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In this episode, I sit down with Cody Weckerly and Adam Nesvold of Harvest Plains Church to discuss the nature and identity of the church. After discussing some misconceptions, we give a biblical definition of what the church is. The church is the New Covenant people of God saved by the gospel of Jesus Christ, regenerated by the Spirit, who assemble regularly to worship God.

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In this episode, I talk with pastors Cody Weckerly and Adam Nesvold of Harvest Plains Church. Cody Weckerly began the process of planting Harvest Plains Church exactly four years ago. When planting a church, all matters of ecclesiology must be thought through. If you are going to plant a church, you have to know what the church is and what the church does. Before getting into theology, we reminisce about the first year of planting Harvest Plains.

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In this episode, we discuss the texts of Scripture that command the Christian to judge his fellow brother in the Lord. The Christian duty of judging really is the church discipline process. We look at Matthew 18:15-20, 1 Corinthians 5, and 1 Timothy 5:17-21.

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Every Christian has heard the statement, "Jesus said that we are not supposed to judge." But is this true? Is there a place in the Christian life where we are commanded to exercise judgment of others? There certainly is. In this episode, Dan and I look at the common texts that people use to defend their position that Christians are not supposed to judge others, and we explain why those texts are not saying what people think they are saying. In the next episode, we will look at the texts that command us to judge.

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In this episode, we interview Mack Tomlinson. Mack is one of five pastors at Providence Chapel in Denton, Texas. He also maintains a ministry of itinerate preaching and teaching around the US. Mack served as the editor of HeartCry, a journal on revival and spiritual awakening, which gave him a unique knowledge on revival. In this episode, Mack explains the events in and around the revivals that took place on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland with Duncan Campbell and the earlier Welsh revivals. He also talks about the Canadian Revivals in the 1970s.

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Dan and I went around the union at KU and asked students two questions: 1) what is a Christian? 2) what is the disposition on this campus towards Christianity? I recorded their responses for you to hear. We then offer our insights and thoughts concerning the state of Christianity at KU and discuss methods to effectively do evangelism.

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In this episode, we zoom into the two key figures of the second great awakening, Asahel Nettleton and Charles Finney. Nettleton was of the "old way," much in the grain of Jonathan Edwards, believing that revival and conversion were sovereign works of God. Finney launched the "new way," which believed revival could be manufactured by man. Though Finney was reported to have 250,000 converts, history shows that most were illegitimate. Nettleton was reported to have 25,000 converts, of which 90 percent or more were true converts.

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In this episode, we give an overview of the second great awakening and its key figures. The awakening began in the late 18th century after the Revolutionary War quenched Christianity in America. Christianity in America has never been the same since the second great awakening. It completely changed the religious fabric of society and denominational adherence.

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Likely the most amazing example of true revival in church history is the first great awakening. Various revivals impacted New England, England, and Europe in a period of about 40-50 years, starting in 1727. In this episode, we walk through the timeline of events beginning with the Moravian Pentocast at Herrhut, moving to the Wesleys and Whitefield in England and Georgia, and finally, ending with the events of Northampton, Massachusetts, with Jonathan Edwards.

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In this episode, Dan and I look at two Old Testament passages as examples of revival: 1 Samuel 7 and 2 Kings 22-23. We also discuss the state that God's people are often in when revival is needed. Finally, we talk about the blessings and products of revival. Revival always leads to true repentance of real sin, which manifests in outward living. For the Old Testament saints, this meant a reclamation of God's law and the destruction of idols. For your own personal study, here are a number of OT passages that you can read as examples of revival.

Joshua 24, 2 Chronicles 14: 1-15, 1 Kings 22:41-50, 2 Chronicles 34:1-35, 2 Chronicles 19-20, 2 Chronicles 17:1-10, 2 Chronicles 29-32, 2 Samuel 6:12-23, 1 Kings 8:1-65, 2 Kings 11:4-12, The book of Ezra, Nehemiah 8-10.

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