

The Westminster Standard
Ryan Biese
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.
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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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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


