PCA Conversations

by Greg Thompson
[Continued from Part 1 and Part 2]
This brings me to the final animating conviction, and it is this: one of the most urgent civic tasks before the church is the recovery of civic love.
That is to say, even more important than our positions on public policy, or our decisions for political candidates, is [...]

by Greg Thompson
[...continued from Part 1]
The second conviction has to do with the current poverty of our civic presence.
What I mean by this is that in spite of the richness of our civic and political vision we in the American church are quite far from its embodiment. There are a number of reasons for this [...]

by Greg Thompson
It’s a sort of truism that if you are looking for conflict, there are few ways more certain to provide it than talking about religion or about politics.  And more than that, to talk about them together is akin to a sort of social kamikaze—a reckless and self-destructive endeavor that can only end [...]

by Joel Garver
Think of the disciples on the road to Emmaus…When they found themselves troubled and confused, Jesus met them along the way. When they confessed their troubles and doubts to him, his words and presence began to change them. He unfolded God’s word to them, pointing to his own person and work.  He dined [...]

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 Paul Hahn
As another calendar year draws to a close, a new church year is just beginning. The church year is a system that began to be established by bits and pieces in the early centuries after Christ’s death and resurrection, allowing the church to mark time in a redemptive way. The church year keeps [...]

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 [...]

by Jeff White
Our family moved to the Harlem community in 1998 to begin New Song Community Church.  We have learned many things over the ensuing years about what it means to be followers of Christ.  But at the heart of it all has been the discovery that the highest calling in the Christian life is [...]

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 [...]