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The Weekly Discourse | If you have been around for the last 12 months, you have most likely heard the words “Cultural Marxism” and “Critical Theory, or theories.” It is very important to understand what these terms mean and to discern how these ideologies are manifesting themselves in our society and even in our churches.  In the following lecture, Dr. Ascol unpacks the terms “cultural Marxism” and “critical theories.” He also shares some of the basic principles of Critical theory as well. On today’s show we are continuing to share portions of the lectures delivered by Dr. Tom Ascol in September of last year on the subject of A Biblical Assessment of the Social Justice movement. As I said last week this class is available to audit for free to any of our listeners, if you would like to have full access to the entire class you can email us at info@cbtseminary.org. The Weekly Discourse usually features a lecture which has been taken from a course at Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org.

Confessing the Faith | "The perfection of Scripture must also obliterate all cynicism or skepticism with respect to the meaning or the proper interpretation of the Scriptures. Even professing Christians will sometimes say, ‘Great men of God have differed, so how can I expect to be certain of the meaning of Scripture at this point?’ How often the objection is raised ‘That’s only your interpretation!’ Such objections presuppose the insufficiency and obscurity of the Scriptures."   Confessing the Faith is a theological and devotional walk through the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith with host Sam Waldron, Pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Owensboro, KY and President of Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary.   Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org.

Particular Pilgrims | In this week's episode, Pastor Ron moves from some of the lesser known figures in Particular Baptist history to one of the most known, Benjamin Keach. In this episode he begins with a look at his life and ministry.  Introducing Particular Pilgrims: Stories from Reformed Baptist History told by Ron Miller, Pastor of Covenant Baptist Church of Clarksville, TN and a longtime student and collector of Particular Baptist History. Pastor Miller also serves on the Board of Directors of Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org.

Sermon Select | The Christian's Relationship to Civil Authority: Pressing Principles for the Present Time Part 2 of 3 - When Must We Obey God Rather than Men? Preached from Acts 5:29.  Sam Waldron is Pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church of Owensboro, KY. To find out more about the ministry of GRBC Owensboro, visit https://grbco.org. Or for more sermons from Pastor Sam Waldron, visit https://www.sermonaudio.com/grbcoky This Sermon Select has been published with permission on the Man of God Podcast Channel, brought to you by Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary which provides affordable online theological education to help the church in its calling to train faithful men. For more information about Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary, visit www.CBTSeminary.org.

The Weekly Discourse | Dr. Tom Ascol lists some of the elements of “the new religion” and at the end of the lecture points us to what is the desperate need of the Church in this tumultuous hour, revival. We hope you will be edified and encouraged by this talk as you seek to faithfully navigate this perilous time.  Today’s lecture begins with the subject of intersectionality and moves into what is really a crucial concept for us to understand – and that is that the rise of many such dangerous ideologies today should not be attributed simply to some kind of atheistic secularism or materialism, but it should really be attributed to the rise of a New Religion or a resurgent paganism. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend Dr. Peter Jones’ book “One or Two” where he fleshes out in detail the tenets of what he calls one-ism. In the course, Dr. Ascol quotes Peter Jones as saying, “An ideology is taking over the West which is both very spiritual and self-consciously anti-Christian. It intends ever so subtly without ever saying so explicitly to grind the gospel into the dust bin of history.” He goes on to say “Whereas Scripture affirms two-ism (Creator-creature distinction and all the distinctions God creates in the cosmos he made), one-ism categorically affirms that things are not two, but one. In a cosmos without a creator, all distinctions collapse and man is god.” This is fundamentally at odds with two-ist Christianity with the biblical Creator-creature distinction. Jones goes on to ask, “What will happen to gospel witness when Western culture is ‘purified’ of its literary canon and its Christian ethical past? The church must still speak and live out all issues of fundamental truth, whatever the cost. Not to save America, but to save souls from eternal doom.” The Weekly Discourse usually features a lecture which has been taken from a course at Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org.

Confessing the Faith | "The Bible is not alike clear in all its parts. The Bible is not alike clear to all. The Bible is clear about salvation to those who will use ordinary means."   Confessing the Faith is a theological and devotional walk through the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith with host Sam Waldron, Pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Owensboro, KY and President of Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary.   Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org.

What would your church do if one of it's members suddenly went mad? Listen as Pastor Ron tells the story of John Fry, member of the Broadmead Particular Baptist Church, who was delivered from madness in answer to the fervent and determined prayers of the church that deeply loved him.  [GIVEAWAY!] Do you have a question about the 17th century Particular Baptists? Send your question to info@cbtseminary.org by October 16. If your question is chosen, it will be answered in an episode of Particular Pilgrims and you will win a free copy of The Baptists vol. 1 by Dr. Tom Nettles. Introducing Particular Pilgrims: Stories from Reformed Baptist History told by Ron Miller, Pastor of Covenant Baptist Church of Clarksville, TN and a longtime student and collector of Particular Baptist History. Pastor Miller also serves on the Board of Directors of Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org.

Sermon Select | The Christian's Relationship to Civil Authority: Pressing Principles for the Present Time Part 1 of 3 - What is commanded in Romans 13? Sam Waldron is Pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church of Owensboro, KY. To find out more about the ministry of GRBC Owensboro, visit https://grbco.org. Or for more sermons from Pastor Sam Waldron, visit https://www.sermonaudio.com/grbcoky This Sermon Select has been published with permission on the Man of God Podcast Channel, brought to you by Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary which provides affordable online theological education to help the church in its calling to train faithful men. For more information about Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary, visit www.CBTSeminary.org.

The Weekly Discourse | We are continuing to listen to Dr. Tom Hicks as he discusses Benjamin Keach’s critique of the errors of Richard Baxter and others on Justification. Benjamin Keach believed that the doctrine of Richard Baxter had serious and devastating consequences on the church and he set about to critique the errors, most notably in his work “The Marrow of True Justification.” This is the 5th of a series of lectures we have shared with you from our recent 2020 fall modular course on the Life and Theology of Benjamin Keach. You have likely heard the name Richard Baxter. His works, The Christian Directory and the Reformed Pastor are very popular. But did you know that Richard Baxter rejected the Reformed doctrine of Justification by faith alone? Did you know that he rejected the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to the believer for salvation? Did you know that he taught that your final justification was based upon your works. According to JI packer, “Baxter actually sowed the seeds of moralism with regard to sin, Arianism with regard to Christ, legalism with regard to faith and salvation, and liberalism with regards to God.” Benjamin Keach joined other notable theologians such as John Owen in writing against Baxter’s views of Justification in his work The Marrow of True Justification: Justification without works. We were recently joined by Dr. Tom Hicks for our 2020 fall modular course on the Life and Theology of Benjamin Keach. In the midst of this course, Dr. Hicks lectured on the theology of Richard Baxter and the response of Benjamin Keach. In the following lecture he outlines the doctrine of Richard Baxter and answers questions such as, “should we read Richard Baxter?” And “How can we recognize versions of Baxters views today?” The Weekly Discourse usually features a lecture which has been taken from a course at Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org.

Confessing the Faith | "Whether it is the Spirit’s illumination of Scripture or the Spirit’s giving us sanctified common sense we need to depend upon him deeply in our study of Scripture. We need to do this notwithstanding the fact that the Scriptures are both sufficient and clear." Confessing the Faith is a theological and devotional walk through the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith with host Sam Waldron, Pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Owensboro, KY and President of Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary is a Confessional Reformed Baptist Seminary Providing affordable online theological education to help the Church in its calling to train faithful men. To learn more about CBTS, visit https://CBTSeminary.org.