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On the podcast for the next few weeks is Professor of Church History and Apologetics, Dr. Alan Strange, leading us in a series on Church Discipline. Today he’ll address the importance of it as one of the crucial marks of the church. 

Here’s a subject that should certainly be interesting: The conditionality of the covenant of grace. Is it appropriate to speak of "conditions" present in this covenant? Continue listening as Dr. Beach and Dr. Venema flesh this out a little more for us.

Is there any sense in which God in his providence “prepares” his people for conversion? Dr. Venema and Dr. Beach elaborate a little bit more on this subject of preparatory grace, or preparationism, a topic you’ll typically hear in the context of soteriology, or the doctrine of salvation.

Do you have the Apostles’ Creed memorized? Can you recall how many times you’ve probably recited it in worship in your church growing up, and still do today? It’s a beautiful Creed passed down through church history all the way up to the present time.  But if there’s an article in the Creed that some in the Church may struggle with, it’s our expressing the words “He [Christ] descended into hell.” What exactly does that mean, and should we even be saying it? Sitting down together are Dr. Cornelis Venema and Dr. J. Mark Beach to help us gain further insight into this important document and this particular article in it. 

In today's episode, Dr. Marcus Mininger, Professor of New Testament Studies, will speak to Hebrews chapter 6. This is perhaps one of the most well-known passages in Scripture, more so for its striking language of apostasy in the Christian community.

Do you ever wonder how we got the 66 books of the Bible, otherwise known as the canon of Scripture? With us once again is Dr. Marcus Mininger, Professor of New Testament Studies, to help us answer this question. 

Stepping up to the microphone over the next few weeks is New Testament Professor, Dr. Marcus Mininger. He’ll kick off a series of episodes on the New Testament, beginning with a discussion on optimism and pessimism, that is to say, will things get better or worse before Christ’s return?

In this third and last installment of Dr. Beach's series on the Kingdom of God, he addresses the question surrounding the relationship between “the church” and “the Kingdom of God” and, given that, how Christians should live in the world as citizens of God’s Kingdom. 

In today’s episode, Dr. Beach considers the period of redemption, where the Lord embarks upon the work to reestablish the kingdom of God, to regain His reign of fellowship through His redemptive and healing rule over the broken creation. Of course, this finds its focus in God’s fallen image-bearers, but, as Dr. Beach will point out, finally embraces the entire scope of God’s creation.

Beginning today and continuing over the next couple of weeks, Dr. J. Mark Beach, professor of doctrinal and ministerial studies here at Mid-America, takes us on a doctrinal tour of the meaning of the Kingdom of God, where he’ll offer a biblical sketch of what the Bible means by the kingdom of God, outline some aspects of the doctrine of the church as it relates to the kingdom of God, and then look at how the idea of the kingdom of God was manifest at creation and lost with the fall.