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
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…
312 Jun18	312. Clay Jars and Chosen Nations: Dr. Strange on Election and the Public Square Israel wasn't chosen because it was great. God said so himself. In this episode of MarsCast, Jared Luttjeboer and Dr. Alan Strange open Deutero…
311 Jun11	311. Better Than Whom? Ethnic Superiority and the Image of God A short clip. A blunt question. And apparently, more than a few people had thoughts about it.When Dr. Alan Strange asked his evening class w…
310 Jun4	310. The Theologian Who Won't Go and the Missionary Who Doesn't Know Paul didn't write Romans because he had a lot to say; he wrote it because he needed a church ready to send him to Spain. That single missionary…
309 May28	309. Why Paul Wrote His Longest Letter to a Church He'd Never Met Why is Romans so long? Paul wasn't writing a theology textbook; he was trying to recruit a missionary partner, and the Roman church wasn't …