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We have mentioned the beauty and importance of hymns before, but in this special episode, John is joined by Ryan Bush, host of the podcast Hymn Stories, a weekly podcast that gives a glimpse into the lives and stories behind our favorite hymns. During their conversation, John and Ryan discuss why they use hymns in their corporate, family, and private worship over praise choruses and other Christian music. They also discuss how to overcome the difficulties of archaic language and unfamiliar melodies. Subscribe to Hymn Stories with Ryan Bush on your favorite podcast app. For links to several podcast platforms, check out: https://www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts-1/hymn-stories For more information about International Church Planters/Didache Institutes: http://intlchurchplanters.squarespace.com Show Notes: www.mediagratiae.org/blogs/hymn-stories 

This week John sits down with Ryan Bush, editor of the Guide to Family Worship and teacher of the Practical Guide to Family Worship Bible Study Set. The duo discuss their experiences and obstacles to leading their families in worship and give practical tips you can apply right now to leading your family in the worship of the living God. International Church Planters: http://intlchurchplanters.squarespace.com Hymn Stories: https://www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts-1/hymn-stories Practical Guide to Family Worship Bible Study Set: https://www.mediagratiae.org/family-worship-study-guide Guide to Family Worship: https://shop.mediagratiae.org/collections/all-products/products/a-guide-to-family-worship?variant=31479935402118

Who is the Holy Spirit and what is His role in turning someone from a person who hates the law of God to someone who loves to meditate on it night and day? George Whitefield explains that while spending a great deal of his time pleading with sinners to cry out to the Holy Spirit to do the work that only He can do. Show Notes: www.mediagratiae.org/blogs/the-work-of-the-holy-spirit Pick up your copy of Salvation in Full Color: http://www.rorbooks.com/index.php/product/salvation-in-full-color-twenty-sermons-by-great-awakening-preachers/ Rather watch instead of listen? Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mediagratiae Get the podcast a day early and keep up with all Media Gratiae news on our app: https://subsplash.com/mediagratiae/app

What is the effectual calling of the Lord to a rebellious soul? What makes it different than the normal conviction someone feels when listening to a sermon or reading Scripture? While the term may be unfamiliar in today's culture, its reality has been experienced by every true Christian. Purchase your copy of Salvation in Full Color: http://www.rorbooks.com/index.php/product/salvation-in-full-color-twenty-sermons-by-great-awakening-preachers/ Show Notes: www.mediagratiae.org/blogs/effectual-calling Rather watch instead of listen? https://youtu.be/w_AUMJwd_x8  Get the podcast a day early and keep up with all Media Gratiae news on our app: https://subsplash.com/mediagratiae/app

Chuck and Teddy conclude their discussion on the qualifications of elders and deacons in this week's episode. While there are specifics edicts, the principle behind each of them is that an elder and deacons must be a man "above reproach." Show Notes: www.mediagratiae.org/blog/elders-and-deacons-part-ii Chuck's Sermons: https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?sortby=added&sourceonly=true&currSection=sermonssource&keyword=ccna&subsetcat=series&subsetitem=The+Church   Al Martin's Pastoral Theology: https://www.heritagebooks.org/products/pastoral-theology-the-man-of-god-three-volume-set-martin.html 

This week Chuck is joined by Teddy James to discuss the importance of an elder's character. Chuck has been preaching through the qualifications of elders and deacons for several weeks at Christ Church New Albany.  Show Notes: https://www.mediagratiae.org/blog/elders-and-deacons Al Martin's three-volume set: https://www.heritagebooks.org/products/pastoral-theology-the-man-of-god-three-volume-set-martin.html 

Richard Owen Roberts says regeneration is one of the most important doctrines American Evangelicalism must reexamine. That is a bold statement, but it bears much truth. This week's sermon by Jonathan Dickinson, "The Nature and Necessity of Regeneration" is a prime example of how much understanding we lack when it comes to this doctrine. To purchase a copy of Salvation in Full Color: http://www.rorbooks.com/?s=salvation+in+full+color For show notes, visit https://www.mediagratiae.org/blog/ten-shekels-ii 

In this concluding episode of 10 Shekels and a Shirt, Paris Reidhead takes a deep dive into what is wrong with a man-centered gospel. John also shares his first exposure to this sermon and how God used it in the early life of Christ Church New Albany. For the text of the sermon and show notes, visit https://www.mediagratiae.org/blog/ten-shekels-ii.

For the next two weeks, we want to present you with one of the most beneficial sermons John has ever heard. Preached by Paris Reidhead in 1965, the sermon's title is 10 Shekels and a Shirt. In the sermon, Reidhead tackles some very big issues and points us to Christ. Show Notes: mediagratiae.org/blog/ten-sheckels For more Christian podcasts like this, visit www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts.

When it comes to the atonement of Christ's death, we are again presented with the importance of grasping the bigness of God, our sin, and His love. But what is the atonement and how can the death of one man atone for all the sins of every Christian in history? These are weighty questions deserving of a weighty conversation. For help in this, John and Chuck are looking to a sermon from Solomon Stoddard in the book Salvation in Full Color. Watch John and Chuck record the podcast here: https://youtu.be/spdXy8iPxk8 To purchase your copy of Salvation in Full Color, http://www.rorbooks.com/index.php/product/salvation-in-full-color-twenty-sermons-by-great-awakening-preachers/ Show Notes: www.mediagratiae.org/blog/the-atonement For more Christian podcasts: www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts

A few months ago we recorded a special episode with our friend Joel Tiegreen. Joel served as a missionary to the country of Turkey for five years. While there he was diagnosed with cancer. In the discussion, we asked how we could pray for Joel and he asked that we pray he would finish his race well. On Tuesday, April 13, Joel finished his race well. We wanted to present this discussion to you again to hear again Joel's descriptions of the faithfulness of our Lord and the kindness He poured out upon Joel in the midst of great pain and suffering. Continue praying for Joel's wife, Emily, and their family as they grieve and mourn a tremendous loss. If you would like to help in concrete ways, visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/joel-tiegreen-cancer-support/.

"God loves you." That statement, divorced of the knowledge of the character of God or depth of man's depravity, is empty. But after spending time learning who God is and seeing Him as He presents Himself in Scripture, and contrasting His pure holiness to our rebellion and wickedness, it has an indescribably deep beauty. Why does God love us? For how long will God love us? What can make God stop loving us? All of these are discussed in this week's sermon by John Witherspoon. Show notes: www.mediagratiae.org/blog/divine-love To purchase a copy of Salvation in Full Color: http://www.rorbooks.com/?s=salvation+in+full+color 

Anyone who has been around The Whole Counsel long enough will know we love reading from the old writers and preachers. We believe there are incredible benefits to reading from men and women who were particularly gifted by God to speak truth into their times.   But as much as we love reading them, we are aware there are ditches we can easily fall into. To help discuss these benefits and dangers, Jeremy Walker, host of A Word in Season and From the Heart of Spurgeon podcasts, joins John via video call.   For more episodes, and to see Jeremy's podcasts, visit www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts. Show Notes: www.mediagratiae.org/blogs/benefits-and-dangers-of-reading-old-writers 

Salvation is no easy feat for man. In fact, it is impossible for man to save himself. It is a work only God can do. But that begs the question, why. Why is it so hard for man to be saved? Why is it impossible for man to save himself? John and Chuck dissect the sermon The Righteous are Scarcely Saved by Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen in this week's The Whole Counsel Podcast. You can find the text of the sermon, more episodes, and likeminded podcasts at www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts.

Why does sin bother the Christian? It is because God gives His children an understanding of the ugliness of sin that an unbeliever simply cannot grasp. David's prayer, "Against you and you only have I sinned." is incomprehensible to one who does not understand sin. Presenting a biblical picture of sin is the point of Joseph Bellamy's sermon that John and Chuck are discussing in this week's podcast episode. To purchase a copy of Salvation in Full Color and to see show notes, visit www.mediagratiae.org/blog/the-heinousness-of-sin. For other episodes and like-minded podcasts, visit www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts.

Few doctrines have been so misunderstood and abused than that of total depravity. However, it is an important truth we must wrestle with in our pursuit of seeing salvation in full color. In this week's episode, John Snyder and Chuck Baggett highlight a sermon preached by Gilbert Tennent titled "The Wretched State of the Unconverted." For show notes, visit www.mediagratiae.org/blog/total-depravity For more episodes and likeminded podcasts, visit www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts 

In this week's episode, John and Chuck discuss a sermon preached by Samuel Hopkins on the Law of God. The Law of God is an expression of God's character. It is perfect, infinite, authoritative, and beautiful to the believer. It is hated, despised, and ugly to the unbeliever. Hopkins give help to how we should understand and apply God's law to our New Testament stance with God and seven questions we should ask ourselves to see if we are right with God or if we simply have religion. Show Notes: https://www.mediagratiae.org/blog/the-law-of-god  For more episodes and likeminded podcasts, visit www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts

John and Chuck are beginning their slow walk through the book Salvation in Full Color. This week the discuss a sermon by Timothy Dwight on the character of God. John and Chuck share why this is the most important place for us to begin. For more episodes and like minded podcasts, visit www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts.

In this inaugural episode of The Whole Counsel (previously The Behold Your God Podcast) John introduces several of the changes to the podcast. We are in a new location, we have a new cohost (welcome Chuck Baggett) and we have a new sound. But lots of things are staying the same. We are still discussing the same eternal truths and we are still looking to writers and pastors of the past for help.This week John and Chuck introduce the source material we will be using over the next several weeks. This book is Salvation in Full Color. Links to where you can find are at www.mediagratiae.org. For more content like this, including other great podcasts, visit www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts 

Order A Practical Guide to Family Worship here: https://www.mediagratiae.org/family-worship-study-guide In this episode of the Behold Your God Podcast, Ryan Bush leads us through the first session of the new project by Media Gratiae: A Practical Guide to Family Worship.Also a special note: This will be the final episode of the Behold Your God Podcast. Don't worry, we will still produce new episodes, but it will be under a new name with John and a new cohost. Check back here next week for the first episode of the new podcast.