Table Talk with Tyrell

What a mighty power is love that can overcome evil, cover painful memories, forgive, forgo revenge and arrest resentment. By forgiving, we do become Christ to others. By bearing in our bodies the weight of unjust accusation, undeserved pain, and unretaliated harm, we are the Holy Spirit’s message of Jesus to others. By the practice ... Read more Episode 27: Apartheid and the Gospel

People who treat others as inferior are those who themselves suffer from a sense of inferiority and insecurity. Others are a threat to them because they don’t have a sense of being important to the eternal God. They don’t have the assurance that this God will look after them more than adequately. When we lose ... Read more Episode 26: Racial Reconciliation in the Church

Whenever a Christian converses with a non-Christian about the truth of the faith, every request of the non-Christian for the proof of Christianity should be met with an equally serious request of proof for the non-Christian’s philosophy of life. Otherwise we get the false impression that the Christian worldview is tentative and uncertain, while the ... Read more Episode 25: Introduction to Presuppositional Apologetics

Perhaps the saddest observation of all is that the spending habits of people in the church differ little from those of the world. The lifestyles of most professing Christians are not substantially different from anyone else’s. Too many in the church have adopted the world’s indulgent attitude toward money. Almost every form of materialistic extravagance ... Read more Episode 24: Christians in an Age of Wealth: A Biblical Theology of Stewardship

Calvinism is just religion in its purity. Calvinism is, therefore, that type of thought in which there comes to its rights the truly religious attitude of utter dependence on God and humble trust in his mercy alone for salvation. This is why those who have caught a glimpse of these things, love with passion what ... Read more Episode 23: Experimental Calvinism

To the Christian, doctrine is unavoidable. Ours is never a choice between doctrine and no doctrine, but between sound doctrine and false doctrine. This is nowhere more urgent than when we are talking about the Christ, who is the object of our faith. 0:00:00—Opening 0:01:03—Welcoming Dr Darrell Bock 0:07:40—The Synoptics particularly useful for the unbeliever ... Read more Episode 22: From the Earth Up—Synoptic Portrait of Christ

What is the state of the gospel and the Christian faith and church in South Africa? This is the question that Tyrell takes up in this episode with his guest, Desmond Henry, missiologist and registrar at South Africa’s Baptist Theological College. 0:00:00—Opening 0:06:40—Introducing Dr. Desmond Henry 0:12:55—Why is thinking through the state of the gospel ... Read more Episode 21: The State of the Gospel in South Africa

Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He attaches far more importance to godly intercourse than we do. Since union is strength, he does his best to promote separation.

It’s a not uncommon for readers to wonder what Song of Songs is doing in the Bible. A love song between a man and a woman full of lush, and sometimes erotic, imagery hardly seems appropriate for Holy Writ. But here it is in our Bible. Modern readers are not the only ones to be ... Read more Episode 19: The Song of Solomon

Explaining Africa’s poverty is by no means a straightforward exercise. Unsurprisingly it has generated polarized debate. On the one extreme are those who see a congenital problem with the African race, summed up as intellectual inferiority. The other end has those who heap the blame on external hedonistic forces called imperialists. So, is Africa a ... Read more Episode 18: Why Africa is Poor