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On today’s episode of Theology Simply Profound, Rob and Bob continue to walk through the Book of Daniel. We discuss the Lord's response to his corporate confession of sin in chapter 9:1-19 wherein Gabriel flies in to provide "insight and understanding" in the form of the prophecy of the seventy weeks.

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

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

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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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Mark Gilbert joins Camden Bucey to examine what Protestants and Roman Catholics mean when they speak of Christian unity. Drawing on Gilbert’s conversion from Roman Catholicism, they contrast a unity grounded in the Spirit’s work through the Word with Rome’s institutional claim to mediate grace and gather humanity into one visible communion.

The conversation turns to Vatican II and Karl Rahner’s doctrine of the “anonymous Christian.” Camden and Mark consider Rahner’s anthropology, his account of God’s self-communication, and the influence of this framework on Roman Catholic inclusivism. They conclude with a pastoral call to speak with clarity and charity and to offer the assurance found only in the finished work of Christ.

• Talking with Catholics About Jesus
• The Nicene Creed
• The Nicene Creed and the Nature of Christian Unity

• 00:00 Introduction
• 03:48 Mark Gilbert’s journey from Roman Catholicism
• 10:50 The Rome Scholars and Leaders Network
• 15:04 Catholic inclusivity after Vatican II
• 20:36 Institutional and spiritual views of unity
• 26:43 The church as a continuing incarnation
• 28:58 Vatican II and Karl Rahner
• 35:36 Van Til, Rahner, and the image of God
• 45:18 The “anonymous Christian”
• 47:30 Roman Catholicism in a pluralistic world
• 52:06 Inclusivity, gender, and doctrinal development
• 58:19 Rahner, Ratzinger, and competing Catholic trajectories
• 61:28 The Roman Catholic Church as a “sacrament of unity”
• 65:33 Unity in truth and evangelizing Roman Catholics
• 70:14 Resources for churches and small groups
• 72:59 Conclusion

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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.

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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

Your donations help us to provide free Reformed resources for students like you worldwide: https://reformedforum.org/donate/

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We welcome Eli Ayala, host of Revealed Apologetics, to discuss Christian apologetics in the digital public square. Drawing an analogy to the Areopagus of Acts 17, Camden Bucey and Ayala consider YouTube’s remarkable reach, its dangers, the spiritual dimension of apologetics, the union of biblical content and method, current movements in online apologetics, and the pastoral task of guiding young people who encounter theology online.

Ayala recounts his path from a Spanish Pentecostal upbringing to Reformed theology and presuppositional apologetics, including the decisive influence of the Greg Bahnsen–Gordon Stein debate. He also explains the origins of Revealed Apologetics and reflects on the opportunities and distortions created by algorithmic media.

Links

• Episode page
• Revealed Apologetics
• Revealed Apologetics on YouTube
• Defending Our Hope

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 2:03 YouTube as the Modern Areopagus
• 3:43 Eli Ayala’s Background and Work
• 8:39 Spiritual Warfare and Apologetics
• 12:47 An Apologetic Awakening
• 17:06 The Bahnsen–Stein Debate and Presuppositionalism
• 20:42 The Origins of Revealed Apologetics
• 25:35 YouTube’s Promise and Peril
• 36:31 Biblical Content, Method, and Character
• 43:13 The Online Apologetics Landscape
• 47:33 Eastern Orthodoxy and Presuppositionalism
• 49:32 Islam and Christian Apologetics Online
• 50:52 Roman Catholic Apologetics Online
• 54:11 Guiding Young People through Online Theology
• 1:01:13 Conclusion

Mentioned in this episode:

Christ the Center 1000

Christ the Center 1000 Summit

Christ the Center 1000 Live in Austin, TX

Christ the Center 1000 Summit