We had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. David Zietsma, the President of Redeemer University, located in Hamilton, ON. We found this to be an encouraging discussion on the topic of Reformed Education at all levels and how that plays out in the lives of believers. We chat about the history of Redeemer, the idea of missional drift, how Redeemer is fighting that and how they are dealing with secular ideologies and teachings. We also cover why post-secondary Christian education is important and why it possibly should be a consideration for every prospective student. We hope you enjoy listening in to this conversation. Please share it with any students, parents or individuals that might benefit from it and be sure to let us know what you think!

0:00 - Introduction

04:00 - The History

07:50 - The Cross and our Calling - Maintaining the Mission

10:20 - Reformed Education & Redeemer

18:30 - Facing Pressure

28:00 - Institutional Structure

35:00 - Secular vs multi-denominational education

50:03 - Dealing with secular ideologies/movements

1:20:00 - Purpose of Christian post-secondary

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In response to our previous episode, we brought on Professor Ed Bosveld to bring some context to this feedback episode. Over the past two years, Ed has researched and analysed pandemic-related public policy as well as data and statistics relating to pandemic policy-making. We cover modelling, public trust, vaccines, statistics and the Texas/Florida debate taking listener feedback into account as well as responses from MPP Sam Oosterhoff. Be sure to let us know if you like this new form of feedback episodes.

00:00 - Intro

02:00 - What is money feedback

03:12 - Samuel Sey feedback

04:12 - Ed Bosveld Intro

08:30 - Modelling

20:00 - Vaccines

28:00 - Risk Level

32:00 - The break down of trust

37:30 - Vaccine vs other treatments

47:30 - Texas and Florida

56:00 - Vaccine Passport

59:45 - Going Forward

1:03:00 - Arrogance

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This is a big one that you don't want to miss. Ontario MPPs (Members of Provincial Parliament), Will Bouma and Sam Oosterhoff sat down with us to discuss what has been on everyone's mind these last two years - Covid, government, the church and freedom. Both Will and Sam share their perspectives oN what has transpired while we  add in some thoughts and questions that many have. There are other bills and issues we hoped to get in to but time did not allow. We hope that this episode can be an example of having hard discussions in love, respect and unity, especially when there is disagreement. Please be sure to let us know your thoughts. 

0:00 - Intro

7:45 - Sam’s Opinion

16:50 - Will’s Opinion

40:30 - Tyler’s Thoughts - Principles 

59:00 - Lucas’ Thoughts - Trust

1:09:00 - Direction vs Mandate

1:15:00 - Vaccine Mandate

1:36:00 - Balanced Approach?

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Inflation? Soaring gas prices? Seemingly impossible to invest? What can  seem like a complex topic or one that Christian shouldn't necessarily talk about, money affects us all. We sat down with Brent Vanderwoude, the founder of Good Stewards, a real estate investment company, to talk about all things money related. Getting down to what money really is, it's history, Bitcoin and how we as Christians should think about and interact with it. Be sure to check out goodstewards.ca to learn more about investing, and blog posts explaining these complex topics. Let us know what you think!

00:00 - Intro

04:30 - Thinking about money

7:30 - Money through history

25:34 - The Fiat Standard

40:03 - Inflation

49:30 - Monetary Intervention

55:00 - Christian Standard of living

1:00:30- Characteristics of money

1:06:50 - Bitcoin

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Helpful links:

- Brent's Bitcoin resource page: https://goodstewards.ca/bitcoin 

- What is Money? Robert Breedlove's podcast: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/ 

- Michael Saylor's Bitcoin resource page: https://www.hope.com/ 

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We're back with an all new exciting episode! We had the privilege of sitting down with avid blogger Samuel Sey. We discussed some controversial issues of our day, including the Canadian political scene, Critical Race Theory and the Pro-Life movement. We hope Sam's wisdom helps you think through these important topics. Be sure to check out and follow Sam's work at and on Instagram and Twitter @slowtowrite. 

00:00 - Intro

03:00 - Sam and the Dutch Reformed Community

07:40 - Why Sam is in the US

10:00 - Canadian Politics

25:00 - Critical Race Theory

55:00 - Fighting Abortion

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We thought it was a time for a feedback episode! Lucas and Tyler sit down to chat about the last number of episodes by reviewing the highlights, sharing their thoughts and as well as some upcoming future episodes. Be sure to let us know if there is anyone you'd like to hear on the podcast!

00:00 - Introduction

01:00 - The Clarion

02:00 - Church vs. State

03:00 - Trucker Convoy

06:00 - Male Leadership

08:00 - Propaganda

14:50 - Upcoming Episodes

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A long episode packed with a lot of insight! We had the privilege of sitting down with Rev. Jim Witteveen, a missionary currently located in Abbotsford, BC. Jim has his own podcast called Dan 11:32. We chat about many topics including the history and prominence of propaganda, consuming media and news, and we touch on how this relates to the covid issue. We also cover Jim's thoughts on masks and how that relates to symbolism and we discuss how we should have these hard conversations with those around us. Be sure to let us know what you think!

We encourage you to check out Dan 11:32 where ever podcasts are found!

00:00 - Introduction

03:18 - Dan 11:32 Podcast

09:40 - Propoganda

15:20 - Covid Slogans

22:00 - Propaganda  engineering consent

25:00 - Build Back Better and T  he Great Reset

29:00 - Who is the ‘They’ 

33:00 - How is consent engineered

43:00 - Where to go for news?

56:00 - Speak the truth?

1:00:00 - Discipline

1:06:00 - Symbolism and Masks 

1:16:00 - The Three Religions: Scientism, Capitalism, Christianity  

1:22:00 - How do we have these difficult conversations?

1:34:00 - Freedom Convoy

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We're back from our winter break with an all new episode! We had the privilege of sitting down with Rev. Winston Bosch to discuss a sermon series he preached a couple of years ago. The series is based on the 30th article of the Belgic Confession which covers the reasons for male-only leadership in our churches. We chat about the history and the Biblical view of stereotypes, leadership in the early church, deaconesses, the critiques of culture and how we should view the church as a family (plus much more). As we are people who must always go back to Scripture, we hope this episode helps you think through this important topic. 

We encourage you to listen to the sermons Winston preached by clicking the links below:

Sermon 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U9v-l7fvTbY&feature=youtu.be

Sermon 2: https://youtu.be/5L8n-HlLmvY

Sermon 3: https://youtu.be/a3RgcnMbPpg

00:00 - Intro

7:20 - Stereotypes

10:00 - History of Stereotypes

17:00 - Biblical view of tendencies/stereotypes

21:00 - Gender Identities

24:00 - Who To Emulate?

25:30 - The Weaker Vessel

32:50 - Early-Church roles

41:35- Deaconesses

55:00 - Why Male-Only Leadership?

59:00 - Symbolism

01:07:00 - The Modern Critique

01:15:00 - The Church as a Family

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In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Joseph Boot, the founder and president of the Ezra Institute located in Grimsby, ON. Dr. Boot has been very vocal in the Reformed world, on the topic government and their jurisdiction when it comes to church, health and the family.  We speak about the controversial vaccine mandates, the church's response (or lack of response) to all these issues and briefly touch on Bill C-4. Even if you disagree, we hope this conversation helps you to think deeply about these issues that are affecting us all in some way. Be sure to let us know your thoughts!

00:00 - Introduction

8:00 - The Current Culture in Canada

13:20 - Coercive Mandates Article

26:21 - Freedom

28:30 - Centralizing Power & the ‘Metaverse’

32:39 - Sphere Sovereignty

44:30 - What do we do?

47:00 - The Church’s (lack of) response

51:45 - State & Health Care

1:03:46 - The worst kind of tyranny (CS. Lewis)

1:0426 - Ezra Institute/Dr. Boot resources

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In this episode, we have the pleasure of sitting down with the soon to be editor in chief and publisher of the Clarion, the unofficial magazine of the Canadian Reformed federation. Pastor Holtvlüwer and Will share about the exciting new updates happening at Clarion, while also revealing some interesting history regarding this publication.

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00:00 - Introduction

04:30 - What is the Clarion?

13:00 - Why did premier start publishing the Clarion?

15:00 - Rev. Loopstra

20:00 - Clarion's vision

26:30 - Clarion vs. Reformed Perspective

35:20 - Clarion’s organizational structure

41:20 - How does Clarion find writers

48:30 - Does clarion have editorials?

52:34 - Clarion in the midst of a media age

01:03:00 - Changes

1:12:50 - Why should young people subscribe to Clarion

1:16:00 - Receive Clarion free for 4 months!

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