Mark Mulder served as vice principal in John Calvin Christian school in the Perth area of Western Australia. In this fascinating interview, we learn how Mark and his wife Liz exchanged their comfortable suburban life for a life in a foreign mission field. They sold all they had to follow the Lord's calling. Mark was urged by several friends to apply for the position of Principal of The Reformed Churches' Bible College in Port Moresby PNG. At first he resisted  but on Liz's urging took on the challenge  Mark now abounds in passion for the work of RCBC. Listen as Mark discuss the wor ..read more

If you know your church has great potential to impact its community and you believe you need a mission and vision statement written down before you get started, then this episode is for you. Winston and Bill pick the brain of marketing agency owner Chris vanPopta to explore the question: Does a church need a mission or vision statement to be on mission for Christ? Somewhere during the interview, Bill and Winston have the tables turned on them and Chris asks them some great questions too! The ending may surprise you. www.tyrannushallpodcast.ca www.facebook.com/tyrannushallpodcast ..read more

Winston and Bill speak with Ben Westerveld to discuss the role of the seminary in promoting a missional mindset in the training of future pastors. Ben Westerveld is the new professor and principal of Farel, an institute for theological training to serve the ERQ (Église Réformée du Québec). How and should seminary training be adapting to our post-modern, post-christian, post-epidemic setting? www.tyrannushallpodcast.ca www.facebook.com/tyrannushallpodcast ..read more

Our guests today are accomplished musicians. Tim is a member of a jazz band, and Kent is a principal participant of an annual “Reformed Strings Camp”. Both have a love for Reformed worship and liturgy and lead the singing in their local church. Bill and Winston explore the intersection between music and the missional call of the church. What kind of music is appropriate for worship? www.tyrannushallpodcast.ca www.facebook.com/tyrannushallpodcast ..read more

Pastor Randall Visscher and two leaders of the relatively new Refuge Church, in Langley BC are the guests on Tyrannus Hall. Mike Vandergugten and Jerome Lenkeek joined  those who had a vision for a missional church. Launched in July 2020, in the middle of Covid restrictions and lockdowns, the Lord has blessed this new congregation with fields ripe for harvest. Listen to these men relate how the Lord opened a wide door for effective work among Indian and Pakistani immigrants in their local communities. www.tyrannushallpodcast.ca www.facebook.com/tyrannushallpodcast ..read more

In this episode we meet John Siebenga, a retired Christian school teacher and principal, a licensed Christian counsellor, and journeyman carpenter. He and his wife are members of Houston Canadian Reformed Church in British Columbia. They were wondering where they might be engaged in God’s kingdom work in their retirement years. They considered volunteering in overseas mission work, but then their attention was drawn to the work that the neighbouring Church in Smithers was doing in Prince George. John and Betty got deeply involved in the church planting that Pastor Tim Schouten was doing. In th ..read more

Our guest today is Pastor Greg Davidson. Greg very recently became co-pastor at  Blessings Christian Church working with Tyrannus Hall co-host Bill de Jong. Greg was the pastor at Central Presbyterian, a Presbyterian Church in Canada congregation in downtown Hamilton. While he still has many friends in the wider church, Greg shares some of his concerns about “the protestant movement” in general and some encouragement for the “confessionally Reformed movement” of which he is now a member. www.tyrannushallpodcast.ca www.facebook.com/tyrannushallpodcast ..read more

Is the Great Commission correctly used as foundational to the theology of missions? Our guest, Kristen Johnson is Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, where she holds the G.W. and Edna Haworth chair for Education, Ministry, and Leadership. Kristen has done extensive research on Matthew 28:16-20. This week we discover answers to questions we never dreamt of asking! When did the church begin to use this text to describe and underwrite the mission of the church? The early church did not use this text to motivate its mission mandate. I ..read more

Pastor John van Popta, retired pastor of Fellowship Church in Burlington is our guest (John is the producer/director of Tyrannus Hall and does much of the background research and organization for our podcasts). Our hosts, Bill and Winston, interview John about how best to welcome guests on “Communion Sundays.” Who should participate? Who should be withheld? John’s research into the Biblical data has convinced him to examine carefully the manner whereby we withhold communion from visitors. Does Paul’s rebuke of Peter, recorded for us in Galatians 2 speak to this matter. What about 1 Corinthian ..read more

Request for Help: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tyrannus-hall-podcast-annual-fundraising We have opened a GoFundMe campaign with the goal of raising $3500 to cover ongoing software expenses and our planned hardware upgrades. If you find Tyrannus Hall to be a benefit to you and your church community, we would ask you to prayerfully consider helping us with a donation of $50, or $20, or even $10. 10 Principles for Local Mission Pastor Winston Bosch, the Host of Tyrannus Hall was our guest for our previous episode and is again for this one. Earlier this year Winston was tasked by his elders to stu ..read more