Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss the significance of the resurrection and ascension of Jesus. 

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Is the resurrection of Jesus surprising?
• Was the “resurrection” part of Jewish beliefs or hopes at the time of Jesus?
• Hadn’t they already seen a resurrection with Lazarus?
• Should we be troubled that the resurrection accounts we have in the gospels aren’t a perfect match?
• What does the resurrection accomplish?
• How and why is the ascension the “forgotten act of Christ”?
• Why does the resurrection get all the attention and the resurrection the ascension is often forgotten?
• How is this a coronation event in the life of Jesus?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Luke 24:1-12, Genesis 1-3, 1 Corinthians 15, John 11, Isaiah 25, Ephesians 1, Philippians 2:1-11
• Deep Discipleship Program
• “Reading the Gospels Wisely” by Jonathan Pennington

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Kyle Worley is joined by Leslie Umstattd and Christy Allen to discuss how to care for women in the local church.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Why are you passionate about caring for women in the church?
• What are two key practices for women to grow in their ability to care for women in their local church??

Guest Bio:

Leslie Umstattd serves as Associate Professor of Christian Education & Ministry to Women and Faculty Co-Coordinator, Ministry to Women Programs at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. She holds an Ed.D. from Midwestern Seminary, Masters of Marriage and Family Counseling and Religious Education from Southwestern Seminary, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of Alabama. 

Christy Allen serves as Assistant Professor of Ministry to Women, and Faculty Co-Coordinator, Ministry to Women Programs at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Professor Allen holds a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary with a concentration in Bible Exposition and Christian Education, a Master’s in Christian Education from Jacksonville Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor of Music Education from Jacksonville University. She is currently working on a PhD in Applied Theology at MBTS.

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by Dr. Jeremy Treat to discuss the doctrine of atonement.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• When and how did we learn about the atonement?
• What is the event of the atonement? What does the word mean?
• How is the cross an enthronement ceremony?
• What do we gain when we view the atonement with this lens?
• Is there a predominant theme in the atonement?
• How do the atonement, resurrection, and ascension connect?
• How have theologians talked about atonement using humiliation and exaltation?
• How does that truth change the way we live?
• What can be the hardest part of the atonement to begin to understand?

Helpful Definitions:

• Atonement: 
  • At onement; two things that have been torn apart are being brought back together to be one again.
  • How sin has separated us from God and what God has accomplished to make us at one with Him again.

Guest Bio:

Jeremy Treat (PhD, Wheaton College) is Pastor for Preaching and Vision at Reality LA, a young and thriving church in the heart of Hollywood, California. He is also an adjunct professor of theology at Biola University and is the author of several books including but not limited to; Seek First: How the Kingdom of God Changes Everything and The Crucified King: Atonement and Kingdom in Biblical and Systematic Theology. 

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Mark 1:14-15, Mark 15, Philippians 2, John 12, Romans 8:17, Matthew 5-7
• “The Crucified King” by Jeremy Treat
• “​​Dominion” by Tom Holland
• “The Atonement” by Jeremy Treat
• “The Crucifixion” by Fleming Rutledge

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Kyle Worley is joined by Jason Allen to answer the question, “Why is community crucial for ministry preparation?”

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Why is community crucial for ministry preparation?

Guest Bio:

Dr. Jason Allen is the president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to his role as president, he also serves as a professor for preaching and pastoral ministry. He is the author of a number of books including; Turnaround: The Remarkable Story of an Institutional Transformation and the 10 Essential Principles and Practices That Made It Happen. He posts essays on his website, jasonkallen.com, and hosts a weekly podcast, “Preaching & Preachers.”

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• For the Church Cohorts

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are back in the book of Revelation to discuss chapters 15-17.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• We’ve been talking about cycles of 7 this season - what we are looking for here?
• What's the point of Revelation?
• What is this history showing us?
• What is the song of Moses supposed to remind us of?
• What about the sea?
• What is the new song?
• How else is this text pointing back to Exodus? (temple, bowls of wrath)
• What or where is Armageddon?
• Why is it important to not be naked?
• Seventh bowl brings cosmic cataclysmic judgment?
• Revelation 17 shifts focus to the Great Prostitute and the Beast - what is going on?
• Why does Babylon have such significance?
• How do the city of God and the city of man have an impact on the story of the Bible?
• How are we meant to be encouraged by this portion of Revelation?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Revelation 15-17, Revelation 14:3, Matthew 22:1-14, Romans 8, Leviticus 24:16, Genesis 11, Joel 3:12-16

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Kyle Worley is joined by Jared Wilson to discuss his new book “Lest We Drift” and answer the question, what happens if we depart from the one true gospel?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Why did you write “Lest We Drift: Five Departure Dangers from the One True Gospel”?
• What are two of the five dangers?
• What is the solution?

Guest Bio:

Jared C. Wilson serves as Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry, Author in Residence, and General Editor, For the Church. He is the author of a number of books including but not limited to Gospel Wakefulness, The Prodigal Church, The Pastor’s Justification, and Supernatural Power for Everyday People. He also serves as an elder at Liberty Baptist Church. He and Becky have been married for twenty-three years, and they have two daughters: Macy and Grace.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• 2 Corinthians 3:18
• “Lest We Drift” by Jared C. Wilson
• The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill by Christianity Today

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by Kevin J. Vanhoozer to discuss his new book, “Mere Christian Hermeneutics.”

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Can you give our listeners a sense of your larger interest? What are you trying to accomplish in your body of work? What’s your goal as you write and teach?
• What is hermeneutics?
• What is the Bible? What is it meant to do?
• What is mere Christianity? What’s a mere Christian hermeneutic?
• What is the literal sense?
• Is a mere Christian hermeneutic composed of biblical insight, theological truth, and/or transformation application? Focused on one over the other? Something entirely different?
• How does a person, an individual bible reader/studier, look to cultivate this kind of approach? How do we read the Bible well?
• How would you distinguish historical mere Christian reading from Christian sub-cultural reading of the scriptures?
• How does the beatific vision of beholding God, shape the way we read and interpret scripture?

Helpful Definitions:

• Hermeneutics: The principles and practices for understanding the Biblical text.

Guest Bio:

Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer is research professor of systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and the author of many books, including but not limited to: Faith Speaking Understanding, Hearers and Doers: A Pastors Guide to Making Discipleship through Scripture and Doctrine, and Mere Christian Hermeneutics. 

He is theological mentor to the Augustine Fellowship of the Center for Pastor Theologians and Senior Fellow of the C. S. Lewis Institute for Discipleship. He is married to Sylvie (author of The Art of Living in Season and The Art of Living in Advent), has two daughters and one son-in-law.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• John 5:45, 2 Corinthians 3:18
• “Drama of Doctrine” by Kevin J. Vanhoozer
• “Mere Christian Hermeneutics” by Kevin J. Vanhoozer
• “Remythologizing Theology” by Kevin J. Vanhoozer
• “You are a Theologian” by Jen Wilkin and J T English
• “Remember and Rehearse” by J.T. English
• “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue their discussion on the book of Revelation by looking at chapters 13-14.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is Revelation?
• Who is the beast? What about the sea?
• How do we understand the dragon, the beast from the sea, and the beast from the earth?
• What is your personal experience with the mark of the beast?
• How are we supposed to understand the number of the beast?
• How do we see the battle of the seed of the women vs. seed of the serpent?
• Who is the lamb in Revelation 14?
• Who are the 144,000?
• What do the angels show up to do?
• What about Revelation 14:12?
• What other imagery and symbolism do we find?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Revelation 13-14, Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Genesis 3-4, Daniel
• Knowing Faith Beauty and the Beast? (Revelation 12-13)
• Deep Discipleship Program

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Kyle Worley is joined by Dean Inserra to answer the question, how have you seen seminary education benefit your local church?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• How have you seen seminary education benefit your local church?
• What does being “for the church” really mean for a seminary?

Guest Bio:

Dean Inserra is the founding and lead pastor of CITYCHURCH, where he leads the vision and preaching. Dean graduated from Liberty University and attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. He holds a MA in Theological Studies from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is pursuing a D.Min from Southern Seminary. Dean is married to Krissie, and they have two sons, Tommy and Ty, and two daughters, Sally Ashlyn and Marci.

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by Patrick Schreiner to discuss what the gospel of the Kingdom is.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• When the New Testament says that Jesus was preaching the gospel of the kingdom, before his death, burial, resurrection, and ascension; what gospel is he preaching?
• How does “the Kingdom” help frame the story of the Bible?
• When you share the gospel with somebody, do you include kingdom language?
• How does Matthew 1:1 show us two sides of the gospel?
• Has the conversation around the message of the kingdom changed?

Guest Bio:

Patrick Schreiner is the Director of the Residency PhD program, Associate Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Gene and Jo Downing Endowed Chair of Biblical Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including but not limited to; The Four Gospels: Jesus, the Hope of the World, The Transfiguration of Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Reading, a commentary on Acts, The Visual Word: An Illustrated Guide to the New Testament Books, and Political Gospel: Public Witness in a Politically Crazy World.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• 1 Corinthians 15, Romans 1, Matthew 4:23, Galatians 3:8, Matthew 1:1, Matthew 16, 1 & 2 Samuel
• Deep Discipleship Program
• “The Kingdom of God” by Patrick Schreiner, Dane Ortlund, and Miles V Van Pelt
• “A Theology of the Ordinary” by Julie Canlis

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