Tyrannus Hall Podcast

Season 2 of Tyrannus Hall is about to start!

Check out this 10-minute teaser:
1. Praise God for season one's impact around the world
2. Hear our exciting plans for season 2
3. Learn how to get involved in making the great commission of Jesus Christ every Christian's passion and every church's mission.

Soli Deo gloria!

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Episode 31 - Season 2 Intro Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tyrannus-hall-podcast-annual-fundraisingChrist commissioned his Church to do great things in his name! Yet, too often...

Join Winston in a fascinating discussion with Richard Bultje and his wife, Yukyung. Richard is a pastor in the URCNA, and has been called by the local URCs to plant a church in Niagara Falls. Richard and Yukyung are experienced in reaching the lost after working for many years in downtown Hamilton at Streetlight, a Canadian Reformed mission. Richard brings his experience as an evangelist to this new church planting venture.

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Episode 30 - River of Life: Niagara Falls Join Winston in a fascinating discussion with Richard Bultje and his wife, Yukyung. Richard is a pastor in the URCNA, and has been called by the local URCs t...

Dutch immigrants very quickly assimilated into Canadian culture, with respect to language and business, but maintained a definite educational culture. Is this separation an aid or a hindrance to reaching the lost?

Mariia Alekseevskaia emigrated to Canada from Russia. While still in her homeland, she discovered Dutch Reformed Theology and how its adherents have a passion for Christian Schools.

Mariia studied sociology at the University of Ottawa and wrote her PdD thesis on Canadian Reformed schools and education (link below). Though her study of Canadian Reformed School culture in Ontario did not investigate church planting or missional churches, our hosts engage Mariia in a fascinating discussion about reaching the lost in light of her findings.

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Episode 29 - Missional Impossible? Mariia Alekseevskaia emigrated to Canada from Russia. While still in her homeland, she discovered Dutch Reformed Theology and how its adherents have a passio...

A lunch-time Bible study on Wall Street, spiritual care at a downtown hospital,ESL classes for parents of students at a public school using the Gospel of Mark as the textbook.

Pastor Paul explains how Reformed theology is an asset for evangelism in all settings. The doctrines of forgiveness, of the sovereignty of God, of election, and of covenant are powerful anchors for church planting.

Messiah’s Reformed Fellowship is a URCNA congregation. In their classis there is a growing network of churches planting churches. In this development, there is a growing realization and acceptance that some messiness in local missions is necessary for churches as we love and reach the lost. Pastor Paul and our co-hosts share some stories about this messiness.

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Episode 28 - The Messy Business of Reaching the Lost in NYC Pastor Paul Murphy discusses how he started a lunch-time Bible study on Wall Street, how his congregation began providing spiritual care at a downtown hospit...

What kind of church should be planted in St. John’s. Is it time to develop a mega-church drawing all kinds of people to a central ‘campus’? There are two new mosques in town and a refurbished synagogue. What would be an adequate gospel response?

Stephen Bray is a church planter in St. John’s Newfoundland, one of the least “churched” cities in Canada (Only 1% of the city’s population attends worship services on Sundays.) Stephen is associated with Mile One Mission. M1M is a group of men and women who hold a deep conviction to see Gospel-centred churches raised up and supported amongst the peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador In Newfoundland.

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Episode 27 - Neighbourhood Church Stephen Bray is a church planter in St. John’s Newfoundland, one of the least “churched” cities in Canada (Only 1% of the city’s population attends worship s...

Tim DeVos runs a recovery house for men who have serious life challenges: drugs, alcohol, depression and other serious problems.

Pindari House is more than a rehab house; it's a home for troubled men, founded on the Scripture. (Pindari Recovery House is in a suburb of Perth, Western Australia).

Tim is exploring how to develop a unique real-life gospel-transformed discipleship program for troubled men. We can all learn from this Australian project about how to love and reach the lost and develop a more robust missional character for our churches.

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Episode 26 - Pindari House: Help for the Hopeless! Tim DeVos runs a recovery house for men who have serious life challenges: drugs, alcohol, depression and other serious problems. Tim discusses the struggles ...

Is a smaller church the key to fostering a community that is closely engaged in prayer and fellowship? Bill and Winston interview two of the leaders (Len Stam, John Zietsma) of Pathway Christian Church, a recently instituted Canadian Reformed Church for Abotsford, B.C.

After several years of planning, a steering committee received support from the Abbotsford church council. The Abbotsford church had over 550 members when Pathway Church was launched.

(Since this interview Rev. Phil Grotenhuis, the URCNA pastor in Phoenix, Arizona has accepted the call to Pathway Church.)

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Among Reformed and other Christian business leaders there is a growing hunger for "something more." The is a new realization that the Christian message is not just about information, but that the gospel message leads to transformation: the transformation of the whole person.

Darren Bosch introduces DeliberateU, which provides Christian, gospel-centered mentoring to Christian leaders in business and the in the Church. DeliberateU accents the transformational power of the gospel. It provides biblical discipling, community support and business tools needed to bring positive results in the social spheres in which their clients are called to lead.

Darren explores the intersection of the mission of the church and the marketplace.

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Episode 24 - The Mission of Christ and the Marketplace Among Reformed and other Christian business leaders there is a growing hunger for "something more." The is a new realization that the Christian message is no...

Eric Watkins recounts his life before faith in Jesus, and his journey from being a “Deadhead”, following the Grateful Dead, a psychedelic rock band, to following Jesus. He tells of how his growing conviction of the truth of Reformed theology led him to become an OPC pastor and church planter.

His testimony is marked by a desire to disciple his children and members of his church so that they and their children will be nurtured within the covenant of grace and not live the life he used to live.

Eric describes his emphasis on Reformed doctrines as the basis for church planting. He will not compromise the truth of scripture.

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Episode 23 - From Deadhead to Church Planter Eric Watkins recounts his life before faith in Jesus, and his journey from being a “Deadhead”, following the Grateful Dead, a psychedelic rock band, to follo...

For many years, among the members of the Winnipeg congregations of the Canadian Reformed Church there was a growing desire for establishing a “mission church.” But what would that mission look like? Where should a new church be planted? Who would lead it? What kind of model would be used for oversight?

Listen to Bill and Winston engage Pastor Joe Poppe of Redeemer Church in Winnipeg and Pastor James Zekveld of Ambassador Church, church planter in Niverville, Manitoba about their churches’ work in Niverville, a small prairie town in “Mennonite country”.

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Episode 22 - Bringing the Gospel to a Small Prairie Town For many years, among the members of the Winnipeg congregations of the Canadian Reformed Church there was a growing desire for establishing a “mission churc...

How can the male leadership of the church provide meaningful pastoral care to the women? What role can women have in caring for and discipling members of the church?

Sarah Vandergugten co-hosts this episode. She, together with Winston, interviewed Andrea Kampen, about the principals involved in planning and setting up Flourish: The Women’s Resource Network.

Flourish has been established among the Canadian Reformed Churches in Burlington, Ontario. Andrea and her team want to assist the male office-bearers in some of the challenges they face in providing pastoral care to women.

The church needs to think about “gender roles” in its mission to the world. Flourish: The Women’s Resource Network goes a long way in mapping a way forward in this challenging area of church life.

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Episode 21 - Flourish: The Women's Resource Network How can the male leadership of the church provide meaningful pastoral care to the women? What role can women have in caring for and discipling members of the...

“The world is going to hell!!” So begins Rob Joustra’s book, How to Survive the Apocalypse pointing to the prevalence of apocalyptic narratives — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment.

In 2016 he published (with Alissa Wilkinson) How to Survive the Apocalypse. Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories — from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead — and argue that such apocalyptic stories reveal a lot about our culture, here and now, and about how our society conceives of life together including some of the deepest tensions and anxieties prevalent in our day.

Besides analyzing this dystopian shift in popular culture, Joustra and Wilkinson also suggest how Christians can live faithfully and with integrity in such a cultural context. Bill and Winston explore what these dark cultural overtones mean to the mission of the church.

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Episode 20 - The World is Going to Hell! “The world is going to hell!!” So begins Rob Joustra’s book, How to Survive the Apocalypse pointing to the prevalence of apocalyptic narratives — cataclysmic...

How can the missional church care for some of the most vulnerable and mistreated members of our society? Should the church be interested in helping women and children caught up in the s*x trade?

Our guests are “anonymous” servants of the Lord and don’t desire to be identified, lest they be seen as again exploiting those very people they help. Learn how the church can assist ‘Servants Anonymous” reach out to the most vulnerable members of our communities.

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Episode 19 - Women at Risk How can the missional church care for some of the most vulnerable and mistreated members of our society? Should the church be interested in helping women and...

How can today's missional churches learn from the past? Should current mission-minded Reformed Churches in Canada (and the USA) reflect on lessons learned and taught in American Presbyterian churches 40 and 50 years ago? Can we apply those lessons today in our gospel out-reach to our pluralistic post-Christian culture?

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Episode 18 - Fresh Water from the Well: The New Life Movement How can today's missional churches learn from the past? Should current mission-minded Reformed Churches in Canada (and the USA) reflect on lessons learned an...

Is it a given that missional churches will neglect long-time and lifelong members? Is there a stark contrast between "missional" and more traditional models of Reformed churches?

We hope this episode with Bill Boekestein will challenge the church to make disciples of all kinds of people: those born into the covenant of grace and those new to it, living out the great commission.

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Episode 17 - Missional or Nurturing: a False Dilemma Is it a given that missional churches will neglect long time and life long members? Is there a stark contrast between "missional" and more traditional models...

How can Christians and the church be effective in being "salt and light to the world"? Ray Pennings is executive vice president of Cardus. In this episode, he discusses how being (and seeing ourselves) as "ambassadors" will provide opportunities to interact with our secular culture in meaningful ways and so help our communities to flourish.

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Episode 16 - Cardus, Church and Society: The Church's Cultural Calling How can Christians and the church be effective in being "salt and light to the world"? The Bible gives several metaphors to describe the Christian life: pilg...

Bruce Ashford is Fellow in Public Theology at the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology and a columnist for First Things Magazine. He is a North American Evangelical who has learned a deep appreciation for the theological insights of the late 19th and early 20th century Dutch Reformed theologian and scholar, Abraham Kuyper. Kuyper, has for many years, been evaluated in a negative way in the Canadian Reformed Churches because of the synodical imposition of his covenant theology upon the churches in the Netherlands in 1944.

In this episode Bruce shows us how Kuyper's keen insights help us to better understand the role and place of the Church in the World.

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Episode 15 - Abraham Kuyper and Evangelicalism Bruce Ashford is Fellow in Public Theology at the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology and a columnist for First Things Magazine. For many years, he was al...

Abortion is common in our society-- even in the church. How does the church remain steadfastly pro-life without alienating their neighbors and hurting those who are suffering? This is a very polarizing topic, yet one that is crucial to understand so we can love our neighbors for Christ. Tabitha Ewert is a lawyer with WeNeedALaw, a political action organization that speaks to our government and our culture about abortion. listen as she helps us to approach this controvertial topic with balance and grace. We hope that her stories and practical advice help your church reach out in your community with love and empathy for those affected by abortion.

Due to technical difficulties during recording, some of the audio is difficult to understand. Our apologies!

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The Gospel can be written off as irrelevant or seen as menacing when shared without understanding the culture of the listener. This goes for both a 'churched' and 'unchurched' audience. So, how do you boldly defend the truth of Jesus in a post-Christian culture without being a 'clanging cymbal'? Reverend George Sinclair, the pastor of Messiah Church in Ottawa, shows us how to courageously contend with the most difficult cultural issues in our society while gathering in a bountiful harvest. It turns out that the most courageous thing to do is love your neighbour as a person.

Due to technical difficulties during recording, some of the audio is difficult to understand. Our apologies!

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Thinking about planting a church? It sounds like the kind of work God will bless, right? Yes! But be prepared to be blessed in ways you don't plan for. So much of what we believe ought to happen doesn't turn out. And that's OK. Everything goes the way God intends, namely to his glory--which is always to our benefit. Listen as Ben and Jen Joliffe share their story about the journey God led them on as he groomed them and used them to plant Resurrection Church in Ottawa. It's a church for the convinced and unconvinced, the bored, the burned, the cynical, the religious, the irreligious and the spiritual.

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Episode 12 - Church Planting in Ottawa Ben and Jen Joliffe live in Ottawa, where Ben Pastors a PCA church plant. Ben and Jen began the work of planting a church six or seven years ago. Resurrectio...

Listen to Joy and Phil as they suggest how we can better reach our neighbours with the gospel in a service that is tailored to their unchurched neighbours in a way that accents the story of God’s relationship with the world from creation, through the fall, to the story of redemption in Jesus Christ.

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Sarah Vandergugten is a child of God, a woman created in God’s image, a member of Christ’s church.

In this episode, her thoughtful analysis and sympathetic criticism of the place of women in the Canadian Reformed Churches should cause us to sit up and take notice. Her desire is to be led by the Scriptures as God’s inspired Word in humble submission to the Lord of the church.

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Jean Zoellner is a 40-year veteran church-planter, missionary, and theological teacher in Quebec. Tyrannus Hall invited Jean to a conversation about "contextualization." To Jean, contextualization is not a big theological word describing the intersection of cultural studies and the Gospel but contextualization is about living dynamic relationships with people--every one a sinner--yet created in the image of God.
To bring the gospel in a meaningful way into any cultural situation requires empathetic listening and realizing that for some an intuitive, or emotional response to the gospel, might precede a rational appropriation. While for others, a rational argument might need to be presented first.
Jean accents the need for prayerful interaction with others, careful listening, faithful gospel teaching, and cultural awareness.
In the post-interview discussion, Bill and Winston discuss whether contextualization airbrushes the gospel or softens its "hard edges". Some might contend that when we contextualize we are accommodating culture or even being guilty of compromise. Our hosts say it is none of those things: it is putting the Gospel in language that people in our day can understand.

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This is the second of 3 episodes where we investigate how the church, in its mission in the world, can learn anew its calling to care for the vulnerable and the weak; that the church must more and more become a place where the weak, the vulnerable, the defenceless and the exploited can find refuge and safety, and become a supportive loving community where the “least of these” can flourish and grow to be the people God meant them to be.

Jo and Chris introduce us to Connect Care Ottawa, a unique organization that seeks to bring together secular Children’s Aid Societies (CAS) and the Church. The world has become suspicious of the Church, not expecting to find a safe place for children in her midst, and churches have become suspicious of secular child care institutions, wondering how such secular organizations can nurture children.

Connect Care desires to show child welfare organizations that the church is a valuable resource in the mission to care for vulnerable children, and to show the church ways to live out their calling to “love the stranger’, to “lengthen their table” and to welcome foster children and their parents into their homes and communities.

The third episode in this series is coming soon: Extending grace to trafficked women and their children; a rescue mission from the p**n industry.

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Danielle, a youth worker at Streetlight Christian Church in Hamilton, ON talks about Streetlight's unique history within the Canadian Reformed federation as an urban mission post/church plant that has existed for over 20 years in an ever-changing city.

Because of their context, the congregation and staff and volunteers have many roles to play, but ultimately the goal of outreach and discipleship programs at Streetlight is to draw people into God's family by becoming connected to the church.

Other missional churches can play a role in being willing to come alongside Streetlight, financially, prayerfully, and assisting as program volunteers and investing in the community.

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Should we all be singing from the same songbook? Should we sing more hymns? Are the metrical Psalms christological enough? What about singing "a new song"?

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This week's episode is with Tim Challies.

Join us as he and Bill discuss the strengths of a Canadian Reformed legacy and the challenges facing Evangelical and Reformed churches in Canada today.

(Technical issues means that there is no video of our host Bill DeJong during the interview.)

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Episode 4: A Missionary's Thoughts on the Missional Church

Bill and Winston have a conversation with Julius van Spronsen. Julius has served as a pastor in Smithers BC, which worked in an active mission in town and in Ft. Babine, reaching First Nations' people. He then spent 8 years in Brazil as a missionary. He now pastors an established church in Edmonton. In cooperation with neighbouring churches, his congregation is searching for a "mission-worker/evangelist" to assist in "bringing the gospel to the city." With his experience, Julius is uniquely equipped in assisting in the launch of this new initiative.

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Episode 3: The Place of the Church in the World: Reflections on K. Schilder.

A conversation with Dr. Marinus De Jong, pastor of the Oosterpark Church, Amsterdam.

Marinus recently published his dissertation, The Church is the Means; the World is the End. This dissertation is a historical theological examination of Klaas Schilder's theology on the "place of the church in the world". Schilder is one of the most important "theological fathers" of the Canadian Reformed Churches but his teaching on "the place of the church in the world" has been mostly lost in the post immigration decades since the 1950's. Bill and Winston discuss Marinus' discoveries in researching and reading Schilder's many-faceted writings beginning in the years of the Great War and continuing through the rise of Na**sm in pre-WWII in the Netherlands. You will learn of his public theology published in his newspaper, denouncing the N***s during the German occupation in the War years. Marinus tells of how Schilder was considered to be a literary critic before he was a theologian of merit engaging his contemporary culture with biblical critique. Though Schilder was not "intentionally" missional, he has much to teach us today about "the place of the church in the world."

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