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Kevin DeYoung joins Camden Bucey to discuss Church History for Everyone, Volume 1: The Story of Christianity from the Fall of Jerusalem to the Dawn of the Reformation. They consider why Christianity is inseparable from history and how the story of the church testifies to Christ’s promise to build and preserve his people by his Word and Spirit.

The conversation explores how Christians can remember faithful men and women without lapsing into hagiography—or reducing the past to a catalogue of failures. Camden and Kevin also discuss monasticism, the preservation of learning and liturgy, Protestant retrieval of medieval theologians such as Bernard of Clairvaux, and the figures who will appear in the forthcoming second volume.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

00:50 Christ the Center 1000 summit update

12:55 Introducing Church History for Everyone

15:51 Conversation with Kevin DeYoung

17:30 From Sunday school lectures to a two-volume history

20:58 Why Christianity is inseparable from history

23:48 Church history as family history

26:38 Beyond hagiography and “warts only” history

30:57 Choosing characters and telling the church’s story

35:30 What Protestants can learn from monasticism

39:53 Recovering the medieval church

43:59 Previewing volume 2

46:53 Conclusion

Resources

Church History for Everyone, Volume 1

Clearly Reformed

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This is the third 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 41–62 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:

• 00:00 Introduction and Key Pauline Texts
• 04:08 The Believer’s Past Resurrection
• 11:46 Ephesians 2: Raised with Christ
• 18:50 Federal and Experiential Dimensions of Union
• 24:52 The Believer’s Transition from Death to Life
• 29:52 Distinct yet Connected Resurrection Events
• 33:33 Colossians 2–3: Made Alive and Raised with Christ
• 40:18 Romans 6 and Experiential Union
• 44:52 The Likeness of Christ’s Death and Resurrection
• 51:25 Galatians 2: Crucified with Christ
• 55:44 Present Inward and Future Bodily Resurrection
• 57:54 The Union Involved: A Dual Perspective
• 1:01:26 Union with the Heavenly Christ through the Spirit
• 1:03:32 Summary: Accomplishment, Application, and Already–Not Yet
• 1:05:33 The Redemption of Body and Soul
• 1:07:54 Conclusion and Preview

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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Jared Poulton joins Camden Bucey to discuss Van Til’s Counseling Movement: A Critical Analysis of Jay Adams and Biblical Counseling. They trace how Cornelius Van Til’s presuppositional apologetics supplied key theological instincts for Jay Adams and the modern biblical counseling movement, including the God-relatedness of every human problem, dependence upon divine revelation, and confidence in Scripture’s sufficiency for pastoral ministry.

The conversation also examines tensions within contemporary biblical counseling. Camden and Jared consider the antithesis, common grace, the relation of the book of nature to the book of Scripture, and the danger of either rejecting all extra-biblical knowledge or baptizing secular methods without sufficient theological scrutiny. Throughout, they argue that faithful counseling should serve the church’s disciple-making mission and bring every claim about human life under the authoritative framework of God’s Word.

• Van Til’s Counseling Movement
• Institute for Reformed Biblical Counseling

• 00:00 Introduction
• 03:12 Jared Poulton’s path into biblical counseling
• 09:12 What is biblical counseling?
• 17:44 The sufficiency of Scripture and pastoral counsel
• 23:09 CCEF, David Powlison, and Van Til
• 27:29 A Van Tilian foundation and an identity crisis
• 32:48 Competing trajectories in biblical counseling
• 41:02 Robert K. Rudolph and Jay Adams
• 44:02 Three streams that shaped Adams
• 50:57 God is man’s environment
• 55:58 Presuppositions and borrowed terminology
• 61:37 The antithesis and secular psychology
• 67:06 Scripture’s framework for counseling
• 72:59 Common grace and the two-book approach
• 75:56 Counseling in service of the church’s mission
• 77:42 Conclusion

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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

reformedforum.org

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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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Christ the Center 1000 Summit

Christ the Center 1000

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