Brad reads and expands upon his short Substack piece prompted by 1926 newspaper ads about dueling sermons from J. Gresham Machen and a Social Gospeler in St. Louis.

Read the article and see the ads: https://presbycast.substack.com/p/a-presbyterian-historical-snippet.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZf6pe7R5fU

Here's a sermon from Hebrews 13 on the offices from Dr. Nick Willborn of Covenant Presbyterian Church, Oak Ridge, TN, which preceded officer elections for the church. There is a lengthy introduction concerning Moses and Jethro from Exodus 18. There's also some good unaccompanied congregational singing of a psalm and hymn. Listeners may notice that the sermons we post generally concern ecclesiology or worship—two topics not often covered by preachers.

Gospel Reformation Network executive council members Jon Payne, Ligon Duncan, Mel Duncan, Richard Phillips, Jason Helopoulos, David Strain, and Jonathan Master have an engaging roundtable discussion on the nature and task of the ruling elder. This is also the theme of the 2025 GRN National Conference in Sanford, Florida (May 7-8).

You can learn more about the conference and register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-grn-national-conference-tickets-1030379682367

An all-star cast of presbyterians came together to make predictions for 2025 developments in the kingdoms of the church and the world. Ruling elder Kerry and pastors Chris Drew, Reed DePace, Ryan Biese, Job Dalomba, Nick Bullock, and Wilson Van Hooser. 

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iteWbuC-5wg

This program contains two recordings from several years ago—an account of the death of Machen on January 1, 1937, followed by a reading of the monumental final chapter (The Church) from Machen's great work, Christianity and Liberalism.

On YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRym5CKIxdA

Dr. R. Scott Clark and pastor Sean Morris help us think about how to be both faithful and welcoming to visitors, outsiders, and newcomers. 

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAHYqEnmSw

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

The Bishop of Western Festivus Dan Borvan joins us along with Chris Gordon, R. Scott Clark, Zoe the Presbygirl, Sean Morris, and the late Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones to air grievances and perform feats of theological and ecclesial strength...and vocal performance.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZhUeveRJpI

PCA pastors Stephen Spinnenweber and Scotty Anderson help us explore paedocommunion and its relative "young child" communion.  Here is Stephen's article: https://gospelreformation.net/dear-pastor-may-my-child-take-the-lords-supper/

Here is Scotty's article on young child communion: https://www.pastorspress.org/2016/01/27/the-age-for-communion/

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrM5aL_isPw

Sarah and Zoe sit down with Rev. Matthew Everhard, a PCA pastor in Pennsylvania, to talk a little bit about his family life in ministry and a lot about his new book Worshiptainment, a small but detailed primer on why Presbyterians believe in the regulative principle and some of the excesses in modern evangelical worship. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM4uRLHdQWw We also joined Matt for a video on his own YouTube channel and you can find that conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQZJTJ2wBOA