Christ Over All

The kingdom of God is foundational to the storyline of the Bible. Throughout Scripture, God is working to establish his rule over his people in his place. The book of Hebrews shows us that this kingdom has finally been brought about with the reign of our resurrected king. Resources to Click “The Kingdom of God In Hebrews” – Matt Emadi “The Kingdom of God: A Bibliography of 20th Century Research” – Leslaw Chrupcala “Hearing God Right: A Closer Look at Hebrews 1:5” – Jim Dernell Theme of the Month: Getting Into the Book of Hebrews Give to Support the Work  Books to Read The Royal Priest: Psalm 110 in Biblical Theology (NSBT) – Matt Emadi The Kingdom of God (Theology in Community Series) – eds. Christopher Morgan, Robert A. Peterson & Bruce K. Waltke Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture: The Application of Biblical Theology to Expository Preaching – Graeme Goldsworthy The Crucified King: Atonement and Kingdom in Biblical Theology – Jeremy Treat Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants (Second Edition) – Peter J. Gentry & Stephen J. Wellum The Paradox of Sonship: Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews – R.B. Jamieson Jesus the Son of God: A Christological Title Often Overlooked, Sometimes Misunderstood, and Currently Disputed – D.A. Carson “One Who Is Son: Theological Reflections on the Exordium to the Epistle to the Hebrews,” in The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology, ed. Richard Bauckham & Daniel R. Driver, et. al

Published in 1932, Aldous Huxley's famous novel has proved quite prophetic regarding several dark realities in our day. Yet, his tale is not the whole story, for Christ still reigns in this brave new world. Resources to Click Theme of the Month: Great Books Throughout the Ages Give to Support the Work Books to Read Brave New World – Aldous Huxley Amusing Ourselves to Death – Neil Postman Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley – Peter Kreeft

What is the next step for conservative SBC churches in light of the Law Amendment falling around 5% short of the needed votes? Resources to Click “Encore: Reformed and Reforming the SBC: Christ Over the Law Amendment” – David Schrock Mike Law’s Statement to Southern Baptists “The SBC Isn’t Drifting Its Being Steered: A Sober-Minded Response to Emotional Sabotage” – Michael Carlino “How Many Female Pastors Are in the SBC?” – Kevin McClure Chocolate Knox’s Synopsis of Gary North’s Crossed Fingers: How the Liberals Captured the Presbyterian Church “Is the SBC for Sale? How Progressive Money and Influence is Subverting the SBC” – Megan Basham Theme of the Month: Great Books Throughout the Ages Give to Support the Work  Books to Read Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded Truth for a Leftist Agenda – Megan Basham Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce - John Piper

The best books reflect us as we truly are while also showing what we might be in Christ. Resources to Click “The Unavoidable Either-Or: The Choice that Confronts Us in The Great Divorce” – Joe Rigney Theme of the Month: Great Books Throughout the Ages Give to Support the Work  Books to Read The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength – C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man – C.S. Lewis The Weight of Glory – C.S. Lewis Leadership and Emotional Sabotage – Joe Rigney

Listen in as Joe Rigney joins David Schrock and Trent Hunter to discuss his longform essay "The Unavoidable Either-Or: The Choice that Confronts Us in The Great Divorce" as well as the 2024 meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Timestamps Intro – 00:48 Law Amendment Update - 02:58 Rigney’s Reflections on the SBC - 03:35 Thinking Strategically Going Forward - 09:04 Trent’s Reflections on the SBC - 10:39 Living Under the Progressive Gaze - 12:09 What Makes a Classic a ‘Classic’? - 17:07 Lewis and His Background - 19:44 Trent on Reading More C.S. Lewis - 23:24 Expressing the Usefulness of Lewis but with caution - 26:00 What C.S. Lewis Fought Against in His Day - 34:30 How Should We Think about Books Outside the Christian Faith? - 39:54 Lewis and Appropriating Myths and Cultures from the Past - 45:32 The Characters in The Great Divorce - 50:04 Something Less Known from Lewis that is Worth Reading - 55:43 Closing and Outro - 58:20  Resources to Click “The Unavoidable Either-Or: The Choice that Confronts Us in The Great Divorce” – Joe Rigney “Encore: Reformed and Reforming the SBC: Christ Over the Law Amendment” – David Schrock Theme of the Month: Great Books Throughout the Ages Give to Support the Work  Books to Read The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength – C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man – C.S. Lewis The Weight of Glory – C.S. Lewis Leadership and Emotional Sabotage – Joe Rigney

Emotional sabotage has steered and shaped many of the major decisions of the Southern Baptist Convention from the early 2020s to the present. How? Keep listening. Resources to Click “The SBC Isn’t Drifting, It’s Being Steered: A Sober-Minded Response to Emotional Sabotage” – Michael Carlino “Do You Feel My Pain? Empathy Sympathy, and Dangerous Virtues” – Joe Rigney “Empathy, Feminism, and the Church” – Joe Rigney “Of Empathy and Monsters” – Joe Rigney “Brothers, Don’t Be Steered” – Joe Rigney “The SBC in a Crowded Theater” – Mark Coppenger “The Path Forward on Abuse Reform in the SBC” – Josh Abbotoy, Jon Whitehead “Can the Cooperation Continue? What the End of the BSA Means for the Future of the SBC?” – Jon Whitehead “Four Facts about Sexual Abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention (Part 1)” – Heath Lambert “Four Facts about Sexual Abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention (Part 2)” – Heath Lambert “Four Facts about Sexual Abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention (Part 3)” – Heath Lambert “Four Facts about Sexual Abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention (Part 4)” – Heath Lambert “Complementarian Confessional Conflagration” – Denny Burk “How Many Pastors are in the SBC?” – Kevin McClure The State of the SBC with Dr. Albert Mohler – Kenwood Institute “Feminine Emotionalism and the Evangelical Conscience” – G. Shane Morris “Not a Freelance Club: Identity, Association, and Confessionalism in the SBC” – Colin Smothers ““The Power and Duty of An Association”: Have Baptist Associations Historically Disfellowshipped Disorderly Churches?” – Caleb Morell “Act Like Men” – Kevin DeYoung “What Is Effeminacy?: A Survey of Scripture and History” – Steven Wedgeworth SBCAmendment.org Theme of the Month: Great Books Throughout the Ages Give to Support the Work Books to Read Leadership and Emotional Sabotage – Joe Rigney A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix – Edwin Friedman

Listen in as a Joe Rigney and Michael Carlino join David Schrock to discuss Joe's book Leadership and Emotional Sabotage and to apply the lessons from this book to the Southern Baptist Convention. Timestamps Intro – 00:28 Joe Rigney’s Time and Interest in the SBC - 03:26 The Genesis of Joe Rigney’s Book and Edwin Friedman 05:45 Rigney’s Influence on Michael Carlino - 10:18 How Do We See the Sin of Empathy Being Worked Out in the SBC Today? - 13:34 Friedman’s Fable Regarding Empathy - 16:35 Neutralizing the SBC and the Progressive Gaze - 21:54 Being Fractured and Frustrated - 26:14 Sensing the Steering - 27:22 How Does the Law Amendment Help the SBC to Not Be Steered? - 29:43 Feminism and Femininity -33:21 Women Should Not Be the Barometer for the Church - 36:04 The Female Gaze - 38:21 Deborah, Barak, and Jael - 39:51 The Levites Being Able to Suppress Brotherly Affection - 41:49 Closing and Outro - 45:16  Resources to Click “The SBC Isn’t Drifting, It’s Being Steered: A Sober-Minded Response to Emotional Sabotage” – Michael Carlino “Of Empathy and Monsters” – Joe Rigney “With One Voice” – Joe Rigney Center For Baptist Leadership Podcast Learn about the Law Amendment at SBCAmendment.org The Sin of Empathy – Doug Wilson and Joe Rigney Donate to the SBC Giveaway of Leadership and Emotional Sabotage Register for SBC at a Crossroads Theme of the Month: Great Books Throughout the Ages Give to Support the Work  Books to Read Leadership and Emotional Sabotage – Joe Rigney The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts – Joe Rigney A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix – Edwin Friedman Friedman’s Fables – Edwin Friedman

Listen in as the author of Masters or Slaves: AI and the Future of Humanity, Jeremy Peckham, and Daniel Cochrane join David Schrock for a biblical discussion on AI. Timestamps Intro – 00:33 Jeremy Peckham’s Background - 4:03 Daniel Cochrane’s Background - 09:18 The Myth of Neutrality - 12:30 Redefining Intelligence, Language, & the Imago Dei - 19:57 A.I. is More Than a Language-Based Technology - 28:25 Diminishing the Image of God is a Sin - 32:42 What is Lost by the Addition of A.I.? - 39:35 Brakes, Limits, and Counterweights Against A.I. - 45:25 The Impact on Policymakers - 55:42 Counsel & Encouragement for Believers - 1:02:20 Outro – 1:12:00  Resources to Click “An Excerpt from Jeremy Peckham’s Master or Slaves? AI and the Future of Humanity” – Jeremy Peckham “The Tower of Babel and the Ideology of AI” – Daniel Cochrane Theme of the Month: What Has God Wrought? Give to Support the Work  Books to Read Masters or Slaves?: AI and the Future of Humanity – Jeremy Peckham

Listen in as Mike Kirby joins David Schrock and Stephen Wellum to discuss the longform essay "Artificial Intelligence (AI): Tool, Image Bearer, Or Temptation?" which he co-authored with Matthew Emadi. Timestamps Intro – 00:52 Matt Emadi and Mike Kirby and Their Work on Their Article for COA - 03:54 The Amoral Nature of Technology? - 08:24 How These Tools are Being Brought into the World Today - 10:53 What Are Some Ethical Boundaries That are Being Discussed? - 13:12 A.I. Winter and What Season We Are In Today - 18:45 Counseling the Church on the Speed at Which A.I. is Accelerating - 24:28 A.I. Becoming Self-Conscious? - 27:55 A.I. & Embodiment - 34:30 Transhumanism and Systematic Theology - 37:40 How Much Does Science Fiction Play into the Development of A.I. and What Do We Need to Brace For? - 44:58 Counsel to Those In, or Wanting to Be In, the Field of A.I. - 49:50 Pitfalls of Having All These Technologies Around Us - 52:37 Outro - 54:42  Resources to Click “Artificial Intelligence (AI): Tool, Image Bearer, or Temptation?” – Mike Kirby & Matthew Emadi “Does Power Corrupt or Enable? When and Why Power Facilitates Self-Interested Behavior” – Katherine A. De Celles, D. Scott DeRue, Joshua D. Margolis and Tara L. Ceramic “The History of Artificial Intelligence: Complete AI Timeline” – Ron Karjian “Google’s Gemini Controversy Explained: AI Model Criticized by Musk and Others Over Alleged Bias” – Antonio Pequeño IV “’Absurdly woke’: Google’s AI chatbot spits out ‘diverse’ images of Founding Fathers, popes, Vikings” – Thomas Barrabi “Google pauses Gemini’s Ability to Generate AI images of People after Diversity Errors” – Tom Warren Theme of the Month: What Has God Wrought? Give to Support the Work  Books to Read The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology – Ray Kurzweil From the Garden to the City” The Place of Technology in the Story of God – John Dyer Evangelical Ethics: Issues Facing the Church Today: Fourth Edition – John Jefferson Davis God, Technology and the Christian Life – Tony Reinke The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity – James Thacker Christian Ethics: Contemporary Issues & Options – Norman L. Geisler Future Shock – Alvin Toffler

What is the historical background of AI, and how should we use this technology today? Resources to Click “Artificial Intelligence (AI): Tool, Image Bearer, or Temptation?” – Mike Kirby & Matthew Emadi “Does Power Corrupt or Enable? When and Why Power Facilitates Self-Interested Behavior” – Katherine A. De Celles, D. Scott DeRue, Joshua D. Margolis and Tara L. Ceramic “The History of Artificial Intelligence: Complete AI Timeline” – Ron Karjian “Google’s Gemini Controversy Explained: AI Model Criticized by Musk and Others Over Alleged Bias” – Antonio Pequeño IV “’Absurdly woke’: Google’s AI chatbot spits out ‘diverse’ images of Founding Fathers, popes, Vikings” – Thomas Barrabi “Google pauses Gemini’s Ability to Generate AI images of People after Diversity Errors” – Tom Warren Theme of the Month: What Has God Wrought? Give to Support the Work Books to Read The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology – Ray Kurzweil From the Garden to the City” The Place of Technology in the Story of God – John Dyer Evangelical Ethics: Issues Facing the Church Today: Fourth Edition – John Jefferson Davis God, Technology and the Christian Life – Tony Reinke The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity – James Thacker Christian Ethics: Contemporary Issues & Options – Norman L. Geisler