Aquila Report Weekly Review
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- Wilson’s Warrior Children
- World Vision Serves as Stark Warning to Christian Ministries
- On Satire, Moods, and What We’re Known For
- The Mainline Question
- Don’t Think about Pink Elephants: When Gay Conservatives Go Rogue on Orthodox Christianity
- Debunking Popular Christmastime Myths: Temple Shepherds, Migdal Eder, and Swaddling Lambs
- The Complicated Legacy of a Bishop Who Was Sincerely Wrong
- No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men (Book Review)
- Robust Biblical Theology Runs Along Diagonal Lines
10. Bill Gothard on Visualization as “One of the Most Basic Aspects of Faith”
Aquila Report Weekly Review for December 3-9, 2023
Aquila Report Weekly Review for November 26-December 2, 2023
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Aquila Report Weekly Review for September 24-30, 2023
Shannon Harris Kissed Truth Goodbye- The PCA at 50: Essential Elements from the Past Will Guide the Future
- Don’t Deny Our Fallenness
- Reining in the Presumptuous Parachurch
- You Probably Have a Good Pastor
- The Sons of God and the Daughters of Man, Part 2
- Cessationist: The Film
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Goddess
- The Most Terrifying Verse in the Bible
- What the Jubilee of Aquinas Says About Rome and Roman-Protestant Relations (in Some Quarters)
Aquila Report Weekly Review for September 17-23, 2023
Aquila Report Weekly Review for September 10-16, 2023
- The Rise and Fall of the Evangelical Elite
- Why Most Anglican Clergy Now Approve Gay Marriage—and What This Means for the Future of the Church
- The Crushing Yoke of a Deconstructionist Pastor
- Can Mainline Protestantism Be Rebuilt?
- Biblical Love in a World Gone Mad
- Don’t Believe Culture’s Lies about Men and Women
- Why You Shouldn’t Use “Preferred Pronouns” and Other Ideological Language
- The Mormonization of American Christianity
- A Primer on Reformed Liturgics: Lessons from the Past Applied in the Present (Part One)
Richard Dawkins Asks an Important Question and Here Is My Answer
Aquila Report Weekly Review for September 3-9, 2023
Aquila Report Weekly Review for August 27-September 2, 2023
Aquila Report Weekly Review for August 20-26, 2023
1. Why Some Evangelicals Are Embracing Racism2. Considering Westminster’s “Recreations” Clause3. So It Begins: PCA Presbyteries to Vote on BCO Amendments4. Queering a Tudor Warship5. Become a Theological Myth Buster6. Is Paedocommunion Biblical?7. The Prayer Life of Stonewall Jackson8. Conservatives’ Bud Light Boycott has been One of the Most Successful in Recent History9. Marriage and Parental Consent10. Wasn’t Christianity in Africa a Result of Colonialism?
Aquila Report Weekly Review for August 7-13, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. Russell Moore Loses His Religion
2. Review: Losing Our Religion
3. Somber Thoughts on a Contemporary Difficulty in the Evangelical Churches
4. Avoiding a Second Civil War
5. The Reformation of Worship
6. Not Without Prayer
7. Reformed Worship and the Regulative Principle of Worship
8. Canada’s Suicidal Slide
9. Two Kinds of Sermons that Seem Expositional but Really Aren’t
10. Worshipping God’s Way: Deuteronomy 12 and the Regulative Principle
Aquila Report Weekly Review for July 24-30, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. Big Eva Says Out with Complementarianism, In with Anti-Fundamentalism
2. Officials Charge Retired CRC Pastor In 1975 Cold Case Murder Of Delco 8-Year-Old
3. When Biology Matters, Sort Of
4. Irony & the PCA: Analyzing Growth
5. Our Ancient Challenges
6. What Makes a Bible Translation Really Bad?
7. Now the Word “Equity” Is Being Hijacked!
8. Be Convinced That the Sabbath Is the Sacred Day of God
9. Foundations of Biblical Worship
10. “Avoid Such People”
Aquila Report Weekly Review for July 17-23, 2023
1 = https://theaquilareport.com/a-response-to-music-at-the-ga-and-the-pca/A Response to: “Music at the GA and the PCA”One of the great privileges we enjoy in the PCA is gathering each year with like-minded commissioners and guests at our annual General Assembly.Written by Larry Roff | Friday, July 21, 2023
2 = https://theaquilareport.com/global-methodist-united-methodist-churches-split-on-nicene-creed/Global Methodist, United Methodist Churches Split on Nicene CreedIn United Methodism, it has become painfully obvious that there are no clear, consistent, and effective doctrinal boundaries.Written by John Lomperis | Sunday, July 16, 2023
3. https://theaquilareport.com/a-new-history-of-the-pcas-first-50-years/A New History of the PCA’s First 50 YearsSeveral early debates over confessional adherence would grow into later actions that moved away from either the earlier or the presumed view of doctrinal adherence.Written by David W. Hall | Monday, July 17, 2023
4. https://theaquilareport.com/good-advice-for-living-a-countercultural-life/Good Advice for Living a Countercultural LifeI Am Not My OwnWritten by Kevin DeYoung | Sunday, July 16, 2023
5. https://theaquilareport.com/goodbye-local-church/Goodbye Local Church?The Christian ConsumerWritten by John Benton | Thursday, July 20, 2023
6. https://theaquilareport.com/courage-is-a-christians-only-path-forward-from-the-legal-hell-the-winsome-gospel-wrought/Courage Is a Christian’s Only Path Forward from the Legal Hell the ‘Winsome’ Gospel WroughtThe world hated Him, and so it will hate His disciples too.Written by Kylee Griswold | Monday, July 17, 2023
7. https://theaquilareport.com/megachurches-are-getting-even-bigger-as-churches-close-across-the-country/Megachurches are Getting Even Bigger as Churches Close Across the CountryFor the last several years, Liquid Church has been one of the fastest-growing churches in the nation, and a big part of its success has come through assimilating smaller, more traditional congregations. Four of its seven campuses — all in New Jersey — have come through these mergers.Written by Scott Neuman | Friday, July 21, 2023
8. https://theaquilareport.com/irony-the-pca-the-first-fifty-years/Irony & the PCA: The First Fifty YearsAmong the most significant accomplishments for the first decade of PCA life were adoption of confessional and constitutional documents.Written by Ryan Biese | Thursday, July 20, 2023
9. https://theaquilareport.com/sparkle-creed-is-dim-dull/“Sparkle Creed” Is Dim & DullThere will always be “sparkle creeds” trying to displace more traditional creeds like the Nicene and Apostles Creed.Written by Mark Tooley | Monday, July 17, 2023
10. https://theaquilareport.com/reformed-political-theology-today/Reformed Political Theology TodayThere is an unbridgeable gap between the spiritual and temporal kingdoms that places a necessary limit on the kind of good that can be achieved in this life.Written by Simon P. Kennedy | Tuesday, July 18,
Aquila Report Weekly Review for July 10-16, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. The PCA’s Principle on Non-communing Members – A Halfway Covenant?
2. Music at the GA and the PCA
3. Why Are So Many of Our Youth Identifying as LGBTQ+?
4. The Story of Us
5. Fellowship Before and After Sunday Services
6. Does Amillennialism Really Need a Rebrand?
7. Why Machen Is Important for the Church Today: A Reflection on Ch. 7 of Christianity and Liberalism (Part 2)
8. Why Elisabeth Elliot Changed Her Beliefs about Finding God’s Will
9. Little Voices in the Pews
10. Of Atheists and Oaths
Aquila Report Weekly Review for July 3-9, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. Movie Review: Nefarious
2. An Excerpt from “Irony and the Presbyterian Church in America,” An Informed History of the First Half Century of the PCA
3. Heresy at the Heart of Derek Webb’s “Boys Will Be Girls”
4. Abuse, the PCA, and Her Constitution
5. PCA Minister George C. Miladin, 88, Called Home to Glory
6. Uganda and Its Opposition to LGBTQ Normalization
7. The Trans Tide Is Turning
8. Problems with Preferred Pronouns
9. Faith, Family, and Church Community See Jeff and Mariah Windt Through the Challenges of Aphasia: Chapters 2-4
10. Reinterpreting Church History: A Response to Mimi Haddad, “History Matters”
Aquila Report Weekly Review for June 26 -July 2, 2023
1. Summary Report of the Christian Reformed Church Synod 2023 2. A Summary Report of the Reformed Presbyterian Church Synod 2023 3. Ruling Elder Renaissance 4. Queering Jesus: How It’s Going Mainstream at Progressive Churches and Top Divinity Schools 5. Toe the Government Line or Lose Your Kids 6. Encouragements from the Jubilee Assembly 7. 3 Things a Christian Should Consider Before Serving in the Military 8. Two Sexes, Created to Be Distinct 9. There Are Plenty of Good Fish in the Sea 10. Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Colorado Graphic Designer Who Refused To Create Same-Sex Wedding Websites
Aquila Report Weekly Review for June 19-25, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. PCA GA 50: Summary of 20 Key Events & Highlights
2. Report on the PCA’s Jubilee Assembly
3. A Political View of the PCA Jubilee General Assembly
4. Retraction Refused: The PCA’s Magazine Stands By Its Claims in David Cassidy’s “Prayer and Work in the Face of Violence”
5. 2023 Orthodox Presbyterian Church General Assembly Report – UPDATED
6. Thoughts on Female Deacons
7. How Should We Then Repent? A Response to “COVID-19 Reflection”
8. PCA Elders and Members Were ‘Fools for Christ’ At the First Annual GA Evangelistic Outreach
9. Christianity & Progressivism: A Pastor’s Perspective
10. A Confession Rejected and a Denomination Undone
Aquila Report Weekly Review for May 29 - June 4, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. COVID-19 Reflection
2. Final Tally From PCA Presbyteries on Overture 15
3. Rick Warren Knows Exactly What He Is Doing
4. Thoughts on the ARP Special Committee on Women Deacons Study
5. PCA Post-Memphis: Revive or Divide?
6. PCA Officers & Their Pronouns
7. Second Thoughts About the Proposed Witness Overtures
8. As a Christian, I Went Down the AI Rabbit Hole. Here Are 12 Things I Discovered.
9. Contextualization
10. Thoughts on the Church’s True Nature and Mission: A Partial Rejoinder to Larry Ball’s Challenge to the Spirituality of the Church
Aquila Report Weekly Review for May 22-28, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. Tell the PCA’s Magazine to Issue a Retraction
2. The PCA—Tent or House?
3. We Are Already Defeated
4. Words as Weapons: Why We Must Stand Our Ground over Pronouns
5. Something is Amiss
6. Schaeffer: “We Live in a Post-Christian World. Do Not Take This Lightly!”
7. A Challenge to the “Spirituality of the Church”
8. The Different Shades of Christian Nationalism
9. Did the Puritans Agree on Eschatology?
10. Girls and the Transgender “Hockey Stick”
Aquila Report Weekly Review for May 15-21, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. PCA Minister, Rev. Harry Reeder, Briarwood Senior Pastor, Killed in Car Accident
2. Tim Keller Called Home to Glory
3. Schools in the Presbyterian Church in America
4. Machen and the PCA Today
5. A Response to an Employer’s Request for Pronouns
6. Defending the Idol
7. The Two-Kingdoms Theology and Christians Today
8. The Emergence of a New Paganism: An Interview with Chantal Delsol
9. UMC Bishops Request 2026 General Conference as Hundreds More Churches Disaffiliate
10. Faithful, Fruitful, and Forgotten
Aquila Report Weekly Review for May 8-14, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. Scott Sauls, Author and Nashville Pastor, Placed on Indefinite Leave of Absence
2. Dennis Prager’s Troubling Defense of Pornography
3. So Calling God “Mother” Is No Big Deal After All?
4. A Resilient Church on the Fringe
5. 9 Microstresses of a Pastor
6. Arkansas Enacts Given Name Act.
7. Scott Sauls: Apologist for Homosexual Christianity?
8. The Great Hope of Amillennialism
9. REVOLT: 85% of Anglican Leaders Reject Head Bishop of the 3rd-Largest Christian Denomination
10. On Invasions of the Church
Aquila Report Weekly Review for May 1-7, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. The PCA’s Denominational Magazine Goes Political: A Rejoinder to David Cassidy’s “Prayer and Work in the Face of Violence” at By Faith Online
2. Targeting Transgenderism: Two Overtures to the PCA 50th GA
3. Conservative Presbyterians Lay Out Why Mainline Cousins Are Losing Members: ‘Supernatural Battle’
4. An Overture on Titles & Ordination
5. Collusion in Blatant Misogyny
6. Collective Cowardice: The Key to the Transgender Movement’s Success
7. Redeeming Neverland: The Question of Shame & the Crisis of Agency Facing Modern Men
8. A Newly Published Resource for Presbyters
9. A “Reset” of the Anglican Communion
10. Common Good Men
Aquila Report Weekly Review April 24-30, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. Are There Trustworthy Protestant Universities?
2. America’s Imperial Ideology
3. The Lord’s Day Minimum Daily Requirement… Beggars Should Be Choosers (Part 3)
4. Don’t Leave Well Enough Alone: Why I Am Preaching at Satancon
5. Bruce Pardy: Agatha Christie Revisions are the Writing on the Wall
6. Our Lost Boys
7. Book Review: Understanding Ex-Christian America
8. In Praise of the Boring, Uncool Church
9. As Chasm Widens, Traditional Anglicans Plot Faithful Future
10. How Will Christianity Survive During Dark Times?
Aquila Report Weekly Review for April 17-23, 2023
1Parents and the Apostacy of Covenant Children
2Female Pastors, LGBTQ, and the Future of the SBC
4Does The Church of England Need Evangelicals?
5On Naivete and Moral Numbness: A Rejoinder to Russell Moore
6To Whom Will You Liken Me? The Biblical Prohibition of Images (Part 1)
9A Pastoral Response to Gender Confusion: Caring for Those Caught in the LGBTQ Religion
Aquila Report Weekly Review for April 3-9, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. A Time to Keep Silence: A Dissenting Perspective on the Nashville Massacre
2. A Tsunami Warning for the SBC
3. Why I No Longer Use Transgender Pronouns—And Why You Shouldn’t, Either.
4. The Deep Heaven of The Gay Gods
5. Partial Preterists: Don’t Fudge
6. Are We The Byzantines?
7. The Beauty of Biblically Broad Complementarianism
8. Were Later Versions of Christianity Radically Different than Earlier Ones? Reflecting on Recent Scholarly Claims
9. “If Christ Is Not Risen…” — 8 Implications of Denying the Resurrection
10. Worship That Is Holy And Heavy
Aquila Report Weekly Review for March 27-April 2, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. Shooter Kills Three Children, Three Adults at Private Christian School in Nashville
2. Light to Dispel Darkness: The Gospel’s Hope Arising From A Senseless Act
3. Poking Holes in the Egalitarian Beachball: 7 Arguments against Female Pastors
4. Is It Loving for a Faithful Christian to Go to a “Gay Wedding”?
5. Everyone I Don’t Like is Literally Gothard
6. Jesus Revolution Presents a Relevant Revival
7. Preterism: Exposition and Critique
8. The Reality & Hope of Sanctification
9. On Images of Christ
10. Courage To Be Christian
Aquila Report Weekly Review for March 20-26, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. Why Do Parents of Gay Children Change Their Theological Minds
2. The Second Life of a Christian College in Manhattan Nears Its End
3. Taking a Dog by the Ears
4. The Comfort of His Coming: An Amillennial Interpretation 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:10, With a Critique of the Dispensational Interpretation of Dr. John MacArthur
5. Department of Education to Remove Protections for Religious Campus Groups
6. Christ or Chords? The Manipulated Emotionalism of Hillsong, Asbury, and Pentecostalized Evangelical Worship
7. On Culture, Caesar, and Biblical Critical Theory
8. Paul’s Teaching on Male Elders in 1 Timothy 2–3
9. Living Selflessly with Your Wife
10. PCA Minister Roland Barnes Reflects on 42 Years of Meals, Missions, And Memories
Aquila Report Weekly Review for March 13-19, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. How The Side B Project Failed
2. The Egalitarian Beachball is a Church Wrecking Ball
3. Learning Lessons From Scandals Close to Home
4. The Gospel Cancelation
5. The Scandal of “The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind”
6. A Wholesome Controversy? Please
7. Wokism and Silent Preachers – A Redux of Hitler’s Germany
8. An Essential Tenet Of Reformed Theology *Is* Determinism; The Reformed Need To Embrace It
9. Two Narratives Collided In A Wood
10. St. Patrick and His Confession
Aquila Report Weekly Review for March 6-12, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. You Reap What You Sow: The PCA’s Internal Difficulties and Membership Losses 2. Unmasking Abusive Spiritual Leadership Part I: Shunning 3. Tucker Carlson Calls Out the ‘Professional Christians’ 4. A Plea for Patience in the PCA (1) 5. Unmasking Abusive Spiritual Leadership Part II: Marks of Hypocrisy 6. Church Abuse Activism? Easy Targets and Misused Critiques 7. Revival at Asbury: A Cold Take 8. A Plea for Patience in the PCA (2) 9. The Muddy Waters of the EnneagramAquila Report Weekly Review for February 27 - March 5, 2023
TAR Top 10 List
1. Overture 15 Is Dead – Should We Now Leave the PCA? 2. Mainline Presbyterianism & the LGBTQ Movement 3. Machen Was Doomed, But The PCA Is Not 4. Answering Objections to Saddleback’s Removal from the SBC 5. 5 Things You Should Know about the Doctrine of the Trinity 6. 8 Steps to Prepare Before Confronting Your Husband’s Use of Pornography 7. The Gospel Preacher On The Titanic 8. The Grammys Go Deeper 9. Purpose Is No Substitute for Public Respect 10. The Acts 13 Model