MARSCAST

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.*

Episodes
322 Oct1	322. Is Your Job Christian? Rethinking Faith and Culture Can your job as a plumber, your Monday to Friday at the office, or your Saturday grocery run be an act of worship, or is "Christian living&quo…
321 Sep24	321. The Future of Biblical Counseling Two of biblical counseling's most influential leaders died within a year of each other (Adams and Powlison), and the movement has been fracturi…
320 Sep17	320. Van Til's Fingerprints on Biblical Counseling Every biblical counselor assumes their approach comes straight from Scripture alone, but what if the underlying architecture came from an apologist…
319 Sep10	319. The Legacy of Jay Adams He was a pastor with a PhD in speech, no formal training in counseling, and a class he never wanted to teach, so how did Jay Adams end up rewriting…
318 Sep3	318. The Birth of the Biblical Counseling Movement What happens when the church stops trusting herself to help her own people—and hands the job to the therapist's couch instead? In the 1970s, on…
317 Aug27	317. Calvin Against the Calvinists, And Why the Scholars Got It Wrong For much of the 20th century, many academic theologians operated on the assumption that Calvin's successors (Beza, the Westminster Divines, the…
316 Aug20	316. Calvin and the State: What the Reformer Actually Believed Every faction in today's church-and-state wars has a Calvin: the Christian nationalist Calvin, the two-kingdoms Calvin, the theonomist Calvin. …
315 Aug13	315. Did Calvin Murder Servetus? In 1553, Michael Servetus was executed in Geneva, and John Calvin approved. It's the charge that haunts every defense of Calvinism, and also th…
314 Aug6	314. Before We Quote Calvin, We Have a Problem MarsCast is back, and we're returning from our July hiatus with an episode worth the wait. Everyone's got a Calvin quote ready to fire, but…
313 Jun25	313. Chosen by Grace, Called to Humility What happens when Christians forget that grace, not merit, is the foundation of election? In this concluding conversation with Dr. Alan Strange, we…