Just and Sinner Podcast

On today's program, I responded to a short article by James White titled "A Brief Rebuttal of Baptismal Regeneration." I spent some time looking at the false dichotomy he sets up between salvation by the work of Christ and salvation through baptism. We then briefly examined some of the relevant Biblical texts.

On today's program I responded to a recent post by Tim Challies in which he argued that Protestants should not wear crucifixes. He did this by citing J.I. Packer's book Knowing God. I demonstrate the flaws in Packer's argument, and talk about the usefulness of crucifixes.

On today's program, I was joined again by Rev. Lewis Polzin to continue our discussion of Henry Eyster Jacobs' book A Summary of the Christian Faith. We discussed three chapters about the threefold office of Christ: prophet, priest, and king. Unfortunately, my audio file got messed up, so the sound quality is not great.

On today's program, I continued the series I had been recording on the ordo salutis. I meant to discuss regeneration, conversion, and illumination, but was only able to get to the first two topics within the time constraints.

I'm still away in Massachusetts, so on today's program I played another lecture by Rev. Rich Shields. This is on the subject of spiritual and character formation, and was given at the 2015 AALC Eastern Regional Conference.

Since I am away this week, on today's program I played a lecture by Rev. Rich Shields on Ephesians 4. This presentation was given at the Eastern Regional Conference of the AALC in 2015.

On today's program, I was joined by Rev. Lewis Polzin from Boars in the Vineyard to continue our discussion of Henry Eyster Jacobs' A Summary of the Christian Faith. On this week's program, we discussed chapter 12 on the States of Christ. We discussed the incarnation, Christ's death, the resurrection, and many other important topics.

On today's program I discussed the Ecclesiastical Text theory of Theodore Letis. I explained my perspective on this issue in defense of the Majority Text over the Critical Text. I briefly talked about King James Only views, and gave a short explanation of textual transmission.

On today's program I discussed abortion in light of the recent events surrounding Planned Parenthood. I examine early Christian teaching on the subject, and briefly overviewed the Biblical reasons why abortion is sinful.

On today's program, I responded to Matthew Vines' recent post "40 Questions for Christians who Oppose Marriage Equality." I was able to get through all 40 questions, and explained how Vines does not agree with the Scriptural view of marriage. Instead, his ethical system is guided by experience and emotion. This is an important program.