Teaching Elders Mark Trigsted (Redeemer McKinney) and Matt Wood (Grace & Peace Anna) join the show to discuss evening services. The pastors share the experience at their churches and offer advice to churches considering offering them. “So my exhortation is just do it, you know, go for it.” says Pastor Wood.

To our sister churches in the PCA and throughout NAPARC we welcome your voice and hope you will share your thoughts as we seek to better keep the Sabbath in a world that is openly hostile to the Fourth Commandment.

Links

• Grace and Peace Presbyterian Church, Anna, Texas.
• Redeemer McKinney (PCA)
• Mark Trigsted (@MTrigsted) on Twitter/X
• North Texas Presbytery
• Justin Andrusk & Matthew Lee’s Morning & Evening in the PCA on PCA Polity
• Sunday School - WCF Chapter 21 Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath Day
• Cornerstone Presbyterian Church | Allen, TX
• Family Worship Bible Guide - Hardcover
• Christ Presbyterian Church - OPC, Flower Mound
• Iain Murray’s Revival and Revivalism
• Seth Miller, Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Post Falls, ID

Churches in North Texas Presbytery (PCA) with Evening Worship

• Redeemer Amarillo
• Grace & Peace Anna
• Bethel Church Dallas
• Lakewood Dallas
• Grace Community Presbyterian Church Fort Worth
• Redeemer McKinney
• Lakeside Southlake
• Fifth Street Tyler

Related

• Presbycast: Church Twice on Sunday w/Dr. Duncan Rankin
• The Forgotten Gift of Evening Worship by Jim McCarthy
• “Top Ten Reasons to Attend Evening Worship” by Danny Hyde
• Why I Love the Evening Service (And You Can Too) by Kevin DeYoung

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Meet Yegor (Greg) Zhelezny a Russian-speaking Ukrainian now living in North Texas. Born in Kiev to parents of an atheistic-jewish background, Greg knew guilt well. Hear the testimony of God’s saving work as the Spirit led a young man to receive the gospel of grace and move to America so he could turn and reach Russians with the Gospel. Greg is a candidate for ministry in the North Texas Presbytery and member at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Plano.

Mentioned:

• Trinity Presbyterian (PCA) Plano
• North Texas Presbytery
• Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) New York City
• Tim Keller
• Albert Mohler The Briefing: From Peter the Great to Putin the Bully – A Briefing on the Ukraine Crisis and the Russian Threat: History, Empire, Kiev, Moscow, Religion and Worldview
• The Stockdale Paradox
• Redeemer Arlington
• HopeRussia

To reach Greg via email: messiahcame AT yahoo.com

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Teaching Elder Victor Martinez serves as Redeemer San Antonio’s (PCA) Associate Pastor of Mission & Cultural Engagement.

He joins us to today to speak about missions, mercy ministry, and the upcoming Restore 2024: MNA Mercy Conference. We pray that you consider attending the conference.

Mentioned:

• Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
• O. Palmer Robertson’s Christ of the Covenants
• Baptist University of the Américas
• Rocky Mountain Presbyterian Church, Denver CO
• Redeemer Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, TX
• Rev. Dr. Thomas Gibbs
• Covenant Theological Seminary
• Paul Hahn
• Matt Beham
• Trinity Presbyterian Church, Plano, TX
• City to City America Latina
• Hispanic Leadership Initiative
• Southwest Church Planting Network
• Restore 2024: MNA Mercy Conference (April 12–13, 2024)
• Rev. Dr. Irwin Ince
• Dr. Brian Fikkert
• Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself
• Covenant College
• The Chalmers Center
• Redeemer’s Conference (March 22–23, 2024): A New Story: Bringing The Hope Of The Gospel To The Needs Of The City
• Brian Fikkert and Kelly M. Kapic Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn’t the American Dream
• P&R Texas episode with Hamid Hatami

MNA Restore 2024 Conference
A Vision for Kingdom-Centered Mercy Ministry
April 12–13, 2024
Northwest Community Center
Dallas, TX

Speakers
- Irwin Ince
- Brian Fikkert
- Victor Martinez

Details: https://pcamna.org/events/restore–2024-mna-mercy-conference/

Registration: https://brushfire.com/mna/mnamercyconference/568703

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Mark Becker, Ruling Elder, (Christ Church Katy, TX PCA) joins us today where he serves on the Session with Teaching Elder Fred Greco.

Mark came to Christ Church in 2013 and returned from the Beaumont area after living there for a couple of years. He is a former paper mill engineer and now on staff with the PCA’s Mission to North America Disaster Response ministry, and he helps the presbyteries in the Texas and Oklahoma areas to be better prepared for storms by developing Regional Response teams and building Sheds of Hope. He and his wife, Suzan, have 2 children.

The Beckers have been involved with disaster response for nearly 30 years and they helped with numerous storm responses as volunteers including Hurricanes Katrina and Harvey.

Links

• Christ Church Katy, TX PCA
• MNA Disaster Response

Sheds of Hope (click the link to sign up)

• Build Days at Dallas Depot:
  • April 19, 2024
  • April 20, 2024
  • October 18, 2024
  • October 19, 2024

Chainsaw Training (click the links to sign up)

• Riverside PCA in Beaumont, TX (March 8–9, 2024)
• Lakewood PCA in Dallas, TX (April 5–6, 2024)
• RiverOaks PCA in Tulsa, OK (April 19–20, 2024)

Bobcat Training (click the links to sign up)

• Christ PCA in Victoria, TX (May 10–11, 2024)
• Covenant PCA in Fayetteville, AR (May 17–18, 2024)

Ways to stay connected

• Mark’s MNA support account page (with additional background information)
• Facebook
• Quarterly Newsletter (Mailchimp)
• Email mbecker@pcanet.org
• DOT Online Profile (several options including videos)

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On Sunday evening, February 11, when most of America was settling in to watch the Super Bowl a historic evening service was taking place in Richardson Texas, in the life of the PCA, and Christ’s church. This ordination and installation service, with over 240 in attendance had prayers, the sermon text, and signing done in both English and Farsi. PCA Stated Clerk Dr. Bryan Chappell delivered the sermon. This night was unique in that Hamid Hatami (RTS Dallas ’22) became the first Teaching Elder of Iranian descent and Muslim background believer to be ordained as a Teaching Elder in the PCA.

Rev. Hatami was installed as the President of Middle East Heritage Reformed Ministries (“MEHR”). MEHR is a reformed ministry training and equipping servants of Christ to plant biblically faithful churches throughout the Middle East.

Links:

• Ordination & Installation Hamid Hatami
• Middle East Heritage Reformed (“MEHR”) Ministries
• Town North Presbyterian Church (PCA), Richardson, Texas
• Dr. Bryan Chapell
• RTS Dallas
• Iran’s Crisis and the Iranian Church Tabletalk magazine article
• @RevHamidHatami on Twitter / X

The episode intro/outro is “I Won’t Separate From the Love of Christ” sung in Farsi during the ordination service.

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Kyle Oliphint (WTS '99) joins this Presbyterian and Reformed Texas episode. Kyle is the Senior Pastor at Grace Community Presbyterian Church Fort Worth, about 15 miles north of downtown Fort Worth. Kyle shares the story of Grace Community and his own story of coming to Christ. We also spend some time talking about education choices for our children. Should we as Christians home school our kids or send them to private schools? Can Christians send their kids to public schools? Is there a one-size-fits-all answer?

Kyle and Eric are married to public school teachers and each sent their children through public schools. Now, their children are teaching in public schools as well.

We also talk sports and celebrate the World Champion Texas Rangers and close the episode talking about evening worship.

Mentioned

• Grace Community Presbyterian Church Fort Worth (PCA)
• Fort Worth Presbyterian Church (PCA)
• Southwest Church Planting Network
• K. Scott Oliphint
• Kyle’s Testimony
• YoungLife
• Christ Covenant Presbyterian Church of Amarillo (OPC)
• CCEF
• Greystone Fort Worth/Dallas
• Keller ISD
• Grace Community’s Worship Matters series
• KyleOliphint.com
• @KyleOliphint on Twitter / X

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Joshua Torrey returns with special guest Jason Piland to discuss the latest developments within the PCA related to mandatory background checks. Joshua and Jason co-labored to perfect overtures that will be considered by the General Assembly in 2024 requiring background checks of ordained officers. We discuss the grassroots presbyterian nature of these overtures versus a more top-down approach that will also be considered. We also discuss for the need for churches to carry out church discipline.

Mentioned

• Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA), Austin, TX
• Redeemer Church (PCA), Hudson, OH
• Episode 2: I’m not saying Tex-Mex is bad with Joshua Torrey
• Scott Edburg AKA Mr. Spreadsheet
• 2023 BCO Amendments Tracker
• Regeneration and Redemptive History: A Biblical-Theological Consideration of Regeneration by Scott R. Wright
• PCA’s Book of Church Order (BCO)
• The original Overture 6 to the 2023 General Assembly “To Require Criminal Background Checks of all Minister and Officer Candidates”
• Overtures to the 2024 General Assembly
• Overture 6, Susquehanna Valley Presbytery to the 2024 General Assembly
• The Westminster Standard podcast: RE Joshua Torrey talks Background Checks
• New Background Check Overture as passed by South Texas Presbytery
• South Texas Presbytery, PCA
• The Ohio Presbytery (TOP), PCA
• PCA Report of the Ad Interim Committee on Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault AKA the DASA Report
• Polity Matters podcast
• @JoshuaTorrey on Twitter / X
• @JasonPiland on Twitter / X

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Sound the Machen-horn, the OPC is here!

Rev Jim Cassidy Pastor at South Austin Presbyterian Church joins us today to discuss growing biblical churches in dispensational country. In addition to serving SAPC, Jim serves as President of the Board of Directors and Teaching Fellow at Reformed Forum.

Topics covered:

• Jim’s story of how he came to the reformed faith after growing up Roman Catholic.
• What makes reformed worship different?
• The driving force behind the church’s mission - the gathering and perfecting of the saints.
• The history and ongoing work of Reformed Forum.
• The OPC–its founding story and growth today in Texas.
• The mission field that is the modern mega-church.
• The growth of the reformed faith and churches in Texas and the roll the internet has played.
• A couple of book recommendations.
• Finally, we preview an upcoming “Symposium on the Intersection of Theology and Public Discourse” on February 29, 2024.

Mentioned

• South Austin Presbyterian Church
• Calvary OPC - Ringoes, NJ
• Christ the Center Episode 1: The New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament
• Westminster Theological Seminary
• Salt Lick BBQ
• Reformed Form
• Reformed Academy
• Reformed Academy: Machen and the Presbyterian Controversy
• The Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC)
• Hays County OPC - Kyle, TX
• Fairfield PCA - Pensacola, FL
• United Reformed Churches in North America (URCNA)
• OPC Home Missions
• Episode 5 with Ryan Denton (Vanguard Presbytery)
• Book: Foundations of Covenant Theology: A Biblical-Theological Study of Genesis 1–3
• Book: Regeneration and Redemptive History: A Biblical-Theological Consideration of Regeneration
• Free Crossroads of Conviction Symposium on the Intersection of Theology and Public Discourse
• Reformed Forum Newsletter
• Jim Cassidy @jjcassidy on Twitter / X

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A Symposium on the Intersection of Theology and Public Discourse

Join us February 29, 2024 for an online symposium, which is set to be an enriching event, featuring a series of thought-provoking sessions designed to explore the intersections of theology, history, and the contemporary challenges facing the church.

The event is free to all attendees. All sessions w

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