PCA Conversations

by Joel Garver
As we saw in the last post, we can recognize in the Emmaus story the pattern of historic Christian worship as it began to take shape. It resonates over and over again with the shape of the biblical story, with the actions of our Triune God in the events of salvation history. We [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We are going to spend the next several Wednesdays 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 [...]

As this particular forum for discussion hobbles to its feet for its first hesitant steps, we thought we’d provide some assistance in the form of a couple easy topics.
So share here with us your recommendation of books that have best helped you in ministry, whether they be practical/pastoral or more obviously theological or philosophy-of-ministry oriented.
And [...]

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’ [...]