In this episode of Kingdom Polemics, Pastor Aldo Leon responds to a recent GRN article claiming that women's head coverings in worship are contra-confessional or merely cultural. Aldo argues that this position misreads Scripture, misuses Reformed theology, and ignores the overwhelming witness of church history. Drawing primarily from 1 Corinthians 11, he shows that head coverings are an apostolic ordinance rooted in creation, Christ's mediatorial headship, angelic witness, and nature—not a Corinthian custom or optional circumstance.

"Shall Women Cover Their Heads In Worship?" by Andrew Lightner (https://gospelreformation.net/shall-women-cover-their-heads-in-worship/)

Episode Highlights:

• Why head coverings are not limited to one isolated passage but reflect a broader biblical pattern.
• How Scripture distinguishes between elements of worship and binding prescriptions within worship.
• A critique of the claim that head coverings are merely circumstantial or cultural.
• Why appeals to Gillespie, Rutherford, and Calvin are often taken out of context.
• How treating gender distinctions as culturally flexible undermines other doctrines, including women's silence and the Lord's Supper.
• A warning against confessional gate-keeping used to forbid obedience to apostolic commands.

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For a deeper dive into Reformed theology applied to public life, check out Aldo Leon's book, In Christ's Crown, Christianity, & The Civil Realm. The book presents a biblical and confessional case for Christ's mediatorial rule over the civil magistrate and is available now at Berith Press: https://www.berithpress.com/bookstore/p/christs-crown-christianity-the-civil-realm.

In this hard-hitting episode of Kingdom Polemics, Pastor Aldo Leon takes listeners deep into Scripture to answer a question often misunderstood in the modern church: What actually makes someone a false teacher? Many assume false teaching only occurs when someone denies core doctrines like the Trinity, the deity of Christ, or justification by faith. But Aldo shows from multiple biblical passages that false teaching is far broader, often rooted not in doctrinal error alone but in immorality, neglect of pastoral duty, worldliness, hypocrisy, abuse of the flock, or promoting behaviors Scripture warns will lead to damnation.

Aldo walks through texts from 1 Corinthians, 1 Timothy, Matthew 23, Jude, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Titus, Philippians, and more—demonstrating that Scripture repeatedly labels as false teachers those who distort ethics, promote lawlessness, preach earthly obsessions, deny creational goodness, refuse discipline, live in unrepentant sin, or shepherd for selfish gain—even when their doctrinal statements appear orthodox.

Episode Highlights:

• False teachers in Scripture are often condemned for behavioral and pastoral corruption, not just doctrinal error.
• Teaching that excuses or blesses sins Scripture says will damn is itself false teaching.
• Ministers who refuse to shepherd, discipline, protect, or care for the flock are called false shepherds (Ezek. 34).
• Jude warns of teachers who turn grace into lawlessness, not doctrinal heresy alone.
• Jeremiah and Ezekiel condemn leaders who preach their own ideas, avoid exposing sin, or offer light, weightless "words from God."
• 2 Peter describes teachers enslaved to immorality—not doctrinal error—as "false prophets."
• Paul calls men "dogs" and "enemies of the cross" for ethnic boasting or earthly-minded ministries, not for denying substitutionary atonement.
• Egalitarianism and kinism distort biblical ethics rooted in gospel doctrines and therefore reflect underlying theological drift.
• Many today hide behind confessional affirmations while practicing or promoting behaviors Scripture itself identifies as heretical.
• The biblical category of "false teacher" is much wider than modern evangelicals or Reformed Christians often permit.

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Check out Aldo Leon's book In Christ's Crown, Christianity, & The Civil Realm, which makes a compelling biblical case for the Reformed doctrine of the civil magistrate under Christ's mediatorial rule. Available now at Berith Press: https://www.berithpress.com/bookstore/p/christs-crown-christianity-the-civil-realm.

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This episode is a rebroadcast from The Presbyterian and Reformed Churchmen podcast, hosted by George Sayour — now rebranded as Grace at the Gates. Sayour, who serves as the State Capital Minister to the State of Florida (https://www.ministrytostate.org/), talks with Pastor Aldo Leon about what it truly means to be a Christian nationalist from a biblical and Reformed perspective. The original episode was sponsored by Birmingham Theological Seminary (https://bts.education).

• Aldo Leon joins George Sayour to explore what "Christian Nationalism" should mean under Christ's rule, contrasting his Christ-centered vision with modern nationalist movements.
• Aldo explains that Christian nations must be ordered under Christ's crown rights, where the law and gospel together define civil and moral order.
• His theology of nations begins not with natural law or culture, but with Christology — Christ's mediatorial kingship shapes every aspect of family, church, and state.
• The discussion highlights how modern pluralism and cultural nationalism often lose the Reformation's conviction that the magistrate must oppose false religion and uphold true worship.
• Aldo critiques how the church's response to COVID revealed a surrender to state control (Erastianism), calling believers to recover a biblical understanding of Christ's authority over all realms.
• In addressing Romans 13, he clarifies that civil rulers are "deacons of God," obligated to uphold both tables of the law — moral and spiritual — for the flourishing of society.
• The episode concludes with a reflection on Aldo's book Christ's Crown: Christianity and the Civil Realm, emphasizing that any true Christian political vision must begin with personal devotion to Christ, not national identity.

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Also, check out Aldo Leon's book In Christ's Crown, Christianity, & The Civil Realm. In it, Aldo presents a clear and compelling case for the Reformed doctrine of Christ's mediatorial rule over the civil magistrate — showing how His authority extends to every sphere of life. Available now through Berith Press: https://www.berithpress.com/bookstore/p/christs-crown-christianity-the-civil-realm.