Pastor Nate returns to examine the New Testament evidence in favor of infant baptism and to answer a few common Baptist critiques. If you have not listened to Part 1, we highly recommend listening to it first as the argument in this episode depends on the foundation laid in the prior one.

In response to many queries, Pastor Nate embarks on a two part series on infant baptism. Today, he begins the journey by explaining the Old Testament covenantal background for the practice of infant baptism.

Have you ever been hurt in the church? Today, Megan Hill joins Pastor Nate on the podcast to talk about how to respond to church hurt.

Megan Hill is a pastor's daughter and a pastor's wife. She is the managing editor for The Gospel Coalition and a prolific author. In this episode, she and Nate talk about her book, Sighing on Sunday: 40 Meditations for When Church Hurts.

Today, Pastor Nate talks about what it means to be a prophet, priest, and king for your household. If you have questions about how to lead and guide your family, today's episode is for you.

Pastor Nate references Joel Beeke's book, How to Lead Your Family: A Guide for Men Wanting to be More. You can find it on Amazon.

Welcome to Season 3! We are thrilled to be back with you again. Today, Pastor Nate takes us on a whirlwind tour of highlights from season's two topics and hits a few of the books he dipped into over the summer.

He referenced:

• Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age by Brett McCracken and Ivan Mesa.
• Five Pioneer Missionaries
• The Last Green Valley: A Novel by Mark Sullivan
• Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel by Matt Smethurst
• The Shorter Catechism Illustrated: From Church History and Biography by John Whitecross

Today Pastor Nate speaks about the heavenly adoption: how God turned his enemies into his children.

Today, Pastor Nate invites Greg Wilbur, Chief Musician and Worship Director at Cornerstone Presbyterian Church, to sit down to talk about the arts. They consider how God's character and creation work together, how to categorize 'good art,' and how the Bible aids Christians in thinking through matters of beauty and art in various forms.

A few books mentioned in today's episode:

Francis Schaeffer's Art and the Bible

Philip Ryken's Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts

Gene Veith's State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe

Today, Pastor Nate discusses the most hotly debated phrase in the Apostle's Creed, "He descended into hell." Bringing history, the Bible, and hermenutics together, Pastor Nate sheds light on this throny issue.

Today, Pastor Nate talks about the real Puritans—not the gloomy, joy-hating ones that are often portrayed to us—but the faithful, joy-filled Christians that they were. Nate explains their historical context and draws a portrait of what they were really like.

Here are Pastor Nate's book recommendations from this episode:

• John Owen's The Death of Death
• J.I. Packer's A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life
• Leland Ryken's Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were
• Joel Beeke and Michael Reeve 's Following God Fully: An Introduction to the Puritans

It is the month of May, a time for graduating—for leaving behind an old life and moving into a new one. As such, it is a time also to be encouraged and strengthened for the new things coming, and encouragement and strengthening is what Pastor Nate offers on today's episode.