The Westminster Standard

Ryan Biese
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Mar 30, 2026 • 57min

324. Presbyterian Oversight

TE Chas. Stover calls brothers to live and minister with integrity rather than equivocation and effeminacy. His article highlights the progress the PCA has made toward purity over the last five years. https://cstover.substack.com/p/equivocation-is-unbecoming?r=9oyu5&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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Mar 23, 2026 • 1h 16min

323. Being Reformed & Presbyterian

TEs Matt Adams and Job Dalomba discuss what it means to be truly Reformed and Presbyterian rather than merely calvinistic. https://mdadams.substack.com/p/being-truly-presbyterian-and-reformed
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Mar 16, 2026 • 58min

322. Order & Ordination

TE Guy Waters discusses the biblical principles undergirding the ordination in the Presbyterian Church. https://gospelreformation.net/what-is-biblical-ordination/Nothing on this program should be construed as commentary on any matter pending or impending before the Standing Judicial Commission of the PCA General Assembly.
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Mar 9, 2026 • 1h 15min

321. Lord's Day and Lord of the Sabbath

TEs Job Dalomba and Wilson Van Hooser discuss their journey to observe the Sabbath and to rejoice in the rest God provides.
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Feb 23, 2026 • 1h 13min

320. Feminism & Politicizing RPR

Is the Alliance for Mission & Renewal reusing old feminist arguments from the PCUSA and CRC for the current debate in the PCA?Is there an attempt to politicize RPR? TEs David Hall and Stephen O'Neill weigh in.
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Feb 16, 2026 • 1h 19min

319. Kingship, Ordination & Office in the PCA

TEs Scott Cook & David Strain discuss the social pressures that led the ARP & RPCNA to begin ordaining women as well as their own history in denominations that ordain women. David Strain is the author of another overture clarifying the principles of our polity. Missippi Valley Presbytery also sent up an overture calling the PCA to join with other NAPARC communions to seek revival in our land and churches.
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Feb 5, 2026 • 1h 41min

318. Progressive Feminist Agenda in the PCA?

The Alliance for Mission and Renewal, a progressive advocacy group within the PCA, published a resource list for women in ministry. The panel of TEs Nate Xanders and Zach Garris assesses the resources and considers whether they conform to the historic practice, theology, and polity of the PCA. https://a4mr.substack.com/p/a-pastoral-resource-list-on-women
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Feb 2, 2026 • 1h 16min

317. Women Deacons: A Gospel Issue?

TEs Thomas Rickard & Samuel Brewer join to provide clarity and context for the ongoing discussion in the PCA regarding women "deacons" and "deaconesses in the PCA. All this amid dueling proposals from presbyteries. Some presbyteries seek to strengthen the PCA's commitment to men only ordination, others propose allowing women to be ordained to the diaconate.
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Jan 26, 2026 • 1h 28min

316. New Clarity & a New Clerk for the PCA

Has a new day dawned in the PCA with the nomination of TE Fred Greco to serve as Stated Clerk? If elected, will TE Greco serve more as a mailman or a mascot for the PCA? The panel discusses the reasons for TE Chapell's unusually short tenure as Stated Clerk as well as two new overtures from Northwest Georgia Presbytery; one that seeks to address creative and imaginary titles for non-ordained people another seeks to expand Ruling Elder Participation at General Assembly.TEs Job dalomba & Seth Miller, REs Matt Lee & Justen Ellis, Senior Correspondent Zoe Schimke Miller
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Jan 12, 2026 • 1h 17min

315. Grievances or Lament

TEs Chas. Stover & Thos. Rickard along with RE Tim Rice join to analyze the "PCA Prayer and Lament" Document. Is it a biblical lament or merely another progressive airing of grievances? https://www.pcaprayerandlament.comhttps://cstover.substack.com/p/lamentable-slanderhttps://pcapolity.com/2026/01/01/a-presbyterian-call-to-prayer-lament/https://medium.com/@thomas.rickard/response-to-pca-prayer-and-lament-fd5266704b8c

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