Synopsis
Full-orbed biblical Reformational truth by the founder and president of the Center for Cultural Leadership.
Episodes
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The Issue Is Always Lordship
06/05/2025 Duration: 26minUntil we settle the absolute cosmic Lordship of Jesus Christ in our individual lives, families, churches, and all of society, we’ll be tinkering around the edges of the world‘s great problems. “Jesus Is Lord” is the church’s first and the Bible’s great foundational creed.
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Biblical Masculinity
27/04/2025 Duration: 48minFrom ReformCon25: Biblical Masculinity repudiates both Leftist egalitarianism and alt-right paganism, including “Reformed” paganism. Quit trying to be a man. Be God’s man.
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Creation and the Cross Repair Broken Marriages
13/04/2025 Duration: 51minRecovering creational norms and returning to the Cross of Jesus Christ will solve almost any marriage problem.
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Creation, Fall, Resurrection – The Gospel Worldview
17/03/2025 Duration: 39minThe gospel is all about what God in Christ has done, is doing, and will do in restoring and enhancing everything that was lost in the Garden of Eden. The final gospel success is the final resurrection of man and the present heavens and earth.
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The Church’s Eschatological Present
27/01/2025 Duration: 47minWhile liberals ordinarily overemphasize the “already” of the already/not yet, conservatives tend to overstress the “not yet.”A pox on both their houses.
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Salvation and Works
24/01/2025 Duration: 30minThe Bible teaches that salvation is entirely by grace, and not by works, and equally that there can be no salvation without works. This is an apparent, not an actual, contradiction.
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Take Heed, Elders
01/11/2024 Duration: 09minElders must know their job description, and sound theology isn’t the half of it.
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Election Day Sermon 2024
27/10/2024 Duration: 40minGod deals with nations as nations, God blesses nations that adhere to biblical law, and God judges nations that turn their back on God and his written word.
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Neither Progressive nor New Right: Redeeming Politics via Classical Liberalism
31/08/2024 Duration: 32minThe most Christian political philosophy in the current philosophical Overton Window is classical liberalism. But Progressivism (Democratic Party) and the New Right (the Republican Party) are squeezing it out.
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Our Promissory God
06/08/2024 Duration: 51min“Our good God, our ever-flowing God, our God of Yes and Amen, has always been able to promise far more than we are able to believe. God loves to bury our finite faith under an avalanche of promises and gifts.”
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Covenant and Kingdom: Foundations of the Christian Worldview
20/07/2024 Duration: 52minWe cannot grasp the Christian worldview as we should if we do not understand the covenant and the kingdom.
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Biblical law: Creational, Mosaic, New Covenant
15/07/2024 Duration: 50minThe Christian Faith is deeply anti-antinomian. This is a brief elaboration on the Bible’s teaching concerning God‘s law in creation, his law in Moses, and his law in the new covenant.
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The Word versus the Wizards
14/07/2024 Duration: 41minEvery movement away from the Bible is a movement toward an alien, competing word, and that word always leads to darkness, chaos, and damnation.
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Creational Worldview Before Christian Worldview
13/07/2024 Duration: 55minThe Christian worldview is founded the creational worldview. To confuse this sequence is to twist both Christianity and creation.
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Is America Exceptional?
02/07/2024 Duration: 21minThe United States is the most spectacularly valuable political experiment in world history – because it was founded on Christian principles.
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Bible Interpreters Behaving Badly
01/06/2024 Duration: 24minFundamentalism, modernism, scholasticism, and postmodernism are bad ways of interpreting the Bible.The canonical or covenantal or worldview-ish way is the only right way.
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The History, Characteristics and Consequences of Pietism
21/05/2024 Duration: 29minA brief, direct, easy-to-understand explanation of one of the most harmful ways of thinking in the modern church.
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A Truce Proposal for the Sacrament Wars
03/05/2024 Duration: 20minA recognition of “the near impossibility of simple refutations” might lead to a mutual laying down of arms in the acrimonious sacrament wars of paedobaptists (and paedocommunionists) versus credobaptists (and credocommunionists).
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The Blazing Glory of the Ascended Lord
14/04/2024 Duration: 41minIf you’re discouraged and distraught over the surrounding depraved culture or persistent, personal difficulties, you might be helped by this bold, full-throated, biblical defense postmillenialism.
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The Battle for Reality
22/03/2024 Duration: 58minThe Battle for Reality is even more pressing than The Battle for the Bible.