Just And Sinner Podcast

On today's program, I was joined once again by Rev. Lewis Polzin to discuss the call of God as we continue going through Henry Eyster Jacobs' book A Summary of the Christian Faith. 

On my program today, I was joined by my wife Lisa Cooper. We talked about the popular women's devotional book Jesus Calling. We addressed a number of issues including enthusiasm, passive righteousness, law and gospel, Scripture, and much more. This is an important program for Christian women to listen to.

On today's program, I began a series of studies on the liturgy. Throughout the series, I will explain the various elements of the liturgical life of the church piece by piece. On this first program, I discuss the procession and the invocation.

On today's program, I discussed liturgical worship in light of Scripture. 

On today's program, I devoted the hour to a discussion of the doctrine of atonement within the theology of Gerhard Forde. I looked at a variety of passages in his books Where God Meets Man and The Law-Gospel Debate.

Today's program was recorded in front of a live audience at the 2015 Just and Sinner Conference. Pastors Jordan Cooper and Lewis Polzin discussed the doctrine of justification as they continue working their way through Henry Eyster Jacobs' A Summary of the Christian Faith. 

On today's program, I played a lecture by Rev. Lewis Polzin on the doctrine of vocation given at the Just and Sinner Conference.

On today's program, I spent the entire hour giving a defense of infant baptism. I went through the outline I used at a recent Bible study for my congregation. This was purposefully at a lay level, so please send this one to your baptist friends!

On today's program, I was joined once again by Rev. Lewis Polzin to continue our discussion of Henry Eyster Jacobs' book A Summary of the Christian Faith. We discussed chapter 16 on the mission of the Holy Spirit, and chapter 17 on faith in Christ. We discussed a variety of important issues related to Pneumatology and the nature of faith.

On today's program I finished my response to James White's article "A Brief Rebuttal of Baptismal Regeneration." I discussed Acts 2:38 and the meaning of baptism "for the remission of sins," as well as the washing away of sins in Acts 22:16. We continued to demonstrate the false dichotomy presented by White regarding the efficacy of the cross and baptismal regeneration, and addressed his closing remarks in the essay.

On today's program, I continued my response to James White'a article "A Brief Rebuttal of Baptismal Regeneration." We looked at several Biblical texts about baptism and continued to discuss the false dichotomy of salvation by grace or salvation through baptism.

On today's program, I responded to a short article by James White titled "A Brief Rebuttal of Baptismal Regeneration." I spent some time looking at the false dichotomy he sets up between salvation by the work of Christ and salvation through baptism. We then briefly examined some of the relevant Biblical texts.

On today's program I responded to a recent post by Tim Challies in which he argued that Protestants should not wear crucifixes. He did this by citing J.I. Packer's book Knowing God. I demonstrate the flaws in Packer's argument, and talk about the usefulness of crucifixes.

On today's program, I was joined again by Rev. Lewis Polzin to continue our discussion of Henry Eyster Jacobs' book A Summary of the Christian Faith. We discussed three chapters about the threefold office of Christ: prophet, priest, and king. Unfortunately, my audio file got messed up, so the sound quality is not great.

On today's program, I continued the series I had been recording on the ordo salutis. I meant to discuss regeneration, conversion, and illumination, but was only able to get to the first two topics within the time constraints.

I'm still away in Massachusetts, so on today's program I played another lecture by Rev. Rich Shields. This is on the subject of spiritual and character formation, and was given at the 2015 AALC Eastern Regional Conference.

Since I am away this week, on today's program I played a lecture by Rev. Rich Shields on Ephesians 4. This presentation was given at the Eastern Regional Conference of the AALC in 2015.

On today's program, I was joined by Rev. Lewis Polzin from Boars in the Vineyard to continue our discussion of Henry Eyster Jacobs' A Summary of the Christian Faith. On this week's program, we discussed chapter 12 on the States of Christ. We discussed the incarnation, Christ's death, the resurrection, and many other important topics.

On today's program I discussed the Ecclesiastical Text theory of Theodore Letis. I explained my perspective on this issue in defense of the Majority Text over the Critical Text. I briefly talked about King James Only views, and gave a short explanation of textual transmission.

On today's program I discussed abortion in light of the recent events surrounding Planned Parenthood. I examine early Christian teaching on the subject, and briefly overviewed the Biblical reasons why abortion is sinful.