Welcome to The Sword and the Trial, a podcast of Founders Ministries. Founders Ministries exist for the recovery of the gospel and the Reformation of churches. I'm Jared Longshore. And I'm Tom Askell.

Thanks for listening to The Sword and the Trial today. We're delighted to have you listening in. And we are very excited about the Institute of Public Theology now being open for applications. You can go to Institute of Public Theology.org,

and you have all sorts of information there about the Institute. We will be starting classes in the fall.

Tom, you will be teaching a seminar, a one week long seminar, on the pastor in the public square in conjunction with Dr. Tom Nettles, who's the week before you, I think.

That's right. And he's teaching on church history, yes? That's right. He'll be teaching

his class from August 23rd through the 27th, and it's kind of church history part one, looking at

how the Church of Christ thrived, not just survived, but thrived in the midst of opposition

in those early centuries up to the Reformation.

And then I'll be doing the pastor in the public square, a pastoral theology course,

thinking through what God has called us to be and do as pastors,

but particularly in light of the shifting foundations in our culture and how we are to stand

and how we're to equip God's people to stand in their various responsibilities.

So that's going to follow right after Tom's course.

So my course will be the 30th of August through the 3rd of September.

But right smack dab in the middle on the 28th, that Saturday, we're going to have a convocation for the Institute of Public Theology.

And Dr. Everett Piper will be our keynote speaker.

And what a joy it is to have him with us.

That's going to be a wonderful time.

If you're not familiar with Dr. Piper,

I encourage you to go back a couple of episodes ago here on the Sword and Trial.

We interviewed him.

He was fresh off of tending his horses and gave us a great interview. He's a former president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University,

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