This is the third episode in a short series in the West Port Experiment podcast, featuring the Rev. D. Douglas Gebbie, minister of the Presbyterian Reformed Church of Chesley, Ontario. We’ve been looking at the great Scots Presbyterian “statesman,” Alexander Henderson. Our last episode dealt with his Government and Order of the Church of Scotland, while this discussion focuses on his masterful sermon before parliament on John 18:36, “My kingdom is not of this world.” This is original “Reformed Two Kingdoms” theology!
If you’d like to study this sermon before or after listening, a PDF is available below, and I’ve recorded it in audio here. Naphtali Press also produced a very handsome volume (do they ever otherwise?) some years back that includes this sermon. Regrettably, it’s out of print, so you’d have to find it on the used book market.
About the WPE podcast. I have completed the first ten episodes before releasing any to make sure I wasn’t overcommitting or underperforming. But I’m hoping that this podcast fills a niche in a crowded digital area. While this site’s theme is about “parish missions, the care of souls, and all things reformed,” the first season is dedicated specifically to the Scottish Presbyterian tradition to which my denomination is devoted. God willing, I’ll continue to focus mainly in this area. But if it continues, I may branch off into other related areas, especially my great interest in Thomas Chalmers and the theory of practice of parish missions. And as for posting on other podcast platforms or YouTube, we’ll see.
For now, the episodes focus on a text or texts for discussion with various friends as conversation partners from within and beyond my presbytery. In this first season, we are dealing with John Willison, Samuel Rutherford, Hugh Binning, Alexander Henderson, David Dickson & the Stewarton Revival, James Guthrie, and Thomas Boston. I hope to release them about once per month.
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