OPC Ruling Elder Podcast
a Podcast from the OPC Committee on Christian Education
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S4E2 Blessed be the tie that binds...Seminaries and Ruling Elders
Dr. David Garner, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, talks about the relationship between seminary and church, focusing on how ruling elders and seminary professors can help the church…
S4E1 Life in the Afternoon
In this episode of the Ruling Elder Podcast we review a new book by Christopher Ash, Not Old, Not Young, Not Done. Following Jesus in Your 50’s and 60’s. (The Good Book Company, 2025, 192 pages).…
S3E11 The Pastor's Pay (Or Don't Muzzle the Ox)
In this episode of the ruling elder podcast John Fikkert draws attention to the excellent Pastoral Compensation Tool made available by the OPC Committee on Ministerial Care. The Pastoral Compensation…
S3E10 Considering Pastoral Ministry
Craig Troxel talks about how ruling elders can help men consider a call to pastoral ministry.A call to pastoral ministry has several parts, one is the internal sense of call, another is the…
S3E9 Spiritual Life and Mental Health
Pastor Shane Lems talks about his recent Ordained Servant review of John Swinton’s book Finding Jesus in the Storm: the Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges. (Eerdmans, 2020).…
S3E8 Shepherding Military Families
Ruling Elder Mike Cloy talks about how ruling elders and churches can support and shepherd military families. Mike served in a career of 27 years that included combat commands at the battalion and…
S3E7 Foreign Missions
Ruling Elder Joe Jager talks to the Ruling Elder Podcast about Foreign Missions. He gives excellent suggestions on how to encourage missions and missionaries. Matthew 9:37-38Then he said to his…
S3E6 Assurance of Faith
Rev. Andy Wilson and Rev. Russell Hamilton talk about Assurance and how The Marrow of Modern Divinity is helpful in untangling this perennial pastoral issue. They clarify of what, exactly, are we…
S3E5 Mental Health, Faith, and Caring Well (Part 2)
In this episode the Rev. Adrian Crum speaks about mental health and faith with the Rev. John Fikkert, a mental health counselor and Director of the OPC Committee on Ministerial Care, and his wife,…
S3E4 Mental Health, Faith, and Caring Well
In this episode the Rev. Adrian Crum speaks about mental health and faith with the Rev. John Fikkert, a mental health counselor and Director of the OPC Committee on Ministerial Care, and his wife,…
S3E3 Encouraging Covenant Youth
The Ruling Elder Podcast talks with Roger Wagner and David Winslow about ruling elders encouraging covenant youth. One of the tasks of ruling elders, as set out by BCO X:3, is that ruling elders…
S3E2 Elders and women's ministry
Anneke Fesko and Laurie Tricarico discuss how elders can encourage women in the church.Anneke currently serves the OPC as Care Coordinator for Ministers’ Wives and works for the OPC Committee on…
S3E1 Christian Education and Ruling Elders
Danny Olinger, General Secretary of the CCE, talks about ruling elders and Christian Education. The OPC cherished the work of Christian Education and quickly developed specific principles of…
S2E12 Christ Freely Offered
Rev. Andy Wilson and Rev. Russell Hamilton talk about The Marrow of Modern Divinity, an old book that wrestles with the free offer of Jesus Christ to sinners, and questions of law and assurance. This…
S2E11 Encouraging the Pastor's Wife
In this podcast Anneke Fesko talks about how ruling elders can encourage a pastor’s wife. Anneke was hired a little over two years ago for the newly created position of Care Coordinator for…
S2E10 Encouraging Congregational Singing
Jonathan Cruse talks about how Ruling Elders can foster and energize congregational singing.Further ReadingResources by JonathanJonathan Landry Cruse, What Happens When We Worship, Reformation…
S2E9 Ruling Elders and Better Preaching
What can ruling elders do to promote better preaching?On this issue of the Ruling Elder podcast, John Currie, OPC pastor and Professor and Dean of Pastoral Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary,…
S2E8 Ruling Elder Spotlight: David Watson, EPC (Ireland)
David Watson is a ruling elder in Ballyclare Evangelical Presbyterian Church, in Co. Antrim, N. Ireland. The EPC, (Ireland), is a church with which the OPC has full ecclesiastical fellowship. Stephen…
S2E7 Covenant Theology
Ryan McGraw talks about his new book, What Is Covenant Theology?: Tracing God's Promises through the Son, the Seed, and the Sacraments.Ryan is the Morton H. Smith Professor of Systematic Theology at…
S2E6 Prescription Medication
Jason Poquette is a ruling elder in Immanuel Chapel (OPC), Upton, MA. He is a Pharmacist and works in Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. In this podcast he discusses how ruling elders can…
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OPC Ruling Elder Podcast has published 37 episodes since January 2023, covering topics in Christianity, Religion & Spirituality.
OPC Ruling Elder Podcast is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 39m.
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