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By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol — 222 episodes

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Singing Is Essential for Discipleship

2

Should We Sing Imprecatory Psalms?

3

Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?

4

The Problems with Hillsong

5

The Critical Problems with Old Earth Creationism

6

How We Should Think About Government?

7

The Sign of Tongues Has Ceased

8

The Influence of Charismatic Theology on Evangelical Worship

9

Suffering Before Glory

10

Worship the Spirit

11

Worship and the Word

12

Be Filled with … Emotion?

13

Decently and in Order: The Spirit’s Work in Corporate Worship

14

Gifting for Service: How the Spirit Gifts Today

15

How Do You Know the Spirit Is Working in Your Life?

16

What Does Spirit-filling Mean?

17

The Indwelling and Illumination of the Holy Spirit

18

What Is Spirit Baptism?

19

The Holy Spirit's Most Supernatural Work

20

Testifying of Christ: The Holy Spirit’s Ordering of God’s People

21

God-Breathed: The Holy Spirit’s Work in Revelation

22

Beauty and Harmony: The Holy Spirit’s Work in Creation

23

Holy Spirit: God of Order

24

The Tongues of Angels? The Pentecostalization of Spiritual Gifts in Evangelicalism

25

God Told Me: The Pentecostalization of Evangelical Theology of Revelation

26

Holy Spirit, You Are Welcome Here: The Pentecostalization of Evangelical Worship

27

The Lord Reigns

28

Why Christian Faithfulness?

29

Creation Is God's Temple

30

Decent and Orderly Corporate Worship

31

Worship Regulated by Scripture

32

Baptists and Biblical Authority

33

The Reformation of Worship

34

A Theology of Christian Worship

35

Foundations of Biblical Worship

36

Christ's Commission to His Church

37

Christ's Authority over His Church

38

If the Foundations Are Destroyed

39

Ordaining Female Pastors Harms the Mission: A Response to Rick Warren

40

No, Women Can't Preach

41

All of Christ for All of Life

42

Christian Faithfulness: The Biblical Alternative to Christian Nationalism

43

The Mixed Blessings of a Christian Nation

44

Chasing Shadows

45

Worship on Earth as it Is in Heaven

46

The Aesthetic Nature of Truth

47

Sing a New Song

48

Christ or Chords? The Manipulated Emotionalism of Hillsong, Asbury, and Pentecostalized Evangelical Worship

49

Unbiblical Expectations of Revival

50

Forming Hearts of Praise with the Psalms

51

Christian Nationalism, Instruments in Worship, Lord's Table Frequency, and "White" Music

52

Responding to the Lord's Blessings

53

If the Foundations are Destroyed

54

Psalm 130: A Gospel Song

55

Does Revelation 5:9 prove that all kinds of cultural expressions will be in heaven?

56

Gospel Formation Through Psalm Singing

57

Forming Hearts of Thanks with the Psalms

58

Song of the Anointed

59

Is It Wrong to Separate from other Christians?

60

What should we do when the government tells us to do something that contradicts Scripture?

61

What does government have the right to do?

62

What Is an Apostle?

63

God of Order: The Holy Spirit's Work Today

64

How the Holy Spirit Works Today

65

God's Music

66

Delight in the Torah

67

Illumination—I do not think it means what you think it means

68

Blessedness in a Wicked World

69

Did Baptist Theology Cause Transgenderism?—A Friendly Response to CrossPolitic

70

Don't Hide God from Your Children

71

Why There are More Than Two Church Ordinances

72

Coming of Age Ceremonies Can Help Your Adolescent Children Become Adults

73

Corporate Worship's Essence: Spiritual Response

74

Lifting Hands Isn't Something You Just Do When You're "Really Moved"

75

Observing the Lord's Supper Weekly Makes It Routine—And That's a Good Thing

76

Ask Me Anything: The Chosen, nativity scenes, unsaved children singing in worship, vaccines, physical expressiveness, traditional hymnody

77

The Biblical Roles of Elders, Deacons, and the Congregation

78

From Integration to Segregation: Why We Stopped Letting the Little Children Come

79

Why you should not watch "The Chosen"

80

Unified Worship of One New Ethnicity—A Response to Dwight McKissic and Jackie Hill Perry

81

Psalms and the Davidic Covenant

82

Why has psalm singing declined?

83

Emotion Is a Sign of Nothing

84

Should worship be boring?

85

Two Kinds of Worship Music

86

How Music Embodies Theology

87

Stop Singing Hillsong, Bethel, Jesus Culture, and Elevation

88

Problems with Late Medieval Worship

89

The Universal and Unifying Gospel

90

Is Affirming Women Pastors a “Made Up Controversy”? A Response to Thabiti Anyabwile

91

God's Two Kingdoms

92

The Law of the Lord

93

Why trying to emulate Edwards may actually be emulating Finney

94

Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday?

95

When Are the Twelve Days of Christmas?

96

Thanksgiving: The Primary Worship Response

97

A Conversation with Virgil Walker, Laramie Minga, and Matt Sikes about Biblical Worship Workshops

98

Discipleship: More than Data Transmission

99

The Influence of Secularism on Culture and the Church

100

The Common Problem with White Supremacy and Multiculturalism

101

Unity and Separation

102

Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted

103

Worship Reformed According to Scripture

104

Is Our Mission the Same as Jesus's Mission?

105

Who Leads Worship?

106

The Law of the Lord

107

Draw Near

108

How Sweet and Awful Is the Place

109

Mission: Make Worshipers

110

Submitting to Government

111

People of the Book

112

Teach Me, My God and King

113

By the Waters of Babylon

114

God's Two Kingdoms

115

An Important Announcement

116

God's Universal Natural Revelation

117

God has revealed himself

118

Living as Exiles

119

Let the Little Children Come: Family Worship on Sunday (and the other Six Days, too)

120

Should we expect to experience God's presence in worship?

121

The Work of the People

122

Jesus Shall Reign

123

Sacerdotalism in Contemporary Worship

124

The Preparation and Participation in Corporate Worship

125

You Have Come to Heavenly Worship

126

The Work of Ministry

127

The Priesthood of All Believers

128

The Purpose of Corporate Worship

129

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

130

Dialogue with God in Corporate Worship

131

The Redemption and Judgment of Beauty

132

The Guiltless Dies for the Guilty: Satisfaction in Bach's St. Matthew Passion

133

God Speaks, We Respond

134

The Source and Marring of Beauty

135

This Is My Father's World

136

Dialogue with God

137

Evaluating Musical Communication

138

Understanding and Resisting the Secular Religion of our Day

139

Living Water

140

How Should We Evaluate Musical Communication

141

Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise

142

Covenant Renewal in Corporate Worship

143

Why Do We Sing in Church?

144

Is Our Mission the Same as Christ's Mission?

145

Brought Near by the Blood of Christ

146

Sound Worship Chapter 2: Is the Bible Enough?

147

God Moves in a Mysterious Way

148

The Church: God's Temple

149

Sound Worship, Chapter 1: Does Music Matter?

150

Gospel Renewal in Corporate Worship

151

The Authority of Worship over the Order of Corporate Worship

152

Blessed Jesus, at Thy Word

153

The Extent of Biblical Authority over Worship

154

Culture and Ethnicity

155

Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above

156

The Traditions of Men

157

A Concise Biblical Evaluation of Critical Theory

158

Episode 63: Start the New Year with our 5 Day Bible Narratives Devotional Resources

159

Episode 62: Twelve Hymns of Christmas

160

Episode 62: Jesus Shall Reign

161

Episode 62: Advent Hymns

162

Episode 61: Should Christians Celebrate Advent and Christmas?

163

The Foundations Are Not Destroyed

164

Lord Jesus, Think on Me

165

Responses to Crumbling Foundations

166

Reinforcing Foundations

167

If the Foundations Are Destroyed

168

"Out of the Depths I Cry to Thee" by Martin Luther

169

Torah's Counsel

170

Scripture-Formed Worship

171

God's Response to Wicked Imagination

172

Reformation Hymns

173

Wicked Counsel Enacted in History

174

Vote to Save Unborn Lives

175

The Counsel of the Wicked

176

To Avert from Men God's Wrath

177

Torah for the Heart

178

The Importance of Beauty for Christian Discipleship

179

'Tis Finished! The Messiah Dies | Songs of Zion, Ep. 22

180

Ep. 21 – Why We Need the Psalms

181

Be Thou My Vision | Songs of Zion, Ep. 21

182

Ep. 20 – The Building Blocks of Worship

183

Ep. 19 - Lessons from Pandemic

184

The Day of Resurrection | Songs of Zion, Ep. 20

185

Ep. 18 – When the Commands of God and Men Conflict

186

The Strife Is O'er | Songs of Zion, Ep. 19

187

Ep. 17 – Church and Home During the Coronavirus Pandemic

188

My Song Is Love Unknown | Songs of Zion, Ep. 18

189

Ep. 16 - Out of the Depths

190

How a church can worship “together” during COVID-19

191

O Love, How Deep | Songs of Zion, Ep. 17

192

Ep. 15 – Biblical Worldview

193

Ah, Holy Jesus | Songs of Zion, Ep. 16

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Ep. 14 – Affections and Feelings

195

Come to the Waters | Songs of Zion, Ep. 15

196

Ep. 13 – Three Forms of Culture

197

O, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus | Songs of Zion Ep. 14

198

Ep. 12 - Let the Little Children Come

199

My God, I Love Thee | Songs of Zion Ep. 13

200

Ep. 11 - Why We Sing

201

Behold, the Great Creator | Songs of Zion Ep. 12

202

Christians, Awake! Salute the Happy Morn | Songs of Zion Ep. 11

203

See Amid the Winter's Snow | Songs of Zion Ep. 10

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All My Heart this Night Rejoices | Songs of Zion Ep. 9

205

In the Bleak Midwinter | Songs of Zion Ep. 8

206

From Heaven Above to Earth I Come | Songs of Zion Ep. 7

207

Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming | Songs of Zion Ep. 6

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How Bright Appears the Morning Star | Songs of Zion Ep. 5

209

Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light | Songs of Zion Ep. 4

210

Love Came Down at Christmas | Songs of Zion Ep. 3

211

Of the Father's Love Begotten | Songs of Zion Ep. 2

212

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence | Songs of Zion Ep. 1

213

Ep. 10 - The Advent of Christ

214

Ep. 9 - Thanksgiving: The Primary Worship Response

215

Ep. 8 - Diversity and Unity in the Body of Christ

216

Ep. 7 - The Reformation of Worship

217

Ep. 6 - The Theo-Logic of Biblical Worship

218

Ep. 5 - Christians in Culture

219

Ep. 4 - Work that Serves Christ

220

Ep. 3 - Seek the Welfare of the City

221

Ep. 2 - Singing the Lord's Song in a Pagan Culture

222

Ep. 1 - By the Waters of Babylon