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The Resurrection of Christ and the Past Resurrection of the Believer | Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide (Lesson 3) Oct 12, 2026

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This is the third 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 41–62 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:

00:00 Introduction and Key Pauline Texts
04:08 The Believer’s Past Resurrection
11:46 Ephesians 2: Raised with Christ
18:50 Federal and Experiential Dimensions of Union
24:52 The Believer’s Transition from Death to Life
29:52 Distinct yet Connected Resurrection Events
33:33 Colossians 2–3: Made Alive and Raised with Christ
40:18 Romans 6 and Experiential Union
44:52 The Likeness of Christ’s Death and Resurrection
51:25 Galatians 2: Crucified with Christ
55:44 Present Inward and Future Bodily Resurrection
57:54 The Union Involved: A Dual Perspective
1:01:26 Union with the Heavenly Christ through the Spirit
1:03:32 Summary: Accomplishment, Application, and Already–Not Yet
1:05:33 The Redemption of Body and Soul
1:07:54 Conclusion and Preview

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Van Til’s Influence on Biblical Counseling Oct 09, 2026

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Jared Poulton joins Camden Bucey to discuss Van Til’s Counseling Movement: A Critical Analysis of Jay Adams and Biblical Counseling. They trace how Cornelius Van Til’s presuppositional apologetics supplied key theological instincts for Jay Adams and the modern biblical counseling movement, including the God-relatedness of every human problem, dependence upon divine revelation, and confidence in Scripture’s sufficiency for pastoral ministry.

The conversation also examines tensions within contemporary biblical counseling. Camden and Jared consider the antithesis, common grace, the relation of the book of nature to the book of Scripture, and the danger of either rejecting all extra-biblical knowledge or baptizing secular methods without sufficient theological scrutiny. Throughout, they argue that faithful counseling should serve the church’s disciple-making mission and bring every claim about human life under the authoritative framework of God’s Word.

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00:00 Introduction
03:12 Jared Poulton’s path into biblical counseling
09:12 What is biblical counseling?
17:44 The sufficiency of Scripture and pastoral counsel
23:09 CCEF, David Powlison, and Van Til
27:29 A Van Tilian foundation and an identity crisis
32:48 Competing trajectories in biblical counseling
41:02 Robert K. Rudolph and Jay Adams
44:02 Three streams that shaped Adams
50:57 God is man’s environment
55:58 Presuppositions and borrowed terminology
61:37 The antithesis and secular psychology
67:06 Scripture’s framework for counseling
72:59 Common grace and the two-book approach
75:56 Counseling in service of the church’s mission
77:42 Conclusion

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The Book of Daniel, Part 23 Oct 06, 2026

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On today’s episode of Theology Simply Profound, Rob and Bob continue to walk through the Book of Daniel. We discuss the Lord's response to his corporate confession of sin in chapter 9:1-19 wherein Gabriel flies in to provide "insight and understanding" in the form of the prophecy of the seventy weeks.

The Resurrection of Christ and the Future Resurrection of Believers | Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide (Lesson 2) Oct 05, 2026

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This is the second 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 31–41 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology, addressing the following topics:

00:00 Introduction and Review
08:50 From Paul’s Letters to Paul’s Theology
14:06 Christ’s Resurrection and the Resurrection of Believers
17:31 First Corinthians 15: Christ the Firstfruits
31:58 Head-Body Solidarity and Federal Representation
36:06 Colossians 1:18: Firstborn from the Dead
44:25 Resurrection and the Dawn of New Creation
48:55 Second Corinthians 4:14 and Shared Resurrection
53:49 Preview: The Believer’s Past Resurrection

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Grace and Grace: The One Covenant and the Logic of Hebrews’ Warning | Marcus A. Mininger Oct 03, 2026

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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.

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Impossible to Be Restored? What Hebrews Really Warns Against | Marcus A. Mininger Oct 03, 2026

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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.

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.

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A Greater Joshua, a Greater Conquest: Another Look at Jesus’s Exorcisms | Benjamin L. Gladd Oct 02, 2026

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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.

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When Does the Restoration of Israel Take Place? | G. K. Beale Oct 02, 2026

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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=PLJykAlOwqPCA

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Roman Catholicism and Christian Unity Oct 02, 2026

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Mark Gilbert joins Camden Bucey to examine what Protestants and Roman Catholics mean when they speak of Christian unity. Drawing on Gilbert’s conversion from Roman Catholicism, they contrast a unity grounded in the Spirit’s work through the Word with Rome’s institutional claim to mediate grace and gather humanity into one visible communion.

The conversation turns to Vatican II and Karl Rahner’s doctrine of the “anonymous Christian.” Camden and Mark consider Rahner’s anthropology, his account of God’s self-communication, and the influence of this framework on Roman Catholic inclusivism. They conclude with a pastoral call to speak with clarity and charity and to offer the assurance found only in the finished work of Christ.

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00:00 Introduction
03:48 Mark Gilbert’s journey from Roman Catholicism
10:50 The Rome Scholars and Leaders Network
15:04 Catholic inclusivity after Vatican II
20:36 Institutional and spiritual views of unity
26:43 The church as a continuing incarnation
28:58 Vatican II and Karl Rahner
35:36 Van Til, Rahner, and the image of God
45:18 The “anonymous Christian”
47:30 Roman Catholicism in a pluralistic world
52:06 Inclusivity, gender, and doctrinal development
58:19 Rahner, Ratzinger, and competing Catholic trajectories
61:28 The Roman Catholic Church as a “sacrament of unity”
65:33 Unity in truth and evangelizing Roman Catholics
70:14 Resources for churches and small groups
72:59 Conclusion

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Before the Foundation of the World: The Covenant of Redemption and the Covenant of Grace | Camden M. Bucey Oct 01, 2026

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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.

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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.

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