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325. How To Run a Faithful Pastoral Search

October 22, 2026 · 26 min

Reformed churches are facing more pastoral vacancies than at any point in Dr. Paul Ipema’s lifetime, and the elders left to fill them are rarely trained for the work. Send a letter of inquiry today, and perhaps one pastor in ten will even…
324. Why Paul Recommended Singleness

October 15, 2026 · 21 min

Why would the apostle who calls marriage a living picture of Christ and the church also tell some people not to marry? In the final episode of our Christ and culture series, Dr. Marcus Mininger takes up 1 Corinthians 7 and a claim that…
323. Why Unbelievers Can't Fully "Do" Marriage

October 8, 2026 · 16 min

In part two of this series on Christ and culture, Dr. Marcus Mininger dives into Paul's stunning move in Ephesians 5 — quoting Genesis 2's account of marriage, then declaring, "I am speaking of Christ and the church." Mininger unpacks what…
322. Is Your Job Christian? Rethinking Faith and Culture

October 1, 2026 · 16 min

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" really just a Sunday thing? In this opening episode of a three-part series, Dr. Marcus Mininger…
321. The Future of Biblical Counseling

September 24, 2026 · 16 min

Two of biblical counseling's most influential leaders died within a year of each other (Adams and Powlison), and the movement has been fracturing ever since. In this series finale, Dr. Jared Poulton joins Jared and Dr. Alan Strange to…

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320. Van Til's Fingerprints on Biblical Counseling

September 17, 2026 · 23 min

Every biblical counselor assumes their approach comes straight from Scripture alone, but what if the underlying architecture came from an apologist rather than a counselor? In this third episode of our MarsCast series on biblical…
319. The Legacy of Jay Adams

September 10, 2026 · 16 min

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 the rules for how the church cares for hurting people? In this second episode, Dr. Jared…
318. The Birth of the Biblical Counseling Movement

September 3, 2026 · 13 min

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, one pastor's book sold a quarter of a million copies by daring to say pastors and elders were…
317. Calvin Against the Calvinists, And Why the Scholars Got It Wrong

August 27, 2026 · 25 min

For much of the 20th century, many academic theologians operated on the assumption that Calvin's successors (Beza, the Westminster Divines, the scholastic tradition) had in some ways betrayed him and traded a warm, Christ-centered theology…
316. Calvin and the State: What the Reformer Actually Believed

August 20, 2026 · 27 min

Every faction in today's church-and-state wars has a Calvin: the Christian nationalist Calvin, the two-kingdoms Calvin, the theonomist Calvin. But what if they're all working with a myth? The real Calvin was a French immigrant with no…
315. Did Calvin Murder Servetus?

August 13, 2026 · 24 min

In 1553, Michael Servetus was executed in Geneva, and John Calvin approved. It's the charge that haunts every defense of Calvinism, and also the story that gets reduced to a tweet and weaponized in every online argument about it. But what…
314. Before We Quote Calvin, We Have a Problem

August 6, 2026 · 22 min

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 whose Calvin are they quoting? The Calvinist Calvin? The internet-meme Calvin? The cold…

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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.*