Over Smallpox Inoculation 5. A Big PCA Correction by a Small Text 6. I Survived (Because Of) Bible Belt Religion 7. Can You Hear the Congregation Singing? 8. School Places Professor On Leave After Controversial Interview Defending ‘Minor-Attracted Persons’ 9. Brothers, We Are Presbyterian 10. The Shattering of Evangelicalism

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1. The NP and the Ninth Commandment 2. The Realpolitik of the PCA National Partnership 3. The PCA and Homosexuality: Let’s Make It Real Plain 4. Are We Bowing to America’s Golden Image? 5. BCO Amendments 23 & 37 (3 of 3): Have You Ever Known A Dry Drunk? 6. Traditional “Side B” LGBTQ Christians Experience a Renaissance 7. The End of Christendom 8. Grief, Confession, and Prayer for Peace 9. Abide Project Seeks to Uphold “Historic, Beautiful, Biblical Understanding of Human Sexuality’” 10. Sexual Orientation

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1. Covid-19 Vaccines And Vaccination Mandates: How Should Christians Respond?

2. Tears for the National Partnership™

3. Making Sausage with the National Partnership

4. Smells Like Party Spirit

5. A New Exception to the Westminster Standards?

6. “Make it a Christian Town”: The Ultra-Conservative Church on the Rise in Idaho

7. A Secular Sacrament: Why Mandates Violate Liberty of Conscience and Enforce a New Religion

8. A New Religion With a New Sacrament?

9. Repent or Perish

10. Homophobia

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1. The Recent SJC Decision and Side B2 Homosexuality

2. The Failure of Evangelical Elites

3. The Church Among The Deathworks

4. We Got Here Because of Cowardice. We Get Out with Courage

5. When the State Tells Pastors What to Tell Their Congregations

6. Slightly Imperfect Bibles?

7. Making Honey and Naming Names

8. Understanding Sexual Sin: The Harvest USA Tree Model

9. Escaping the Clever “Kafka Trap”

10. Study: Nearly 70% of Born-Again Christians Say Other Religions Can Lead to Heaven

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1. Good Guys, Bad Guys, and a Missing Category 2. Woke Theory At Evangelical Colleges 3. The Three “U”s and PCA Overtures 23 and 37: Part 3 4. Reformed Church in America General Synod Daily Recap: Saturday, October 16, 2021 5. PCA Standing Judicial Commission Denies Complaint Against Missouri Presbytery 6. Is The Neo-Evangelical Coalition Worth Saving? 7. Review of God and the Gay Christian 8. Remaining Faithful When Others Embrace LGBTQ+ Theology 9. Mark Driscoll and The Danger of “God Told Me” 10. Doubts About William Lane Craig’s Creation Account

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1. A Response to David Cassidy’s ‘PCA At the Crossroads’ 2. Make Our Worship Spaces Presbyterian Again 3. Elite Evangelicalism’s Allergy to Complementarianism 4. Jordan Peterson and the Evangelical Man 5. As Christian Cold War Heats Up, The Faithful Are Equipping For Battle 6. Saving Your Child From The Village 7. Dr. George W. Knight, III, Called Home to Glory 8. Five Reasons Why I’m Voting for Overture 37 9. The New Secession Movement 10. Race is Real and Not a Social Construct

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1. PCA 23 & 37 Vote: Bad Men, Not Bad Words 2. Once Dominant Liberal Denomination Sells Headquarters in Dramatic Downsizing 3. Uncle Sam’s Hamartia = Your Early Death 4. On “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill”—Surveying Our Souls 5. The Three “U”s and PCA Overtures 23 and 37: Part 2 6. An Update on Christians in Afghanistan 7. My Darkest Night; Hopefully Not Yours 8. Why So Much Science is Wrong, False, Puffed, or Misleading 9. Doctor Brags of Breaking New Law, Gets Serious Surprise for His Medical License 10. Remote Learning Killed The Myth That Homeschooled Children Are The Ones Who Lack Socialization

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1. My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit. 2. “This Is Not What I Signed Up For.” Unsettling Exodus of Pastors Leaving Ministry 3. Asbury Sermon on ‘Therapeutic Self’ Prompts LGBTQ Twitter Rage 4. Ten Words That Changed Everything About My Suffering 5. Therapeutic-Gnostic Pentecostalism? 6. My Body, My Choice 7. Lockdowns & Online Church: Time to Evaluate? 8. How Will the People in Heaven View Hell? 9. The Song I Sing in the Darkness 10. Covenantal Baptism

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1. Reasons To Vote In Favor Of Amendments To The PCA’S BCO 16-4, BCO 20-4 and BCO 24-1

2. Employee Vaccination Religious Exemption 3. I Wasn’t a Minority, Until Today 4. Critical Race Theory is on the Ropes 5. American Homeschooling Goes Boom 6. The Disillusion of Millennial Evangelicals 7. 7 Characteristics of Good Bible Teachers 8. Why Almost Nobody Knows Anything about Critical Race Theory 9. The Problem of Christian Passivity, Part One 10. Should Elders Insist on Unanimity?

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1. A Summer of Courage and Cowardice in the Evangelical Heartland

2. A Covid Apology to America, on Behalf of the Evangelical Church 3. It’s Chemistry! Practical Advice for Protecting Your Marriage from an Affair 4. BCO Amendments Related to Homosexuality Now Before PCA Presbyteries 5. An Open Letter to David French 6. The Media’s Absolute Contempt for Christians 7. California, LA County to Pay $800k In Settlement With John Macarthur’s Church Over Covid Lockdown Orders 8. Just Follow the Science 9. An Appeal on Race in the Presbyterian Church in America—Part 3 10. The Explosive Growth of Homeschooling, Including Among Black Americans

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1. Does 1 Corinthians 6:9 Really Condemn Homosexual Sex? 2. Josh Harris’ Message Remains the Same 3. France Moves to Ban Homeschooling: “Protect Children From Religion” 4. What Is Wrong With Gay Christianity? What Is Side A and Side B Anyway? 5. Why Resisting Tyrants is an Act of Love 6. What Will Happen to the All-White Church in America? Ten Trends in the Next Ten Years 7. Robin DiAngelo’s Fragile Narrative 8. The World is Catechizing Us Whether We Realize It or Not 9. An Exhaustive Exegetical Extravaganza 10. A Seeker-Driven Church Would Fire Jesus

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1. A New Organization: Alliance Of Reformed Churches (ARC) 2. A Meeting for Concerned Presbyterians 3. The Misplaced Identity of Gay Christianity 4. The Church in Afghanistan: What the Taliban Takeover Means for Believers There 5. Guided by Faith, Divinity Student Fought His ‘Anti-Racist’ Princeton Seminary — and Won 6. Week of Action LGBTQIA+ Day Includes Homage to Mister Rogers 7. Taliban Going Door-To-Door Seeking Christians, Searching Through Phones For Bible Apps: Report 8. Why Antiracism Zealots Are Trying To Silence Black Voices Like Mine 9. Right and Wrong Reasons for Leaving Your Local Church 10. A Silent Tragedy Growing In Our Homes: Our Children In A Devastating Emotional State

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1. Why I Plan to Vote Against BCO Homosexual Changes 2. 5 Signs Your Church Might be Heading Toward Progressive Christianity 3. PCA Church Petitions Supreme Court After Denial of Ministers’ Parsonage Tax Exemption 4. Gay and the Gay Christian 5. Who Blinks First? Rowan Williams Challenges Peter Akinola On Homosexuality 6. Life Inside A Woke Corporation 7. Ten Things I Learned from the Pandemic 8. Romans 13 Revisited 9. Creation: A Form of White Supremacy? 10. The Bereans Had No Bibles: Re-Envisioning Acts 17

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1. The Definitive Meaning of Overture 23 Approved by the PCA GA 2. DeYoung, Thompson, and Kwon: Seeing the Danger 3. Wife Will Not Be Charged in Pastor Husband’s Shooting Death in Lemon Grove 4. Platt’s McLean Bible Church Hit With Attempted Takeover, Lawsuit from Opposition 5. A Reply to ‘The PCA Conflict Over the Moral Law’ 6. The Death of the Episcopal Church is Near 7. Why Wokeness is a Christian Heresy 8. I Miss My Son Today 9. Two Cheers for Civil Religion 10. Actions of the Forty-Eighth General Assembly of The Presbyterian Church in America 2021

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1. Historic Biblical Christianity & Contemporary Progressive Christianity 2. In Non-Essentials Liberty? 3. The Summer Camp That Was Not Tolerant or Inclusive 4. 48th PCA General Assembly—Selected Acts & Deliverances 5. Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought 6. The RTS Professor Against Social Justice 7. The PCA Conflict Over The Moral Law 8. Translation Manipulation 9. What’s Wrong with Our Church Praise Music? 10. The Way Calvin Read The Ten Commandments May Not Be The Way You Are Used To Reading The Ten Commandments (But It Should Be)

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1. To My Fathers and Brothers: A Plea from Your Sister 2. A Pastor’s Preview to His Congregation of the 48th PCA General Assembly 3. Freidrich Schleiermacher, the PCA, and Side B Christianity 4. The Tormented Decision on Homosexuality of The Presbyterian Church in Canada 5. Conservative Wins At The PCAGA 2021 6. Can Drunks–or Gays–Go To Heaven? 7. Concerned MTW Missionaries Position Paper 8. Christians, Beware the Blame Game 9. A Report of The 217th ARP General Synod Meeting 10. How Do I Know That God Is for Me?

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1. A Response to the “Open Letter” to the PCA 2. Broadening Churches Break, Will the PCA? 3. A Response to the PCA “Moderators’ Letter”: May We Ask a Question? 4. A Letter From Former Moderators of PCA General Assemblies 5. My Woke Employees Tried to Cancel Me. Here’s How I Fought Back and Saved My Nonprofit. 6. Russell Moore and the Canaanization of the SBC 7. The Salami Tactics that lead to a Church Without Christianity 8. ARP Pastor Steve Richardson Faces Possible Imprisonment For Conducting Church Services 9. A Jonah Experience: Lobster Diver Swallowed By Humpback Whale Off Provincetown 10. Pensacola Institute Conference Will be Streamed Live June 16-18, 2021

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1. Looking Forward – Together 2. Honest Thoughts on the Open Letter 3. The Burning of the Wooden Shoes 4. The PCA Report on Human Sexuality Statement 7: Agreement and Review 5. What’s Wrong with Our Church Praise Music? 6. Embarrassed by the Gospel 7. Eating Out With Your Kids When Hell is Real 8. No Hedging. No Paternalism. Just Obedience. 9. The Dark, Enduring Legacy of Friends 10. The Regulative Principle and Perfection

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1. A New Exception to the Westminster Standards? 2. When Presbyterian Rubber Meets the Road 3. Pre-PCA General Assembly Conference: “For Such a Time as This” 4. A Review, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents 5. 60 Minutes Report on the State of the Transgender Debate is Illuminating 6. A Family Update and a Cause of Death 7. Cape Coral Church Responds as FDLE Arrests Four in ‘Operation Thou Shalt Not Steal’ 8. Judge Denies Christian College’s Request for Religious Protection Against Biden’s LGBT Order 9. On the Apostle Paul’s Above Reproach Criterion 10. The Shared Priority of American Evangelicalism and the Medieval Papacy

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1. American Evangelicalism’s Toleration of Heresy 2. Same-Sex Attracted Identification is Not Above Reproach 3. Cru Chose Critical Race Theory Over Christian Unity 4. Voddie Baucham and the Dangers of Critical Race Theory 5. Vermigli and Same-Sex Attraction (Part 7): Conclusion 6. When a Lesbian Atheist at Yale Came to Christ 7. Why Reformed Christians Are Vulnerable to Social Justice 8. Critical Psalm Theory 9. Jailed Alberta Pastor Alleges Abuse In Prison But Remains Hopeful; Lawyer Condemns ‘Bizarre’ Detention 10. Rachel Hollis’s Problem Isn’t Privilege, It’s An Anti-Christian Gospel

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1. The PCA Has Fallen into Error, and Can’t Get Back Up: Part 3-David Frenchism 2. Geerhardus Vos, A Ruling Elder And The Reality of the Slippery Slope 3. Women Pastors, Women Preachers, and the Looming Test of the Southern Baptist Convention 4. Walz Loses in Court, Settles with Churches 5. Pastor Abuse 6. The Pensacola Theological Institute Will Meet June 16-18, 2021 7. Richard Dawkins Blindsided by The Sexual Spaghetti Monster 8. 5 Marks of Harmful Megachurch Culture 9. My Response To Ambrose University 10. America’s Gender Warriors In A Deal With The Devil

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1. Christian MP Faces 6 Years In Prison For Tweeting Bible Verses On Marriage, Sexuality 2. Finnish Bishop Elect Charged Over Historic Christian Teachings On Human Sexuality 3. How to Preach Against Critical Race Theory 4. Identity Politics, Opium of the People 5. Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church and What the Bible Has to Say 6. Sacerdotalism in Contemporary Worship 7. Welcome to Exile. It’s Going to Be OK. 8. Fierce Wolves Are Coming 9. LGBTQ Ideologues’ Propaganda Brainwashing the Young, and Younger Still 10. Neat, Plausible, and Wrong: Mencken’s Observation and How People Embrace Ideologies Divorced from Reality

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1. The PCA Has Fallen into Error, and Can’t Get Back Up: Part 2-Racism 2. Overture 36 on White Supremacy from Chesapeake Presbytery: Asks the PCA to Look for Monsters in the Closet 3. Blemishes Preserved: A Specific Sin God Supposedly Leaves Alone Is Same-Sex Attraction 4. “Antiracism” Deserves a Capital Letter: A Preview of Voddie Baucham’s Fault Lines 5. The PCA Worth Having 6. If You’re Debating Substance, You’ve Already Lost 7. Evolution: Not a Theory 8. The Church Has a Twofold Mission and Three Marks, and Ending Payday Lenders is None of Them 9. Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It 10. Land Acknowledgment Statements: The Cultural Violence of the Academic Elite

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1. Rock Hill Doctor, Wife, Grandchildren, Worker Killed In York County Mass Shooting 2. Denominations: To Leave or Not to Leave? 3. A Statement from the Family of Robert and Barbara Lesslie On the Shooting That Took Their Lives and Others 4. An Autopsy of the YRR Movement 5. The Enneagram Goes to Church and the Angels Are Not Rejoicing 6. The Elect: The Threat to a Progressive America from Anti-Black Antiracists 7. Will Reformed Evangelicalism Divide Over Racial Politics? The 19th-Century Stone-Campbell Movement Offers a Clue 8. A Victory for Reality 9. How The Tide Is Shifting (And Not In A Good Way) 10. There Are No Egalitarians When the Dog Attacks

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1. Significant Issues Portend Vigorous Debates At the 2021 PCA General Assembly 2. Revoice Gay-Straight Friends Planning a Life Together 3. Do You Love Black People? 4. What Church Statistics Conceal 5. Seven Fascinating Minister Types and Preaching 6. Trans Movement’s Normalization Keeps on Going with Another Sad Cover Story 7. The First Gay Captain America is Coming 8. Burdening Ourselves to Death 9. R.C. Sproul: A Life 10. Project Veritas Wins Early Round In Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times

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1. Homosexual Desire Is Also Sin 2. Many Out Of One? 3. The Strange Gospel of Masking and Public Policy 4. Church of Atlanta Shooting Suspect Distances Itself, Urges ‘No Blame’ on Victims 5. Do COVID-19 Restrictions Serve the Common Good? 6. The Differences between Progressives and Conservatives 7. My 5 Favorite Puritan Authors 8. Lloyd-Jones, Cultural Problems, and the Power of the Gospel 9. John Newton and “Christian” Slave-Traders 10. Subversive Education

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1.ARP Pastor Steve Richardson Faces Possible Imprisonment For Conducting Church Services 2. Woke Math Is Coming to a Classroom Near You 3. No Longer the Economy—It’s All About Equity Not Equality – Stupid! 4. The “Experts” Have Finally Come For Dr. Seuss, For Our Childhoods And For Our Children—But We Know Their Secret 5. The NeoRacists 6. The Miseducation of America’s Elites 7. A Covenant with the Body Too 8. This Is What the Progressives Want To Do to Us 9. The COVID Baby Bust Reflects a Disturbing Cultural Reality 10. The Left’s New Moral Framework Includes Zero Forgiveness, Even For Dr. Seuss

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1. Public Statement from James Coates, Pastor of GraceLife Church, Edmonton, Alberta 2. Major Evangelical Adoption Agency Will Now Serve Gay Parents Nationwide 3. Why No One Understands the Reformation Confessions Anymore 4. A New Pastoral Problem 5. The State of Church Attendance as Covid Turns One 6. Warning Signs About That State Of Evangelical Pop Culture: The Visible, Institutional Church Matters 7. When Amazon Erased My Book 8. Will They Come for the Homeschoolers? 9. If I Were Starting A Denomination From Scratch 10. The Equality Act

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1. The OC — A New Burned Over District? Lessons to Be Learned 2. Pro-Gay Theology Invents a New Sin 3. Transgenderism Stems From Feminism’s Failure to Deal With Marilyn Monroe 4. Update On The 2021 PCA General Assembly 5. Satan Is Pleased to Use Pornography or Systematic Theology to Rob God of Worship 6. Strange Authority Speakers: 12 Concerns 7. What to Know About The Equality Act 8. 10 Things You Should Know about the African Church 9. ‘Quiet, CS Lewis is On’: Why Subject of New film Could Be Right For Now 10. How the Bible Defines Anxiety

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1. Ravi Zacharias was a Liar, Sexual Pervert and Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing. This Report Proves It 2. Outrage Over Max Lucado Shows There Is No Room For Dissent In LGBT Church Politics 3. Presbyterian Church of Australia Set to Defy Gay Conversion Bill 4. Karl Marx’s Shameful Life Repudiates His Evil Ideology 5. What is Spiritual Abuse? 6. Rod Dreher and the Nostalgia Option 7. The Politicization of Medical Science 8. Why Does It Take So Long To Explain Infant Baptism? 9. Children of God and Lockdowns: A Response to Dr. Van Vliet 10. Greg Beale, Renowned Scholar of New Testament and Biblical Interpretation, to Join RTS Faculty

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1. A Plea to the PCA 2. Reaping the Woke Church We Have Sown 3. Exchange of Letters on Sanctification and Expectations of Transformation 4. No Middle Ground 5. A Proper Christian Response to Sexual Sin in Our Culture 6. Joe Biden’s Transgender Fictions 7. About Those Prophecies of Trump’s Re-election 8. China’s Communist Leaders Fear Christian Population May Reach 300 Million by 2030 9. Erasing Classic Literature for Kids 10. I Long to See You: A Pastoral Plea for Valuing In-Person Gatherings

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1. Update From the PCA SJC on the Greg Johnson Case - 1:35 2. This Neo-liberalism is Worse than Neo-Orthodoxy - 11:32 3. PCA Minister Ronald Harold Parrish, 69, Called Home to Glory - 20:00 4. Who Was Idelette Calvin? - 23:24 5. Keep Moving Forward - 28:25 6. Biden’s Promise to Pass “The Equality Act” in His First 100 Days as President - 32:00 7. Sexuality and Identity: A Pastoral Statement from the College of Bishops - 39:59 8. When Division Is Necessary—Divide - 51:03 9. 5 Myths About Being a Pastor’s Wife - 55:54 10. The Eclipse of the Gospel and the School of Hard Knox - 1:01:40

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1. Should A Confessional Presbyterian Denomination Use Images of Jesus for Promotional Purposes? 2. John Gerstner’s Sad Conclusion (1981) 3. QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within 4. Hannah Leigh Ford, 27, Alabama Lobbyist, Called Home to Glory 5. Which City Should We Love? (Part 1) 6. Reflecting on a Broken Vow 7. Evangelicalism: Biblical Fidelity or Political Expediency 8. What Is Critical Race Theory? 9. Transgenderism and Transformation: One Man’s Story 10. Idol

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1. Christian Options Living Under a Marxist Regime - 4:08 2. Christians Shaming Christians Over Voting for Trump: 3 Strawman Arguments That Need to Stop - 10:25 3. Evangelicals and Race Theory - 19:56 4. 17 New Books for the Thinking Christian - 25:19 5. The University as the Woke Mission Field: A Dissident Women’s Studies Ph.D. Speaks Out - 28:13 6. A Review: ‘Live Not By Lies’ by Rod Dreher - 37:42 7. In Search of a Christian Political Theology: Dominionism, Kuyperianism, and Christian Realism - 43:50 8. Six Ontario Church Elders Charged With Exceeding Worship Limits, Face $10K Fines - 51:54 9. A Parable from the Dead - 58:35 10. How Much Should We Pay Our Pastor? - 1:04:23

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1. Another Assessment of Missouri Presbytery’s Response on Homosexuality and the Christian Life - 2:00 2. The Salt That Has Lost Its Savor: The Woke Church and the Undoing of America-18:53 3. Understanding The New Calvinists: Neither New Nor Calvinists -27:24 4. Covenant Theological Seminary Announces Its Sixth President - 33:45 5. Donald Trump Is Not the Lord Jesus Christ. Got It? Are You Sure? - 36:29 6. China’s Threat to the Bible - 42:52 7. Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism - 50:07 8. The Mystery of the Trinity by Vern Poythress - 54:26 9. The Role of Technology and Media in the Sexual Revolution - 59:27 10. A Woke Church is Doomed to Fail - 1:03:30

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TAR Top 10 List

1. Evangelical Voters 2. Two Prominent Pastors Break With Southern Baptist Convention After Critical Race Theory Statement 3. Is the Magistrate’s Prohibition of Public Worship a Lawful Command in Our Present Situation? 4. A Mistake Christians Make regarding the LGBTQ+ Movement 5. Twelve Major Trends for Churches in 2021 6. New ’Woke’ Denomination is a Warning Sign to Christians 7. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’—A Threat to Critical Race Theory 8. You WILL Be Silenced! 9. Dealing with Lust 10. “The Whole World is Turning Toward Evil”

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TAR Top 10 List December 20-27

1. Of Slopes and Church History – An Interview 2:52 2. The Sad Irony of Celebrity Pastors 11:33 3. The Isolation of Evangelical Elites 21:00 4. COVID-19 Lockdowns: Liberty and Science 31:50 5. We Can’t Control COVID (Or Much of Anything Else) 47:06 6. Think You Know the Christmas Story? 57:41 7. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of 2020 1:00:31 8. Away With The Manger 1:07:29 9. The Death of My Son and the Birth of My Savior 1:12:56 10. The Church and Israel in the New Testament 1:16:26

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TAR Top 10 List 12-22-2020

1. The PCA’s Very Slippery Slope

2. Advent Is Not A Presbyterian Tradition

3. Carl Trueman’s New Book

4. The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy and the Spirit of Schleiermacher

5. Three Men And A Baby! First Family In California With THREE Dads On Their Child’s Birth Certificate

6. How May God Be Known?

7. Beware of Wolves in Your Midst: Appearing to be Sheep

8. Bible Reading and Prayer in the Marriage of Charles and Susie Spurgeon

9. The DNA of a Diotrephes, Part 1

10. The Myth That Americans Were Poorly Educated Before Mass Government Schooling

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The Aquila Report Top 10 List Week of Dec. 7th

1. The FAQs: What You Should Know About COVID-19 Vaccines 2. Why Singing Hymns the Traditional Way is Better than Singing the Pop Worship Way 3. Episcopal Church Will be Dead in 20 Years, Researcher Says; Denomination Continues ‘Dire’ Decline 4. What Can We Learn from God’s Quarantine Laws? Four Truths for Today from Leviticus 13–15 5. Obeying Rulers with the Reformed Tradition 6. I Fear God, and I’m Afraid of God 7. How Reformed Theologians’ Commitment To Self-Rule And Resisting Tyranny Helped Form America 8. When The Government Harms People To Help Others 9. Racial Disparities and The Parable of the Talents 10. I Did Not Yet Love the Church