Zachary Garris

To affirm the “rights of conscience” for non-Christians is to interfere with the magistrate’s duty to “maintain piety” (WCF 23.3). We cannot affirm both.

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The PCA is fairly broad when it comes to allowable practices in worship but where is the line?

"It seems as though more enemies nowadays are in the church than are outside the church." –John MacArthur (2019)

In his 1796 Farewell Address, George Washington said: “Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?” In other words,…

"reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." –George Washington (1796)

I want Baptist churches to be Baptist, Presbyterian churches to be Presbyterian, and non-denominational churches to be… whatever is they are, just not in my denomination.

There was an effort in the late 1800s to water down Presbyterianism (which critics called "broad churchism"). As the mainline Presbyterian churches became liberal in the 1900s, they even considered Pan-Protestant mergers. This ecumenical spirit exists today in the PCA, as…

People used to say young men playing video games & not getting jobs suffered from “prolonged adolescence.” Well the same is true of young women avoiding marriage & children, even if they get degrees & jobs. Both refuse to take on the duties of grown adults.

Btw John MacArthur was one of the few modern Bible commentators to take the traditional view of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35.

I think it's quite clear that "complementarianism" was a response to evangelical feminism that involved some softening of traditional Christian views, rather than a movement in complete continuity with the tradition. I've shown that D. A. Carson's view of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35…

It was a golden maxim of the Protestant fathers, that "doctrines must be preached practically and duties doctrinally." –R. L. Dabney, Sacred Rhetoric (1870), 52

"As I stand by the little grave, and think of the poor ruined clay within, that was a few days ago so beautiful, my heart bleeds. But I ask, ‘where is the soul whose beams gave that clay all its beauty and preciousness?’ I triumph. Has it not already begun, with an infant voice,…