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Most people today are taught that colonialism was an absolute evil that is only able to be differentiated by degree. But history contains greater complexity than our modern sensibilities allow for. In this episode, we want to look at some of the complexity surrounding colonialism and consider whether it was all as evil as is often claimed. We also want to consider God’s sovereignty and providence throughout history. While God does use the evil of men to accomplish his goals, this does not mean that everything that is claimed by modern thinkers to be evil is as they say. There are times when God puts imperfect men in positions of authority and uses them to judge evil. We should be careful in how we judge these events, lest we call good, evil, and evil, good.

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00:00:00 Intro
00:05:19 Destroying Cultures
00:29:26 Duty to Evangelize
00:34:59 Constraining Evil
21:25:17 God’s Judgment
00:50:17 Imposing Foreign Rule?
01:04:33 Stealing Wealth?

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Permanent Hosts – Dan Horn, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson

In the generation before the War for American Independence, there was a tremendous movement by God called the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 40s. It was so widespread that most people in the country all heard essentially the same message that you must be born again. Do you understand how that message paved the way for the founding of the United States?
As 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, we want to look back at how God shaped the minds of those who helped guide the nation through the American Revolution. When you consider that the late 1700s to the mid-1800s is known as the Age of Revolution and that most events of a similar nature had little long-term success and often brought great suffering to the nation and people involved, we should ask, “What made the American Revolution so different?” Why did God cause America to succeed and to have such influence in the world?
This nature of America’s beginning remains vitally important to understanding its subsequent success. While many of us are familiar with the basic history of our struggle for independence, few understand the events that shaped it. Fewer still understand the spiritual battles that were taking place and how relevant the battles of that time are to the battles we face today. As the people of God, we should understand better than anyone that the spiritual drives the physical. The history we learn is often about the pride of men and the glory of human endeavors. We hope to strip away our pride and see our nation and the way God has used it in the world as God sees it. Please join us as we consider this monumentally important topic.

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00:00:00 Pre Awakening Decline
00:10:07 Error Entering
00:18:34 Thoughtfulness and the Great Awakening
00:42:53 Applying Reformed Theology
00:54:18 Connections
01:03:21 Shining the Light

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Permanent Hosts – Dan Horn, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson

“Circumcision was established by God to identify specific earthly promises to Abraham and his descendants and to the nation that would come from him and through which the Messiah would come. Specifically, it was a sign that Abraham would be the father of many nations, and that through Israel, Jesus the Christ, the seed, would be born. Circumcision also pointed toward a greater spiritual reality in that while physical circumcision could not achieve any real constraint of sin and caused God to have no obligation to save anyone, circumcision of the heart was only for the sons of God.

But as is often the case with the earthly types that God institutes, because of sin, physical circumcision is often taught to have direct spiritual significance. In the New Testament, there were Jews who tried to tie circumcision directly to salvation to the point where Peter was caught up in their lies and had to be publicly rebuked by Paul. This is also a distinct disagreement between Presbyterians and Reformed Baptists where Presbyterians associate circumcision with baptism and by implication apply the promises of the baptism of Jesus Christ to unbelieving children and from it a form of belonging or covenant membership within the church. We believe that this Presbyterian view of the relationship between circumcision and baptism is contrary to scripture. (We are even more opposed to the views of circumcision and baptism that lead to paedocommunion and to the teachings called Federal Vision)

Please join us as we discuss the nature of circumcision and the purposes to which God appointed it.

Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Permanent Hosts – Dan Horn, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson”

In the last fifty years, megachurches have become commonplace and are an accepted model of church even in Reformed circles (in the sense that people plant churches with the intent of rapidly growing into a megachurch). But in Christianity, the details always matter, and while God has at times caused churches to grow very quickly, this does not mean it is good to plan to create a large church.

In this episode, we want to examine the trade-offs that come with large churches. Even in cases where God causes the church to grow rapidly, there are difficulties that must be dealt with. God has specific things to say about his church, why he created it, and what he expects it to accomplish. Megachurches, particularly those that are intentionally created by men, are rarely well-suited to accomplishing these goals. Please join us as we discuss this important topic.

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Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC
Permanent Hosts – Dan Horn, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn
Technical Director – Timothy Kaiser
Theme Music – Gabriel Hudelson