Donavon Riley

  1. 241: Sasse - There is no Christian state

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    03/09/22
    5 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Old Adam Creates Six Alternate Legal Theories. In this episode, we conclude our discussion of Hermann Sasse - What is the State? What’s the relation of the state to the church as regards authority, law, justice, and morality?
    241: Sasse - There is no Christian state

  2. 240: Sasse - All religion, no matter how disfigured and deformed, finally refers back to an original revelation

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    03/04/22
    8 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Changnesia About God’s Original Revelation. In this episode, we discuss Hermann Sasse - What is the State? What’s the difference between God’s law preached lawfully and old Adam’s legal theory.
    240: Sasse - All religion, no matter how disfigured and deformed, finally refers back to an original revelation

  3. 239: Bayer - The grace of God opens eyes and ears and hearts and mouths and hands

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    02/26/22
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    A Very Merry Apocalypse! In this episode, we conclude our reading of Living By Faith: Justification and Sanctification by Oswald Bayer. We discuss the old world and new creation, death and new life, God unpreached and preached, and much more!
    239: Bayer - The grace of God opens eyes and ears and hearts and mouths and hands

  4. 238: Bayer - Faith is wholly and entirely God’s work

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    02/21/22
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    We Don’t Progress, We Die… And Live Anew. In this episode, we read and discuss Living By Faith: Justification and Sanctification by Oswald Bayer. What’s the impact of distinguishing between God unpreached and preached? Why does God attack and kill us, and why is it necessary that we die and riseunspla to live a new life in Christ?
    238: Bayer - Faith is wholly and entirely God’s work

  5. 237: Paulson - Genesis is either the preached God speaking, or is the myth/science of the unpreached God

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    02/13/22
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    No Weaklings in The Gene Pool! In this episode, we conclude our discussion of Darwin’s Origin of Species. What is so appealing to Darwin about Genesis 1? Why would one choose death by the law to the Gospel? How does Jesus up-end one’s reading of Genesis and the law?
    237: Paulson - Genesis is either the preached God speaking, or is the myth/science of the unpreached God

  6. 236: Paulson - Nature’s life without a preacher is forensic: being judged and judging

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    02/06/22
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    The Unpreached Selector. In this episode, we continue to discuss Charles Darwin and life without a preacher. What is the purpose of procreation for natural selection? How does one survive without a preacher? How much law is too much law when the true God is hidden and unpreached?
    236: Paulson - Nature’s life without a preacher is forensic: being judged and judging

  7. Paulson - Darwin’s real problem is … the command of God that has no restraint

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    02/04/22
    8 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Darwin & The Gilmore Girls. How is Darwin’s philosophy of Natural Selection just another Theology of Glory? What are the effects for the churches that have accepted Darwin’s philosophy of Natural Selection into their understanding of life, family, procreation, and the Gospel?
    Paulson - Darwin’s real problem is … the command of God that has no restraint

  8. 234: Paulson - Life without a Preacher… Darwin’s Origin of Species

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    01/26/22
    5 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Darwin’s Unseen Breeder. Why does Darwin run away from God’s preacher? How does Origin of Species rely on the doctrine of predestination for its evolutionary mooring? How do Christians at present uncritically accept Darwin’s philosophy?
    234: Paulson - Life without a Preacher… Darwin’s Origin of Species

  9. 233: Dreher - The Power of the Powerless Church

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    01/22/22
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Power Up, and Put Down The Hopium. In this episode, we finish our reading of "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" by Rod Dreher - courage, hope, and the power of Christ to convert and create dissent.
    233: Dreher - The Power of the Powerless Church

  10. 231: Dreher - Small Communities Can Rescue the Lone Individual

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    12/26/21
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Small Is Beautiful! In this episode, we continue our reading and discussion of Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher. This week, small faith communities are the basis for a strong Church and the opposition to oppressive regimes. And after the show, the pre-show as bonus material.
    231: Dreher - Small Communities Can Rescue the Lone Individual

  11. 230: Dreher - The Christian family is a Survival Strategy for Faith in a Time of Persecution

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    12/13/21
    6 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Go Big or Go & Go Home. In this episode, we continue to read Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher, and discuss the importance of nurturing a dissident faith and family in the midst of a godless, unrepentantly evil society.
    230: Dreher - The Christian family is a Survival Strategy for Faith in a Time of Persecution

  12. 229: Dreher - Family as an Effective Resistance to Totalitarianism

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    12/07/21
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    It’s Good to Be a Weird Family. In this episode, we continue our discussion about the Benda family in Live Not by Lies. Why is it important to raise weird children? What is the long-term impact of raising children to be Christian dissidents? How can we strengthen children to withstand worldly pressures to conform to normalcy?
    229: Dreher - Family as an Effective Resistance to Totalitarianism