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The Whole Counsel
John Snyder, host of the Behold Your God Study and an elder of Christ Church New Albany, walks us through the realities of the Christian life with an emphasis on experiential Christianity. We love books on our podcast, so we tend to find great help in old books written by church fathers, puritans, and others. John has a plethora of guests to come on the show and share different insights into the books we discuss.
Episodes
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Augustine’s Confessions | Navigating the Classics
Study the God who gripped Augustine’s soul so completely: https://shop.mediagratiae.org/collections/behold-your-god-series Augustine is one of the most…
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Following the Follower V: Key Lessons from Paul’s Example
Podcasts are a wonderful vehicle to convey ideas and information. But they are not perfect. Due to the limited time frame of our podcasts, we have a tendency…
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Following the Follower IV: Glorious Confidence in the New Covenant
During one of the most difficult seasons of Paul’s life and ministry he had many opportunities to despair. He had multiple chances to switch his tactics and…
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Following the Follower III: The Foundation of Our Confidence
Paul tells the church of Corinth to follow him as he follows Christ. That would be an impossible task for us if Paul had been given special tools, a special…
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Following the Follower II: Staying Steady in Hard Times
The largest biographical passage we have the Apostle Paul is found in 2 Corinthians. We are spending several weeks discussing this extended passage in our…
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Following the Follower I: Meeting Our Example
When it comes to walking the Christian life, we can find few better examples of how close a saved sinner can walk with God than the Apostle Paul. Unlike the…
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Special Episode - Living with the True God: Lessons from Judges, Session 1
We are taking a few weeks to let you know about some of the teaching material Media Gratiae has produced outside our podcasts. In previous special episodes we…
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Special Episode - The Church, Session 1: The Marks of the Church
We are taking a few weeks to let you know about some of the teaching material Media Gratiae has produced outside our podcasts. In previous special episodes we…
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Special Episode - Behold Your God: The Weight of Majesty, Session 1
Last week we highlighted the first study Media Gratiae produced, Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically. This week we are previewing for you the sequel to…
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Special Episode - Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically, Session 1
Get 15% off this study for this week only: https://shop.mediagratiae.org/collections/15-off-behold-your-god-rethinking-god-biblically Over the years more and…
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Resources on the 1689 Confession of Faith
It is one thing for the Christian to say I believe, my family believes, my church believes what the Bible says. That is a right and essential to the Christian…
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Realities of Revival VI: Sermon from Daniel Rowland - Hebrews 1:9
This week is our final episode on the realities of revival and we wanted to present to you another sermon used by God during a great time of revival. The…
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Realities of Revival V: Seeking Revival
We have spent several weeks discussing the realities of revival. We have sought to share, using helps listed below, the fruits of revival, the means of…
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Realities of Revival IV: Sermon from George Whitefield - The Method of Grace
Due to a sickness in the team, we were unable to film an episode for this week’s podcast. But this led us to a wonderful opportunity. Years ago Andrew Davies…
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Realities of Revival III: Ordinary Means, Extraordinary Fruit
The idea that revival requires special means, special speakers, and special meetings, is often sourced in good intentions, but it comes from a fundamental…
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Realities of Revival II: The Means of Revival
After introducing our new series last week, John and Teddy are diving deeper into the topic of revival. This week they focus on a biblical understanding of…
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Realities of Revival I: A Theological Understanding
There was a time when revival was the study and focus of careful theologians. Sadly that changed around the middle of the 19th century. Since then, careful…
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10 Years of Beholding God: Richard Owen Roberts, pt. 2
At this time 10 years ago we had just released our flagship study, Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically. To celebrate a decade of the Lord’s blessing on…
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10 Years of Beholding God: Conrad Mbewe, pt 1
This week we are continuing our celebration of 10 years of Rethinking God Biblically. Ten years ago now we had just released our flagship study, Behold Your…
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10 Years of Beholding God: Paul Washer, pt 1
Our flagship study, Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically has been released for over a decade. In that time, we have been indescribably happy to see the…
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New Resources for 2023
We have spent the last few weeks walking through principles to help us in how we can get the most out of our reading. In this episode, we share discussions we…
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Navigating the Classics: On the Incarnation of Christ by Athanasius
Today we are releasing a new podcast that will be published every quarter. We named this new series Navigating the Classics because we want to spend time…
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Reading Well II: Final Principle and Our Book Lists (Originally published 12.2.21)
Last week we republished a discussion between John Snyder and Jeremy Walker on the first five of six principles to keep in mind if you want to get the most…
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Reading Well I: Principles (Originally published 11.25.21)
With the start of the new year, we wanted to revisit John Snyder's conversation with Jeremy Walker back in 2021 about six principles to reading well. We make…
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The Coming Messiah VI: The Davidic Line of Immanuel
Last week we talked about the issue of biblical covenants. God reveals Himself progressively, meaning that He has revealed more of Himself and His plan of…
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The Coming Messiah V: The Connection between David and Immanuel
This week, we continue our look at Isaiah’s descriptions of Immanuel. John Snyder focuses on the connection between King David of the Old Testament and the…
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Reflection & Gratitude for 2022: Celebrating a decade of God’s faithfulness
We are grateful to God for His kindness toward us over the last decade. To see a glimpse of what He has done through the work of Media Gratiae over the last 10…
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The Coming Messiah IV: God’s Description of Immanuel
There are many passages of Scripture where God describes Himself to us. This week we are focusing on four such descriptions of God describing the coming…
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The Coming Messiah III: A Glimmer of Hope
Last week’s episode ended on gloom and judgment. Ahaz has rejected the opportunity of God to ask for any sign of His faithfulness. Rather than obeying God in…
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The Coming Messiah II: The Shame of Having a Plan B
This week we continue looking at descriptions of the coming Messiah in Isaiah 8. Last week we discussed how God mercifully gave the wicked King Ahaz an…
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The Coming Messiah I: What will You do with the Descriptions of Christ?
This week we begin a new series in which we examine God’s descriptions of the forthcoming Messiah in the book of Isaiah. In this inaugural episode, we are…
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10 Years of Beholding God: Richard Owen Roberts, pt 1
We have previously introduced you to our friend, Mr. Richard Owen Roberts. We walked through the book he assembled, Salvation in Full Color, we’ve had him on…
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2023 Book Recommendation
In years past we have given you long lists of books we recommend to fill your next year’s reading plan. This year, our list is short. The reading, however, is…
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Fall Supporter Update
Every quarter we give our supporters an update on what we are working on behind the scenes. Correction: This is not an end-of-the-year update. That will come…
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Fighting and Killing Sin V: Applying Mortification
In a way that only he can, John Owen ends his helpful work on the mortification of sin with two conclusions. The first contains eight preparatory points for…
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Fighting and Killing Sin IV: Mortifying Sin
The battle to mortify sin can seem exhausting, discouraging, and overwhelming. But it is a battle that we as Christians will fight and, ultimately, we will…
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Fighting and Killing Sin III: Be More Enamored with God than Sin
Having discussed the necessity of mortifying sin and the flesh, watching and praying through Christ, John Snyder and Jeremy Walker move to discuss the…
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Special Episode: Turn Conference with Richard Owen Roberts
Richard Owen Roberts is a long-term friend of Media Gratiae. Even before Media Gratiae existed, Mr. Roberts played an important role in John Snyder's life. In…
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Fighting and Killing Sin II: Watch and Pray
Robert Murray M’Cheyne described the human heart as gunpowder and temptation as a spark that will ignite the heart in sin. The most careful practice we can…
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Fighting and Killing Sin I: Temptation and Testing
We at The Whole Counsel love Puritans. We have benefited so much from their sermons, prayers, and books, it is our delight to discuss them and hopefully whet…
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Grace and Law XVI: The Right and Wrong Use of the Law
We have had 15 discussions of the Christian’s relationship to the God’s moral law in this series. If anything, we hope we have shown you this topic is…
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Grace and Law XV: The Dominion of the Law and Sin
Next week we will finish our series on The Law and the Gospel. In this series we have sought to study the New Testament Christian’s relationship to God’s moral…
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Grace and Law XIV: Is the Law Fulfilled?
This week we return to our ongoing discussion of the Christian’s relationship to both God’s Law and His grace. The emphasis this week is simply to explain what…
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10 Years of Beholding God: Andrew Davies
Regular listeners will know we have been releasing complete interviews from our production of Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically. This is to…
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10 Years of Rethinking God Biblically: Eifion Evans
At this time 10 years ago we were putting the final touches and beginning the process of manufacturing Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically. This study…
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Grace and Law XIII: Is God’s Law Fair?
If you have gone through the Media Gratiae study Behold Your God: The Weight of Majesty, you will know that God’s attributes include being just, good, and…
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Grace and Law XII: 20 Errors of Antinomianism
Throughout this podcast series, we have been following the flow of thought in Ernie Reisinger’s book The Law and the Gospel. In his discussion on…
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Grace and Law XI: Rejecting the Lies of Antinomianism
It’s been a few weeks since John Snyder and Steve Crampton came together to discuss Ernie Reisinger’s The Law and the Gospel. But this week they are back and…
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How to Respond to ”Gay Christianity”
While we don’t typically focus on contemporary issues on the Whole Counsel, we wanted to take one episode to introduce you to an author that we trust on a…
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10 Years of Beholding God | Anthony Mathenia, Pt 2
Ten years ago we were working hard on creating the study that became Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically. Part of that work included conducting…
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10 Years of Beholding God | Anthony Mathenia, Pt 1
Ten years ago we were working hard on creating the study that became Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically. Part of that work included conducting…
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Grace and Law X: A Law Divided?
Is it necessary for the New Testament Christian to observe and obey the totality of God’s Law? In one sense, the answer is clearly “YES!” But upon closer…
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Grace and Law IX: Approaching the Second Table
Last week John Snyder and Steve Crampton began discussing how a New Testament Christian should approach God’s moral law (the 10 Commandments). For help, they…
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Grace and Law VIII: Approaching the First Table
It has taken us some time, but our discussion of the Gospel and the Law has finally gotten around to discussing the Law. This week, Dr. John Snyder and Steve…
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Grace and Law VII: Help from John Calvin
This week John Snyder and Steve Crampton continue gaining help from John Calvin through his writings on the law. Just a reminder, we are not spending two…
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Grace and Law VI: The harmony between Moses and Jesus
Scripture often draws a sharp contrast between the ministry of Moses in the Old Covenant and Christ in the New Covenant. Hebrews says the New Covenant in…
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Grace and Law V: Is the Law Enemy of Friend?
The way we approach an object reveals what we think of it. Consider a child approaching a plate at dinner filled with broccoli versus that same child…
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Grace and Law IV: The Law for All Times
In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were given one rule to follow. Between their exile from Eden and the days of Moses, what law did they have to obey? Careful…
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Grace and Law III: Was there Law before Mt. Sinai
Without a biblical grasp of the law and the gospel, we cannot understand the true magnitude of what Jesus Christ has done for us on the cross. By minimizing…
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Grace and Law II: 3 Responses to Our Portion
This week, John continues to use Psalm 119:57-61 to lay the foundation for a discussion of the Christian’s relationship to the law. We heard last week about…