The Westminster Podcast

For this Halloween and Reformation Day special, we’re opening the Westminster archives for Harvie Conn’s chapel sermon, “Reformation Day: Trick-or-Treat?” With humor and a pointed look at our tendency to bargain with God, Conn takes us to Romans 1:16–17 and the question that tormented Martin Luther: How can a guilty sinner stand before a righteous God? The answer is the discovery at the heart of the Reformation: God freely supplies in Christ the righteousness we could never earn.

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What makes education distinctly Christian, and how does faith shape more than the opening prayer? Nate Shannon welcomes Ransom Poythress, associate professor of biology at Houghton University, to explore how Christian conviction transforms what we teach, how we teach, and who we are as teachers. From finding theological significance in the properties of water to rethinking classroom competition and confronting a teacher’s desire for approval, they offer practical encouragement for educators and homeschool parents seeking to help their students know, love, and glorify God.

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Christ died and rose again. But how do we come to share in what he accomplished? What does Paul actually mean when he says that believers are “in Christ”?

In this episode of Westminster Radio, Richard Gaffin explores union with Christ and why it matters for everything from our justification to our bodily resurrection. Drawing on Scripture, Calvin, and the Westminster catechisms, he explains how the Holy Spirit unites us to the Savior through faith, and why Christ’s benefits can never be separated from Christ himself. We receive the whole Christ: the priest who saves us, the prophet we listen to, and the king we obey. And his hold on us extends even to the grave.

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Matt Jones of Empower One joins Nate Shannon to discuss church planting, theological education, and the work of making disciples in some of the hardest places in Africa. From South Sudan and Darfur to refugee camps and unreached communities, Jones explains why slow, indigenous, deeply rooted ministry often bears more lasting fruit than strategies built around speed and numbers—and what Christians in the West can learn from pastors who remain faithful when there is nowhere else to go.

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How do we come to recognize the Bible as the Word of God, and what role does the Holy Spirit play in that conviction? In this archival lecture, John Frame explores the Spirit’s work in inspiring Scripture and opening our hearts to receive its truth, showing how his inward testimony works together with evidence, argument, and careful study. Frame calls us to approach God’s Word with intellectual seriousness and prayerful dependence on the Spirit who enables us to understand, believe, and obey it.

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