Podcast Overview

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460: Prenter - The Experience of Inner Conflict

11/13/26

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

When Worlds Collide. In this episode, we sit with Luther scholar, Regan Prenter, to discuss the reality of the Holy Spirit’s work. How does the reality of the Spirit’s work conflict with our ideas about participation in God’s work? How does the law affect human decisions? What occurs when sinners attempt to internalize the Holy Spirit? What is the point of the sinner’s suffering and death? How does the therapeutic attempt to reverse engineer the Spirit’s salvific work? What happens when the extra nos of Jesus’ imputed righteousness differ from the intra nos of our own autobiographical righteousness? This and much, much more on today’s podcast.
458: Prenter - Fundamental Difference Between Luther and the Enthusiasts

10/30/26

20 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

The Long and Winding Road. In this episode, we sit with the Holy Spirit to discuss moral law, free will, Christ crucified, and one of the longest rabbit trails we’ve ever been on; tracking two medieval scholastics to God’s bathroom window. We ask questions of those who edit Jesus’ words, question the benefits of not declaring the forgiveness of sin, and look at what happens when the Holy Spirit is sent into exile. All this and much, much more on this week’s episode of the podcast.
451: Listener Question on the Work of the Holy Spirit

08/29/26

13 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

All Apologies. In this episode, we respond to another listener question. What does it mean to “sit with a text” and yet be prepared at all times to give an apology for the hope that is in us? How does the Holy Spirit work in and through believers to testify to the truth about Jesus? Does the Spirit work through non-Christians, and if so, how and to what purpose? How has modern Christian evangelism differed from pre-modern evangelism and apologetics? What do the gospels teach us about the character of evangelism? This and much, much more in this week’s episode.
Christianity: Antidote to Progress with Eddie LaRow

08/04/26

4 mins

By Kelsi Klembara

Kelsi chat with author and editor, Eddie LaRow, about his forthcoming book, After Progress: How an Ancient Faith Roots a Restless Generation, the needs of those of us living in a digital age, and how those needs are met time and again by Christ and the cross.
Colossians 2:1-19 (Episode 446)

07/30/26

4 mins

By Daniel Emery Price | Erick Sorensen | Brian W. Thomas

Heart Circumcision Through Baptism
- New Testament
- Baptism
The Lutheran View of Baptism with Brian Thomas

06/08/26

5 mins

By Kelsi Klembara | Brian W. Thomas

Kelsi interviews Pastor Brian W. Thomas about his latest book with 1517 Publishing, ⁠By Water and the Word: God's Gift of Baptism for You⁠ at the latest Northwest Arkansas HWSS conference.
439: Rose - Explanation of UFO Phenomena

05/15/26

12 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

UFOs are Rebel Angels. In this episode, we read Father Seraphim Rose’s “classic” text, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, about the true nature of UFOs and the nefarious origins of modern narratives about extraterrestrials, spaceships, what’s “out there” in the universe, and so on. What do Christians have to say to a culture that is awash with UFO sightings and prolifically promises to “reveal the truth about UFOS”?
What Do Christians Have to Say About Hell?

05/15/26

5 mins

By Scott Keith | Caleb Keith | Bruce Hillman | Adam Francisco

The Thinking Fellows examine one of Christianity’s most difficult and avoided topics: hell.
- Hell
- Teachings of Christ
Faith and Fundraising? (Luke 21:1-4)

04/02/26

4 mins

By Daniel Emery Price | Scott Keith

In this episode of Tough Text, Daniel Price and Scott Keith examine Jesus’ teaching about the widow’s offering in Luke 21, challenging the common use of the passage as a fundraising sermon.
- Faith
- New Testament
Free Faith Not Free Will (HWSS 25)

03/19/26

4 mins

By Steven Paulson

In this episode, Dr. Steven Paulson speaks at the most recent Here We Still Stand Conference on Martin Luther’s teaching in The Bondage of the Will.
Acts 19:1-20 (Episode 429)

02/24/26

3 mins

By Daniel Emery Price | Erick Sorensen

Have You Heard of the Holy Spirit?
Mysticism Through Suffering

02/19/26

5 mins

By Steven Paulson | Caleb Keith

n this episode of the Outlaw God, Caleb Keith and Dr. Steven Paulson continue their look into suffering, the theology of the cross, and the historical context of mysticism in relation to faith.