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Getting the Blues

 
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Dr. Stephen Nichols, research professor of Christianity and culture at Lancaster Bible College, joins the Christ the Center panel for an interesting discussion about his new book, Getting the Blues.  Nichols discusses his interest in blues music and shows how the blues touch upon biblical themes.  This is an utterly fascinating discussion, even for those [...]

Christ’s Kingdom: Gospel Priorities and Politics

 
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The Christ the Center panel talk with Dr. Russell Moore, senior vice president of academic administration at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, about the relationship of the kingdom of Christ and politics and culture.  Dr. Moore, has written a book, The Kingdom of Christ:  A New Evangelical Perspective, which served as the basis [...]

The Preaching of Jonathan Edwards

 
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The Christ the Center panelists interact with Dr. John Carrick, associate professor of applied and doctrinal theology at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, about his latest volume The Preaching of Jonathan Edwards published by Banner of Truth within the last few months. Dr. Carrick is also the author of another banner of Truth title, The [...]

Preaching in an Electronic Age

 
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Greg Reynolds joins the panel on Christ the Center to speak about media ecology and preaching in the electronic age.  Dr. Reynolds is the pastor at Amoskeag Presbyterian Church in Manchester, New Hampshire.  He has also written the book The Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Preaching in the Electronic Age.  Join us for a [...]

Cultural Relevance, Mercy Ministry and the Social Gospel

 
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The Christ the Center panelists converse with the Rev. Richard Phillips, Senior Minister at 2nd Presbyterian Church of Greenville, SC about the importance of a Reformed approach to evangelism and mercy ministry.  The tendency can be to remain inside the four walls of the church when the church has been called to proclaim the gospel [...]

The Pastor and the Academy

 
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Too often, a rift obtains between the work of the church and theological study.  Pastors and seminary students often feel the need to choose between one or the other.  Derek Thomas, both pastor and professor, joins us to talk about the relationship between the pastor and the academy.
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Derek Thomas
James Dolezal
Jeff Waddington
Nick Batzig
Camden Bucey

Reformed Church Growth

 
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In this episode we speak with Drew Dinardo, Senior Pastor of First Presbyterian Church Coral Springs-Margate, FL about the challenges of planting and growing reformed churches.

Building Old School Churches

 
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In the early 19th century, a controversy arose in American Presbyterianism over evangelistic method and doctrines such as the imputation of Adam’s sin. One group identified as the Old School Presbyterians and organized around teachings such as the regulative principle of worship, Presbyterian polity, Calvinism, the spirituality of the church and warm, winsome preaching [...]

Redemptive-Historical Preaching

 
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This episode is an introduction to redemptive-historical preaching. The proponents of this kind of preaching argued that Old Testament narratives are not given – primarily - to us by God to be moral examples, but as revelations of the coming Messiah. The narratives, the stories, of the [...]