In our latest video podcast, Richard Barcellos discusses his plans to plant a new church in California.
Family-Integrated Church 18: Samuel, Jesus, and Paul (Part 2)
Samuel, Jesus, and Paul are sometimes brought forward in response to the family-integrated rejection of age-segregated Sunday Schools and youth meetings. Are the descriptions of what happened in the case of these children normative for us? Let us remind ourselves of...
MCTS Podcast 16: Training Pastors in Namibia
In this week's video podcast, Richard Barcellos and John Divito discuss their upcoming mission trip to train pastors in Nambia: Q&A with Dr. Barcellos and John Divito from MCTS on Vimeo.
Am I Called to the Ministry?
From talking with many other men who desire to serve Christ in the ministry, I know that we often struggle to know whether we are called by our Savior to serve Him as a pastor. The question "Am I called to the ministry?" is a personal one for me, which is why I have...
Family-Integrated Church 17: Samuel, Jesus, and Paul (Part 1)
The Family-Integrated Church movement condemns the idea of age-segregated Sunday School classes. They do this in the context usually of a strong commitment to home-schooling. This raises the suspicion that they are against anyone teaching children except their parents...
MCTS Podcast 15: Changes, They are a Coming
The MCTS video podcasts are back! In our latest interview, Dr. Waldron and Dr. Barcellos discuss some changes coming to the Midwest Center for Theological Studies. Q&A with Drs. Waldron and Barcellos #8 from MCTS on Vimeo.
Tom Wells’ book on the Sabbath: Chapter Three (VI)
A detailed examination of all the passages in the Gospels where Christ discusses the issue of the Sabbath will show that he never predicted its abolition, nor did he ever profane it.
Family-Integrated Church 16: Of Nurseries
Both Scott Brown and Voddie Baucham incorporate a rejection of nurseries for children during church services into their program of family-integrated ministry in the church. Voddie remarks: “I believe one of the greatest crutches in the church is the nursery....
Tom Wells’ book on the Sabbath: Chapter Three (V)
Tom Wells’ book on the Sabbath: Chapter Three (IV) Mark 2:23-28 narrates another incident between Jesus and his disciples and the Pharisees. Jesus was “passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while...
Brief survey of the history of hermeneutics – 12. Post-Reformation Reformed Orthodoxy (I)
The theological methodology of the post-Reformation Reformed orthodox was, in the first place, exegetical.
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