Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church-History Podcast

Pastor Wilkins discusses the practice of praying to the saints and the problems with doing so.

Pastor Wilkins looks at the issue of veneration and worship of Mary as practiced by the Roman church.

Pastor Wilkins looks at the sacraments of the Roman Church and how they came to be 7 instead of 2 sacraments. 

Pastor Steve Wilkins discusses the life of St. Nicholas as well as the importance of feast days and observing the Church calendar through events like Advent and Christmas. This is the second part of that interview.

Pastor Steve Wilkins discusses the life of St. Nicholas as well as the importance of feast days and observing the Church calendar through events like Advent and Christmas. This is the first part of that interview.

What should be the Christian's response to our current tax system? How did we get here? Pastor Steve Wilkins answeres this and other questions in this month's podcast.

Listen to Pastor Wilkins's talk about the Bucer Institute kicking off Fall 2007 and then hear Pastor Wilkins give a lecture on the Life of the Reformer, Martin Bucer.

Pastor Wilkins reminds us of the importance of the Christian Calendar and especially the importance of the season of Christmas. He looks at the History of the 12 Days of Christmas in the Church. This is a most interesting and encouraging talk. (December of 2005)

Pastor Wilkins, in this podcast, continues his discussion of George Whitefield.

Pastor Wilkins, in this podcast, discusses the Evangelist, George Whitefield. He was probably the "first American idol." Pastor Wilkins discusses George Whitefields effect on the American Church.

This lecture follows up "The Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons."

In this second talk, Pastor Wilkins continues to talk about the negative legacy that American Christianity has been left with as a result of the Great Awakenings.

Pastor Wilkins discusses the Great Awakenings and the misconceptions that most Americans have about this time.

This sermon was originally given in 2002 at Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church. If you would like to order the whole series on MP3 CD, please contact us at media@auburnavenue.org.

As the Advent & Christmas Seasons approach we found this lecture especially appropriate.

We apologize for the delay in getting this podcast to you. These little extra projects get bumped to 2nd when we are swamped with other projects. With that said, Pastor Wilkins originally gave this lecture in February of 2002. As always, these lectures are selections from the 90+ mp3 series that we have available to order if you want more.

This lecture on Nicea was first given back in February of 2001. Pastor Wilkins discusses the importance of Nicea in our Church History.

This month's lecture is overdue. The topic of this podcast is on the life and contribution of St. Ambrose to our Christian heritage. This lecture was originally given in May of 2000 by Pastor Wilkins.

This month we pick back up with the second part of Pastor Wilkins' lecture on the Church Father, Athanasius. This was given at Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church on a Sunday night as part of Pastor Wilkins' study of our rich Church History.

This the 47th lecture in this series on Church History. This lecture on Athanasius is the first of 2 lectures. Athanasius is one of the Greatest Men in our Church History and known as "the Father of Orthodoxy."

This month's lecture This month Pastor Wilkins looks at the Byzantine emporer Constantine and his legacy.

This month's lecture was first given in March of 1996 at Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church. We pick up with lecture #18 in this ongoing series.

"It is the Church that is at the center of history, not the footnote...The history of the world is intimately connected and, in fact, cannot be understood apart from the history of the Church...The Church is the centerpiece of history." Hear Pastor Steve Wilkins start his "SO GREAT A SALVATION: The History of God's People in the World" series with this lecture on why we should study Church history.