Church and Family Life Podcast

What is the significance of family life? How is family life diminished in the modern world? What is the true impact of a family on the world? Join Scott Brown, Jason Dohm, and Jared Longshore as we explain the power of a family – your family – in the world.

Hear Kris Baines, Church and Family Life Regional Facilitator for Australia and New Zealand, tell the story of his conversion as a young person involved in the music industry. It is a story of God’s patience and kindness, rescuing him from the clutches of the enemy of his soul. Follow him from the UK to the US, to the UK, to the US, and to New Zealand to the present.

For the first time, pastors in North America wonder how things will develop in view of the arrest and incarceration of Canadian pastors. How should we view it when we are jailed on false charges (or true charges)? How should we conduct ourselves? What should we expect? Join us as we speak with Paul Thompson from Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls, Idaho, who was arrested and jailed for 17 days under false accusations.

We are here today to encourage husbands to lead their families. The most common complaint wives make about their husbands is that they are not leading in the home. We also know that God gave husbands a hard job – they must lead their wives and children in very particular, highly defined ways. So, we hope this podcast will be an encouragement to them as they face the challenge and shoulder the responsibility.

On this podcast, Paul White joins us to discuss Chapter 22 in the Baptist Confession of 1689, "Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day." There are eight paragraphs in the chapter that explain the worship of God. Consider as a companion getting the booklet, "Counterfeit worship, Three Essays on the inventions of man in the Worship of God." In this booklet, we find the reformers' doctrine, which was embraced by the Puritans who penned the 1689 confession. In that book, we read John Knox, "All worshipping, honouring or service invented by the brain of man in the religion of God, without His own express commandment, is idolatry. The Mass is invented by the brain of man, without any commandment of God; therefore is idolatry."

In Chapter 11 of “When to Disobey,” Pierre Viret shows how a Christian appeals to the magistrate, how he seeks protection while at the same time serving God. He frames the discussion in this way; “If you are in a country in which someone does you an injury, you can have recourse to the magistrate of the place if the matter is worthy of it and if it requires it, and if you can do this by honest means without dishonoring God and without violating the love you owe to your neighbor.”

Join us with Brian Borgman to discuss chapter 10 in “When to Disobey,” under the chapter title, “How the Sheep will Vanquish Wolves.” Viret tells us things that are contrary to human wisdom. He unveils a lie we often embrace when dealing with corrupt civil governments.

Join us with Phil Kayser to discuss chapter 9 of Pierre Viret, “When to Disobey.” Titled, “Jurisdictions and callings are ordained by God. Viret addresses the various callings of individuals, pastors, and magistrates. What should individuals do? In this chapter, Viret corrects some of the wrong thinking that he is encountering.

How should the church respond when magistrates misbehave? Gavin Beers joins us to discuss Chapter 6 of, “When to Disobey,” Viret makes his case that we ought to understand the office of the magistrate, acknowledge the problems they bring, and how to navigate. Viret is defining and defending the role of civil magistrates. He makes an appeal for godly responses to the civil magistrate. I appreciate how Viret explains the problems that Christians will have with magistrates. Viret explains in careful detail what kinds of sins the people of God will have to endure at their hands.

In our continuing discussion of, the book, "When to Disobey,” we are joined by Toby Logston a pastor of one of the churches in our network in Lynwood Washington. We are discussing chapter 5, “Honoring Authority Over Us.” Viret makes a very strong case for honoring authorities. He bases this on the fifth commandment, telling us that the application is much broader than simply father and mother. We live in a time when very few people were brought up to honor their fathers and mothers, and therefore they don’t honor anyone.