1. Today on the Christian History Almanac podcast, we look at an important date in the history of Poland and her church.
  2. Why? Why? Why? We read and discuss Dostoevsky’s parable of the Grand Inquisitor. What happens when we discuss evil and the work of the evil one apart from God’s Word, his preacher, and Christ’s cross?
  3. Today on the Almanac, we discuss the story of the Russian Orthodox in Alaska.
  4. קשׁה ערף - “Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people." DEUTERONOMY 9:6
  5. The year was 1717. Today we remember the Bangorian Controversy and the questions it raised about church authority. The reading is from John Newton.
  6. אברהם שׂרה - No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations... As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name... kings of peoples shall come from her. (GENESIS 17:5, 15–16)
  7. The year was 1703. We remember the first Lutheran pastor ordained in the New World, Justus Falckner. The reading is from Pamela Cranston, "Poem for Christ the King."
  8. On this day, we remember St. Scholastica, d. 543, and Dominique Pire, b. 1910. The reading is a quote from "The Foolishness of Preaching" by Robert Farrar Capon.
  9. Jesus sets His face toward Jerusalem as the disciples struggle with greatness.
  10. Chad and Daniel start chapter 6 of Deuteronomy. God tells the people to listen and to teach the word of God. What is the significance of the language of milk and honey?
  11. Before Moses smashes the 10 commandments and makes the people drink their idol, he has a strange discussion with God. Can you change God's mind?