Out of Our Minds

In this episode, I push the men to discuss the distinction between working with your mind and working with your hands. And I do that, I think, because I feel some amount of guilt and shame over the fact that I am not especially good working with my hands. Many young Christian men are in the same boat. A guy like that is very susceptible to others who tell him that he has to hunt or build his own h...

Resources mentioned in the show: Why Work? by Dorothy Sayers When Fathers Ruled, by Steven Ozment Created for Work: Practical Insights for Young Men, by Bob Shultz Leisure, the Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Death is an enemy. It's serious, and it's weighty. We shouldn't be glib or careless about it, but we should talk about it. Here are a few helpful resources: 2015 Shepherds Conference Audio: The Last Enemy Notes, Scripture, and sayings on cremation Psalm 90 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Statement on Conscience and COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates can be found here . ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The session of Trinity Reformed Church in Bloomington, Indiana adopted a statement on conscience and COVID-19 vaccine mandates that was released on September 20, 2021. In this episode, Tim, Max and Lucas are joined by Joseph Bayly to talk through the statement. Read the statement here . Some references from the episode: Canadian military uses COVID-19 as an opportunity to test war-time propaganda...

We continue our running commentary on Evangel Presbytery's statement on sphere authority. If you missed the first episode, you can find it here . Evangel Presbytery's statement can be found here . ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We provide running commentary on Evangel Presbytery's statement on sphere authority. Evangel Presbytery's statement can be found here . ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We believe that fellowship with other Christians in church and in small groups is central to our faith. Social distancing and mask mandates, however, make fellowship very difficult, and, at times, impossible. So what is a faithful Christian to do? Are we duty-bound to submit to the mandates, or to break them? Or… something else? It’s not an easy topic to unravel, but we do our best. ★ Support this...

COVID has everyone on a short fuse, and we like to take out our anger on those in authority over us. That's not right.

Title a little dramatic? Yeah, it's true. But conservative Christians are terrified about COVID restrictions because they believe they are a harbinger of bad things to come. So today we try to address those fears and the visceral reaction to COVID laws on the part of conservatives in this country. Stuff mentioned in this episode: Is That A Fish In Your Ear? Salon article about Bible translation Th...

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We all live under the constant pressure to conform our way of thinking and speaking to the people around us. That's just a fact of life, and so it's not necessarily a bad thing. But it certainly can become a bad thing when that pressure to conform attempts to silence the Christian conscience. The most difficult thing is to open your mouth and speak. Join us for the conversation. We hope you'll be...

Conflict is inevitable in this world of sin. It just is. If you understand that, then you’ll be able to understand that a godly man’s goal in conflict is to bring peace. Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” A peacemaker is not a man who has flowers in his hair. A peacemaker is a man who has mud on his face and blood on his shirt because he’s been doing t...

Scripture teaches that church elders should not be pugnacious. But what is the difference between a good soldier for Jesus Christ and a pugnacious man? Listen to find out. Also, the New Geneva Academy Shepherds conference titled The Good Soldier is on October 6th and 7th! Register now! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Today we continue the conversation we started last week about young men and zeal. Young men need to have their zeal directed by older men, and one way to do that is by giving young men examples to follow. So today, we talk about the kind of man young, zealous men should aspire to be like. Register Now for the New Geneva Academy Shepherds Conference on October 6th & 7th! ★ Support this podcast...

Young men are rocket ships. If the ship isn't pointed in the right direction, disaster will ensue. So how do you get young men pointed in the right direction? Register Now for the New Geneva Academy Shepherds conference! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Do you expect your pastor to make judgements about you? We would have no hesitation in saying "yes" to the question if we were talking about a doctor or a football coach of a piano instructor. We want those people in our lives because we want them to form us. We want the doctor to accurately diagnose our diseases and help us be healthy. But we are unwilling to receive the same kind of treatment fr...

Preachers during the Second Great Awakening used emotional manipulation to "convert" the masses, and Reformed pastors have been leery ever since then about appeals to emotion. But a pastor must preach to both the mind and the heart. In the Reformed world, we place a very strong emphasis on truth and doctrine, and that’s all to the good… unless we become tin men who are incapable of actually loving...

Hebrews 13 reminds us that our pastors have the awful responsibility of watching over our souls. One day, they will give an account to God for their work. That’s a scary thought. Many pastors downplay their position as a pastor to try to get the perks of the job without feeling the weight or the pain of it. We begin our conversation today by talking about one of the ways pastors hide their authori...

Today’s episode is a continuation of the discussion we had last week about Christian worship. There’s interplay that always exists on a Sunday morning between the worship and the preaching. Does faithful preaching lead to faithful worship, or vice versa? How about both? Here are a few resources mentioned during this episode and the last: The Burden of Change , by John Frame Preaching As Though We...

Today we turn our attention to music and worship. Music is powerful. It moves our emotions and shapes our desires, and these are not secondary things for a Christian. Just like our minds need instruction, our hearts and wills need to be directed. The songs we sing in church, therefore, just like the preaching of the Word, should be aimed at the people in the pews. Here are a few resources mentione...

Pastor Jody Killingsworth joined us to continue our discussion of the Evangelical church. The pastors on this show all serve at Trinity Reformed Church, an Evangelical church here in Bloomington, Indiana. We are unapologetically, unequivocally, Evangelical. And yet, we’ve found that we’re a bit of a culture shock for many evangelicals visiting us for the first time. I asked our pastors why, and th...

Welcome everyone! Thanks for joining us on our very first episode of the Out of Our Minds Podcast! We sat down together to test out our equipment, but instead, we hit the record button and launched into a discussion about the state of the Evangelical Church in America today. We talked about J. Oliver Buswell, the parachurch, the halfway covenant, preaching to the conscience, and how to help our ch...