CarsonBaura

A Christian, A Father of three, A Churchman, and A Fire Protection Engineer

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@fredgreco @brent_lauder You should have! Lol. The algorithm has been blowing up my phone with RHB ads for The Works of Samuel Rutherford! They literally interviewed every TE at GA and made a commercial for each one. Lol

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@revpmr @PCAPolity @a4mrofficial https://t.co/y2rROS0zoO

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@revpmr @PCAPolity @a4mrofficial Thank you for you article!
For those interested, I’d recommend TE David Hall’s compilation of Essays on the Practice of Confessional Subscription! Third Edition was just printed, an excellent resource! https://t.co/y2rROS0zoO

[Joe Cristman @JoeCristman]

A must read from @revpmr on how we think about subscription in the PCA. Excellent work.

https://t.co/0Ya85mE7Zq

[Westminster Seminary @WestminsterTS]

Join us October 13-14th for the annual Westminster Preaching Conference. Featuring Neil Stewart, @RevKevDeYoung, and Imad Aubrey.

Sign up here:
https://t.co/YR5jeTUlGK

[Tony Phelps ✝️🐑 @RevTonyPhelpsRI]

IMHO, the Duncan brothers are an excellent example of the cheerful confessionalism and gracious churchmanship we should all aspire to in the PCA. Great discussion here.

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@DunsonMartha Outstanding Expositor! Can’t get enough of his sermons!

[Derek Radney @derekradney]

I agree that, while within the rules, it is not considerate of a minority.

One man has been doing this for years, and I have heard no outcry from those in the majority who have benefited from a lack of debate on several topics. Now that some who benefited before are in the minority, they are complaining about it.
Whether we are in the minority or the majority, we should try to ensure both sides of an issue has a chance to make their case for at least a short time.

[American Presby @AmericanPresby]

The floor of the #PCAGA assembly went wild when @MeltonDuncan was elected moderator.

[Melton L. Duncan @MeltonDuncan]

2026 PCAGA Moderators Speech
June 23, 2026
Louisville, KY

I am profoundly grateful to the Assembly for granting me the privilege of Moderating this year. By God’s grace, I will do by best. I would like to express my deepest appreciation to @rdp4christ Dr. Richard D. Phillips for his gracious nomination, and for the great privilege of serving on his ministerial staff, and for his kindness and friendship in the Lord over many years to me and my family.

I wish also to acknowledge my spiritual debt to @SPCGreenville the Second Presbyterian Church of Greenville, South Carolina. My Church Home.

Second Church commissioners—led by Gordon Reed, J. Ligon Duncan, Jr., Stuart Patterson, and Douglas Patton—resolved with 383 other PCA founders in Birmingham, Alabama in December of 1973, to form the Presbyterian Church in America. Each of those men spent the rest of their lives, by God’s grace, building the PCA. We are the beneficiaries of their faithful labor, and to the handful of our founders still with us we say: We thank the God of Heaven for what you have begun. Our founders believed the Bible was inerrant, they desired the Reformed faith to be ascendant, and they longed for a vibrant missionary force committed to the ordinary means of grace to carry the Gospel to every corner of the globe.

In these fifty-three years, by God’s grace, we have made a good start as grassroots Presbyterians, and this week we will witness the latest chapter in our continuing story. A story that connects the PCA from Acts 15 to the Isle of Iona, From the Reformation to the Mound in Edinburgh. From Philadelphia Presbytery to Hanover Presbytery to Warrior Presbytery. One might even say from Francis Makemie, James Templeton & John Witherspoon to Jack Williamson, Bob Canada, and Morton Smith - joined & received later by Jim Boyce, Bob Rayburn & Francis Schaefer. The PCA now reaches around the world from Seoul to Sao Paulo and from Canada to Cajamarca…even to Clemson this is our PCA continuing story and until heaven The PCA is our home together in this world.

I am especially thankful for my wife Lynda, who is with me tonight—she whom I famously met at a church ice cream social. I give thanks for our covenant children, Ford, Frances, and Mary, for both my brothers, Ligon & John, both PCA elders, our extended Duncan family, and for our Church family in Greenville and within @Calvarypresby Calvary Presbytery’s blessed bounds. Grateful for so many PCA brothers & sisters, and the brethren across NAPARC.

Fathers and Brothers, there is much work before us this week—and even a good bit to do tonight. I know many of us come with particular matters on our minds, and we will surely have points of disagreement. Yet let us make good arguments, listen well to one another, and by God’s help conduct all our business in decency and good order.

May it also be said of us in the spirit of Philippians 1:27 that our manner of deliberation was worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that when others hear of us they will know the PCA is “standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel.”
Amen

[Derek Radney @derekradney]

Guy Waters has been doing an excellent job chairing the OC.
#pcaga2026

[Robert Hasler @rdhasler]

As I’ve argued before, the restlessness we’re experiencing within the PCA is a mirror image of what’s going on in the culture writ large.

It is a disruption caused, at least in part, by generational turnover. How our society will respond to an existential crisis (not an exaggeration) is still unclear.

If we in our own particular institution(s) want to navigate it well, we’ll need to:

-steward resources with the wisdom of serpents and the innocence of doves

-resist ministry fads, like “guru” leadership by humbly holding fast to the ordinary means of grace and boldly proclaiming the whole counsel of God

-inspire spiritual integrity to a new class of “religious-not-spiritual” skeptics and seekers looking for philosophical and civilizational stability

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

Nailed it!!

[Sola Media @solamediaorg]

“This “turn to mission” has often come at the cost of a deep and rich theological center by which Protestants historically conceived of their common Protestant convictions.”

“The loss of the theological center may appear to allow for a larger evangelical tent, while in fact becoming more nebulous and less theologically grounded.”

“The “turn to mission” need not have this outcome, but the symbiotic relationship between historic Protestant traditions and modern American evangelicalism often pushes in this direction.”

“Theological identities need not be tribal (though they often are), and commitment to mission need not be theologically impoverished. The task ahead for Reformed churches, like the PCA committed to mission, is to work out the mysterious relationship between a robust confessional commitment and a robust and concrete “faithful contextualization.””

https://t.co/8ysrlGkOED

[Jason Helopoulos @Helopoulos]

I love the PCA!

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@presbycast @JoelWebbon Lololol.

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@presbycast “The last thing I’ll say is this, If you would like to not be a sodomite, donate here!” - @JoelWebbon

[Presbycast @presbycast]

A deranged and uninformed denunciatory rant against the PCA by a discredited grifter? We'll take it as a compliment. Carry on.

[CarsonBaura @BauraCarson]

@Protestia How in the world do you find this stuff, lol!

[Presbycast @presbycast]

“I fear that one of the mistakes in the PCA is the treating our Standards as relics rather than tools. Our confessional documents are not merely historical artifacts that should sit on shelves while the 'real ministry' happens elsewhere. They are pastoral documents written to help churches faithfully preach, disciple, govern, worship, and evangelize.” - @MD_Adams90
https://t.co/sxXio6XTA6