Comments for Reformed Forum

Comment on Counseling Difficult Cases by How a Mental Health Counselor Can Change Your Life | Mental Help For Anxiety

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:41:16 +0000

[...] Reformed Forum – Reformed Theology Podcasts, Videos, Blogs аחԁ … [...]

Comment on Counseling Difficult Cases by Benjamin P. Glaser

Benjamin P. Glaser — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:27:18 +0000

I had Dr. Scipione at RPTS. Really wish I could have had more courses. He is an excellent teacher and like he noted in the interview quickly makes you realize the gravity of the situation. Counseling is not a game.

Comment on Creating Culture by Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:49:24 +0000

I am enjoying your discussions regarding how and if Christians can engage in culture.

The topic you touched on relative to whether certain kinds of music – the chords/notes, not the lyrics – have any kind of moral implications reminded me of an episode of This American Life a couple of years back (http://thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/110/Mapping – see the “Hearing” section, about 12 minutes in) in which part of the discussion related to how particular notes and combinations of notes evoke particular moods. They noted that the Church in the Middle Ages even assigned different meanings to certain note combinations. The augmented 4th, a musical interval, for example, was known as the “diabolus in musica,” “the devil in the music.”

Comment on Counseling Difficult Cases by Breno Macedo

Breno Macedo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:00:25 +0000

Same here.

I will be sitting under Pastor Scipione this semester. We classes today at 18:00 to 22:00 ant tomorrow from 09:00 to 19:00.

It will be a long but very instructive weekend.

Comment on Counseling Difficult Cases by Jeff Downs

Jeff Downs — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:55:14 +0000

I look forward to listening to this. I sat under Dr. Scipione last Spring, and he will be here at Greenville this evening teaching. His pastoral counseling class was one of the best courses I’ve taken.

Comment on Shepherding Ministry by Camden Bucey

Camden Bucey — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:49:32 +0000

Thanks for the kind words. To answer your questions, I don’t know on both counts!

Comment on Shepherding Ministry by Ben Palmer, Melbourne

Ben Palmer, Melbourne — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:23:42 +0000

Thank you for this discussion, which I’ve only just gotten around to hearing. While I am very thankful for the Biblical and confessional faithfulness of the Presbyterian congregation of which I am a member (and not an office-bearer) – there is some room for improvement in this area. I would be interested to know if some elders who are committed to “shepherding” their members prefer to invite them to their own homes once or twice a year, rather than “going visiting”? There must be circumstances in which the latter is difficult or uncomfortable or even inappropriate.

Camden how do you find the time to put together all these fantastic programs? And how did you survive your elders visit from Daryl Hart!?

Comment on The Task of the Preacher by Bob

Bob — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:31:08 +0000

He is Charles Stanley’s son. He pastors a huge church in Atlanta called North Point Community Church (www.northpoint.org). Not sure what denomination the church is affiliated with. His book is filled with very practical and helpful suggestions about how to preach in a memorable and effective way. He has a beef with content-heavy sermons that send people away unsure of what the sermon was about. He wants people to actually remember what the preacher says. So, his main argument is that sermons should have just one clear point (rather than three or four). As a preacher myself, I found it a very helpful and challenging book, but there are a number of things that I have questions about, hence my inquiry….

Comment on Creating Culture by Web Pulse – March 3, 2010 | Religious Affections Ministries

Web Pulse – March 3, 2010 | Religious Affections Ministries — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:00:24 +0000

[...] Reformed Forum – Reformed Theology Podcasts, Videos, Blogs and More – » Blog Archive »…Another video from the Reformed Forum on culture. There are some helpful things here, but I do think they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what culture is. There is a difference between redeeming culture (which I’m all for) and redeeming particular cultural expressions. Some expressions cannot be redeemed. [...]

Comment on The Task of the Preacher by Camden Bucey

Camden Bucey — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:01:15 +0000

Bob, I haven’t seen it yet. What is Stanley’s background?

Comment on The Christian Lover by The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies » Dr. Haykin interviewed on Christ the Center

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:04:27 +0000

[...] Dr. Michael Haykin was recently interviewed on the Reformed Forum’s Christ the Center podcast. The focus of the interview was Dr. Haykin’s book, The Christian Lover: The Sweetness of Love and Marriage in the Letters of Believers. You can access the episode in which Dr. Haykin was interviewed here. [...]

Comment on The Task of the Preacher by Bob

Bob — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:01:43 +0000

Has anyone read Andy Stanley’s book, “Communicating for a Change”? I would be interested in discussing this book with someone who shares the convictions expressed in this interview.

Comment on Shepherding Ministry by Camden Bucey

Camden Bucey — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:24:48 +0000

Thomas, I’m glad you found it useful. The course from which the book is based was excellent. I hope the book is used to revive proper, biblical care for the flock.

Comment on Theological Prayer by Tim H.

Tim H. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:17:35 +0000

Thanks guys. I’m preparing to teach a Sunday school series on prayer, and I was just thinking the other day “The Reformed Forum hasn’t done much on prayer,” so I was pleasantly surprised to see this pop up in iTunes!

I think many nails were hit on the head, and we’d all do well to dive into the biblical prayers.

Comment on The Christian Lover by Tim H.

Tim H. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:16:11 +0000

Nick, I really appreciated this interview. Dr. Haykin is phenomenal, and I benefited from the questions you asked. Thanks.

Comment on A Theology of Culture by Theology of Culture – Discussion « Exercised to Discern

Theology of Culture – Discussion « Exercised to Discern — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:57:24 +0000

[...] 28, 2010 by Mike There’s a very useful discussion on the Theology of Culture over at The Reformed [...]

Comment on Shepherding Ministry by Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:05:42 +0000

I am surprised this broadcast did not generate more comments. We have practiced pastoral oversight for as long as I have been a Reformed Baptist, 25 years. It was so fresh to hear someone else with these convictions. Not only so, Pastor Witmer far exceeded my expectations for what he would bring to this discussion. This was very edifying. I followed up all the links about his books and website I could find.

Comment on A Theology of Culture by Web Pulse – February 26, 2010 | Religious Affections Ministries

Web Pulse – February 26, 2010 | Religious Affections Ministries — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:30 +0000

[...] A Theology of CultureI haven’t listened to the whole thing, yet, but this should be interesting. document.getElementById("post-3214-blankimage").onload(); [...]

Comment on A Theology of Culture by Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:45:53 +0000

Interesting and helpful comment, I would love to hear Ken Myers on this subject given his experience with authors covering every aspect of culture. He is a WTS grad! I agree with your statement above, yet I think in a future program we should spell out what is meant by ‘mandate’. In other words, dive into a proper balance of not going over board into a transformational eschatology while at the same time not dismissing the clear notion of common grace. Thanks for your input Rob!

Comment on A Theology of Culture by Rob de Roos

Rob de Roos — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:40:04 +0000

I enjoyed the discussion. Good review. I would like to point out that as Ken Myers points out referring to Terry Eagleton’s book, The Idea of Culture, the word culture is very complex. Though I do think the discussion pointed out good aspects of what culture is, people groups and culture media/content. Yet I think Andy Crouch’s book, Culture Making, points to another dimension of culture. Crouch is critiquing the view that culture is merely theory about something. In his view, culture is intrinsically connected with culture making that does something with the stuff of creation; the making of cultural goods. Cultural goods are something done with the stuff of creation because of given values of faith. Someone adept in technology doesn’t necessarily inform the ability to wisely discern the knowledge of the world. Christians deal with and are involved with the world and non-Christians deal with and are involved with the world. Common grace is co-extensive for all human existence in this fallen world. Yet I think the little book by Jan Veenhof, translated by Albert M. Wolters, “Nature and Grace in Herman Bavinck,” points out that redemption doesn’t add anything to creation but is redeeming creation. Therefore, perhaps culture is religious because the resulting cultural goods we come into contact with invariably reveal the [religious] values involved with the production of the cultural good. I think with a Reformed and Vantillian view of creation, providence and common grace, we engage world various culture[s] because of the cultural mandate and the gospel mandate.