The Noahic covenant is the hinge

Two returning travellers report in. Nick is back from the Canon and Creed conference in Sydney, where a room of Reformed Baptists and Presbyterians tested each other's papers gently instead of tearing each other apart online, one speaker turned out to be magisterial, and the Noahic covenant turned out to be the hinge on which the whole cultural-engagement debate turns (Van Drunen said so about twenty times). Mike is back from Amsterdam, where every Protestant church flew the flags of the age and only the Catholics abstained, and from two weeks of speaking nothing but Greek at Tyndale. In between: the pre-flood and post-flood covenants with Noah, Kline on Cain's mark and the beginnings of the city, the villains of politicised theology and why everyone is watching the culture hand while the gospel hand goes unwatched, sacred space from Heiser to Luther's shoemaker, why two kingdoms is not the sacred-secular divide (apples and pears), Vocalzone lozenges, the Corrie ten Boom house, and a Sojourner Hall Greek intensive that teaches good theology and Greek at the same time.

0:00 Greetings, lost voices and Nick's microphone

2:01 Nick in Sydney: Canon and Creed, Christ College

8:44 A.W. Pink's church and the Noahic covenant lecture

13:20 The Noahic covenant debate: redemptive or common grace?

21:42 Kline, Van Drunen and Cain's mark; Van Drunen is coming on

25:11 Nick's three talks: mission drift and politicised theology

32:08 Bring back the local church; sacred space and Heiser

36:06 Luther, the shoemaker and vocation

40:37 Two kingdoms is not the sacred-secular divide

43:07 Van Drunen lost his voice: the Vocalzone interlude

45:19 Amsterdam: Pride weekend and Kuyper's legacy

49:17 Amsterdam's hidden church and Corrie ten Boom

52:49 Mike's two weeks of spoken Greek

57:48 Immersion done right, and a Sojourner Hall Greek intensive

1:02:03 Sign-off