In the Ring: Preaching to What They Hear
Ringside Preachers and Craft of Preaching join forces to bring you this special edition podcast discussing "Christianity Without Christendom." with Rev. Dr. David Schmitt from Concordia Seminary St. Louis.
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Joel Hess
Joel Hess is the senior pastor of St. James Church & School Chicago, host of the down-to-earth podcast, Ringside with the Preachermen, and a regular contributor to 1517. Along with performing in his band, Sunday Morning Moonshine, he enjoys fighting the system with painting, poetry and cocktail parties.
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In the Ring: Resurrecting the Resurrection
Ringside Preachers and Craft of Preaching join forces to bring you this special edition podcast discussing "Christianity Without Christendom." with Rev. Dr. Jeff Gibbs from Concordia Seminary St. Louis.
In the Ring: Scandalous Power of the Church
What is the real power that drives the Christian Church, even today? Ringside Preachers and Craft of Preaching join forces to bring you this special edition podcast discussing "Christianity Without Christendom." with Dr. Erik Herrmann from Concordia Seminary St. Louis.
In the Ring: Preaching and Creating Community
Ringside Preachers and Craft of Preaching join forces to bring you this special edition podcast discussing the topic "Christendom Without Christianity." with Rev. Dr. Peter Nafzger from Concordia Seminary St. Louis.
Low Anthropology with David Zahl
Guest David Zahl talk with the preachers about his upcoming book!
Don’t Need to Explain the Trinity
We are all veterans of some sort. Wounded from little wars with no heroes welcome and scars disguised as character flaws. Let the dead bury their own. Grab a seat, O weary soldiers. Let us entertain you with a fairy…
Ringside Has Been Slayed By The Spirit
Take a break from wailing at your own personal wailing wall made up of unfulfilled dreams, cold-hearted gods, and broken relationships. Pull the tab on a Schlitz and sit down for some yucking it up, and little Holy Spirit! We’ll…
What is Truth? Ask Our Youth and Live Studio Audience
Beneath the calm, within the light,
A hid unruly appetite
Of swifter life, a surer hope,
Strains every sense to larger scope,
Impatient to anticipate
The halting steps of aged Fate.
Now listen to Ringside.
Is Your Bible the Bible? Museum of the Bible with Dr. Jeff Kloha
Put down all the other documents you take for granted, light a cuban, drip some water on your sugar sitting in spoon over your Pernod’s, and consider the possibility that God’s thoughts are recorded down on papyrus.
Intersectionality and Preaching with Dennis Matyas
According to the make believe wokeness-ometer, Jesus qualifies as the most authoritative voice because he was the most oppressed. Poor Jew, not from Jerusalem, under Roman rule, betrayed by his own, even his friends, killed because of his identity. Listen…
Thoughts and Prayers and Other Cliches
Need a break from philanthropic looting and virtue signaling? Sit down in your nice new Pottery Barn fluffy sofa, grab your oat milk latte from the ‘bucks and join a real revolution: Ringside.
Paul Doesn’t Like Easter Egg Hunts
Need a resurrection in your life? Listen to Ringside.
Resurrection: Seeing is Not Believing
“Let no one fear death, for the Death of our Savior has set us free. He has destroyed it by enduring it. He destroyed Hell when He descended into it. He put it into an uproar even as it tasted…
Review of The Chosen and Other Topics with Guest Timothy Winterstein
While you are busy working at being passive in your righteousness, let God sanctify you through some holy words spoken by unholy men.
Will People Come Back?
We aren't cancelled yet. Maybe this will be the show! Come and witness history...
Limbaugh, Handshakes, and Jesus
Get behind me bourgie theology! Pick up your cross and turn on your radio to Ringside Preachers. Talking about Rush Limbaugh’s legacy, shaking hands like a man and not a fish, and you-know-who: Jesus.
It's OK to be Sad
Repent and believe the Good News! Everything is OK.
The End Begins in Christ: In the Ring with Dr. James Voelz
"Is all that we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?" Poe is wrong. Though we have lulled ourselves asleep, the reality is far brighter and beautiful than we imagine. Christ is risen and so shall we. The…
QAnon
Is it cooler to think there is a grand secret conspiracy based on human trafficking or that human trafficking happens far more often and far more normally than we are comfortable with? And how did we create a culture that…
Preaching in the Presence of God’s Kingdom: In the Ring with Dr. Jeff Pulse
Like needing to find a bathroom, the urgency of preaching the presence of God’s kingdom should be felt in the very inner being of every pastor. Not that anything has changed, but God is definitely demonstrating the vulnerability of sinners…
Meeting the End and the Beginning in Bread and Wine: In the Ring with Dr. Art Just
Experience the reality of God while the world is ending. Ringside Preachers, Craft of Preaching, and Dr. Arthur Just from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne explore how the real tangible gifts of God break through the shadows of this crumbling…
Mankind - Not God - Needs Demythologizing: In the Ring with John Pless
What does it look like to preach while the world is ending? Ringside Preachers, Craft of Preaching, and John Pless from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne tackle this topic from a practical and historical viewpoint after eating fried chicken livers…
Honoring Emperors
From the city begun by Mad Anthony in 1794, some mad preachers carry on the revolutionary spirit with some spirited talk about submitting to murderous immoral pagan emperors.
Interpreting the Times
In between boarding up your windows and hauling 5 lb. drums of peanut butter down to your basement, grab a hot rum toddy, pull your muck boots up, and inject yourself with a little reality in Jesus with the Preachers.
Merry Christmas! The World is Ending.
While you are comparing your presents and life to others, pour a Sidecar, turn off the Taylor Swift, and man up.