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  Grace and Grace: The One Covenant and the Logic of Hebrews’ Warning | Marcus A. Mininger 03.10.2026 50min

  Hebrews never pits the covenants against one another as law versus gospel; it presents them as grace and grace—the same house, the same people, the same promise. Yet the old was always preparatory: shadow giving way to substance, promise to fulfillment. Marcus A. Mininger traces that organic development and shows why the unity of the one covenant is precisely what makes Hebrews’ warning so urgent. The address closes where the letter does—on persevering within the covenant and resting in the sole sufficiency of Christ.Dr. Marcus A. Mininger is professor of New Testament at Mid-America Reformed Seminary, with research on Paul and the General Epistles—including a forthcoming study of the warning passages in Hebrews.Delivered at the 2026 Reformed Forum Theology Conference, “The Covenant of Grace: One Savior, One People, One Purpose,” at Lakeland Church in Gurnee, Illinois, on September 26, 2026.Watch this address: https://youtu.be/DMhQflaD8PMWatch the full conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJykAlOwqPCAreformedforum.orgMentioned in this episode:Christ the Center 1000Christ the Center 1000
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  Impossible to Be Restored? What Hebrews Really Warns Against | Marcus A. Mininger 03.10.2026 38min

  Few passages have unsettled readers like Hebrews’ warning that it is “impossible … to restore again to repentance” those who fall away. Does it teach a sin beyond forgiveness? Marcus A. Mininger clears away the common misreadings and names the real danger the author confronts: the temptation to abandon Christ and re-lay a foundation in the old covenant alone. The warning, rightly heard, is not about a sin too great to forgive but about the impossibility of going back—and it sets up the covenant question taken up in the session that follows.Dr. Marcus A. Mininger is professor of New Testament at Mid-America Reformed Seminary, with research on Paul and the General Epistles—including a forthcoming study of the warning passages in Hebrews.Delivered at the 2026 Reformed Forum Theology Conference, “The Covenant of Grace: One Savior, One People, One Purpose,” at Lakeland Church in Gurnee, Illinois, on September 26, 2026.Watch this address: https://youtu.be/9B4fCp9femsWatch the full conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJykAlOwqPCAreformedforum.orgMentioned in this episode:Christ the Center 1000Christ the Center 1000
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  A Greater Joshua, a Greater Conquest: Another Look at Jesus’s Exorcisms | Benjamin L. Gladd 02.10.2026 46min

  A greater Joshua has come. Benjamin L. Gladd takes another look at Jesus’s exorcisms, reading them against the Old Testament backdrop of Israel’s conquest. Where Joshua led a people into an earthly rest by the sword, Christ leads his people into a greater rest by the Spirit and the word, defeating the powers that held them captive. The kingdom does not advance by force but by the triumph of the one Savior who gathers one people to himself, and the exorcisms are a preview of that greater conquest.Dr. Benjamin L. Gladd is executive director of the Carson Center for Theological Renewal and formerly professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson. He edits the Essential Studies in Biblical Theology series and has written widely on the use of the Old Testament in the New, including works co-authored with G. K. Beale.Delivered at the 2026 Reformed Forum Theology Conference, “The Covenant of Grace: One Savior, One People, One Purpose,” at Lakeland Church in Gurnee, Illinois, on September 26, 2026.Watch this address: https://youtu.be/UeBRopgfpmIWatch the full conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJykAlOwqPCAreformedforum.orgMentioned in this episode:Christ the Center 1000Christ the Center 1000
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  When Does the Restoration of Israel Take Place? | G. K. Beale 02.10.2026 48min

  When does the long-promised restoration of Israel take place? G. K. Beale gives particular attention to Acts 1:8 and its use of the Old Testament and argues that the restoration is already under way in the church's Spirit-empowered witness to the nations. God fulfills his covenant promises to Israel in Christ and carries them to the ends of the earth, as the one Savior gathers one people to himself. The answer has direct consequences for how we understand the church, the nations, and the promises of the covenant.Dr. Gregory K. Beale teaches at Reformed Theological Seminary, Dallas. He is a leading New Testament scholar known for his work on biblical theology, the use of the Old Testament in the New, and the temple theme across Scripture.Delivered at the 2026 Reformed Forum Theology Conference, "The Covenant of Grace: One Savior, One People, One Purpose," at Lakeland Church in Gurnee, Illinois, on September 26, 2026.Watch the full conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJykAlOwqPCAhttps://reformedforum.orgMentioned in this episode:Christ the Center 1000Christ the Center 1000
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  Roman Catholicism and Christian Unity 02.10.2026 1godz 15min

  Mark Gilbert joins Camden Bucey to examine competing Protestant and Roman Catholic accounts of Christian unity. They discuss Gilbert’s conversion from Roman Catholicism, Vatican II, Karl Rahner’s doctrine of the “anonymous Christian,” ecclesial authority, justification, and the need to engage Roman Catholics with clarity, charity, and confidence in the finished work of Christ.
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  Before the Foundation of the World: The Covenant of Redemption and the Covenant of Grace | Camden M. Bucey 01.10.2026 46min

  The covenant of grace has its source in eternity, in the covenant of redemption: the eternal agreement of Father, Son, and Spirit to save a people. In "Before the Foundation of the World," Camden Bucey traces the historical covenant of grace back to that eternal counsel. Following Herman Bavinck, he shows that the covenant revealed in time rests on an unchanging foundation in the counsel of the triune God. Before creation and before the fall, God purposed one redemption with one Savior at its center, and the unity and certainty of the covenant of grace rest on that purpose. This opening address gathers up the first two conferences in the trilogy and lays the foundation for the addresses that follow.Download the handout (PDF)Dr. Camden M. Bucey is executive director of Reformed Forum and host of Christ the Center. He is the author of Karl Rahner in P&R’s Great Thinkers series and Defending Our Hope: An Introduction to Christian Apologetics.Delivered at the 2026 Reformed Forum Theology Conference, “The Covenant of Grace: One Savior, One People, One Purpose,” at Lakeland Church in Gurnee, Illinois, on September 26, 2026.Watch the full conferencereformedforum.orgMentioned in this episode:Christ the Center 1000Christ the Center 1000
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  Introduction and Methodological Considerations | Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide (Lesson 1) 28.09.2026 1godz 1min

  This is the first lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide. It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 5–30 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:
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  YouTube as the Modern Day Areopagus 25.09.2026 1godz 4min

  We welcome Eli Ayala, host of Revealed Apologetics, to discuss Christian apologetics in the digital public square. Drawing an analogy to the Areopagus of Acts 17, Camden Bucey and Ayala consider YouTube’s remarkable reach, its dangers, the spiritual dimension of apologetics, the union of biblical content and method, current movements in online apologetics, and the pastoral task of guiding young people who encounter theology online.
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  The Book of Daniel, Part 22 22.09.2026 47min

  On today’s episode of Theology Simply Profound, Rob and Bob continue to walk through the Book of Daniel. We discuss Daniel's corporate prayer of confession in chapter 9.Mentioned in this episode:Christ the Center 1000Christ the Center 1000
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  Modern Departures from Creedal and Confessional Orthodoxy | Christology I: The Person of Christ (Lesson 5) 21.09.2026 1godz 12min

  Dr. Lane G. Tipton examines modern departures from creedal and confessional orthodoxy and explains why historic Christological formulations remain necessary for faithful confession of the person of Christ.
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  The Fall and Redemption of Conscience 18.09.2026 1godz 44min

  We welcome Andrea Ferrari to discuss his book The Fall and Redemption of Conscience: A Reformed Biblical Theology. Ferrari explains why conscience has received comparatively little attention in modern Protestant theology and develops a biblical account from creation and fall through justification, sanctification, and glory, with practical implications for preaching, counseling, and the Christian life.
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  Historical Controversies, the Creeds, and the Westminster Confession | Christology I: The Person of Christ (Lesson 4) 14.09.2026 58min

  Dr. Lane G. Tipton surveys historical Christological controversies, the creedal settlement of the early church, and the Westminster Confession’s doctrine of the person of Christ.
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  The Importance of Biblical Theology for the Church 11.09.2026 1godz 29min

  Recorded before a live audience at Cahaba Park Church during “Discovering Christ in All of Scripture,” a Reformed Forum seminar hosted in conjunction with Birmingham Theological Seminary, Camden Bucey moderates a panel with Dan Ragusa, Derrick Brite, and Lane G. Tipton on the importance of biblical theology for the life of the church. The panel defines biblical theology in the tradition of Geerhardus Vos, explains its organic and progressive character, and shows how the whole history of special revelation reaches its center and goal in Jesus Christ. The conversation turns to preaching, discipleship, the unity of the covenant of grace, Christ-centered interpretation, practical resources for reading the Old Testament, and the need for churches to recover the accomplishment of redemption as the great context for every biblical passage. In the audience Q&A, the panel also addresses ministry in small and struggling churches, church revitalization, and the pilgrim ethic needed for faithful pastoral service.
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  The Book of Daniel, Part 21 08.09.2026 58min

  On today’s episode of Theology Simply Profound, Rob and Bob continue to walk through the Book of Daniel. We discuss Daniel's vision and interpretation of it in chapter 8.Mentioned in this episode:Christ the Center 1000Christ the Center 1000
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  The Logos Ensarkos: The Son of God Incarnate | Christology I: The Person of Christ (Lesson 3) 07.09.2026 1godz 8min

  Dr. Lane G. Tipton addresses the Logos ensarkos—the Son of God incarnate—and the church’s confession that the eternal Son assumed a true human nature while remaining fully God.
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  Human Dignity in the Age of AI 04.09.2026 59min

  Artificial intelligence presses the deeper question of what it means to be human. Camden Bucey speaks with ethicist Jason Thacker about human dignity, the image of God, embodied life, AI companionship, transhumanism, and Christian hope. They explain why machines remain tools rather than persons and why Scripture equips the church to engage emerging technology without naïveté or fear.
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  The Logos Incarnandus: The Son Foreordained to Become Flesh | Christology I: The Person of Christ (Lesson 2) 31.08.2026 1godz 2min

  Dr. Lane G. Tipton considers the Logos incarnandus—the Son foreordained to become flesh—and the eternal divine purpose that the Son would assume a true human nature for the salvation of his people.
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  A Christian View of Economics in the Age of AI 28.08.2026 1godz 24min

  Camden Bucey speaks with economist Shawn Ritenour about what makes an account of economics distinctly Christian. They discuss economic law as part of God’s created order and the biblical principles shaping stewardship, private property, labor, capital, exchange, and care for those in need. Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas provides the occasion for a searching conversation about the universal destination of goods, Big Tech, data, subsidiarity, sphere sovereignty, GDP, and human dignity. The conversation presses beneath policy to theology. Neither markets nor governments escape the effects of sin, and material prosperity must never be confused with sanctification. Christians seek just and prudent arrangements in this age while recognizing that scarcity, exploitation, and disordered desire will not finally be overcome by human construction. The church’s hope rests in the crucified and risen Christ and the consummation of his kingdom.
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  The Logos Asarkos: The Eternal Word and Pre-existent Son | Christology I: The Person of Christ (Lesson 1) 24.08.2026 1godz 15min

  Dr. Lane G. Tipton opens Christology I: The Person of Christ by introducing the Logos asarkos—the eternal Word and pre-existent Son—laying foundations for confessing the Son as eternally personal before the incarnation.
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  Cultivating Reformed Piety: Scripture, Prayer, Meditation, and Family Worship 21.08.2026 58min

  Camden Bucey speaks with Joel Beeke about cultivating Reformed piety through Scripture, prayer, singing, biblical meditation, family worship, and the church’s public worship. Dr. Beeke explains how meditation connects Bible reading with prayer, why durable spiritual habits bear fruit over decades, and how Christian homes can orient everyday life toward reverential love for God and maturity in Christ.