There are songs written for the church everyday. Entire industries rally around famous Christian artists who produce albums and songs for churches. What do they have in common? They do not endure. They are not generational in nature. On the other hand, the Psalter endures not only because they are God’s songs, but because they are intrinsically generational.

We, at Kuyperian, wish to support great church music and on this episode we speak with Dan Kreider. Dan has a kickstarter project where he seeks to raise support to provide a new Psalter comprised of several hundred psalm settings and representing all 150 psalms, in a variety of musical styles, intended for congregational singing.

On this interview we discuss some of Dan’s background as well as the project itself. This is a worthwhile project!

We encourage you to support their work at kickstarter!

Intro and outro music by Dan Kreider

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Welcome to episode 78 of Kuyperian Commentary. On this episode, Pastor Brito welcomes Pastor and Author, Douglas Wilson. Doug is the author of numerous books.

Doug is likely one of the more productive Christians in these last 50 years. He engages a host of topics with ease and does it eloquently and with a serrated edge. In this book, the reader has the joy of reading a bit of his daily work habits in a delightful little volume entitled, Ploductivity: A Theology of Work and Wealth.

“Ploductivity is productivity over time,” Doug says. We can be productive for a season, but ploductivity properly distributes time; a little 15 minutes here and a little 15 minutes there and suddenly you have something significant produced over time.

This little work will benefit anyone who struggles with meeting deadlines or who subscribe to that dangerous vocation of procrastination.

Resources:

Technofulness/Ploductivity

Release video for the book

Purchase the Book

The prolific Dustin Messer joins KC Podcast to talk about his latest article at Break Point What Would Jesus Tweet? We discuss the nature of rhetoric on social media and the important functions of truth and love in the process of communication in our day.

Andrew Sandlin has been a sober voice throughout this season. On this interview, Pastor Brito engages Andrew in Kuyperian talk as they apply a distinctly biblical view towards the Church’s response to this pandemic. Andrew argues that this pandemic reveals the intellectual bankruptcy of secularism, but also the failure of the church to deal biblically with this crisis.

Show notes:

You can follow Andrew on Facebook and Twitter.

He is the president of the Center for Cultural Leadership.

Pastor and author, Drew Hunter, wrote a concise and helpful work on the topic of friendship. In this interview, we take the time to define friendship, talk about Scriptural examples of friendship, as well as offer lots of helpful ways to move forward with pursuing this great gift. You will want to share this episode.

Episode Resources:

Here are three articles at Desiring God. 

The Harvard Magazine decided to take this COVID-19 season to attack homeschooling. Their article attacks homeschoolers and calls for legislation limiting the liberties of homeschool parents in America.

On this episode, Pastor Brito talks with Pastor Steven Wedgeworth, Associate Pastor of Faith Reformed Presbyterian Church in Vancouver, Canada and Co-Founder of The Calvinist International. They discuss various features of the article and the plethora of naive assumptions from the author.

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Music by Smith Leithart

In these difficult days, many are in need. The elderly community has suffered the most with the isolation. But we also remember the single mother and individuals whose families are not close at this time. How does the church move towards faithful ministry in these times?

On this episode, Pastor Brito interviews Pastor Justin Borger from St. Paul’s Presbyterian in Orlando, Fl. to discuss pastoral ministry in this Corona Virus times. We hope this is encouraging to some and motivates others to join in this needed ministry of mercy.

In this episode, Uri and Dustin team up to discuss a few topics related to his recent article at Breakpoint entitled The Age of Corona of the Season of Lent. We discuss why the church has abdicated her task of speaking about to death to the cultural voices of our day.

Pastors and parishioners will benefit from this conversation between Pastors Brito and Messer. They discuss personal examples of how catholicity plays out in their pastoral labors and also how to encourage young pastors to apply catholicity in the midst of changes. Share this with your pastor and friends.

Resources:

Dustin’s Articles on Breakpoint

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How to Introduce the Nicene Creed in your Evangelical Church

In our 70th episode, we have the return of Dr. Brian Wright to Kuyperian. We discuss his newest book, Inspired Questions which focus on the questions raised in the New Testament. Brian structures his book following the liturgical calendar by discussing one question a day from the New Testament and providing theological and practical answers.

If you are looking for a great devotional to use at the dinner table–one which will raise good questions and provide satisfactory answers to the Bible’s deepest questions–look no further.