Reformed Forum

In this episode of Christ the Center, Camden Bucey welcomes Randy Lee and Adam York from Hope Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Grayslake, Illinois, to discuss recent teaching trips connected with OPC foreign missions in Uganda and Ethiopia. Lee, a ruling elder, reflects on teaching personal finance at Knox School of Theology in Uganda, while York, pastor of Hope OPC, describes his work teaching and training pastors in Ethiopia.
The conversation explores the global need for theological education, Reformed Academy's role in serving the church worldwide, and the biblical doctrine of stewardship. The discussion turns especially to Biblical principles of finance: why money must be brought under the lordship of Christ, how Scripture and the Reformed confessions shape our view of possessions, how prosperity theology distorts Christian hope, and why work, generosity, contentment, and vocation all belong to faithful stewardship before God.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction from the Reformed Academy classroom
0:39 Global theological education, Uganda, and Ethiopia
1:21 Prayer for Peter Stafford and missionary medical work
3:21 Reformed Academy and the global need for theological education
5:09 Randy Lee's call to teach personal finance in Uganda
6:24 Adam York's trip to Ethiopia
7:28 OPC foreign missions and theological training
10:58 Preparing to teach faith-centered finance
13:25 Randy's business background
15:26 Biblical and practical resources for finance
18:21 Teaching finance and stewardship in the church
21:42 Stewardship beyond money
26:13 Reformed confessions and finance
29:11 Manifesting, prosperity theology, and biblical worldview
36:45 Five uses of money
40:14 Cultural differences and family obligations in Uganda
44:16 Need, want, generosity, and work
49:37 Lessons learned in Uganda
52:24 Opportunities to serve in foreign missions
53:47 Closing resources and Reformed Forum updates
Resources mentioned
Reformed Academy
OPC Foreign Missions
OPC Short-Term Missions
Ron Blue Institute
Participants: Adam York, Camden Bucey, Randy Lee

This is the eighth lesson in Dr. James J. Cassidy's Reformed Academy course, The Gospel of John: A Study in the Truth. This lesson covers the following topics:
00:00 True Kingdom Power (vv. 1–11)
16:24 True Kingdom Identity (vv. 12–27)
23:30 The Nature of the True Kingdom (vv. 28–40)
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We welcome Darryl G. Hart back to Christ the Center to discuss Protestants and Patriots: Presbyterians in the Age of Revolution, published by the University of Notre Dame Press. Hart traces the transatlantic story of Presbyterianism from the Reformation through the age of revolutions, asking why Presbyterian polity so often became a political irritant in Britain, Ireland, North America, and beyond.
The conversation ranges from Calvin's Geneva and the French Reformed connection to the Scottish Covenanters, the English civil wars, John Witherspoon, the American founding, the 1788 revision of the Westminster Confession, and contemporary debates over Christian nationalism. Along the way, Hart helps us see how questions of church government, civil authority, establishment, liberty, and public memory are bound up with the church's confession that Christ alone is head of his church.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction and the road to episode 1,000
2:00 Protestants and Patriots and the Presbyterian question
3:10 The project's origins and teaching the big picture
5:12 Calvin's ecclesiastical ordinances and Presbyterian polity
7:26 Was the American Revolution a Presbyterian revolution?
10:12 Lumpers, splitters, and Presbyterian identity
11:09 Reformed and Presbyterian: why the names matter
15:01 Presbyterians, nationalism, and the godly society
16:12 Covenanters, national covenanting, and regicide
19:31 Geneva, exiles, and the French connection
22:26 The true Presbyterian revolutionary moment: the 1630s and 1640s
24:21 Why Scotland became a Presbyterian laboratory
28:29 Why England and Scotland became Reformed rather than Lutheran
30:52 What did Presbyterians want? Church independence and state support
34:43 The Glorious Revolution, moderation, and establishment compromises
39:15 Regium donum, Canada, Ireland, and voluntary giving
42:34 John Witherspoon and Presbyterian moderation in the American founding
48:16 Revising Westminster Confession chapter 23
55:30 American Heretics, Two Sons of Oil, and anti-liberal Presbyterianism
60:30 Further conversations and Protestants and Patriots
65:05 Independence Hall, historic preservation, and public memory
70:07 Conclusion
Resources mentioned
Protestants and Patriots: Presbyterians in the Age of Revolution by D. G. Hart
University of Notre Dame Press interview with D. G. Hart
American Heretics by Jerome Copulsky
Two Sons of Oil by Samuel B. Wylie
Independence National Historical Park
Participants: Camden Bucey, Darryl G. Hart

This is the seventh lesson in Dr. James J. Cassidy's Reformed Academy course, The Gospel of John: A Study in the Truth. This lesson covers the following topics:
00:00 Jesus Prays as the True High Priest
03:13 Jesus Prays for His Own Glorification
06:56 Jesus Prays for the Preservation of the Elect Based on the Pactum Salutis
24:26 Jesus Prays for the Church's Sanctification
27:13 Jesus Prays for the Church's Unity
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We welcome Matthew Adams, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Dillon, South Carolina, to discuss his book Act Like a Man: Understanding the Biblical Call to Masculinity, published by Christian Focus. Adams argues for a vision of manhood grounded in Scripture and formed by the Holy Spirit rather than by cultural capitulation, reactionary posturing, or online personality-driven models of masculinity.
The conversation considers why the doctrine of Scripture and the work of the Spirit must come before any faithful account of biblical masculinity. Adams unfolds five marks of manhood—righteous living, sacrificial love, dependent leadership, courageous zeal, and humble servanthood—using David's life as both a positive and negative example that ultimately points to Christ. The episode also addresses contemporary challenges in the church, the need for fathers and elders to disciple younger men, and the importance of presence, faithfulness, and generational responsibility in the home and covenant community.
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Resources mentioned
Act Like a Man: Understanding the Biblical Call to Masculinity by Matthew Adams
Christian Focus Publications
Reformed Forum Events
Reformed Academy
Participants: Camden Bucey, Matthew Adams