1. As Gen Z and Gen Alpha grow into adolescence and early adulthood, what hope should we have for the future of the church?
  2. Just like there is pressure to have Instagram-worthy devotions everyday, there can be a pressure to have family devotions--with your husband leading.
  3. מחשׁבה - “For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." JEREMIAH 29:10–11
  4. דודאים - Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages; let us go out early to the vineyards... There I will give you my love. The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved. SONG OF SONGS 7:11–13
  5. Mike and Wade discuss the two kingdoms (or spheres, realms, etc.) and the Christian life as part of both church and state in light of the fourth chapter of Althaus' The Ethics of Martin Luther for Wade's PHI 201 course.
  6. Caleb, Scott, and Rod walk through the Apostles Creed and Luther’s explanations.
  7. On this day, we observe the Feast of the Innocents. We remember Pierre Bayle, who died on this day in 1706. The reading is "That Rage Whereof the Psalm Doth Say" by George Wither.
  8. There's Something About Mary — Gillespie and Riley dive deep into an early church argument about Mary, why a bishop named Nestorius, and Mohammed, rejected the virgin birth, and why it's important to discuss the topic today.
  9. Scott and Caleb are joined by pastors Bob Hiller and Paul Koch to talk about their new project The Craft of Preaching.
  10. On episode TWENTY-FIVE of Let the Bird Fly! the guys take podcasting self-indulgence to a whole new level by discussing the paths that led them to join forces on Let the Bird Fly!