Christ Over All

Ideas have consequences, and, as we'll see, how we read Genesis 1–11 impacts such fundamental questions as Who is man? and What is his mission?

Are the opening chapters of Genesis simply a bland recitation of ancient history? Far from it! These chapters set the stage on which the grand drama of redemptive history will play itself out. Timestamps Introduction - 00:30 How Did the Kingdom Through Covenant Book Project Begin? - 3:00 How Did Dr. Gentry Start Thinking about the Covenants? - 4:50 How Does Genesis 1-11 Open the Door to the Rest of the Scriptures? -  8:40 How Have We Seen Genesis 1-11 Mishandled? - 10:26 Who Wrote Genesis and What’s it’s Relation to the Ancient Near East? - 14:22 How Should We Understand the Six Days of Creation? - 16:58 How Do We See the Image of God Working its Way through Scripture? - 22:20 What Things Do We See in Gen. 1-2 That Would Indicate a Covenant With Adam?- 27:07 What’s the Storyline in Genesis 1-11 Moving from Adam to Second Adam?- 30:05 How Do We Then Move From the First Adam to the Last Adam? - 32:44 What Would Be a Resource to Help Study Genesis? - 35:17 Anything that Would Be Helpful When Preaching Genesis? - 37:03 Outro – 39:33   Resources to Click The Account of Creation and Its Relation to the Biblical Storyline – Peter J. Gentry Were the Sons of God in Gen. 6 Fallen Angels? Who Were the Nephilim? – Peter J. Gentry   Books to Read Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical Theological Understanding of the Covenants (Second Edition) – Peter J. Gentry & Stephen J. Wellum God’s Kingdom through God’s Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology – Peter J. Gentry & Stephen J. Wellum Genesis 1-15 Vol. 1 Word Biblical Commentary – Gordon J. Wenham Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of Genesis – Allen P. Ross Genesis – Derek Kidner Covenant and Creation: An Old Testament Covenant Theology

Are the opening chapters of Genesis simply a bland recitation of ancient history? Far from it! These chapters set the stage on which the grand drama of redemptive history will play itself out.

Listen in as Trent Hunter and Ardel Caneday join David Schrock to discuss his new book, "Dividing the Faithful: How a Little Book on Race Fractured a Movement Founded on Grace." Timestamps to Know Intro: 00:34 Dr. Caneday’s Interaction with Divided By Faith - 2:10 The Thesis of Dividing the Faithful - 10:31 David Schrock’s Interaction with Divided by Faith - 13:30 Problems with Divided by Faith - 18:40 What Does “Racialization” Mean? - 22:54 How Was Divided by Faith Promoted throughout the Years? - 25:36 D.A. Carson’s Take on Race & Justice in Love in Hard Places - 32:40 Dividing the Faithful’s Appeal to Scripture - 35:00 Closing Thoughts & Outro – 37:56 Resources to Click Introducing Dividing the Faithful – Christ Over All Why Write a Book-Length Critique of Divided by Faith Twenty-Three Years After It Was Published – Ardel Caneday Five Steps for Racial Reconciliation on Sunday at 11:00AM – D. A. Carson Books to Read Dividing the Faithful – David Schrock Love in Hard Places – D.A. Carson

Today's "social justice" masquerades as truth but is completely untethered from God and his self-revelation in Scripture. To rightly understand justice, we must ground our thinking firmly in the Word of God. Timestamps Introduction - 00:28 What’s the Big Picture that We Need on Justice? - 04:16 Justice Is a Moral and Essential Attribute of God - 06:44 Key Texts, Acts, & Events to Help Us Define God’s Justice - 14:37 The Different Types of Justice and the Law of God - 19:52 Distributive Justice vs. Social Justice - 25:53 Thomas Sowell & Justice - 33:33 Doctrinal Clarity on Justice - 37:40 Vertical and Horizontal Implications of God’s Justice - 42:40 Where Can Pastors Go to Feed the Flock on God’s Justice? - 46:57 Outro - 53:09 Resources to Click Thinking Biblically and Theologically About Justice by Stephen Wellum   Books to Read Why Social Justice Is Not Biblical Justice: An Urgent Appeal to Fellow Christians in a Time of Social Crisis – Scott David Allen Reformed Dogmatics – Geerhardus Vos Systematic Theology – Louis Berkhof The Doctrine of God – John Frame

Today's "social justice" masquerades as truth but is completely untethered from God and his self-revelation in Scripture. To rightly understand justice, we must ground our thinking firmly in the Word of God. Resources to Click Thinking Biblically and Theologically About Justice by Stephen Wellum   Books to Read Why Social Justice Is Not Biblical Justice: An Urgent Appeal to Fellow Christians in a Time of Social Crisis – Scott David Allen Reformed Dogmatics – Geerhardus Vos Systematic Theology – Louis Berkhof The Doctrine of God – John Frame

While the Civil Rights Movement accomplished much good, it unwittingly hitched the Black community to destructive governmental institutions and policies. Just how did this happen? Listen in to Virgil Walker, Stephen Wellum, and David Schrock as they talk about these inter-related issues. Timestamps to Know Intro: 00:34 Virgil Walker’s Background - 04:07 Dr. Wellum’s Experience with Civil Rights - 09:10 How Scripture Has Shaped Virgil’s Thinking on Race Growing Up - 14:02 The Importance of Responsibility and Hard Work vs. Affirmative Action - 17:20 What was Positive and Concerning about the Civil Rights Movment? - 27:21 How to think about Martin Luther King Jr. - 31:30 Current Civil Rights Leaders Have Left MLK Behind - 35:20 The Black Church and White Church are Not Monolithic - 41:00 Over-Dependence on the Government - 45:21 How Was the Black Family Impacted by the Civil Rights Movement? - 49:58 How Should Pastors Address the Civil Rights Movement? - 55:50 Closing Thoughts & Outro – 59:27   Resources to Click Where is the Good News? An Honest Look at the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Community? – Virgil Walker What’s the Truth about Martin Luther King Jr.? – Virgil Walker   Books to Read Plain Theology for Plain People – Charles Octavius Booth

While the Civil Rights Movement accomplished much good, it unwittingly hitched the Black community to destructive governmental institutions and policies. Just how did this happen?

Machen knew that emptying Christianity of its historical claims would leave only a lifeless shell behind. True spiritual life is not opposed to history, but is produced by a God who acts in history. Listen in to this conversation on Dr. Michael Haykin's essay on the life of Machen. Timestamps to Know ·      Intro: 00:38 ·      Dr. Haykin’s Introduction to Machen - 02:52 ·      Dr. Wellum’s Introduction to Machen - 04:15 ·      How Does the Modernist/Fundamentalist Debate Fit into the History of the Church? - 05:59 ·      Was Machen Doing Something ‘Novel’ in Making a Distinction Between Christianity & Liberalism? - 14:12 ·      Machen’s Historical Background - 17:05 ·      Students Maintaining Objectivity When Studying History - 21:05 ·      What Do We Know About Machen’s Time in Princeton, and Wilhelm Herman’s Influence - 22:56 ·      Machen’s Experience Leading to Ministry - 31:54 ·      How Does Machen Relate Doctrine and Experience? - 35:05 ·      What are the Big Battles Today We are Facing? - 37:32 ·      What Can We Learn from Church History About Ecumenicism and Doctrine? - 40:58 ·      Outro - 48:07   Resources to Click ·      John Gresham Machen, Defender of the Faith – Michael A.G. Haykin   Books to Read ·      Christianity & Liberalism – J. Gresham Machen ·      What is Faith? – J. Gresham Machen ·      The Origin of Paul’s Religion: The Classic Defense of Supernatural Christianity – J. Gresham Machen ·      J. Gresham Machen: A Biographical Memoir – Ned B. Stonehouse

Machen knew that emptying Christianity of its historical claims would leave only a lifeless shell behind. True spiritual life is not opposed to history, but is produced by a God who acts in history. Resources to Click Theology Simply Profound’s Audiobook of Machen’s Christianity & Liberalism History and Faith by J. Gresham Machen What is Faith? by J. Gresham Machen J. Gresham Machen’s Response to Modernism – John Piper Books to Read Christianity and Liberalism – J. Gresham Machen Dictionary of Christianity in America – Ed. Reid, Linder, Shelley, Stout Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism – George Marsden Princeton Seminary – David Calhoun The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism – William R. Hutchison What is Christianity? Notable Addresses from a Noble Defender of the Faith – J. Gresham Machen & Ned B. Stonehouse Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America – D.G. Hart J. Gresham Machen – Ned B. Stonehouse W. Stanford Reid: An Evangelical Calvinist in the Academy – Donald MacLeod Models for Scripture – John Goldingjay