Welcome to Season 6 of Down Under Theology, a podcast equipping and encouraging Australian Christians to get down and under the theology impacting the life and mission of the church.

In Season 6 of the show, we’re working our way through the story of the Bible in 12 key passages. Together, these passages will take us from creation to new creation, across the different sections and genres of Scripture, with Christ at the centre.

In this episode, Allister, Cam and Murray discuss the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5–7, beginning with the Beatitudes. They place the sermon in the context of Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus is presented as the new and greater Moses teaching his disciples on the mountain. They explore the Beatitudes as blessings of grace, the call to be salt and light, and how Jesus’ teaching on the law fulfils the law by showing its heart. They also work through what Jesus says about practising righteousness, the Lord’s Prayer, anxiety and the call to build on the rock.

They also trace the sermon to Jesus himself, who perfectly obeys what he teaches and bears the curse of the law in our place, and consider how the church should teach this passage without falling into moralism or antinomianism. They finish with how the Beatitudes look ahead to the day when the kingdom is fully realised.

Thoughts, questions or feedback? Get in touch with us at downundertheology@gmail.com.

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Episode Hosts:

• Allister Lum Mow
• Cameron Clausing (@cam_clausing)
• Murray Smith

Producer:

• Josie Dallos

Episode Sponsor:

• Christ College, Sydney

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S6 Episode 9 – Show Notes
Recommended Resources –

• Grace and Glory: Sermons Preached at Princeton Seminary by Geerhardus Vos
• The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• The Message of the Sermon on the Mount (The Bible Speaks Today) by John Stott
• Principles of Conduct: Aspects of Biblical Ethics by John Murray
• The House That Went Splat by Steph Williams (part of the Little Me, Big God series for young children)

Many of these resources are available to borrow from the Christ College Library. General library membership is $100 per year.

Our friends at Reformers Bookshop are offering all of our listeners 15% off their orders. Enter the code DUTHEOLOGY15 at checkout to receive the discount. Thank you so much to Reformers for partnering with us in this way.

Welcome to Season 6 of Down Under Theology, a podcast equipping and encouraging Australian Christians to get down and under the theology impacting the life and mission of the church.

In Season 6 of the show, we’re working our way through the story of the Bible in 12 key passages. Together, these passages will take us from creation to new creation, across the different sections and genres of Scripture, with Christ at the centre.

In this episode, Allister, Cam and Murray discuss John 1:1–18 and the prologue to John’s Gospel. They explore how John’s Gospel relates to the Synoptics, how the prologue echoes Genesis 1 and the revelation of God’s glory at Sinai, and how to hear Old Testament allusions when reading the New Testament. They also look at the shape of the prologue and its likely chiastic structure, centred on the Word becoming flesh so that we might become children of God.

They also consider how the prologue displays the full deity of the Son, the incarnation and the light shining in the darkness, and how Jesus makes the Father known. They reflect on what this means for the church as the children of God drawn from every nation, and for the hope of seeing Christ’s glory face to face in the new creation.

Thoughts, questions or feedback? Get in touch with us at downundertheology@gmail.com.

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Episode Hosts:

• Allister Lum Mow
• Cameron Clausing (@cam_clausing)
• Murray Smith

Producer:

• Josie Dallos

Episode Sponsor:

• Christ College, Sydney

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S6 Episode 8 – Show Notes
Recommended Resources –

• The Gospel According to John (Pillar New Testament Commentary) by D. A. Carson
• John (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament) by Edward W. Klink III
• CSB Connecting Scripture New Testament edited by G. K. Beale and Benjamin L. Gladd
• Father, Son and Spirit: The Trinity and John’s Gospel (New Studies in Biblical Theology) by Andreas J. Köstenberger and Scott R. Swain
• Devotions on the Gospel of John for Teens (four-book series: Who Is Jesus?, Humble Servant, The Way, the Truth, and the Life and That You Might Believe) by Abby Van Solkema

Many of these resources are available to borrow from the Christ College Library. General library membership is $100 per year.

Our friends at Reformers Bookshop are offering all of our listeners 15% off their orders. Enter the code DUTHEOLOGY15 at checkout to receive the discount. Thank you so much to Reformers for partnering with us in this way.

Welcome to Season 6 of Down Under Theology, a podcast equipping and encouraging Australian Christians to get down and under the theology impacting the life and mission of the church.

In this special episode, Murray is joined by Dr Guy Prentiss Waters, the James M. Baird Jr. Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, to discuss his new book One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church: The Biblical Doctrine of the Church, the latest volume in the We Believe: Studies in Reformed Biblical Doctrine series.

They discuss how Guy came to write on the church and how he brings biblical and systematic theology together. They also discuss why the church began not at Pentecost but in Eden, and what continuity and newness mean for the people of God across the covenants. Along the way they explore the four creedal attributes of the church, how the church relates to the Trinity, and why the Reformers saw the word as the primary mark of the church.

They also consider the church’s mission to gather and perfect the saints, and the relationship between church and state. The conversation closes with the seven theses that summarise the book’s argument.

Thoughts, questions or feedback? Get in touch with us at downundertheology@gmail.com.

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Episode Host:

• Murray Smith

Special Guest:

• Guy Prentiss Waters

Producer:

• Josie Dallos

Episode Sponsor:

• Christ College, Sydney

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Show Notes
Recommended Resources –

• One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church: The Biblical Doctrine of the Church by Guy Prentiss Waters
• How Jesus Runs the Church by Guy Prentiss Waters

Many of the resources are available to borrow from the Christ College Library. General library membership is $100 per year.

Our friends at Reformers Bookshop are offering all of our listeners 15% off their orders. Enter the code DUTHEOLOGY15 at checkout to receive the discount. Thank you so much to Reformers for partnering with us in this way.