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Pastoral Calling

Don't Let Your Sons Grow Up to Be Pastors: A Lament for Pastor Appreciation Month

October 25, 2023

There’s an old country song that warns mothers not to let their babies grow up to be cowboys. There ought to be a Gospel song that warns mothers not to let their sons grow up to be Pastors because that also is a lonely life.

Kit Swartz

3GT Episode 296: Grow Up!

October 24, 2023

Want a podcast introduction that basically contradicts the theme of the episode? Leave it to the 3GTers! After the guys joke around like teenagers for a while, they get down to the task

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Remember Sybil

October 18, 2023

Orlando just had its 🏳️‍🌈 Pride Weekend, complete with a fair-like atmosphere downtown, thousands and thousand of sexual tourists, a rainbow themed parade, and an evening of fireworks. The parade's Grand Master

Nathan Eshelman Nathan Eshelman

3GT Episode 295: Is Sunday Best the Best?

October 17, 2023

Pennsylvania civil magistrates may not be the best place to look for clothing decisions, with some men dressing as women and others, well, hardly dressing at all. But Kyle, knowing these are Barry&

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Retirement

Retirement: The New Afterlife?

October 17, 2023

Take away the hope of a glorious future beyond this life and we have to try and find it here and now.

Stephen Steele Stephen Steele

The Dynamic Church

October 16, 2023

Such a post title may lead one to think that what follows is about becoming a dynamic church. Perhaps you thought I would offer an exciting program that would help your congregation become

Barry York Barry York

Random Thoughts About Unity In The Church

October 10, 2023

As a churchman, it breaks my heart to see brothers separated and divided over issues in many of our congregations, presbyteries, and denominations. I have friends from all over the Reformed World and

Kyle E. Sims Kyle E. Sims
Hermeneutics

Reading Scripture to See Jesus

October 07, 2023

The Old Testament speaks of Jesus. Luke 24 says so. However, like the disciples, we are often slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken, all that the law foreshadowed,

Jeffrey A Stivason Jeffrey A Stivason
heaven

What No Eye has Seen...

October 06, 2023

If we try to live our lives just focused on the fog in front of us, we will miss how close our savior truly is. If we center our attention on only our struggles and trials, we miss what God is doing through them and to us.

Lee Hutchings Lee Hutchings
Evangelism

Sovereignty and Evangelism

September 29, 2023

The power of God unto salvation is not emotional manipulation. So, we must open our mouths. Salvation does not hinge on your eloquence. Eternity does not depend on our persuasiveness.

Bryan Schneider Bryan Schneider
Suicide

Suicide Prevention Month

September 27, 2023

Don’t kill yourself. Trust God to take care of you in life and in death.

Kit Swartz
freedom

Shepherding to Freedom

September 26, 2023

As long as we find ourselves living as slaves and orphans, as opposed to friends of God and true sons or daughters, we have discovered a key area of need! It is for freedom Christ has set us free.

Keith Evans Keith Evans

Episode 294: A Little Pneumatology for You

September 25, 2023

The boys banter about the change in weather, going to kid's fall sporting events, and Scott wearing a cardigan. Then they get down to the subject at hand. They discuss what

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Antichrist

Remembering the Man of Sin

September 22, 2023

Whether you align with that consensus or not, like the Thessalonians we need to receive and remember this Apostolic teaching. It has been revealed for our protection and good.

Kyle Borg Kyle Borg

God's Good Work

September 22, 2023

Consider the following logic. A Biblical injunction to pray for the brethren are prayers that God’s kingdom might come. Now, if that is true there is an entailment that we ought not

Jeffrey A Stivason Jeffrey A Stivason

Super Thoughts on Superscripts

September 19, 2023

Recently I had a conversation with a few other preachers concerning the superscriptions within the Book of Psalms. This conversation made me to reflect on my own ideas concerning the superscriptions and their

Nathan Eshelman Nathan Eshelman
Christ in Scripture

Jesus in Every Book

September 19, 2023

Lists like the one below may be a means to help us follow Isaac Ambrose’s exhortation: ‘Keep still Jesus Christ in your eye, in the perusal of the Scriptures, as the end, scope and substance thereof’.

Stephen Steele Stephen Steele
Guidance

Decisions, Decisions!

September 15, 2023

How do we know what God wants us to do in any given situation? Is there one right option that is God’s will and we have to find it or we are doomed to live a second-best life? What if I get it wrong?

Warren Peel Warren Peel

3GT Episode 293: Roast Preacher

September 15, 2023

The old joke goes that many church folks have roast preacher for Sunday dinner, as they go home after the service and criticize the sermon. As the parishioner had recently read a list

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heaven

Home At Last

September 13, 2023

Turning the windshield wipers on high to combat the pouring rain, the old man sighed. He was almost home – and he couldn’t wait. It had been a long three weeks. Living in

Vanessa Le Vanessa Le

Information Overload

September 12, 2023

Over the summer, I had to move my library from my former church office. It has been 18 years since I had moved my Library. It has grown significantly in that time. I

Kyle E. Sims Kyle E. Sims

Family Worship - Presbyterian Style

September 11, 2023

This summer, I was invited by Jesse Gomez, known as "The Chicano Knox," to come onto his Bibletheory Podcast and YouTube channel to discuss family worship. Though we had some trouble

Barry York Barry York

What if God did know better?

September 09, 2023

We’ve been living in this world a long time. We like to think we know how to get on with life. One of the things I find fascinating is that we are

Mark Loughridge Mark Loughridge
football

Competing for the First Day

September 07, 2023

On the one hand, there’s the rhythm, tone, and nature of the first day of the week prescribed by God. On the other, is the changed rhythm, tone, and nature that football has introduced into the life of our society.

Kyle Borg Kyle Borg

Will You Love Your Brother?

September 06, 2023

What is your impression of the church? When you think about the church what comes to mind? Think about the Old Testament church, the church underage and specifically that time after the Exodus

Jeffrey A Stivason Jeffrey A Stivason
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