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Join the faculty of Mid-America Reformed Seminary as they discuss everything from theology to cultural issues from a Reformed perspective. *The opinions presented in each episode are those of the individual speaker and do not necessarily represent the views of the Seminary.*

  1. 1日前

    306. Shepherds Smell Like Sheep

    Some elders think the job is the meeting. They show up, they vote, and then they adjourn. Dr. J. Mark Beach disagrees. In this episode of MarsCast, Beach unpacks why the real work of eldership happens in coffee shops, hospital rooms, and living rooms, not the consistory room, and why elders who get the polity right but miss the gospel are practicing something other than Christianity. Drawing on Jesus' parable of the two lost sons, he makes a searching case that many elders are more elder brother than they'd like to admit, and what repentance from that looks like in pastoral practice.

    19 分鐘

  2. 4月30日

    305. Comfortable Churches and Uncomfortable Pastors

    What happens when a church treats its pastor like a contractor who's hired to perform, expected to comply, and fired when inconvenient? In this episode, Jared Luttjeboer sits down with Dr. J. Mark Beach to expose the "hired help" mentality quietly shaping too many Reformed congregations. They contrast the transactional model of pastoral ministry — where the pastor answers to the people writing his paycheck — with a transformational model rooted in covenantal calling, prophetic faithfulness, and the lordship of Christ. It's a distinction that exposes not just how a church treats its pastor, but how seriously it takes the Word of God.

    15 分鐘

  3. 4月23日

    304. Cowboys, Shepherds, and Pastoral Leadership

    What if the way your church thinks about pastoral leadership is quietly undermining it? In this first episode of a four-part series, host Jared Luttjeboer sits down with Dr. J. Mark Beach to examine what Scripture actually demands of a pastor: not a facilitator, not a talking head, not a carefully managed voice on the periphery, but a shepherd who leads. Drawing on Peter's jarring confrontation in Acts 5 and the distinction between shepherding and cowboying, Dr. Beach makes the case that sidelining the pastor means sidelining the very person trained to help the church. If you've ever wondered why so many congregations feel rudderless, this conversation is where to start.

    14 分鐘

  4. 4月16日

    303. Reaching Women: Practical Strategies for the Church

    What does it actually look like for a church to move toward women with the good news of Jesus without swinging left into egalitarianism or right into a cold, avoidant piety? In this final conversation with Dr. Andrew Compton, the theory ends, and the hard work begins. From rethinking the reflexive male avoidance of women in the name of purity, to the provocative question of whether church leaders are actually listening to the women in their congregations, Dr. Compton offers strategies that will comfort some and unsettle others, all grounded in the belief that if Jesus valued women in their womanhood, His church must too.

    25 分鐘

  5. 4月9日

    302. Trad Wives, Feminist Churches, and the Jesus Who Transcends Both

    Critics call the Bible misogynistic. Some point to the Gnostic Gospels as the "real" feminist Jesus. But Dr. Andrew Compton argues that the canonical Jesus, the actual Jesus, treated women in ways so countercultural that Christianity attracted more women than men across the Roman Empire. In this episode of MarsCast, we examine what the Gospels reveal about Jesus' heart for women: how he taught them, healed them, protected them, and elevated them as moral exemplars, and what a troubling passage in Deuteronomy tells us about God's posture toward women all along. Plus, Dr. Compton exposes the twin errors pulling churches in opposite directions: a leftward drift into intersectional categories and a rightward retreat into a "biblical womanhood" that looks suspiciously like suburban North American culture with a Proverbs 31 verse attached.

    33 分鐘

  6. 4月2日

    301. From Liberation to Disappointment: Tracing the Feminist Arc

    Millions of women were promised that liberation would bring fulfillment, so why are so many of them exhausted, angry, and searching for something more? In this first episode of a three-part series, host Jared Luttjeboer sits down with Dr. Andrew Compton, professor of Old Testament at Mid-America Reformed Seminary, to trace the arc of feminist ideology from the Industrial Revolution through today's intersectional moment, and to ask a question the culture rarely entertains: what if feminism itself is the source of women's disappointment? This isn't a conversation about women's ordination or culture-war point-scoring, but a pastoral and historical reckoning with what women have been told will make them happy, and why it hasn't.

    30 分鐘

  7. 3月26日

    300. Steady As She Goes: Faithful Politics Across a Lifetime

    Every generation believes its political moment is the worst in history, and every generation is partly right. But what if the real crisis isn't the news cycle, but our inability to outlast it? For its 300th episode, MarsCast closes out its series on political exhaustion and the church with a fittingly long-view conversation: Dr. Alan Strange, president of Mid-America Reformed Seminary, draws on decades of lived history, from the cultural upheaval of the '60s to the gender revolution of today, to offer something rarer than political analysis: perspective. He and host Jared Luttjeboer explore how ordinary Christians can cultivate a "steady as she goes" rhythm of faithfulness that spans decades rather than despair-fueled news cycles. The answer, it turns out, is older and quieter than anything trending online.

    22 分鐘

  8. 3月19日

    299. The Church and Political Formation

    In this third episode of our series on political exhaustion and the church, host Jared Luttjeboer presses Dr. Alan Strange on the most practical question yet: how should the local church shape how their people think about politics during ordinary times so they're not starting from scratch every election season, already entrenched and already tired? Dr. Strange argues that proactive discipleship means resisting two temptations at once: the urge to baptize a political platform as the Christian position, and the impulse to fight the culture war on the world's own terms. The church that waits for election season to address politics will always be playing catch-up. Tune in to hear what faithful, formative engagement actually looks like, and why the algorithm will never give your congregation what the church alone can.

    18 分鐘
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Join the faculty of Mid-America Reformed Seminary as they discuss everything from theology to cultural issues from a Reformed perspective. *The opinions presented in each episode are those of the individual speaker and do not necessarily represent the views of the Seminary.*

資料

  • 創作者
    Mid-America Reformed Seminary
  • 活躍年份
    2020年 - 2026年
  • 單集
    313
  • 分級
    兒童適宜
  • 版權
    © Mid-America Reformed Seminary
  • 節目網站
    MarsCast

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