In the Land of Nod: Two Kingdoms lectures by Kim Riddlebarger

Over at the Riddleblog, Kim Riddlebarger has made available eleven lectures interacting with the Reformed understanding of the “Two Kingdoms.” The lecture series is called, “In the Land of Nod.” These lectures were given at Christ Reformed Church’s Friday Night Academy from Sept 2013-June 2014. Here is a little about Riddlebarger:

Dr. Kim Riddlebarger is senior pastor of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim, California, and co-host of the popular White Horse Inn, a radio-internet talk show which first went on the air in 1990 and which can be heard here.

A fourth generation Californian, Kim is a graduate of California State University Fullerton (B.A.), Simon Greenleaf University (M.A.), Westminster Seminary California (M.A.R.), and Fuller Theological Seminary (Ph.D.) where he worked under Richard A. Muller. Kim’s dissertation is entitled The Lion of Princeton — Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield: Apologist, Polemicist.

Kim has served as a visiting lecturer in the graduate program in Reformation studies at Concordia University in Irvine, CA and was the chairman of the Growing Reformed Churches Conference, cosponsored by First Chino URC and Westminster Seminary California, where he served as a member of the board of trustees. Kim also served as executive vice president of Christians United for Reformation (CURE), the forerunner of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (ACE). Kim also served several terms as visiting professor of systematic theology at Westminster Seminary California.

Kim is an ordained minister in the United Reformed Churches (URCNA), is a regular contributor to publications such as Modern Reformation and TableTalk and has written chapters for the books Power Religion (Moody, 1992), Roman Catholicism: Evangelicals Analyze What Unites and What Divides Us (Moody, 1994), and Christ the Lord (Baker, 1992), Theologia et Apologia (Wipf and Stock, 2006), Called to Serve (Reformed Fellowship, 2007), Risking the Truth (Christian Focus, 2009), Always Reforming: Essays in Honor of W. Robert Godfrey (2010), and Planting, Watering, Growing: Planting Confessionally Reformed Churches in the 21st Century (Reformation Heritage, 2011).

Kim is the author of three books: A Case For Amillennialism, (Baker Books, 2003/2013), and The Man of Sin: Uncovering the Truth About the Antichrist (Baker Books, 2006), and First Corinthians: The Lectio Continua Expository New Testament Commentary (Tolle Lege Press, 2013).

Kim is married to Micki, and has two adult sons, David and Mark. Kim is interested in family history and is presently writing a history of the Riddlebarger family. He is also a life-long New York Yankees fan.

Here are the lectures:

The handouts: Select Bibliography; Two Kingdoms Chart

The Lectures: