JT English and Kyle Worley talk through various terms that are commonly used when talking about Romans and the doctrine of Salvation. Questions Covered in This Episode: Over the last few seasons, we have been using and introducing a ton of terms that could be new for our listeners and thought: “Mother is the repetition of learning, right?” So let’s do some review and repetition on the terms in Romans that concern the doctrine of salvation. Salvation Sin Righteousness Justification Faith Sanctifi...
Feb 17, 2022•48 min•Season 8Ep. 3
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue their discussion on Romans 9 and talk about the doctrine of election. Be sure to listen to Episode #134 – Romans 9 with Dr. Mike Bird before this episode for helpful information. Questions Covered in This Episode: What on earth is Paul suggesting (V.3)? Is Paul saying he would give up his salvation in order that Israel might be saved? Who are the patriarchs? Did God fail? Did God’s word fail? Did Israel have primacy of place in God’s plan? Is God ...
Feb 10, 2022•37 min•Season 8Ep. 2
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are back to discuss the book of Romans! They are joined by Dr. Mike Bird to take a look at Romans 9 and the study of Paul. Questions Covered in This Episode: Before we jump into Romans 9: How did we get here? What’s the flow and argument of the letter so far? How does the audience of this letter shape the way we read Romans 9? What is the argument of chapter 9? Romans 9:6-7 appears to be distinguishing between two kinds of Israel? Is that correct? Is Paul ...
Feb 03, 2022•49 min•Season 8Ep. 1
Introducing Season 8 Season 8 of the Knowing Faith podcast begins on February 3! In this episode, Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley give you a preview of what is to come in Season 8 as they cover the book of Romans. Questions Covered in This Episode: What is Romans? Who wrote it? When? Why? Why are we studying it? Who is the audience of this letter? What did we uncover in Romans 1-8? (Major themes, concepts, outline, overview) What are the kinds of things we will discuss in Romans 9-16? Re...
Jan 27, 2022•27 min
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley answer questions submitted from their patron supporters! To learn more and become a patron visit patreon.com/knowingfaith . Questions Covered in This Episode: “Do you have recommendations for books/podcasts/resources/etc for doing something similar but age appropriate for older kids?” “Is the language about God being Father & Son literal or figurative or both?” “Are we ever at risk of reading too much into parallels, types, significant numbers etc. and...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 7Ep. 174
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley answer questions from listeners. Questions Covered in This Episode: “Jen, I have heard you at least twice talk about situations where it’s ok to lie → I think you used the phrase “truth to whom truth is due” → How does that fit with scriptures' admonitions against lying? You guys are some of the best bible teachers I know so obviously you're not saying to just lie whenever. Please help! Thanks Jen for all the work you do keeping JT and Kyle in line and on ...
Dec 23, 2021•47 min•Season 7Ep. 173
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue their discussion on the book of Romans by looking at Romans 8:31-39. Questions Covered in This Episode: We get another one of those rhetorical questions, “What then shall we say to these things?” (V. 31) “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (V. 31) The Father has sent the Son, what do you believe he is going to hold back that is more precious than Jesus? (V. 32) “Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?” (V. 33) “Who is to condemn? “ ...
Dec 16, 2021•33 min•Season 7Ep. 172
Kyle Worley is joined by JT English to answer the question they get asked all the time: Why did you choose Southern Seminary? Questions Covered in This Episode: Why did you choose Southern Seminary? What kind of graduates are they producing? Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary sbts.edu/explore Knowing Faith After The Fact Episodes Amazon affiliate links are used where appropriate. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, thank you for suppo...
Dec 14, 2021•8 min•Season 7Ep. 171
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by Dr Jarvis Williams to look at Romans 8:18-28 and discuss suffering and our ultimate hope. Questions Covered in This Episode: What are the sufferings that Paul has in mind here? Creation is personified here as something that is waiting and groaning, is that strange to hear about something non-personal in personal terms like that? (v. 19, 22) What is the “revealing of the sons of God?” But it’s not just creation, it’s also we ourselves who are ...
Dec 09, 2021•31 min•Season 7Ep. 170
After The Fact: Is Seminary Right For Me with Dr. JT English Kyle Worley is joined by JT English to answer the question they get asked all the time: Is seminary right for me? Questions Covered in This Episode: Is seminary right for me? What are you interested in studying? Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary sbts.edu/explore Amazon affiliate links are used where appropriate. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, thank you for supporting K...
Dec 07, 2021•7 min•Season 7Ep. 169
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss Union with Christ, Trinitarianism, and Romans 8:1-18 Questions Covered in This Episode: What is the “therefore” there for? “In Christ Jesus” How am I declared righteous? How do we reconcile the way that Spirit of Christ and Spirit in Christ are used? (V. 9) How do we understand the Spirit of Christ also being the Spirit of the Father? How is what Paul is saying here different from gnosticism? (V. 5-8, 12-18) Is the doctrine of Union with Christ tha...
Dec 02, 2021•41 min•Season 7Ep. 168
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by Dr. Tom Schreiner to continue their discussion on the book of Romans by looking at chapter 7. Questions Covered in This Episode: As we enter Romans 7, where is Paul in his line of argumentation? Is there a reason why Paul uses this illustration (V. 1-4)? What is the dynamic of law and Spirit in V. 4-6? What does Paul mean by “law”? What law have we been released from? What does he mean in V. 7? Hold on: Is the law good or bad? Can the law ser...
Nov 25, 2021•37 min•Season 7Ep. 167
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss Romans 6:15-23 and being a slave to righteousness. Questions Covered in This Episode: Paul seems to suggest that everyone is a slave, it’s just a question of what? How does this call us back to Paul's self identification at the beginning of the letter? “Obedient from the heart?” What does Paul mean in V.19? V. 20 seems wrong, doesn’t it? What does Paul mean here? The beauty of Romans 6:23 - A one sentence gospel summary. How does this verse functio...
Nov 18, 2021•25 min•Season 7Ep. 166
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley believe that the primary context for discipleship is the local church. In this episode they discuss how that is foundational to the Training the Church cohort. If you are interested in applying visit our website . Questions Covered in This Episode: What is the history around the Training the Church cohort? Participants from the Training the Church cohort share about their experience. Are you just going to tell me to copy and paste what you did? What are so...
Nov 17, 2021•31 min•Season 7Ep. 165
Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Jim Hamilton to discuss Romans 15:3, where we hear Paul make mention of Christ in a way that calls our attention back to Psalm 69. Questions Covered in This Episode: In Romans 15:3 we hear Paul make mention of Christ in a way that calls our attention back to Psalm 69. Could you shed some light on what’s happening here? How should we understand this to work mechanically? Is Paul going back into Psalm 69 and is he uncovering something there that could not be ascertaine...
Nov 16, 2021•11 min•Season 7Ep. 164
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by author, Bible teacher, conference, and retreat speaker Courtney Doctor. Together they discuss Romans 6:1-14 and union with Christ. Questions Covered in This Episode: Paul’s use of rhetorical questions to advance his argument: “What shall we say then?” Why would Paul ask and answer this question at this point? Should we understand this to mean that if you are a Christian you can’t sin and if you sin you couldn’t possibly be a Christian? What d...
Nov 11, 2021•35 min•Season 7Ep. 163
Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Brian Vickers to discuss Romans 5:9 and answer the question: Why the blood? Questions Covered in This Episode: Romans 5:9 says, “Since therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.” Here is the question: Why the blood? Propitiation 101. Why was blood necessary for the forgiveness of sins? Helpful Definitions: Propitiation: Christ’s atoning sacrifice as our substitute, Christ is both the sacrifice and the...
Nov 09, 2021•7 min•Season 7Ep. 162
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley look at Romans 5:12-21 and discuss the Adam-Christ Typology. Questions Covered in This Episode: Is Paul saying that the world is broken because one person sinned? Is Paul saying Adam sinned, I sinned, or we all sinned? Isn’t that unfair: That Adam’s sin is counted as our sin? What does it mean that sin is not counted where there is no law? Who is Adam a type of? How is the free gift different from the trespass? There is lots of “reigning” language in this ...
Nov 04, 2021•42 min•Season 7Ep. 161
Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Stephen Yuille to answer the question: What is mystical union and how is it at play in Romans 6:1-11? Questions Covered in This Episode: What is mystical union and how is it at play in Romans 6:1-11? In what way am I united to Jesus in death and resurrection? Is our union with Christ affected at baptism? Helpful Definitions: Mystical Union with Christ: What it means for Christ to baptize us with the Holy Spirit into His body, whereby we become one with Christ. Purita...
Nov 02, 2021•8 min•Season 7Ep. 160
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley look at Romans 5:1-11 and discuss justification by faith. Questions Covered in This Episode: What is justification? What does it mean to be justified “by faith?” Why is peace with God a benefit to justification? What does it mean to “rejoice in hope of the glory of God?” Rejoicing in our sufferings (V. 3-5)? Has there been a season of life that you walked through suffering and what did it produce in you? Is there a more beautiful verse than Romans 5:6? Wha...
Oct 28, 2021•33 min•Season 7Ep. 159
Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Stephen Presley to answer the question what did Irenaeus have to say about Paul’s Christology? Questions Covered in This Episode: Why should I care about what Irenaeus has to say about Paul? What did Irenaeus have to say about Paul’s Christology? Helpful Definitions: Adam Christ Typology: Understood through the lens of Doctrine of Recapitulation. Doctrine of Recapitulation: All things are summed up in Christ. There is a unity to the entire divine economy that is foun...
Oct 26, 2021•5 min•Season 7Ep. 158
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue in the book of Romans and discuss Romans 4:9-25. Questions Covered in This Episode: What role did circumcision play among Jews and Gentiles? Why would it matter when Abraham’s faith was counted to him as righteousness? What were the signs and symbols of salvation in the OT? Not merely circumcised, but walk in the “footsteps of the faith…?” Abraham was counted righteous before circumcision, why is that significant? “Where there is no law there is n...
Oct 21, 2021•38 min•Season 7Ep. 157
Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Jonathan Pennington to answer the question is Paul’s gospel different from Christ’s gospel? Questions Covered in This Episode: Is Paul’s gospel different from Christ’s gospel? I wonder if the gap that we feel between the content of Paul’s gospel and the content of Christ’s gospel is exacerbated by the differences of genre? Helpful Definitions: The gospel message: Is the message that God is coming into the world to restore his reign upon the earth and to bing flourish...
Oct 19, 2021•9 min•Season 7Ep. 156
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue their discussion in the book of Romans by looking at Romans 4:1-8. Questions Covered in This Episode: So the church hears that everyone is broken and everyone has fallen short and Paul predicts the question from the Jewish Christians: What about Abraham? What role did Abraham play in Israel’s story? Why invoke his name here? Paul pulls Abraham into the justification question: Why? What did Abraham believe? (V.3) Let’s talk about the fundamental di...
Oct 14, 2021•30 min•Season 7Ep. 155
Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. Gregg Allison to answer the question, did Martin Luther have anything to say about the righteousness of God in Romans? Questions Covered in This Episode: Did Martin Luther have anything to say about the righteousness of God in Romans? Outside of the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit, was there anything that was happening at a linguistic or a theological level in Luther’s understanding of the concept that was the key to that discovery? How did that change happen? Hel...
Oct 12, 2021•7 min•Season 7Ep. 154
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by Dr. Michael Kruger to look at Romans 3:21-31 and discuss the righteousness of God. Questions Covered in This Episode: Dr. Kruger: How significant is the idea of the “righteousness of God” and can you give us a sense of its importance in current NT scholarship? If you were teaching and preaching this, is it possible to say yes to both meanings of the righteousness of God? What is the difference between what the reformers would have said about ...
Oct 07, 2021•42 min•Season 7Ep. 153
This bonus episode is from our recently released sister podcast, The Family Discipleship Podcast. The hosts; Adam Griffin, Cassie Bryant, and Chelsea Griffin, interview their friend and our very own Jen Wilkin about family discipleship in the Wilkin home. Questions Covered in This Episode: Who is Jen the mom? What is the Wilkin family like? What is it like for your family now entering into grandparent phase? What kind of intentionality went into being available to your kids to talk about hard th...
Oct 05, 2021•32 min
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue their discussion in the book of Romans by looking at Romans 3:1-20. Questions Covered in This Episode: Why does Paul open up with this question? What advantage did the Jews have? Does God keep his promises? If you were to summarize verses 1-8 in a few sentences how would you say it? But hold on, Jews aren’t better than the Greeks just because of this advantage (V. 9)? The bad bad news (Rom. 3:10-18)...where does this come from? Is this true of us?...
Sep 30, 2021•39 min•Season 7Ep. 152
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss judgement as they dive into Romans chapter 2. Questions Covered in This Episode: When we see “therefore” in a text what should we ask? Why is there a judgment problem in the church in Rome? What is a contemporary mirror of this today? What is our motivation to avoid sinful judgment? What does “He will render to each one according to his works” mean (V. 6)? What is a practical way we do this today? Let’s talk about verses 12-16... Why is judgment fo...
Sep 23, 2021•49 min•Season 7Ep. 151
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss idolatry, identity, and immorality as they dive into Romans 1:18-32. Questions Covered in This Episode: What story is being told in this passage? What is natural revelation (V. 19-20)? Does natural revelation give sufficient knowledge of God for salvation? Once we know Christ, do we begin to see God more in creation? Why all this talk of the “wrath of God?” Is idolatry still a problem? What does the phrase “God gave them up” indicate (V. 24, 26, 28...
Sep 16, 2021•55 min•Season 7Ep. 150
