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  1. 449: Marquart - Luther and Theosis, part 2

    book
    08/15/26
    13 mins
    By Donavon Riley | Christopher Gillespie
    As Alive As You Need Me to Be… Again. In this episode, we continue our wandering through church history and doctrine, conversing with Kurt Marquart as he explains justification, sanctification, and theosis. Inside this is a layer of cultural criticism, and beneath that, a layer of pastoral debriefing — and a stained-glass viewing of Scripture, art, music, worship, and much, much more.
    449: Marquart - Luther and Theosis, part 2

  2. Colossians 2:20-3:17 (Episode 447)

    book
    08/06/26
    3 mins
    By Erick Sorensen | Daniel Emery Price | Brian W. Thomas
    Clothed In Christ
    Colossians 2:20-3:17 (Episode 447)

  3. 447: Forde - The Argument about Christ and Salvation

    book
    08/01/26
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Ride On… In this episode, we engage a listener question — is Lutheran teaching double predestination within his debate with Erasmus? How are we to understand arguments for the bound will, such as: “Man’s will is like a beast standing between two riders. If God rides, it wills and goes where God wills… If Satan rides, it wills and goes where Satan wills. Nor may it choose to which rider it will run, or which it will seek; but the riders themselves fight to decide who shall have and hold it”? And so, we discuss God’s will, divine necessity, predestination versus election, the preacher's vocation, the effects of free will theology on American churches, the scandal of arguing for a bound will in relation to Christ, and much, much more on this episode of the Banned Books podcast.
    447: Forde - The Argument about Christ and Salvation

  4. Colossians 2:1-19 (Episode 446)

    book
    07/30/26
    4 mins
    By Daniel Emery Price | Erick Sorensen | Brian W. Thomas
    Heart Circumcision Through Baptism
    Colossians 2:1-19 (Episode 446)

  5. Colossians 1:16-29 (Episode 445)

    book
    07/23/26
    4 mins
    By Daniel Emery Price | Erick Sorensen
    Filling Up What is Lacking in Christ’s Suffering
    Colossians 1:16-29 (Episode 445)

  6. Colossians 1:1-15 (Episode 444)

    book
    07/16/26
    4 mins
    By Daniel Emery Price | Erick Sorensen
    The Letter to a Small Church
    Colossians 1:1-15 (Episode 444)

  7. Galatians 5:16-6:18 (Episode 443)

    book
    07/10/26
    4 mins
    By Daniel Emery Price | Erick Sorensen
    The Flesh/Works vs The Spirit/Fruit
    Galatians 5:16-6:18 (Episode 443)

  8. Galatians 5:1-15 (Episode 442)

    book
    06/28/26
    4 mins
    By Daniel Emery Price | Erick Sorensen
    Freed To Be Free
    Galatians 5:1-15 (Episode 442)

  9. Galatians 4:1-31 (Episode 441)

    book
    06/22/26
    4 mins
    By Daniel Emery Price | Erick Sorensen
    God Has Made A Decision About You
    Galatians 4:1-31 (Episode 441)

  10. 444: Tertullian - A Proper Seeking After Divine Knowledge is Always Within the Rule of Faith

    book
    06/19/26
    13 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    The Times They Are A-Changin’. In this episode, we sit with Tertullian’s writing on “Prescription against Heretics.” What is “the rule of faith”? What constitutes a proper seeking after divine knowledge? What does Tertullian mean by “Heretics Encourage and Perpetuate Thought Independent of Christ's Teaching”? What does he mean by “Restless Curiosity, the Feature of Heresy”? Should heretics not to be allowed to argue out of the Scriptures?
    444: Tertullian - A Proper Seeking After Divine Knowledge is Always Within the Rule of Faith

  11. Galatians 3:1-29 (Episode 440)

    book
    06/13/26
    4 mins
    By Daniel Emery Price | Erick Sorensen
    The Foolishness of Being Justified Through the Law
    Galatians 3:1-29 (Episode 440)

  12. 442: Giertz - A Shepherd's Letter

    book
    06/05/26
    11 mins
    By Donavon Riley | Christopher Gillespie
    We’re in This Together. In this episode, we sit with Bo Giertz and read his open letter to the churches — A Shepherd’s Letter. As translator, Bror Erickson says of the opening section (we read on the show), “Crises and Sources of Strength”: “Christians had been systematically persecuted by the Nazis, and this systematic persecution continued in soviet countries. However, in Western Europe, church leaders like Bo Giertz saw how increasing industrialization was also assisting an increasing secularism. There were huge population shifts into the city, and people lost track of the church even as the church lost track of the people during these shifts. Some political parties were also actively hostile to the church. The trends toward secularism and atheism in the West have continued, of course, and have also become a point of consternation for believers even to this day. This age has not ceased to be evil since Paul designated it as such in Gal. 1:4. So the church continues and will continue to suffer crises, and so the essay “Crises and Sources of Strength” takes on a sort of timeless dimension that way.
    442: Giertz - A Shepherd's Letter