If you are not listening to or watching The Wade Show With Wade, you are missing out on five exhilarating minutes of humor and insight. Wade has brought a unique flavor to comedy. He's Trinitarian and he is embarrassed about the God who made a funny world. So, he looks at the world and ponders, "What's Stupid About it?" then he navigates the news through those lenses. Truly, the enemy makes a mockery of their own lives, and the Christian sees the world with the eyes of laughter.

In this interview, we talk about how God's creation is funny in its biblical narrative, its historical realities, and in our own lives. Without humor, we can't take ourselves lightly like angels.

Dr. Scott Aniol is a Reformed Baptist scholar working at G3. His works on worship are essential for anyone interested in developing a rich Psalmic community.

On this episode, I sat down with Scott in Monroe, LA, to discuss the richness of worship and why the evangelical church must recapture a mature perspective on God's requirements for the worship of his Church.

We then discuss our differences in eschatology and where we can find common ground in the modern Christian Nationalism discourse.

My gratitude to Jarrod Richey for the excellent audio quality and George Reed for the intro and outro music.

This week's guest is Rev. Zach Parker, Assistant Pastor and Athanasius Press Managing Editor in Monroe, LA. Zach is an award-winning journalist, gifted writer, and thinker. We sat down in his office to discuss the role of typology in biblical interpretation and how typology strengthens our reading of good literature.

Zach shares some of his unique insights into Moby Dick and other pieces from Herman Melville.

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The ACTS 29 Network, once the undeniable powerhouse in the Church Planting universe, has significantly declined in the last ten years. Pastors Chase Davis and Matt Patrick speak openly in this American Reformer piece about the root causes of this abysmal failure among the leadership and what eventually led them to leave the Network.

Chase and Matt exposed the video interaction where they were officially disfellowshipped from the network. Since then, God has blessed their labors in Boulder, CO, and the Network continues declining significantly and turning the leadership over to woke ideologues. As Chase observes in the article:

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Adam McIntosh, the pastor of St. David's Reformed, published a great article at Theopolis with a provocative title, "Christians Should Baptize Their Children, but Not Because of Circumcision." Adam builds on the biblical theology of the Old Testament and argues that the infant baptism argument, which equates circumcision and baptism, can be confusing and unhelpful at times. Instead, Rev. McIntosh says that the case for infant baptism is infant baptism all throughout the Bible. A baptismal theology must begin in creation.

We also touch on the mode of baptism at the end of the conversation.

In light of Trinity Sunday, I wanted to describe the Trinitarian union as a paradigm for historical relations. This episode was designed for those new to covenant theology. I am hoping to offer a few more episodes on the topic.

Also, my gratitude to those who read my short essay on History and Headcovering. It's now the second-most-read substack in 2023.

Resources:

On Biblical Theology by James B. Jordan

The Christ of the Covenants by O. Palmer Robertson

Getting Joffree on the podcast is always a blast of fresh insights. This giant Brazilian has just published a gem of a work! It's brief, but its brevity encompasses the longevity of the human experience. Poetry on pipes and martyrdom, food and manly churchmen.

I think this is just in time for Father's Day. Ladies get two joys in purchasing this for their husbands/sons:

a) Men fully in touch with their masculine whole.

b) Men who think poetically about life.

Made In The Image: Plain Poems by Joffre Swait

To wield a world, to work a deed,

To speak it soft or stern, at need,

Whether with much chanting, or cheering with delight,

Or thundering strength forth from the height,

This is to gods only given, and getting should be dear.

But the Lord of love, who allows no peer,

Has untwisted our tongues and tooled us new,

To wield our words and whole worlds hew.

We are quite pleased to see this work available for purchase. The book is entitled "The Devil's Diet: The Seven Deadly Sins Revisited." I speak with my friend and editor, Rev. Jack Phelps, about the nature of the book. We especially talk about the two contributions from the late R.J. Rushdoony. These are unpublished works, and we are honored to see these essays published for the first time. And we also delve into the applicability of these seven deadly sins to the political and religious world of the 21st century.

Here's an overview of the book:

Introduction.......................................................................................Jack E. Phelps

Pride.....................................................................................................Jack E. Phelps

Envy....................................................................................................Otto Scott

Anger..................................................................................................Dennis R. Tuuri

Sloth....................................................................................................Rousas J. Rushdoony

Avarice................................................................................................Marcus Van Eichrodt

Gluttony............................................................................................Jack E Phelps

Lust....................................................................................................Ben House

Appendix A: Docilitas.....................................................................Rousas J. Rushdoony

Appendix B: Pharisaism..................................................................Jack E. Phelps

I sat down with Mr. Jordan Bush, a contributor to Thank God for Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption, and Redemption of Money.

We had a good conversation on the nature of Bitcoin and why it offers a dramatic shift in how to think about money in our day. We discuss the favorability of it among missionaries and its future among evangelical ministries. In an age of devaluation of values and morals by our political legislators, is it time to begin thinking about a currency that cannot be devalued by central banking?

We hope you will join the conversation.

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Music by George Reed

In this subscriber-only episode, we continue our conversation with Dr. Samuel Frost on full preterism. We delve into the Gary Demar controversy and offer our continued concerns with his trajectory, especially his affiliation with notable Hyper-Preterist thinkers. Gary's language today reflects much of the language used by full-preterists at the height of their movement, which is even more troubling.

Sam and I also discuss the universalist and syncretistic appeal of hyper-preterism and offer examples of how full-preterism has ended in cultish places. Once you re-consider classic Christian categories, you begin to re-consider everything else