Podcast Overview

Christopher Gillespie

303: Thomas Cranmer - The Collects of Easter

04/20/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Living on a Prayer! In this episode, we discuss the collects of Thomas Cranmer, which turns into a discussion of the collects of Veit Dietrich, which then turns into a discussion about a myriad of other topics regarding the Reformation teaching on prayer and vocation.
- Easter
- Prayer
302: Banned Books LIVE HOLY WEEK Q&A

04/07/23

7 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

And We Are Live! In this episode, we go live for Holy Week and answer listeners' questions: election, repentance, the church, law and gospel, and on and on we go.
301: Nestigen - The Two Kingdoms Distinction

04/05/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Distinct, But Not Divided. In this episode, we discuss the Christian doctrine of the two kingdoms and its consequences for the Christian life while reading James Nestigen's "The Two Kingdoms Distinction."
300: C.S. Lewis - A Grief Observed

03/27/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Are We Just Rats in a Maze? In this episode, we discuss grief, mourning, death, and hope while reading C.S. Lewis’s book, A Grief Observed.
299: Philipp Nicolai - The Joy of Eternal Life

03/18/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

I’ve Got That Joy, Joy, Joy, Down in My Heart. In this episode, we discuss death, rebirth, and eternal life as examined and explained in The Joy of Eternal Life by Philip Nikolai.
298: Gregory P. Schulz - Baptized to Die

03/15/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

A Harsh & Necessary Conversation About Death. In this episode, we discuss death and resurrection concerning the death of a child from Gregory P. Schulz’s book, The Problem of Suffering: A Father’s Hope.
297: Norman Nagel - A Lenten Sermon

03/08/23

7 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Red, Red Wine… In this episode, we discuss Norman Nagel’s Lenten sermon on Jesus’ parable of the vineyard workers, focusing on the gift-giving God and what interferes with Jesus being a gift for us.
- Lent
- Preaching
- Sermons
296: Bo Giertz - Christ’s Church: The Parish Church

03/01/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Say Hello to My Little Church! In this episode, we discuss Christ’s church and all its vagaries and particularities as expressed in Bo Giertz’s book, Christ’s Church.
295: Melanchthon - The people of God are not made by fleshly propagation and the worship of the Law

02/22/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Is It True, Or Is It Truly True? In this episode, we discuss election, true and false church, law, mercy, and why we can’t stop judging the Gospel as we read Philip Melanchthon’s 1541 commentary on Paul’s letter to the Romans.
294: Paulson - Trying to Believe in Double Predestination

02/15/23

7 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley | Steven Paulson

Predestination Is Sick! In this episode, we discuss Steven Paulson’s book, The Outlaw God, focusing our conversation on double presentation, preaching God’s electing promise to sinners, and the consequences of worshipping a philosophical-material god. What are the consequences for people who don’t have a preacher of God’s promise? What does God’s promise have to say to those who believe all people will go to heaven when they die? What are the consequences for sinners when they try to know God apart from the promise?
293: Capon - All God Needs to Make a Preacher is a Nobody

02/08/23

7 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Dirt Naps Are For The Living. In this episode, we wrap up our discussion of Robert Capon’s, The Foolishness of Preaching, focusing on preaching forgiveness, insisting that the dead reform their deadness, and the consequences of high anthropology.
292: Capon - Foolishness of Preaching

02/01/23

7 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Your Guilt Is Misplaced. In this episode, we discuss Robert Capon’s book, The Foolishness of Preaching. We focus on Capon’s argument for why death and resurrection must be preached for a sermon to be rightly called a Christian sermon, for it to be a Gospel proclamation, and the consequences for preachers who avoid addressing sin, death, and forgiveness of sins.
- Preaching
- Proclamation