Captivate & Conform

Nelson Randolph recounts his unlikely story of how a country boy turned metropolitan businessman wound up on scores of missions trips to some of the most dangerous parts of the globe including Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Venezuela.

Nelson currently serves as a deacon at Cedar Crest and previously sat on the Elder Board.

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After nearly 8 years, Adam Crain has stepped down as Shepherding Pastor at Cedar Crest BFC. He reflects on his time serving here and shares about his future.

Adam is the founder and executive director of ShepherdingCare, a ministry helping weary pastors renew their passion, lead with clarity, and find balance in ministry.

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In his famous teaching, Jesus using money as the alternative master to God was a deliberate choice. Money matters. It can grow into a vice for greed or a virtue for generosity.

Our guests on this episode, Jay Reinhard and Benjamin Schleicher, are financial professionals. They discuss a biblical theology of money as well as practical advice on specific topics including debt, budgeting, and giving.

Resource Recommendation

• The Good Steward: Biblical Principles for Wealth Management

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Who did Jesus die for? At first glance, the answer to this classic Sunday school question seems like it would come straight from John 3:16. However, the whole of Scripture gives an answer that is less broad, though far more enriching to one’s faith and assurance.

The doctrine of Limited Atonement is the “L” in the Calvinist acronym TULIP. While not the most popular teaching, it seeks to protect the sanctity and effectiveness of the cross.

Other Episodes

A Few Good Men? Part 1 & Part 2 (Total Depravity), Clay in the Hands of a Sovereign Potter (Unconditional Election)

Further Reading

• Redemption Accomplished and Applied 
• The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
• From Heaven He Came and Sought Her
• The Joy of Calvinism

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In this first show-and-tell video format episode, the pastors share their five favorite Christian books, along with some honorable mentions. Put a few on your reading list this summer!

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Pastor Chris’s List 📚

• Desiring God by John Piper
• Systematic Theology by Louis Berkhof
• *God Is by Mark Jones
• *Ordinary by Michael Horton
• God’s Kingdom Through God’s Covenants by Peter Gentry & Stephen Wellum

Pastor Jason’s List 📚

• Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem
• When God Weeps by Joni Eareckson Tada & Steven Estes
• *Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands by Paul Tripp 
• Expository Exultation by John Piper
• 9 Marks of a Healthy Church by Mark Dever

Pastor Jules’s List 📚

• *Knowing God by J.I. Packer
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• Disciplines of a Godly Man by R. Kent Hughes
• *Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund
• The Whole Story of the Bible in 16 Verses by Chris Bruno

*Available in The Resource Center

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You’ve likely heard the adage, “Do good things and good things will happen to you,” or karma.

Although Christians reject karma, we can still fall prey to a karmic way of thinking and living. Dr. Burns shares that believers can be tempted to treat the Christian life as an equation, that the current circumstances in one’s life, good or bad, can be traced back to a simple chain of spiritual causes-and-effects.

Dr. Burns contends this slippery slope can quickly lead to a works-based faith, a “Karmic Christianity,” that empties the power of the cross and dilutes the assurance of Christ’s blood shed for his church.

Karmic Christianity by E.D. Burns. Support his ministry.

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Pastor Jason and Pastor Chris tackle the news cycle, discussing top stories and how the church should respond to them.

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Pastor Chris and Pastor Jason share three significant updates from the recent 142nd BFC Annual Conference.

Watch the full conference livestream here.

Study Committee reports on mode of baptism and eschatology.

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Is all quieting down on the sexual revolution front?

Dr. Sam Andreades, a former pastor and current scholar on gender, warns that the battle over gender and sexual identity is far from over. He also shares how the church can prepare herself to minister to those struggling with gender dysphoria and how to welcome and learn from “trans refugees.”

Resource Recommendations

• Across the Kitchen Table by Dr. Sam Andreades
• What’s Going on With Gender in Our Country? | Ethics Conference Lecture

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Food, drink, and sex are often considered as the objects for sins of indulgence. Rightfully much ink has been spilled, many sermons preached and even podcasts recorded on the dangers of sins like drunkenness and sexual immorality. But recently the first object has not received nearly the same level of scrutiny.

To put it bluntly, the sin of gluttony and its effects has been largely ignored by the modern church.

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