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199: Weil - We Humiliate Ourselves Before False Gods

Banned Books
04/08/21

Idol Talk. In this episode, we return to Simone Weil’s book, Gravity and Grace. Idolatry is the topic of conversation. What is an idol? In what ways does idolatry infiltrate our churches, and what are the consequences? How do we…

198: Simone Weil - The Cross

Banned Books
04/01/21

Into The Mystic. In this episode, we read and discuss the crucifixion as interpreted by Simone Weil, an anarchist, philosopher, and mystic.

197b: Leo the Great - Use Lent for general improvement in the whole round of Christian duties

Banned Books
03/29/21

The Right Man for The Job. In this episode, we finish reading and discussing Leo the Great’s Lenten sermon about Christ’s two natures. What happens when the old Adam adds to Scripture’s witness to Jesus’ two natures?

197a: Leo the Great - All the actions of Christ reveal the presence of the twofold nature

Banned Books
03/26/21

God Really Bodies Our Salvation. In this episode, we read and discuss a Lenten sermon from Leo the Great. What happens when the two natures of Christ are divided?

True Christian Liberty

By Donavon Riley 03/23/21

The true liberty that Christ gives to us through the gospel is not political. It is spiritual freedom. It is freedom from fear of God's judgment and wrath.

196b: Luther - Paul cuts out all merit and gives glory only to God

Banned Books
03/19/21

Grace Means Never Having to Try Harder. In this episode, Martin Luther’s comments on the letter to the Galatians regarding God’s mercy and predestination.

196a: Luther - I was forgiven only by God’s boundless grace

Banned Books
03/15/21

The stunning truth about God’s grace. In this episode, Luther’s comments about Galatians 1:15. What do we do when it’s revealed God chooses to be gracious to us while we are wicked and blasphemous?

195b: Luther - Mesmerized by the wizardry of the devil

Banned Books
03/13/21

You’re A Wizard, Lucifer!In this episode, Martin Luther continues to commentate on the apostle Paul’s letter to the Galatians, and his question, “Who has bewitched you...?”

195a: Luther - Ancient serpent bewitches not only the senses but also the mind with false and evil thinking

Banned Books
03/10/21

Satan Rules The World, And Is It’s God. In this episode, Martin Luther expands on the apostle Paul’s question to the Galatians, “Who has bewitched your...?”

We are Known By God

By Donavon Riley 03/10/21

Our ears are opened by the Spirit through the word. Then, faith in Christ is present in us.

194b: Luther - Our knowledge of God is merely passive

Banned Books
03/01/21

Just Sit Back and Let It Happen.In this episode, we continue our reading of Martin Luther’s Galatians lectures. This week, passive faith, internalizing virtue, and the law of the jungle.

194a: Luther - God’s will is to bless all nations... through Christ

Banned Books
02/23/21

Free Will Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be. In this episode, more from Luther’s Galatians lectures. This week, God’s will, free will, identity, and taking the moral low ground.

193b: Luther - Christ has made us free, not civilly, not physically, but divinely

Banned Books
02/20/21

Free For It All.This week on the podcast, we continue our Lenten series on Christian freedom in Martin Luther’s Galatians lectures. In this episode, Gospel, Satan, and competing freedoms.

193a: Luther - It is for freedom that Christ has set us free

Banned Books
02/18/21

Lent Is About Freedom.In this episode, we read Martin Luther’s 1525 Galatians commentary. Why is freedom a vulgar word to the old Adam? And we consider why freedom must be Lent's primary focus for Christians.

How to Be Human Again

By Donavon Riley 02/16/21

Jesus Christ is our peace because he doesn't criticize us. He declares us freed from our perceptions to accept the truth about ourselves.

192b: Solzhenitsyn - Never knowingly support lies!

Banned Books
02/13/21

A spirit of timidity and a Spirit of courage. In this episode, we conclude our reading of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Live Not By Lies. What happens when the church chooses a spirit of timidity in order to spare itself affliction? Also…

192a: Solzhenitsyn - “I am Violence! Make way, step aside, I will crush you!”

Banned Books
02/10/21

How Quickly They Forget. In this episode, we continue to read Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Live Not By Lies. What happens when the church takes the easy path of learned helplessness?

Liberated to be Excitedly Ordinary

By Donavon Riley 02/10/21

We can celebrate what others consider mundane and ordinary because it's miraculous. After all, it's God-given.

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191b: Solzhenitsyn - We lie to ourselves for assurance

Banned Books
02/06/21

Gag me with a spoon. In this episode, part two of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s essay, “Live Not by The Lies.” We consider herd mentality, our fear of standing up to unjust authority, and the secular indoctrination that infects the church.

191a: Solzhenitsyn - Things have almost reached rock bottom

Banned Books
02/04/21

Lies Taste Like Wonder-bread. In this episode, part one of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s essay, “Live Not by The Lies.” We discuss the two kingdoms, the need for Christ alone with no additives, and the importance of having an ethos.

A Christian is Pulled Between Two Extremes

By Donavon Riley 02/02/21

Our anxiety about the future is a consequence of our old self’s attempts to achieve freedom for himself apart from Christ Jesus.

190: Kennedy - The Gospel deals with all of life, because it comes to heal the whole man

Banned Books
01/26/21

Keep it Spiritual, Keep it Safe. In this episode, the conclusion to our discussion of Gerald Kennedy’s sermon, Communism in the Churches. Should churches mind their own business in regards to social and cultural matters? What happens when churches and…

Catching Jesus' Ear

By Donavon Riley 01/25/21

As a parent listens for the cry of a hurting child, our heavenly Father waits for our cry of weal and woe.

His Face Shines On Us

By Donavon Riley 01/21/21

For God to shine his face upon us is the same as saying, “Christ Jesus is with us.”

189: Kennedy - A Christian stands for truth even when it hurts the most

Banned Books
01/19/21

White Bread with Bologna and Propaganda Spread. In this episode, we continue reading a sermon preached by Bishop Gerald Kennedy, on Communism in Churches (c. 1960). The discussion focuses on whether propaganda is more important than the truth.

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Welcome to Banned Books, where we read and converse with the rebel children, the holy mischief-makers of God, who fight against the kind of useless religious, spiritual, and moral methods of life improvement that seek to smother the glory of…

Crucifying Religion

Donavon Riley
07/01/19

Jesus is the end of all religion. He did not come to tweak Judaism or create a new religion. When the nails were driven into his hands and feet, when the spear pierced his side, when he said, “It is…

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