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This is the second lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide. It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 31–41 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:

• 00:00 Introduction and Review
• 08:50 From Paul’s Letters to Paul’s Theology
• 14:06 Christ’s Resurrection and the Resurrection of Believers
• 17:31 First Corinthians 15: Christ the Firstfruits
• 31:58 Head-Body Solidarity and Federal Representation
• 36:06 Colossians 1:18: Firstborn from the Dead
• 44:25 Resurrection and the Dawn of New Creation
• 48:55 Second Corinthians 4:14 and Shared Resurrection
• 53:49 Preview: The Believer’s Past Resurrection

Register for this free on-demand course on our website to track your progress and assess your understanding through quizzes for each lesson. You will also receive free access to dozens of additional video courses in covenant theology, apologetics, biblical studies, church history, and more: https://reformedacademy.org/course/resurrection-redemption-readers-guide

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Hebrews never pits the covenants against one another as law versus gospel; it presents them as grace and grace—the same house, the same people, the same promise. Yet the old was always preparatory: shadow giving way to substance, promise to fulfillment. Marcus A. Mininger traces that organic development and shows why the unity of the one covenant is precisely what makes Hebrews’ warning so urgent. The address closes where the letter does—on persevering within the covenant and resting in the sole sufficiency of Christ.

Dr. Marcus A. Mininger is professor of New Testament at Mid-America Reformed Seminary, with research on Paul and the General Epistles—including a forthcoming study of the warning passages in Hebrews.

Delivered at the 2026 Reformed Forum Theology Conference, “The Covenant of Grace: One Savior, One People, One Purpose,” at Lakeland Church in Gurnee, Illinois, on September 26, 2026.

Watch this address: https://youtu.be/DMhQflaD8PM

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Few passages have unsettled readers like Hebrews’ warning that it is “impossible … to restore again to repentance” those who fall away. Does it teach a sin beyond forgiveness? Marcus A. Mininger clears away the common misreadings and names the real danger the author confronts: the temptation to abandon Christ and re-lay a foundation in the old covenant alone. The warning, rightly heard, is not about a sin too great to forgive but about the impossibility of going back—and it sets up the covenant question taken up in the session that follows.

Dr. Marcus A. Mininger is professor of New Testament at Mid-America Reformed Seminary, with research on Paul and the General Epistles—including a forthcoming study of the warning passages in Hebrews.

Delivered at the 2026 Reformed Forum Theology Conference, “The Covenant of Grace: One Savior, One People, One Purpose,” at Lakeland Church in Gurnee, Illinois, on September 26, 2026.

Watch this address: https://youtu.be/9B4fCp9fems

Watch the full conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJykAlOwqPCA

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A greater Joshua has come. Benjamin L. Gladd takes another look at Jesus’s exorcisms, reading them against the Old Testament backdrop of Israel’s conquest. Where Joshua led a people into an earthly rest by the sword, Christ leads his people into a greater rest by the Spirit and the word, defeating the powers that held them captive. The kingdom does not advance by force but by the triumph of the one Savior who gathers one people to himself, and the exorcisms are a preview of that greater conquest.

Dr. Benjamin L. Gladd is executive director of the Carson Center for Theological Renewal and formerly professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson. He edits the Essential Studies in Biblical Theology series and has written widely on the use of the Old Testament in the New, including works co-authored with G. K. Beale.

Delivered at the 2026 Reformed Forum Theology Conference, “The Covenant of Grace: One Savior, One People, One Purpose,” at Lakeland Church in Gurnee, Illinois, on September 26, 2026.

Watch this address: https://youtu.be/UeBRopgfpmI

Watch the full conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJykAlOwqPCA

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When does the long-promised restoration of Israel take place? G. K. Beale gives particular attention to Acts 1:8 and its use of the Old Testament and argues that the restoration is already under way in the church's Spirit-empowered witness to the nations. God fulfills his covenant promises to Israel in Christ and carries them to the ends of the earth, as the one Savior gathers one people to himself. The answer has direct consequences for how we understand the church, the nations, and the promises of the covenant.

Dr. Gregory K. Beale teaches at Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas. He is a leading New Testament scholar known for his work on biblical theology, the use of the Old Testament in the New, and the temple theme across Scripture.

Delivered at the 2026 Reformed Forum Theology Conference, "The Covenant of Grace: One Savior, One People, One Purpose," at Lakeland Church in Gurnee, Illinois, on September 26, 2026.

Watch the full conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJykAlOwqPCA

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The covenant of grace has its source in eternity, in the covenant of redemption: the eternal agreement of Father, Son, and Spirit to save a people. In "Before the Foundation of the World," Camden Bucey traces the historical covenant of grace back to that eternal counsel. Following Herman Bavinck, he shows that the covenant revealed in time rests on an unchanging foundation in the counsel of the triune God. Before creation and before the fall, God purposed one redemption with one Savior at its center, and the unity and certainty of the covenant of grace rest on that purpose. This opening address gathers up the first two conferences in the trilogy and lays the foundation for the addresses that follow.

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Dr. Camden M. Bucey is executive director of Reformed Forum and host of Christ the Center. He is the author of Karl Rahner in P&R’s Great Thinkers series and Defending Our Hope: An Introduction to Christian Apologetics.

Delivered at the 2026 Reformed Forum Theology Conference, “The Covenant of Grace: One Savior, One People, One Purpose,” at Lakeland Church in Gurnee, Illinois, on September 26, 2026.

Watch the full conference

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This is the first lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide. It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 5–30 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:

• 00:00 Introduction and Personal History with the Book
• 06:07 The Book’s Title and Purpose
• 10:02 Redemption Accomplished and Applied
• 16:41 A Biblical-Theological Approach
• 22:54 Paul’s Soteriology and Methodological Questions
• 30:22 Paul as Theologian and Interpreter
• 35:40 Biblical Authors as Theologians
• 39:16 Theology, Scripture, and Philosophical Categories
• 42:51 Apostolic and Post-Apostolic History
• 49:45 The Occasional Nature of Paul’s Letters
• 55:00 Contextual Theology, Unity, and Diversity

Register for this free on-demand course on our website to track your progress and assess your understanding through quizzes for each lesson. You will also receive free access to dozens of additional video courses in covenant theology, apologetics, biblical studies, church history, and more: https://reformedacademy.org/course/resurrection-redemption-readers-guide

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This is the fifth lesson in Dr. Lane G. Tipton’s Reformed Academy course, Christology I: The Person of Christ. This lesson covers the following topics:

• 00:00 Introduction to Modern Christological Errors
• 00:57 Liberal Historicism and Schleiermacher
• 11:24 Karl Barth’s Higher-Order Historicism
• 27:05 Traditional Kenotic Christology
• 38:35 Bruce McCormack’s Actualized Kenotic Christology
• 51:47 Charles Hartshorne and Process Christology
• 1:00:59 A Taxonomy of Modern Departures
• 1:03:20 The Christological Crisis and the Gospel
• 1:05:42 The Confessional Christ of Scripture
• 1:07:10 Recovering Reformed Christology

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This is the fourth lesson in Dr. Lane G. Tipton’s Reformed Academy course, Christology I: The Person of Christ. This lesson covers the following topics:

• 00:00 Introduction to Orthodox Christology
• 02:19 Westminster Confession of Faith 8.2
• 06:27 The Son’s Assumption of a True Human Nature
• 13:55 The Hypostatic Union
• 17:30 Ancient Christological Errors
• 18:17 Arianism
• 25:13 Docetism
• 28:29 Nestorianism
• 35:41 Apollinarianism
• 40:12 Eutychianism
• 45:22 Ebionitism and Adoptionism
• 48:04 Chalcedon and Its Refinements
• 50:42 The Enhypostatic Humanity of Christ
• 52:53 Christ’s Two Wills and Two Operations

Register for this free on-demand course on our website to track your progress and assess your understanding through quizzes for each lesson. You will also receive free access to dozens of additional video courses in systematic theology, apologetics, biblical studies, church history, and more: https://reformedacademy.org/course/christology-1-the-person-of-christ

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This is the third lesson in Dr. Lane G. Tipton’s Reformed Academy course, Christology I: The Person of Christ. This lesson covers the following topics:

• 00:00 Adam, the Covenant of Works, and the Logos Incarnandus
• 04:25 Creation, Sin, and the Historical Necessity of the Incarnation
• 10:29 Creation’s Sufficiency and Its Fitness for Incarnation
• 13:20 The First Order of Subsistence: The Eternal Son
• 15:13 The Second Order of Subsistence: The Assumed Human Nature
• 17:22 Asymmetry and the Immutability of the Son
• 26:46 No Mutation or Deification in the Incarnation
• 29:40 The Human Nature Receives Personality from the Logos
• 44:22 The Human Nature as the Son’s Created Organ
• 53:28 The Communicatio Idiomatum
• 57:26 The Extra Calvinisticum
• 1:00:06 The Impeccability of the Mediator
• 1:02:11 The Spirit’s Gifts to Christ’s Human Nature
• 1:05:11 Summary: One Immutable Person in Two Natures

Register for this free on-demand course on our website to track your progress and assess your understanding through quizzes for each lesson. You will also receive free access to dozens of additional video courses in systematic theology, apologetics, biblical studies, church history, and more: https://reformedacademy.org/course/christology-1-the-person-of-christ

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