My Listening Material

John W. Campbell - Who Goes There?

2020-01-22T15:44:00.000-08:00

Steve Turley - Beauty Matters: Creating a High Aesthetic in School Culture

2020-01-22T14:00:00.002-08:00

Kanye - Inside Jesus is King on Beats 1

2019-10-28T10:33:00.000-07:00

Wahldys Rodoli - The Things Unseen- A Glimpse of God's Sovereign Work

2019-10-21T17:10:00.000-07:00

Sermon

Ramblings from Nowhere Test Episode

2019-07-29T18:52:00.002-07:00

Derik Zoo, Jason Hull - the maiden voyage.

Phil Newton - Reflections on Romans 8 and R-hyper-CVAD

2019-07-12T10:14:00.001-07:00

From:
http://www.southwoodsbc.org/sermons/reflections-on-romans-8-and-r-hyper-cvad/

Graham Hancock - The War on Consciousness

2019-04-29T18:02:00.001-07:00

From: https://youtu.be/Y0c5nIvJH7w

The Libertarian Christian Institute: Anarchism and Minarchism in Christian Thought

2019-04-17T15:50:00.000-07:00

From: https://libertarianchristians.com/2017/02/20/episode-2/

Doug Wilson: Theocratic Libertarianism

2019-04-10T19:37:00.002-07:00

Audio from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3OacbiCGXM

Mises Panel Discussion: Hans-Hermann Hoppe

2019-04-10T14:35:00.001-07:00

Audio from: https://mises.org/library/panel-significance-hans-hermann-hoppe

Q&A from the 2019 Shepherds Conference

2019-03-07T08:15:00.003-08:00

JD Greear - How the Fall Affects Us All

2019-02-04T08:55:00.001-08:00

Preached Jan. 27, 2019

(SNC2019) Panel Discussion - Social Justice And The Gospel by The Statement Framers

2019-02-01T09:51:00.001-08:00

(SNC2019) James White - An Exegetical and Historical Examination of the Woke Church Movement

2019-02-01T09:49:00.003-08:00

(SNC2019) Phil Johnson - Virtue Signaling- The New Evangelistic Strategy

2019-02-01T09:48:00.001-08:00

(SNC2019) Voddie Baucham - Defining Social Justice

2019-02-01T09:47:00.000-08:00

(SNC2019) Tom Ascol - White Privilege: The New Sin

2019-02-01T09:45:00.002-08:00

(SNC2019) Josh Buice: Brave New Religion - Intersectionality

2019-02-01T09:44:00.000-08:00

(16) John Piper - Insanity and Spiritual Songs in the Soul of a Saint: Reflections on the Life of William Cowper

2018-08-29T14:43:00.002-07:00

From:

https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/insanity-and-spiritual-songs-in-the-soul-of-a-saint

Alister Begg - 2018 Repairing the Ruins Address

2018-08-28T11:56:00.001-07:00

From the 2018 Association of Classical Christian School Annual Conference in Frisco, TX.

Desiring God: An Evening of Eschatology

2018-07-13T11:10:00.002-07:00

From:
https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/an-evening-of-eschatology

An Evening of Eschatology

Bethlehem College and Seminary

Twin Cities, MN

The following is background by John Piper on this event and the issues being discussed. Listen to the audio or watch the video for the conversation itself.

On September 27, 2009, Desiring God and Bethlehem College & Seminary hosted “An Evening on Eschatology” at the Downtown Campus of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. It was attended by about 800 people who sat in the darkened sanctuary while six cameras were trained on the brightly lit roundtable where the four participants sat in a circle.

For two hours I moderated, more or less, a discussion among Jim Hamilton (professor of New Testament at Southern Seminary in Louisville), Sam Storms (pastor of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City), and Doug Wilson (pastor of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho).

The discussion was intended to focus on the relationship between the thousand-year reign of Christ mentioned in Revelation 20 and the return of Christ to this earth visibly and physically to reign. This thousand years is usually called “the millennium.” Revelation 20 is the only place in the Bible where the length of this period is mentioned.

“Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. . . those who had not worshiped the beast . . . came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. . . . And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations” (Revelation 20:1–4, 7–8).

Concerning this thousand years (millennium), there have been three major views in the history of the church. Each of these views was represented in the discussion by an advocate who believes the view to be true.

Premillennialism (represented by Jim Hamilton): The return of Christ happens before (pre-) the thousand-year reign of Christ, which is a reign of the risen Christ on the earth.
Amillennialism (represented by Sam Storms): The return of Christ happens after the thousand-year reign, a reign that occurs in heaven, in the intermediate state, and not upon the earth. Those who have died in faith and entered into the presence of Christ share his rule and reign during the current church age in which we now live.

Postmillennialism (represented by Doug Wilson): The return of Christ happens after (post-) the thousand-year reign, which corresponds to the Christian age, and the reign of Christ from heaven leads the church to triumph by and through the gospel to such an extent that the Great Commission will be successfully fulfilled, and the Christian faith will pervade all the cultures of all the nations of men. All Christ’s enemies will be subdued in this way, with the exception of death, which he will destroy by his coming.

None of the views insists that the “thousand years” is an exact number, but all of them allow that it may be symbolic of a very long time (from a human standpoint).

As moderator, I tried to see that each view was fairly represented and defended. My own view is the one represented by Jim Hamilton — historic premillennialism. I think amillenialism is the next most plausible view. Postmillennialism has a long and respected history. In fact, the most influential dead theologian in my life, Jonathan Edwards, was a postmillennialist. Indeed, most of the early missionaries of the modern missionary movement, like William Carey, shared this view as well — the strong conviction that the gospel would triumph in all the world and subdue all other religions, with gospel power, not military power.

There are biblically attractive things about each of these views, and none of them, in their best representation, bears such marks as to suggest the advocates are undermining the precious gospel of Christ. On the contrary, each of them has strengths that specifically honor parts of the Bible that the others seem to honor less.

Postmillennialism seems to honor the power of the gospel and the promises for the Old Testament for the triumph of God’s people over all the nations. Amillennialism seems to honor the warnings of bleak end times as well as the seamlessness between Christ’s coming and the immediate destruction of death, the removal of the enemies of the cross, and the beginning of the new heavens and new earth. Premillennialism seems to honor the plainest meaning of Revelation 20 and the seemingly literal meaning of many Old Testament promises.

All of these views are upheld by teachers who warmly embrace the inspiration, authority, and inerrancy of the Bible. This is especially true of the roundtable participants. We were glad to host this event with a view to showing that across these differences of interpretation (which were vigorously defended in the discussion) there is a profound brotherhood in the gospel.

What do we hold as crucial in regard to death, resurrection, and the second coming of Jesus? Section 14 of the Bethlehem Elder Affirmation of Faith gives our answer:

14.1 We believe that when Christians die they are made perfect in holiness, are received into paradise, and are taken consciously into the presence of Christ, which is more glorious and more satisfying than any experience on earth.

14.2 We believe in the blessed hope that at the end of the age Jesus Christ will return to this earth personally, visibly, physically, and suddenly in power and great glory; and that He will gather His elect, raise the dead, judge the nations, and establish His kingdom. We believe that the righteous will enter into the everlasting joy of their Master, and those who suppressed the truth in unrighteousness will be consigned to everlasting conscious misery.

14.3 We believe that the end of all things in this age will be the beginning of a never-ending, ever-increasing happiness in the hearts of the redeemed, as God displays more and more of His infinite and inexhaustible greatness and glory for the enjoyment of His people.

I want to thank publicly Jim, Sam, and Doug for their energetic and truth-pursuing participation in the roundtable. It was, and is, a deep joy to be a part of this brotherhood.

Eager to understand more,

Pastor John

Note: For further reading on these eschatological positions:

Doug Wilson’s Heaven Misplaced (postmil)
Kim Riddlebarger’s Case for Amillennialism and the dozens of articles by Sam Storms (amil)
Craig Blomberg’s Case for Historic Premillennialism

Ligon Duncan - The Whole in Our Holiness (From T4G 2018)

2018-07-13T11:10:00.001-07:00

From:

http://t4g.org/media/2018/04/the-whole-in-our-holiness/?format=audio

We were created to live in complete obedience to our loving Creator, but in the fall, the whole of our being has been corrupted by idolatrous sin. Ligon Duncan traces the biblical storyline to show how Christ redeems his fallen people, renewing them to a whole-hearted obedience to the God of grace. Increasingly conformed to the image of Christ, Christians are to be distinct from the world in their love of God and neighbour.

Mark Dever - Holiness Together (from T4G 2018)

2018-07-13T11:10:00.000-07:00

From:
http://t4g.org/media/2018/04/holiness-together/?format=audio

The local church isn’t just the focus of the Christian’s holy life, but the principle means of attaining it. Mark Dever expounds on how pastors can lead their congregations to sustain and advance godliness together. Yet, the corporate pursuit of holiness must be undertaken in humble dependence on God and sure hope that he will do what he has promised.

John Macarthur (Debate with R.C. Sproul) - Case for Believer's Baptism: The Credo Baptist Position

2018-07-13T10:54:00.005-07:00

From:

https://www.gty.org/library/articles/a360/case-for-believers-baptism-the-credo-baptist-position

R.C. Sproul (Debate with John Macarthur) - Case for Infant Baptism: The Historic Paedo-Baptist Position

2018-07-13T10:53:00.002-07:00

From:

https://www.gty.org/library/articles/A361/case-for-infant-baptism-the-historic-paedobaptist-position