The Westminster Standard
Seeking to highlight, support, and encourage pastoral and confessional accountability in the PCA by raising awareness of the beauty of the Reformed Faith and the teaching of the Scripture as summarized in the Westminster Standards. The official podcast of Jude 3 & the PCA.
Episodes
TEs Chuck Garriott and Nathan Newman tell what God has done through ministry to state over the years as well as the new acquisition of a house just blocks from the Capitol. https://www.ministrytostate.org
REs Tim Rice and Matt Lee as well as TE Frank Smith gather to discuss the unity Christ has brought to His church and how the people of Christ may celebrate the beautiful diversity in the Saviour's glorious body. The panel responds to comments made on the @Mission2NA Podcast: https://youtu.be/7PBawN33mHU?si=2w5rPkLk6Zub_mYq as well as article by TE Billy Boyce: https://allkirk.net/2025/05/13/temporary-and-contingent-affinity-g...
TEs Piland, Walker, Tipton & O'Neill discuss the overtures that seek to amend the BCO related to judicial process.
An all-star panel of TEs Fred "Modfather" Greco, Steven Warhurst, Steve Tipton and RE Matt Fender come together to discuss some of the pending overtures that seek to make tweaks to our PCA Form of Government.For information on the tour of Walker State Prison sponsored by MNA Metanoia Prison Ministries: https://www.metanoiaprisonministries.org
TE Danny Ruth of Steen's Creek PCA in Florence, Mississippi talks about planting an ordinary means of grace Presbyterian Church in a town that had never before had a reformed witness. He testifies to how God has been faithful to His promises to gather a people through the ordinary preaching of God's word morning and evening.
https://www.steenscreekpres.org
President Calvin L. Troup discusses the benefits & blessings of a confessional Christian College experience at Geneva College.
Where did we procure the pastoral relation "assistant pastor?" Does it violate our preliminary principles? TE Michael Colvard joins the program to discuss his PCA Polity article: https://pcapolity.com/2025/03/22/the-temporary-assistant-pastor-a-history/
A panel of experts TE Matthew Everhard, RE William Gannon, and James Lawrence gather to discuss an article in the PCA General Assembly's magazine, byFaith in which TE Gregory Poland, MD reflects on the response of the church to the Covid-19 pandemic, government dictates, and social phenomena. Gannon's article: https://theaquilareport.com/a-rebuttal-to-seven-lessons-on-public-health-and-the-local-church/Lawrence's article: https://a...
RE Paul McNulty joins TEs Sean Morris and Ryan Biese to reflect on his time as president of the College, which has had a rich relationship and service to the PCA.
David Hall reviews some of his favorite overtures and his desire for grassroots accountability in the PCA.
Metanoia Prison Ministries is an outreach of the PCA through Mission to North America focused on equipping the church for the proclamation of Christ to and discipling those in prison. TE Lowell Ivey, RE Barry Smith, and DE Bill Henshall join the program to discuss the work of Metanoia in prisons and how PCA people can be involved. For more information, including how to sign up for the tour of Walker State Prison, visit the Metanoia...
A panel consisting of TEs Zach Garris, Thomas Rickard, and Ben Dunson examine the Greek and discusses the impropriety of using the title 'deaconess' in the PCA as they consider TE Rickard's brotherly appeal against using the title. While Biese has no problem with the use of the title, the panel points out the expression is not rooted in the biblical Greek, but is a recent novelty in the Reformed Church.
Rickard's Article: https://pc...
President Roger Parrott of Belhaven University joins the podcast to discuss the new 50% scholarship offered to PCA members as well as the expansion of other opportunities to serve the PCA in partnership with Reformed Theological Seminary. Dr Parrott's paper on paying for college: https://www.belhaven.edu/pdfs/admission/undergrad/cost-of-college.pdf
The Panel of TE Chas. Stover and REs Tim Rice & Doug Sharp discuss the recent statement from the PCA's MNA PermaCom on Affinity Ministries. The panel expresses concern regarding ethnic divisions among Christians.The opinions and views expressed on this program are not necessarily those of Jude 3 & the PCA. Questions or concerns regarding what is expressed by an individual speaker should be addressed directly to him.
RE Melton Duncan and TE Jon D. Payne discuss the reason why the PCA has elders and invite us to a conference hosted by the Gospel Reformation Network at St Andrew's Chapel in Sanford, Florida May 7-8. https://gospelreformation.net/conference/
The panel of TEs Roland Mathews, Jake Hooker, and Taylor King discuss whether it is appropriate for the church to be divided or gathered along ethnic lines. Should the gospel transcend our cultural conceptions and preferences or should we seek solidarity along ethnic lines within the Church?
222. The Origin of the Directory for Worship
Last week news broke of MNA providing legal advice to illegal aliens on its website. Further information surfaced suggesting MNA was also encouraging people to advocate for specific government policies, and an article in the Daily Wire raised questions about MNA perhaps securing attorneys to assist immigrants. MNA was quick to withdraw the web pages and issue a statement of repentance acknowledging the impropriety. TE Seth Miller a...
TEs David Gilbert and Wilson Van Hooser reflect on what it means to be a confessional communion and how the PCA handles elders who have deviant views. An article by TE Sean McGowan inspired the conversation: https://pcapolity.com/2024/11/19/preserving-the-standards/
EPC Pastor Joseph Yerger explains why he is leading his congregation out of the EPC to give up their women elders and join with the PCA .
Yerger explains the perceived efforts to bring in sodomite elders by those who seem influential in the EPC has caused the congregation seek refuge in a communion with a more robust commitment to the Scripture and Constitutional Standards.
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