In an earlier post first published on the Carolinas Church Planting Collective blog, I proposed three “faithfulness and renewal” essentials for Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) church-planting. The three essentials I outlined are missional clarity, proactive integrity, and compelling leadership. They apply equally well to church revitalization as they do to church-planting. But there is […]
3 Essentials for PCA Church-Planting
Christ taught that Christian discipleship comes with a cost, and that cost must be counted. He famously said, “For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation […]
2025 Annual Antioch Ministry Meeting
When Antioch’s reconstituted resident Session held its first meeting in November 2024, it resolved to hold two regularly occurring annual congregational meetings. One of them is “an annual congregational meeting each January regarding the ministries of the church, commencing in 2026.” Now, over a year later, we are in January 2026, and it is time […]
Reintroducing Our Monthly Fellowship Meal
Each month at Antioch, we host a church-wide fellowship meal after our first morning service. With our recent Fellowship Hall renovations completed, we are looking forward to reintroducing this joyous monthly event. Now that our space has changed (for the better), so too will the arrangements for our time together change (hopefully, for the better). […]
At the Parbar: Ordained Service in the Church
The following is adapted from a sermon preached before the 162nd Stated Meeting of Calvary Presbytery (PCA), held on October 24, 2024, an audio recording of which is available on sermonaudio.com (embedded below). This post was originally published on pcapolity.com. Introduction The “life verse” phenomenon—if we can call it that—is a curious part of evangelical […]
Gleaning from the Ministry of Harry Reeder
The following article was originally published on byFaith Magazine online. Before preaching the sermon at the memorial service of his friend Harry L. Reeder III, on May 24, 2023, Sandy Willson recalled his experience of the previous week. “I was in my study at the back of my house, and we had a micro-storm… There was […]
