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A podcast on the Westminster Larger Catechism, hosted by PCA Teaching Elders (Ministers) Matt Adams, Derrick Brite, Nick Bullock, Sean Morris, and Stephen Spinnenweber. Connect with us on X (Twitter) at: https://twitter.com/WLC4Life Connect with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LargerForLife/ Visit our host organizations at www.brite-va.org and www.bts.education
Episodes
![WLC Question #68](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
5 days ago
WLC Question #68
5 days ago
5 days ago
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Question #68:
Q. 68. Are the elect only effectually called?
A. All the elect, and they only, are effectually called; although others may be, and often are, outwardly called by the ministry of the word, and have some common operations of the Spirit; who, for their willful neglect and contempt of the grace offered to them, being justly left in their unbelief, do never truly come to Jesus Christ.
![WLC Question #67](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jul 15, 2024
WLC Question #67
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Monday Jul 15, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Question #67:
Q. 67. What is effectual calling?
A. Effectual calling is the work of God’s almighty power and grace, whereby (out of his free and special love to his elect, and from nothing in them moving him thereunto) he doth, in his accepted time, invite and draw them to Jesus Christ, by his word and Spirit; savingly enlightening their minds, renewing and powerfully determining their wills, so as they (although in themselves dead in sin) are hereby made willing and able freely to answer his call, and to accept and embrace the grace offered and conveyed therein.
![Special Episode: Pastoral Ministry and the new Reeder Center for Pastoral Studies // Interview with Ike Reeder](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jul 01, 2024
Monday Jul 01, 2024
In today's special episode of Larger for Life, Derrick, Sean, and Spin sit down with Ike Reeder, who serves as the President of Birmingham Theological Seminary, a ministry of Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Today, Ike discusses the recent launch of a new BTS initiative called the Reeder Center for Pastoral Studies, named in honor of the late Rev. Dr. Harry L. Reeder III, who went home to be with the Lord in May 2023.
Join in as we talk about the vision for and goals behind this new Center for Pastoral Studies at BTS, ministry, theological formation, confessional fidelity, cultural engagement, and things that all believers ought to be mindful of as we serve the Lord in our day and age.
![Special Episode: Catechism on Mission // Interview with Aaron Halbert](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Special Episode: Catechism on Mission // Interview with Aaron Halbert
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Monday Jun 24, 2024
In today's special episode of Larger for Life, Matt, Derrick, Nick, and Sean sit down with Aaron Halbert, who serves as a PCA missionary in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to chat about Reformed and Presbyterian missionary efforts in that nation, as well as the pivotal role of the Westminster Confession and Catechisms when it comes to worship, discipleship, evangelism, and spiritual formation.
Join us for this good-hearted and encouraging discussion!
![WLC Questions #64-66](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jun 17, 2024
WLC Questions #64-66
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Monday Jun 17, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Questions #64-66:
Q. 64. What is the invisible church?
A. The invisible church is the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one under Christ the head.
Q. 65. What special benefits do the members of the invisible church enjoy by Christ?
A. The members of the invisible church by Christ enjoy union and communion with him in grace and glory.
Q. 66. What is that union which the elect have with Christ?
A. The union which the elect have with Christ is the work of God’s grace, whereby they are spiritually and mystically, yet really and inseparably, joined to Christ as their head and husband; which is done in their effectual calling.
![WLC Questions #62-63](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jun 10, 2024
WLC Questions #62-63
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Questions #62-63:
Q. 62. What is the visible church?
A. The visible church is a society made up of all such as in all ages and places of the world do profess the true religion, and of their children.
Q. 63. What are the special privileges of the visible church?
A. The visible church hath the privilege of being under God’s special care and government; of being protected and preserved in all ages, notwithstanding the opposition of all enemies; and of enjoying the communion of saints, the ordinary means of salvation, and offers of grace by Christ to all the members of it in the ministry of the gospel, testifying, that whosoever believes in him shall be saved, and excluding none that will come unto him.
![WLC Question #61](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Jun 03, 2024
WLC Question #61
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Monday Jun 03, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Question #61:
Q. 61. Are all they saved who hear the gospel, and live in the church?
A. All that hear the gospel, and live in the visible church, are not saved; but they only who are true members of the church invisible.
![WLC Question #60](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday May 27, 2024
WLC Question #60
Monday May 27, 2024
Monday May 27, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Question #60:
Q. 60. Can they who have never heard the gospel, and so know not Jesus Christ, nor believe in him, be saved by their living according to the light of nature?
A. They who, having never heard the gospel, know not Jesus Christ, and believe not in him, cannot be saved, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, or the laws of that religion which they profess; neither is there salvation in any other, but in Christ alone, who is the Savior only of his body the church.
![WLC Questions #57-59](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday May 20, 2024
WLC Questions #57-59
Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Questions #57-59:
Q. 57. What benefits hath Christ procured by his mediation?
A. Christ, by his mediation, hath procured redemption, with all other benefits of the covenant of grace.
Q. 58. How do we come to be made partakers of the benefits which Christ hath procured?
A. We are made partakers of the benefits which Christ hath procured, by the application of them unto us, which is the work especially of God the Holy Ghost.
Q. 59. Who are made partakers of redemption through Christ?
A. Redemption is certainly applied, and effectually communicated, to all those for whom Christ hath purchased it; who are in time by the Holy Ghost enabled to believe in Christ according to the gospel.
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![WLC Question #56](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday May 13, 2024
WLC Question #56
Monday May 13, 2024
Monday May 13, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Question #56:
Q. 56. How is Christ to be exalted in his coming again to judge the world?
A. Christ is to be exalted in his coming again to judge the world, in that he, who was unjustly judged and condemned by wicked men, shall come again at the last day in great power, and in the full manifestation of his own glory, and of his Father’s, with all his holy angels, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, to judge the world in righteousness.
![WLC Questions #54-55](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday May 06, 2024
WLC Questions #54-55
Monday May 06, 2024
Monday May 06, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Questions #54-55:
Q. 54. How is Christ exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God?
A. Christ is exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God, in that as God-man he is advanced to the highest favor with God the Father, with all fullness of joy, glory, and power over all things in heaven and earth; and doth gather and defend his church, and subdue their enemies; furnisheth his ministers and people with gifts and graces, and maketh intercession for them.
Q. 55. How doth Christ make intercession?
A. Christ maketh intercession, by his appearing in our nature continually before the Father in heaven, in the merit of his obedience and sacrifice on earth, declaring his will to have it applied to all believers; answering all accusations against them, and procuring for them quiet of conscience, notwithstanding daily failings, access with boldness to the throne of grace, and acceptance of their persons and services.
![WLC Question #53](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Apr 29, 2024
WLC Question #53
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Monday Apr 29, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Question #53:
Q. 53. How was Christ exalted in his ascension?
A. Christ was exalted in his ascension, in that having after his resurrection often appeared unto and conversed with his apostles, speaking to them of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God, and giving them commission to preach the gospel to all nations, forty days after his resurrection, he, in our nature, and as our head, triumphing over enemies, visibly went up into the highest heavens, there to receive gifts for men, to raise up our affections thither, and to prepare a place for us, where himself is, and shall continue till his second coming at the end of the world.
![WLC Questions #51-52](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Apr 22, 2024
WLC Questions #51-52
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Monday Apr 22, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Questions #51-52:
Q. 51. What was the estate of Christ’s exaltation?
A. The estate of Christ’s exaltation comprehendeth his resurrection, ascension, sitting at the right hand of the Father, and his coming again to judge the world.
Q. 52. How was Christ exalted in his resurrection?
A. Christ was exalted in his resurrection, in that, not having seen corruption in death (of which it was not possible for him to be held), and having the very same body in which he suffered, with the essential properties thereof (but without mortality, and other common infirmities belonging to this life), really united to his soul, he rose again from the dead the third day by his own power; whereby he declared himself to be the Son of God, to have satisfied divine justice, to have vanquished death, and him that had power of it, and to be Lord of quick and dead: all which he did as a public person, the head of his church, for their justification, quickening in grace, support against enemies, and to assure them of their resurrection from the dead at the last day.
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![WLC Questions #49-50](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Apr 15, 2024
WLC Questions #49-50
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Monday Apr 15, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Questions #49-50:
Q. 49. How did Christ humble himself in his death?
A. Christ humbled himself in his death, in that having been betrayed by Judas, forsaken by his disciples, scorned and rejected by the world, condemned by Pilate, and tormented by his persecutors; having also conflicted with the terrors of death, and the powers of darkness, felt and borne the weight of God’s wrath, he laid down his life an offering for sin, enduring the painful, shameful, and cursed death of the cross.
Q. 50. Wherein consisted Christ’s humiliation after his death?
A. Christ’s humiliation after his death consisted in his being buried, and continuing in the state of the dead, and under the power of death till the third day; which hath been otherwise expressed in these words, He descended into hell.
![WLC Question #48](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Apr 08, 2024
WLC Question #48
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Question #48:
Q. 48. How did Christ humble himself in his life?
A. Christ humbled himself in his life, by subjecting himself to the law, which he perfectly fulfilled; and by conflicting with the indignities of the world, temptations of Satan, and infirmities in his flesh, whether common to the nature of man, or particularly accompanying that his low condition.
![WLC Questions #46-47](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Apr 01, 2024
WLC Questions #46-47
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Questions #46-47:
Q. 46. What was the estate of Christ’s humiliation?
A. The estate of Christ’s humiliation was that low condition, wherein he for our sakes, emptying himself of his glory, took upon him the form of a servant, in his conception and birth, life, death, and after his death, until his resurrection.
Q. 47. How did Christ humble himself in his conception and birth?
A. Christ humbled himself in his conception and birth, in that, being from all eternity the Son of God, in the bosom of the Father, he was pleased in the fullness of time to become the son of man, made of a woman of low estate, and to be born of her; with divers circumstances of more than ordinary abasement.
![WLC Question #45](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Mar 25, 2024
WLC Question #45
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Monday Mar 25, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Question #45:
Q. 45. How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
A. Christ executeth the office of a king, in calling out of the world a people to himself, and giving them officers, laws, and censures, by which he visibly governs them; in bestowing saving grace upon his elect, rewarding their obedience, and correcting them for their sins, preserving and supporting them under all their temptations and sufferings, restraining and overcoming all their enemies, and powerfully ordering all things for his own glory, and their good; and also in taking vengeance on the rest, who know not God, and obey not the gospel.
![WLC Question #44](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Mar 11, 2024
WLC Question #44
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Question #44:
Q. 44. How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
A. Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering himself a sacrifice without spot to God, to be a reconciliation for the sins of the people; and in making continual intercession for them.
![WLC Question #43](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Mar 04, 2024
WLC Question #43
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Question #43:
Q. 43. How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
A. Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in his revealing to the church, in all ages, by his Spirit and word, in divers ways of administration, the whole will of God, in all things concerning their edification and salvation.
![WLC Questions #41-42](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16520693/IMG-7106_copybfm0e_300x300.jpg)
Monday Feb 26, 2024
WLC Questions #41-42
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
In this episode of Larger for Life, our hosts continue their study and discussion through the Catechism, this time examining Westminster Larger Catechism Questions #41-42:
(Apologies for some of the lower-quality microphone audio. We experienced some technical difficulties with a few of the microphones and didn't realize it until after the episode had been recorded)
Q. 41. Why was our mediator called Jesus?
A. Our mediator was called Jesus, because he saveth his people from their sins.
Q. 42. Why was our mediator called Christ?
A. Our mediator was called Christ, because he was anointed with the Holy Ghost above measure; and so set apart, and fully furnished with all authority and ability, to execute the offices of prophet, priest, and king of his church, in the estate both of his humiliation and exaltation.