Applying God's Word to every aspect of life.

This is Theology Applied.

Hi, this is Pastor Joel Webbin with Right Response Ministries.

This is another episode of Theology Applied, where our whole goal in this podcast is to help Christians not only salute the inerrancy of the

word of God, not just recognizing and acknowledging God's authority through his word, but the

sufficiency of God's word, realizing that all of the scripture needs to be applied to all of life.

And so it's very fitting our guest for today.

We have Dr. Ben Merkel, who is the son-in-law of Doug Wilson

and the whole saying, kind of mission statement that they've had there in Moscow

where they live with the church and with the school and all these different things

is all of Christ for all of life. We want to take the

whole Christ and his authority executed through the agency of the word. So all of Christ,

all of the Bible, all of his word, and apply it to all of life, not just, you know, Jesus,

Lord of my heart, not just applying the scripture to church and the home and parenting, but politics and

media and entertainment and vocation. And today, our episode is education. So we're going to be

looking at what the Bible says about education, the importance, the significance, but then also

getting really practical and how to

apply a Christian worldview and the sufficiency of scripture in the way that we educate. And so we have

Dr. Ben Merkel. He is the president of New St. Andrews College. and I'm going to let him take a moment right here

from the outset and introduce anything else, Ben, that you might want to share about yourself.

That's a great introduction. It's a pleasure to be here. Enjoy your ministry and your church,

and look forward to our conversation here. Great. All right. Thanks for coming on. So

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