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The Parrhesians
by The Parrhesians: Nathanael Devlin, Peter Chace, Kyle Bennett
The Greek word is parrhesia" means “forthright truth-telling.” One who speaks with parrhesia doesn’t flatter, manipulate, or use rhetorical tricks. He doesn’t massage or bend the truth, and he doesn’t hedge. He’s confident truth is on his side, and he takes moral responsibility for speaking it. Join Kyle Bennett, Peter Chace and Nate Devlin as they offer bold truth and discuss how to be the church in a world possessed by lies.
Episodes
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The "Scary" CREC with Douglas Wilson
Doug Wilson is kinda cool. He knows what it’s like to be the most conservative kid at camp and he’s okay with it. He also knows when it’s time to shout at culture, and when it’s time to whisper. Which is a nifty gift. Oh, and he doesn’t love paying taxes. Which means he’s definitely human, and…
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We Are Not the Same: Musings on "The Great Feminization" of Culture (Part 2 of 2)
What's the nature of a witch? To take that which she cannot have and prevent creatures from becoming who they were meant to be. An indispensable moral lesson drawn from the fairy tale of Jorinda and Jorindel in The Brothers Grimm that can be applied to our zeitgeist. Helen Andrews believes...
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We Are Not the Same: Musings on "The Great Feminization" of Culture (Part 1 of 2)
Imagine a woman critiquing women who believe women can do everything men can do? Now imagine a woman asserting that women shouldn’t be in every courtroom, graduate seminar, and boxing ring alongside men? Now imagine a woman arguing that wokeness and cancel culture are the result of the…
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Who's Afraid of Christian Nationalism?
Martin Bucer was a sixteenth century German Dominican monk who converted to Protestantism. He was a mentor to John Calvin and helped Calvin in his efforts to reform the city of Geneva. In his essay, Instruction in Christian Love, he had this to say: Civil officials must govern according to the…
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Dr. John Gerstner on John 3:16 | Part 3
“This is a perishing world. Your neighbors are perishing. Maybe some of you I’m looking at right now are perishing. […] Everyone is either on their way to heaven or on their way to hell.” This is the last installment of a three-part series Dr. John Gerstner gave at Beverly Heights Presbyterian...
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Speech, Sight, Sacrifice: Signs of a Healthy Church
In a previous episode, Peter, Pastor Nate, and Kyle discussed how we measure church health and vitality. What does it mean that a church is healthy? What does it look like for it to be sick? They continue this exploration by providing several signs for what makes a church healthy. Such as, - The...
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Dr. John Gerstner on John 3:16 | Part 2
This is part two of a three-part series Dr. John Gerstner, long-time professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, gave at Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church in 1984 on the riches of John 3:16. In this episode, Dr. Gerstner discusses the need for apologetics, the insult that is evangelism, the...
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No, You're Unhealthy: Taking Stock of Church Vitality and Effectiveness
“I told my doctor he was counting my heart rate incorrectly.” You ever heard that before? Yeah, me neither. People who know, know, and we trust them. “It’s all about perception.” “Your church is unhealthy.” “We’re just trying to help.” You ever heard that before? Yeah, me, too. All the time.…
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Dr. John Gerstner on John 3:16 | Part 1
In this three-part series, recorded at Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church in 1984, Dr. John Gerstner explores the depths of the riches of John 3:16. But, Dr. Gerstner asserts that this "golden text" of scripture is oft misunderstood. To avoid misunderstanding, we need the whole context. That's…
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Who's In Charge Here?
He’s got the whole world in His hands. Your mother. Your girlfriend. Even Kamala. He is the true "Govenator." And He shares His power. He raises His people up and gives them responsibilities. He passes along His keys and expects His Church to use them (Matthew 18:18). But the modern church just...
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Overseeing Souls in Negative World: An Interview with Joe Rigney on Eldership
Three rogue elders walk into a Session meeting and slap a folder down. “We have concerns.” They leave it to Session to deal with it. Time passes, and they grow impatient. They escalate their “concerns” to a higher authority and call in reinforcements. They enlist the Presbytery to do something...
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Membership in Negative World
You can’t claim to be a Christian if you don't go to church. Likewise, you can't claim to be a member of Christ's Body if you don't read your Bible. Just call yourself a "pagan," have a coke, and smile. In this episode, Peter, Pastor Nate, and Kyle discuss the political importance of the local...
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Special Edition VII - The Finale Part 2
It's been 18 months since the Presbytery of the Alleghenies formed an Administrative Commission to "help" our church secure the peace, unity, and purity of the congregation. But instead of help, our congregation experienced conflict, lawfare, and abuse of power at the hands of EPC leadership. On...
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Special Edition VII - The Finale Part 1
It's been 18 months since the Presbytery of the Alleghenies formed an Administrative Commission to "help" our church secure the peace, unity, and purity of the congregation. But instead of help, our congregation experienced conflict, lawfare, and abuse of power at the hands of EPC leadership. On...
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Resisting Tyranny
In this special edition of the Parhessian Podcast, Peter, Kyle, and Nate take on the mantle of The Layman as they discuss the recent Presbytery of the Alleghenies meeting held on Saturday, September 21, 2024. Sadly, there are many concerning issues to report. The POA not only continued its abuse…
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Conformation
Baptizing babies in the church always leads to the necessity for confirmation. Confirmation is a process by which young men and women learn what it means to be a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and what it means to be a member of the church. This time-honored approach to training and confirming...
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Infant Baptism and American Revival
In this episode of The Parrhedsian Podcast, Peter, Kyle and Nate discuss how a return to the practice of infant baptism may actually be the key to Christian revival, not only in America, but also in the church and in the home. https://theparrhesians.com/
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Practice
As Coach Herm Edwards once said (famously)...“You play to win the game.” But you can’t win the game (with all due respect to Allen Iverson) if you don’t practice. Practice is important, it’s important for sports, it’s important for music, it’s important for almost every endeavor in life…
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The Sin of Sameness
When it comes to the church today there is too much sameness. Sameness is a real problem. But what does that mean? What is too much sameness? First, we need to clarify that sameness is not the same as conformity. Conformity isn’t a problem; the problem resides in the pattern after which the…
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Freedom
We just recently celebrated the 4th of July, and our country finds itself in an election year where everyone seems to be saying that the fate of democracy is on the line. What better time to think Christianly about the subject of freedom. What is freedom? Where does it come from? How do you…
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Back to Basics
Times of disruption and seasons of change are hard to manage. Our resting state prefers stability and so we dislike disruption. But sometimes disruption creates unique opportunities for innovation, as Clayton Christensen described in his celebrated theory on Disruptive Innovation. Other times...
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The Theopolis Report
In this Special Edition of the Parrhesian Podcast, Nate, Peter and Kyle discuss the POA’s report on the Theopolis Institute and Dr. Peter Leithart. Your link to the report: https://theparrhesians.com/2024/05/30/the-theopolis-report/ https://theparrhesians.com/
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Church Conflict with Special Guest Eric Phillips
Rev. Eric Phillips is the pastor of Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church and long-time friend and colleague of Nate Devlin. Pastor Eric is finishing his Doctor of Ministry degree at Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, MO. His area of research is on pastoral leadership and in this Special Edition of the...
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The Essential Church
Is the church essential or non-essential? Does the Bible really teach that the church should occupy a place of primacy in our lives? Is the church really fundamental to our Christian identity or is it really just supplemental? In 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic caused society to shut down. And when...
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Racism and the EPC
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church recently released a document entitled “A Pastoral Letter of Racial Lament and Hope.” The paper is a pastoral word to the denomination regarding racism and the EPC’s response to this very real and serious problem. The paper was disseminated to churches in the…
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The System Is Down
Your system is perfectly designed to get you the results you are currently getting. As Christians, we are called to think Christianly, but every once in a while Christians should think a little bigger, especially about the systems that we create or the conditions in which we live. The world is…
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Thinking Christianly
Being a Christian in our world today is hard. It is made all the more difficult when Christians fail to think in a distinctly Christian way. Join Peter, Kyle, and Nate as they discuss Harry Blamires book The Christian Mind, what it means to think Christianly, and why Christian thinking is so...
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What is Parrehsia?
Kyle, Peter and Nate finally explain what Parrhesia is and why it matters today. https://theparrhesians.com/
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Passing it On
Kyle Peter and Nate discuss what it means to pass on the faith to the next generation. https://theparrhesians.com/
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The Coup Document
Kyle, Peter and Nate have a few thoughts about the coup document below: God’s plan for the congregation to take back Beverly Heights EPC We the congregation of Beverly Heights EPC have become aware of a plan by our current pastor, Nate Devlin, and a small group of leadership including the elders,...
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What is a Pastor?
In this Special Edition of the Parrhesian Podcast, Nate, Peter and Kyle discuss a recent article in Christianity Today entitled Above Reproach? Fewer Americans See Pastors as Ethical and the erosion of pastoral confidence in the culture. https://theparrhesians.com/
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What Is the Point of My Salvation?
“People's lives come to ruin not because they pursue intrinsically evil states, but because they prize lower goods to the neglect of higher goods.” Byron I. Bitar, Classical Christian Worldview: Ethics Worship is job number one. But that viewpoint is not shared by the therapeutic church, which...
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How Will it End?
If evil pervades the church, you should not shrink back from breaking with the church organization, and you should not rest until Zion is revived. ~ Abraham Kuyper (1883) In this Special Edition, episode 3 of the Parrhesian Podcast, Nate, Peter and Kyle discuss the challenges within the local...
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How Did it Go Wrong?
If evil pervades the church, you should not shrink back from breaking with the church organization, and you should not rest until Zion is revived. ~ Abraham Kuyper (1883) In this Special Edition, episode 2 of the Parrhesian Podcast, Nate, Peter and Kyle discuss the challenges within the local...
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How Did This Start?
If evil pervades the church, you should not shrink back from breaking with the church organization, and you should not rest until Zion is revived. ~ Abraham Kuyper (1883) In this Special Edition of the Parrhesian Podcast, Nate, Peter and Kyle discuss the challenges within the local church, the...
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A Theology of Friendship
"True religion, in fact, is a kind of friendship: it is friendship of character with God. In short, friendships of character bond us to God and to each other now and forever, and perfect our nature." Byron I. Bitar, Classical Christian Worldview: Ethics Does the church rightly understand...
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Critical Theory and its Discontents
In December 2022, Peter Chace, Kyle Bennett, and Nate Devlin sat down to record Season One of The Parrhesian Podcast. Sadly, those recordings were buried under the tyranny of other pressing matters in church and life. They were buried but not forgotten. The recordings resurfaced this week when...
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The Greek word is parrhesia" means “forthright truth-telling.” One who speaks with parrhesia doesn’t flatter, manipulate, or use rhetorical tricks. He doesn’t massage or bend the truth, and he doesn’t hedge. He’s confident truth is on his side, and he takes moral responsibility for speaking it. Join Kyle Bennett, Peter Chace and Nate Devlin as they offer bold truth and discuss how to be the church in a world possessed by lies.
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