PCA Conversations

You can click here for a description of the main event from Thursday at the General Assembly.
We want to know your reaction. How did you feel about the defeat of the minority report? What do you think it means for the PCA? (Please remember our guidelines for charitable speech on this forum.) If you were [...]

Another discussion topic: partly because Spring seems to be a tough time to get pastors and church planters to write new material and partly because we sometimes like it better this way.
Many of you have no doubt been making preparations for the 2009 PCA G.A. in Disneyworld. (It’s true!) You’ve also been hearing about all [...]

It’s been a while since we’ve solicited your help in a discussion topic. Let’s have another try.
What are the top 3 things you wish you would have learned in seminary?
Other ways to get at the same question: What did you learn/experience in your first few years of ministry that you were under-prepared for? If seminaries [...]

In this post we interview the final Denominational Renewal speaker we’ve yet to hear from here on PCA Conversations. Bill Boyd gave a lecture in St. Louis entitled “Renewing Worship: Moving from the Lecture Hall to the Banquet Hall.”  In this, our third podcast, we talk to Bill about real and perceived trends in worship [...]

When PCA Conversations began we asked the five speakers from last year’s Denominational Renewal conference to each contribute one post that related generally to their assigned topic from that conference. So far you’ve read Jeff White on Mission, Jeremy Jones on Theology, and heard Matt Brown on the topic of Ecclesiology. Today we present Greg [...]

by Jeremy Jones
John Gottman is one of the premier marriage researchers in the country and his book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work has been enormously helpful to me, not only in my own marriage, but also in trying to help married folks in our church.  Gottman’s basic argument is that the heart of [...]

In Romans 1:21 Paul seems to argue that one of the most foundational aspects of human sinfulness is the failure to give thanks to God for all he is and all he’s done. Relatedly, it seems that for the early church a primary motivation for assembling together as God’s redeemed humanity was ‘to give thanks’ [...]