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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.
Resources
Van Til’s Counseling Movement
Institute for Reformed Biblical Counseling

Chapters
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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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.

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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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.
Watch this address: https://youtu.be/DMhQflaD8PM
Watch the full conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJykAlOwqPCA
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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.
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.
Watch this address: https://youtu.be/9B4fCp9fems
Watch the full conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJykAlOwqPCA
reformedforum.org
Mentioned in this episode:
Christ the Center 1000
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