TS&TT: A Christian Perspective on Education

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Education

4.8 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today on The Sword & The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden discuss education. They address several commonly asked questions… Is education really that important? What is the responsibility of parents in their children’s education? Should Christians send their children to public school? Is going to college worthwhile? Listen to them address all this and more. SHOW NOTES: Ready to plan your next event? Contact Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center: https://LYBCC.com Register for the 2026 National Founders Conference - Make Disciples: https://founders.org/conference/ Get 10% off Miller's Grove Soap with code "FOUNDERS": https://TheMillersGrove.com Preorder "The Baptist Catechism": https://press.founders.org/shop/the-baptist-catechism/ Register for "Introduction to the Law and the Gospel": https://study.founders.org/library/introduction-to-the-law-and-the-gospel-237516/ Apply to the Founders Seminary Spring 2026 semester: https://foundersseminary.org Founders Ministries: https://founders.org Support the Work of Founders: https://founders.org/give https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/https://twitter.com/FoundersMinhttps://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/ All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for this conversation today on the Sword and the Trial.
0:03.2	Pastor Tom and I today talk about education and the importance of Christian education,
0:07.7	particularly for parents as they're thinking about educating their young children,
0:10.6	but they're also going through what is the importance of educating your children,
0:14.4	going into higher education, college, seminary, master's work, and all that as well.
0:19.1	Something that's very near and dear to our heart.
0:21.5	I hope it's a helpful conversation to you. Take a listen. Welcome to The Sword and the Trial. The Sword and the Trial is a podcast of founders' ministries, and founders exist for the recovery of the gospel and the reformation of local churches. I'm Graham Gundin. I'm Tom Askell. And today's episode is brought to you by the Miller's Grove Soap Company and Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center.
0:42.2	Today, Pastor Tom and I want to talk about something that is incredibly important for just about every Christian,
0:48.2	something that all of us have experienced at one point or another, something that all of us are hopefully
0:52.7	still involved in even at this point,
0:55.0	in whatever point we are in our lives. And that is education. Education, learning. And that's,
1:01.9	in one sense, the whole Christian enterprise, because we are about learning, truth, and coming
1:07.0	to terms with reality. And all of that involves our cognitive abilities being trained
1:12.9	by what God has revealed to us both in creation and in His Word.
1:18.4	And it's a particularly relevant subject for us because here we are on the brink of and actually
1:25.4	beginning a brand new semester, which here in Cape Coral, the Grace
1:29.7	Baptist Church, Founders Ministries, Institute of Public Theology, Founders Seminary, Fletcher School,
1:37.1	all of this is kind of coming to a head.
1:39.9	And so, Graham, you've been involved in the Fletcher School that Grace Baptist Church parents started five years ago now and also involved with founders and the Institute of Public Theology that started about the same time, I guess, five years ago.
1:57.0	And as of just this month, August of 2025, Founders Seminary, which we're both involved in,
2:05.0	and you're going to be teaching for IOPT.
2:07.5	There's just all kinds of things in the air about education.
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