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In today's episode, Dr. Beach looks once again at John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. Specifically, he'll be looking at Book 2, where Calvin lays out his doctrine of total depravity and fallenness after Adam's sin. Calvin didn't mince words when it came to describing the utter corruption and inability of human beings apart from God's grace. Dr. Beach will unpack Calvin's teaching that we are all born infected with sin, unable to truly will or do good, and deserv-ing of God's wrath and condemnation. It's a somber diagnosis, but one Calvin saw as crucial for understanding our need for redemption in Christ.

In today's episode, Dr. J. Mark Beach explores the biblical account of creation and what it reveals about the nature of God and humanity. Tracking with the Institutes of the Christian Religion, Dr. Beach examines John Calvin's key insights, including how the creation story testifies to God's eternal power and benevolent care in preparing the earth for humans made in His image. He'll also look at the role of angels as God's servants ministering to the Church, as well as the tragic corruption of humanity's image through the Fall. Despite this, Calvin shows how the creation narrative points to God's wisdom in renewing us through Christ.

In today's episode, Dr. J. Mark Beach looks once again at John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, this time examining his writing on the biblical doctrine of the Trinity. While the natural world around us gives glimpses of God's eternal power and divine nature, Scripture provides the clearest, most complete revelation of who He truly is - revealing God's attributes like His boundless mercy, perfect righteousness, and endless goodness toward us as our Maker and Provider. But the Scriptures don't just tell us about God's qualities; they untangle the complexity of His very being and lead us to the truth that God eternally exists as one Being in three co-equal, co-eternal Persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

This week, the staff dives into Systematic Theology. Including personal stories, a survey of the history of Systematics and recommended Resources. Resources The Didache - https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0714.htm The Creeds - https://thewestminsterstandard.org/?s=creed Essay by Gerald Bray on Systematic Theology - https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/essay/systematic-theology/#:~:text=The%20first%20person%20to%20go,a%20total%20of%20100%20chapters. 1000 Free Books on Monergism - https://www.monergism.com/1000-free-ebooks-listed-alphabetically-author Free 1541 Edition of Calvin's Institutes - https://www.monergism.com/institutes-christian-religion-1541-french-edition-ebook " Peter Lombard has been called "the father of systematic theology". He wrote the most widely used theological textbook of the Middle Ages. Born in Lombardy, northern Italy, he studied at Bologna and Paris (his teacher at Paris was probably Abelard). From about 1140, he taught theology in Paris, and became bishop of Paris in 1159 but died the following year. Lombard's great work was his Four Books of Sentences, produced between 1147 and 1151. Sentences means "opinions". This was a collection of quotations from the Bible, the early Church fathers, the ecumenical Councils, and other authorities, dealing with the whole range of theological topics. It was divided into four books: (i) the Trinity and providence; (ii) creation, sin and grace; (iii) the incarnation, salvation and moral virtues; (iv) the sacraments and eschatology. In some ways it was similar to Abelard's Sic et non. The difference was that Lombard offered solutions to all difficulties and apparent contradictions..." - Nick Needham

Is the Bible really God's Word? In this episode, Dr. J. Mark Beach continues to explore John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion and his uncompromising view of Scripture. Dr. Beach will help us see through Calvin's eyes why we can fully trust the absolute authority of God's Word and how a right view of Scripture fuels vibrant spirituality.

In this inaugural episode of 2024, Dr. Beach enters part 2 of a series he started on John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. In this episode, he briefly summarizes Calvin's main purpose and approach in the opening chapters of the Institutes: to show that all people have a knowledge of God through creation and conscience and, therefore, are without excuse, but this knowledge is corrupted and insufficient for salvation.

Increasingly, the push for full acceptance and promotion of the LGBTQ+ agenda is advancing. In fact, According to one poll, 28% of Gen-Z adults are identifying as LGBTQ. The result? Women's sports are being decimated and dominated by men who are identifying as women. Leading up to the Super Bowl, the NFL is committed to bowing to the diversity, equity and inclusion movement as it will be hosting the third annual, "A Night of Pride" with GLAAD during Super Bowl Week. Politically, additional LGBTQ+ appointments to the federal bench are being made by the Biden administration, while polyamory is on the increase. Are we fast approaching the days of Lot? That's a question to ponder as Crosstalk welcomed Peter LaBarbera back to Crosstalk. Peter is the founder and president of Americans for Truth. He's a former reporter for the Washington Times and LifeSiteNews.com and a former contributing editor for Human Events. The Public Religion Research Institute is the organization making the claim that 28% of Gen-Z adults (ages 18-25) are identifying as LGBTQ. Peter doesn't completely believe that figure because he contends that the PRRI is a liberal polling group and that it's in their interest to promote progressive ideas in religion and Christianity. Nonetheless, he found out from Gallop in early 2022 that based upon polling from the previous year, 20.8% of Gen-Z'ers were identifying as LGBT. Peter believes this crisis is the result of the "mainstreaming" of perversion toward young people and that this activity expands the list of perversions. This broadcast demonstrates what recent history has shown us in this regard.

In this final episode of the year of our Lord, 2023, Dr. Beach begins a multi-episode journey of taking us through the seminal work of John Calvin and his Institutes of the Christian Religion. He starts with part 1 to whet your appetite for when he picks it up again in February after we take a break in January. In this inaugural episode, he provides context to the Institutes, emphasizing the theological stakes and issues that Calvin will address in the 16th century.

1. Human beings & all creatures on the planet including the planet are all products of random chance & dumb luck over billions & billions of years. The Big Bang & Darwin's evolution theory created all things, not God Almighty. An intelligent power residing over the universe of material objects does not exist & we know it because of Darwin & scientism. a) Where did the matter of the universe originate? b) How did life begin? c) Where are all the supposed transitional fossils between Precambrian & Cambrian periods? d) From where did dinosaurs come from? 31:43 - Clip from our video, "CREATION SCIENCE (GOD) VERSUS EVOLUTION (MYTH) #4: EVIDENCES FOR A YOUNG EARTH (BILLIONS OF YEARS?)" at • CREATION SCIENCE (GOD) VERSUS EVOLUTI... with Dr. Michael Girouard, a speaking associate for the INSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH (website: http://www.ICR.ORG ). Dr Girouard systematically refutes a long list of ruses & arguments used by evolutionists to argue for the THEORY (not fact) of evolution. 43:46 - Rob Zins weighs in against the secular Trojan Horse of Darwin's religious fairy tale for adults & children. Rob exposes the fact that secular evolutionists prefer fairy tales to the truth of the Word of God so they can delude themselves with an excuse to get rid of moral responsibility between good & evil presented by the Holy God of the Bible. Thus moral reprobates can become their own gods instead. Useful websites to scientifically refute the myth of evolution: https://ianjuby.org/ , https://answersingenesis.org/ , & https://www.creationscience.com/ . See our playlist "Dealing with Darwin's Metaphysical Evolution Religion" with 41 videos at "

The visible church is an institution. This organization has structure. It has leaders, doctrine, and rules for membership. As unpopular as it might be to say, Christianity is a religion (see ch. 25). But Christianity is also essentially relational. And the religious and relational aspects of the church are not at odds. Within the God-ordained organization of the church is a living organism. Scripture calls the church a body; a living body has intimate connection between its various parts and the head as the command center. The church is a family; in any well-functioning body there is both a form of government and loving communion. It isn't enough to belong to the organization of the church—to be a member of what the Apostles' Creed calls "the holy catholic church." We must also practice "the communion of saints."