Coffee House Sessions

In the Coffee House, John-Mark is joined by Dr Samuel Tunnicliffe to discuss English Presbyterianism, doctrinal decline, and the influence of Richard Baxter. Beginning with the State of Theology UK 2026 survey, Tunnicliffe considers what contemporary confusion about worship, religious pluralism, and the truthfulness of Scripture reveals about the need for careful pastoral teaching. He then explores the world of seventeenth-century London coffee houses, where Presbyterians, Congregationalists...

What does the Bible teach about the end times, the rapture, Israel and the return of Jesus Christ? Dr. Sam Waldron joins us in the Coffee House to explore optimistic amillennialism, Bible prophecy and the gospel age. Will Christians be raptured before the tribulation? Are Israel and the church two separate peoples of God? Does Ezekiel predict a rebuilt third temple? How should we understand the millennium, the Antichrist and Satan’s “little season” in Revelation 20? Drawing on decades of teac...

In the Coffee House, John-Mark is joined by Steve Meister, Pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, Sacramento, to discuss the value and necessity of creeds and confessions for Protestants. Meister argues that Christianity is uniquely rooted in truth and “sound words,” so careful language—including non-biblical terms like Trinity and consubstantial—is needed to preserve biblical meaning against error and equivocation. He explains how creeds arise from ordinary church needs (preaching the gospel, ba...

In the Coffee House, John-Mark is joined by Brandon Adams and Benedict Allmand-Smith to discuss Covenant Theology, the Sinai/Mosaic covenant, Paul’s argument in Galatians 3, the Abrahamic Covenant and its relationship to the New Covenant, and the different views on Abraham and Moses, particularly expressed in the majority Reformed view and the arguments of Meredith Kline. Swim deep in the questions of Reformed Covenant Theology at the Coffee House. Brandon begins by defining the historic “su...

Summary In the Coffee House, Jonny and John Mark are joined by James Dolezal to explore angelic incorporeity and why speculative angelology has fallen out of fashion. They discuss how empiricism and scientism have undermined confidence in immaterial realities and left Christians with thinner conceptual categories for speaking about angels, souls, and God, even when Scripture clearly teaches angels exist. Dolezal argues that recovering robust metaphysics helps distinguish God from even the hig...