1. Today on the Almanac, we look back at TIME Magazine’s Cover story on C.S. Lewis in 1948.
  2. Welcome to Christianity on Trial, where the claims of Christianity are examined and judged by the rules of evidence as used in the court of law. Your host, Dr. John Warwick Montgomery, is a lawyer, a theologian, an author, and an accomplished defender of biblical Christianity. He is no stranger to the rules of evidence or the courtroom. So with our skeptical world for the prosecution and Dr. John Warwick Montgomery for the defense, stay with us as we listen in on Christianity on Trial.
  3. Caleb and Scott take a break from the Book of Concord to address listener comments and questions.
  4. עצב - Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? JOB 10:8–11
  5. Today on the Almanac, we remember the unfortunate fate of a man whose name has come to mean things he didn’t believe.
  6. Dr. Paulson continues to talk about trial by observing the different ways the story of Abraham has been taught.
  7. פורים - Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them. But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. ESTHER 9:24–26
  8. Today on the Almanac, we go to the mailbag to answer a question about saints in the history of the church.
  9. חומה - And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres. NEHEMIAH 12:27
  10. Today on the Almanac, we remember the story behind one of the church’s most beloved hymns.
  11. דרשׁ - Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given... Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. EZRA 7:6, 10