My friend Matthew Ezzell and I taught a Sunday school class on American Presbyterian History at Shiloh Presbyterian Church. Here was the overview we wrote for the course: This class provides an understanding of the historical foundations of modern presbyterianism in America. We cover the breadth of the streams contributing to the presbyterian churches and denominations of our country. In the course, we learn about the controversies and conflicts and also spread of the gospel and the propagation churches throughout the United States....

The OPC’s Ordained Servant magazine published my article “Promoting Happy Pastors” on fifteen ways a deacon can support his pastor. You can read it here.

On the OPC Committee on Diaconal Ministries podcast, I interviewed Dr. Cornelis Van Dam about his book The Deacon. You can listen here.

On the inaugural episode of the OPC Committee on Diaconal Ministries podcast, my friend David Nakhla interviewed me about my ministry as a deacon at Shiloh Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, NC. You can listen here.

My edited and newly typeset version of John G. Lorimer’s work The Deaconship is now available in paperback on Amazon. Lorimer was a Church of Scotland minister who joined the Free Church of Scotland when it was formed in 1843. The book includes a forward from Dr. C. Nick Willborn of Covenant PCA in Oak Ridge, TN: ​This little book also sets forth practical good the office can accomplish when rightly distinguished from the office of elder and fully honored through the recognition of and ordination of biblically qualified men....

My great-grandfather Hershey Longenecker and his wife Minnie served as Southern Presbyterian missionaries to the Belgian Congo from 1917 to 1951. In retirement, he wrote a memoir of his life and ministry entitled Memories of Congo. Some time ago, my dad’s cousin digitized the book and gave me permission to host it at congo.ulsterworldly.com. I also created a Kindle edition available on Amazon.

I recently launched a new website: readmachen.com. The site started as a digitization of the bibliography of Machen’s works published in Pressing Towards the Mark (sadly out of print) by James Dennison and Grace Mullen. This bibliography is 25 pages long and lists nearly 400 books, articles, sermons, and letters from J. Gresham Machen published over the last 100 years. The online version allows you to see the data in ways the print version doesn’t; for example, you can view publications by year or source....

I was invited on the Presbycast podcast to discuss my new website readmachen.com. You can listen here.

I wrote an article for the OPC denominational magazine on the diaconal response to Hurricane Florence. You can read it here.

The following are notes from a lesson I taught to our men’s leadership class at Shiloh Presbyterian Church in 2018. You can listen to the audio of the session here. Acts 6 Background of the Diaconate Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables....