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Continuing today in our series of chapel messages from the Faculty, Dr. Alan Strange will speak on 2 Samuel 24 and the census of David.

Beginning today and for the next few weeks, we’ll be releasing more chapel messages from our Faculty, beginning with Rev. Mark Vander Hart, Associate Professor of Old Testament, delivering a sermon Joshua 2, Rahab and the spies, and the beauty of the gospel message contained therein.

We’re rounding out our series on Reformed and Presbyterian Confessions today, which started way back with the Belgic Confession. Our Dutch Reformed brethren tackled the Three Forms of Unity, with Dr. Alan Strange and Dr. Marcus Mininger reflecting on the Westminster Standards, wrapping up today with some thoughts on the Westminster Catechisms.

Back with us on the podcast today is Dr. Alan Strange and Dr. Marcus Mininger to open up and explore the *content* of the Westminster Confession of Faith, one of the documents crafted at the Westminster Assembly in the 17th century.

We’re going to move away from Continental Europe and into English territory to Westminster Abbey, where we find the creation of the Westminster Standards in Presbyterian circles. On the podcast today is Dr. Alan Strange and Dr. Marcus Mininger to talk a little bit about the background of one of these documents, the Westminster Confession of Faith.

In our final installment of the Three Forms of Unity, Rev. Mark Vander Hart, Dr. Cornelis Venema, and Dr. J. Mark Beach look at the Canons of Dort, no doubt a difficult confessional document to understand. Good thing our professors are here to help us out.

“What is your only comfort in life and in death?”  “That I am not my own, but belong—body and soul, in life and in death—to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.”  Thus begins a beautiful conversation between teacher and catechumen on guilt, grace, and gratitude. This is the Heidelberg Catechism, a remarkable confession that we find in the Three Forms of Unity. Once again, Rev. Mark Vander H...

If you’ve been in the Reformed camp long enough the month of October should ring a bell for you. Not because of witches and ghouls and pumpkin carving, but something that holds much more significance for our lives as Christians - Protestant and Reformed Christians, specifically. And that’s the season of Reformation, beginning with the epochal work of Martin Luther and his nailing of the 95 theses...

Today we wrap up our series on Christ-Centered Preaching from the Faculty with Rev. Mark Vander Hart bringing us a word from Matthew 2:1-15, a message detailing the flight of Christ as a child to Egypt with his parents as a part of his journey to the cross.

In our continuing series on Christ-Centered Preaching from the Faculty, Dr. Venema brings us a word from Ephesians 2:1-10, perhaps one of the most (as Calvin put it) concise summations of the gospel. His message is titled, “For We Are God’s Poem” and was originally given at Zion United Reformed Church in Ripon, California. May you be blessed by this message.

Continuing our lineup of Christ-Centered Preaching from the Faculty at Mid-America, Rev. Andrew Compton, Professor of Old Testament, brings to us a message from the book of Proverbs titled “Do Not Walk in the Way With Them," a sermon about the enticement of sinners and how Christ enables us to avoid them.

No doubt we would all agree on the importance of Christ-Centered sermons: Christ and him crucified, the good news of salvation, preached through all of Scripture. Over the past many years, our professors have labored in preaching Christ and the gospel in various churches all throughout the U.S. and Canada, but even here on the campus of Mid-America during the Seminary’s time of chapel. Some of the...

You’ll remember last week we had our Director of Enrollment, Brian Blummer, behind the mic. He joins us again this week as he interviews one of our incoming students, a former National Hockey League player turned seminary student, Mr. Michael Wall from British Columbia. Take some time to listen to Michael's journey to seminary. 

Jared sits down with Mid-America's Director of Enrollment Management, Brian Blummer, a 2011 alumnus, as they chat about Brian's years before, during, and after seminary, and how in God's providence, he brought Brian back to seminary - with the purpose of bringing others to Mid-America's campus.

In our concluding episode on Christianity and the Arts , Rev. Compton and Dr. Strange discuss music and how Christians can appreciate listening to it. 

We’re continuing our series on Christianity and the Arts today, this time talking about Movies. 

We’re starting a new series today on Christianity and the Arts. Dr. Alan Strange, Professor of Church History and Apologetics, introduces this series, beginning with Literature. 

In this episode, Director of Marketing, Jared Luttjeboer, and Old Testament Professor, Rev. Andrew Compton, talk about social media and the Christian's use of it.

In our series on human sexuality thus far, Rev. Compton, Dr. Strange, and Dr. Venema have taken us through history, through culture, and the church's reaction to human sexuality. In our concluding episode, an all-too-important subject matter is up for discussion: ministering to the sexually broken in our midst.

In part 2 of our series on Sexuality, Rev. Andrew Compton, Dr. Alan Strange, and Dr. Cornelis Venema continue their dialogue on this important topic, talking about the current climate and where the church finds itself in this conversation.

Today we begin a new series of episodes on Sexuality, led by Rev. Andrew Compton, Dr. Alan Strange, and Dr. Cornelis Venema. They begin by elaborating on sexuality in the ancient near east, some specific principles of human sexuality, and then Scripture’s view of sexuality.

In this final episode of Christ and Culture, Drs. Strange, Mininger, and Venema take us through a variety of issues that the church faces today, such as marriage, money matters, and racial issues.

The professors move on to elaborate on the precise role that the church plays when it comes to culture. If you’re familiar at all with Abraham Kuyper, you’ll pick up what our professors have to offer when it comes to speaking of the church as an institute or organization, and the church as an organism as it relates to culture.        

This week we begin a new series of episodes on Christ and Culture, led by three of our professors – Dr. Alan Strange, Dr. Marcus Mininger, and Dr. Cornelis Venema – who start out by giving some very important definitions of Christ and of culture.

Last week Rev. Compton and Manager of Marketing, Jared Luttjeboer, talked about the pros of the relationship between the church and technology; this time, they talk about the cons of this relationship, as well as ending with some words on why Mid-America Reformed Seminary tackled some of this "media and internet stuff" and decided to launch a podcast.