PCA Conversations

by Josh Eby
All Christians desire to become more like Jesus.  All Christians long for our world to become more like heaven.  And all Christians struggle to figure out how to live out their faith in the midst of a changing and complex world.
On the one hand, we make the mistake of identifying Christianity with our [...]

by David Cassidy
The Apostle Paul did not go around the Roman Empire cursing Caesar, but rather urging prayer for the man. However, he was also preaching the Gospel of God, a message that threatened and eventually undermined the foundations of Roman power. To confess Jesus Christ as Lord was certainly to deny Caesar the same [...]

by Clay Holland
Today–everyday, for that matter–we live in the midst of several competing stories, each of which are vying for supremacy.  You may live with uncertainty about what the stories are.  You may live confused about which story to believe.  You may live fully convinced that you are believing the right story – but maybe [...]

by Jamison Galt
[Editors' note: One of the things we'd like to do on this forum is to regularly feature posts that attempt to apply aspects of our Reformed theology and practice to mission in our modern world; posts that do more than reference tradition or polemicize against other Christian practices. Here's one person's stab at [...]

by Sam Wheatley
We’ve been discussing the biblical foundation and missional need for a theology of place. One theological and practical response is to recover the idea of parish as part of a local church’s philosophy of ministry. What follows is an interaction with a few recent publications that provide new models and resources for parish [...]

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 [...]

This post will be the last in our conversation on parish ministry, at least for now. We will follow up soon, however, with a related post sharing resources and new ministry paradigms for parish ministry. To catch up on the prior discussion, read the following: Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4. The final word in [...]

We are spending a few Wednesdays in a row exploring the topic of parish—the where and who of ministry. We’d like to discuss together the importance of place to the mission of the local church. To what extent should a circumscribed geography be determinative of a local church’s calling and culture? Does a theology of [...]

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 and Jeremy Jones on Theology. Today you’ll hear from Matt Brown on the topic of Ecclesiology. In [...]

We are spending a few Wednesdays in a row exploring the topic of parish—the where and who of ministry. We’d like to discuss together the importance of place to the mission of the local church. To what extent should a circumscribed geography be determinative of a local church’s calling and culture? Does a theology of [...]