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9 Marks International Church Planting Interview
Mark Dever interviews Mark Stiles and Dave Furman, both who are church planters in the United Arab Emirates (and you thought your city was tough!)
New Testament Textual Criticism in the 21st Century
Daniel Wallace discusses the challenges facing contemporary New Testament textual criticism on Christ the Center. Dr. Wallace is the senior New Testament editor of the NET Bible and coeditor of the NET-Nestle Greek-English diglot.
Church 101 for Church Members
9 Marks provides a session on Church 101 for church members. What does it mean to be a member of a church? What should you expect from church, and what are your responsibilities to the church?
Interview with Conrad Mbewe
Tim Challies Podcast Connected Kingdom interviews Zimbabwe preacher Conrad Mbewe about the challenges of ministry in Africa.
Nancy Pearcey on Stand to Reason
Greg Koukl interviews Nancy Pearcey about how secularization has claimed the arts, and discusses her book Saving Leonardo. If you’re like me, you will want to order her book.
So Pastor, What’s Your Point?
Dennis Prutow, Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology at Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary and author of the book So Pastor, What’s Your Point?, is interviewed on Christ the Center.
Rethinking Secularization
Al Mohler interviews Peter Berger, author of the book In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming A Fanatic. Berger has had a tremendous impact on Mohler’s thinking, even though Mohler does draw very distinct lines of where he differs with Berger.
One of the nice things about the format of Mohler’s Thinking in Public podcast, is that he helpfully prepares the audience by providing needed background and context before going into the interview. Then throughout the interview he turns off the tape, so to speak, to summarize for the listeners what was covered and explains how that information should be thought about as a Christian. Even though I was able to follow the discussion and the sociological concepts, Mohler’s comments throughout brought a greater deal of insight to this interview.
Some of the important concepts drawn from Berger are his concepts of plausibility structures and cognitive contamination. On the surface these are word pairs that would cause me to check out of an article or interview. But Mohler has done such a good job keeping these things in a helpful context that I was intrigued.
One of the reasons Berger’s work is so helpful is because the world in which we live today is a world of pluralism; a world where there are a great many ideas about religion and God coexisting. More than ever Christians today need to have a strong grasp of theology because we are bombarded by the contamination from this world of religious pluralism. And one of the dangers that we see repeating itself over and over is when well meaning Christians will bargain away parts of the Gospel that they would never otherwise surrender willingly.
This is a very intriguing interview that will keep your mind churning long after it’s over.
The Reformation, Then and Now
Mark Dever interviews Michael Reeves about the Reformation, and what we need to understand from it today. Michael explains how we’ve lost much of what the Reformation stood for, and how many of the problems we face today could be avoided had we applied the lessons of the Reformation.
Reeves book, The Unquenchable Flame, has become a standard reading assignment for the interns at Capitol Hill Baptist Church. According to Mark Dever, this book is one of the most accurate, readable and motivational history books he has ever read.
Counseling Difficult Cases
CTC lead a very interesting discussion with George Scipione about the need and practice of biblical counseling. Scipione is professor of pastoral theology and Director of the Biblical Counseling Institute at Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Al Mohler’s Last Radio Episode
July 1st saw the final day of the Albert Mohler Radio show. Long time colleague Russell Moore hosted the final program to interview Mohler and look back at his massive legacy of work in radio. I will miss Mohler’s program, but don’t you miss this final episode.
