Podcast Overview

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Augustine on the Modern Condition with Steve Kruschel

09/29/26

6 mins

By Kelsi Klembara | Steve Kruschel

Kelsi chats with pastor and author, Steve Kruschel, about his latest devotional, ⁠A Year of Confession with Augustine: 365 Daily Devotions for the Restless Heart⁠.
455: Nestingen - Preaching Repentance Is a Problem

09/26/26

13 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

In this episode, we sit with Rev. Dr. James Nestingen’s writing on the gospel and repentance. We talk at length not only about law and repentance, but also about the consequences of therapeutic culture for the preaching and reception of calls to repent in the churches. If the law is known by its uses, who is the user? What is it to have a God? What do you have if you have one? How does it work? How does the law summarize the non-negotiables of creaturely life? Can the devil use the law? What is the preacher’s use of the law? How does this lead us to the topic of repentance? All this and much, much more on this week’s podcast.
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.
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.
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.
424: Kleinig - The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Divine Service

01/16/26

8 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

In this episode, we learn about the Holy Spirit and the Divine Service from Dr. John Kleinig. In particular, we discuss how Christ gives the Spirit to the church through his word, how Christ institutes the divine service and empowers it with God’s Spirit, and how the church receives the Holy Spirit by faith in God’s word as it is proclaimed and enacted in the divine service. The conversation revolves around the central question: How then can we be sure that the Spirit is at work in our worship?
- Holy Spirit
- Liturgy
- Worship
- Faith
Grace and Absolution in Wake Up Dead Man with David Zahl

12/19/25

3 mins

By Kelsi Klembara | David Zahl

Kelsi chats with David Zahl about themes of faith and grace in Rian Johnson's newest film, Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man.
418: Luther - God will not deal with us except through his external Word and sacrament

11/28/25

8 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Son of a Preacher Man. In this episode, we conclude our study of Martin Luther’s Smalcald Articles, discussing the office of the keys and confession. We go through and sum up the previous episodes — the gospel, the mass, repentance, sin, and the law — then sit with the function and power of the forgiveness of sin. What is the office of the keys for? Where does it come from? Who gets to use the keys? Then, we talk over confession and its consequences for pastoral care and its effect on the churches.
416: Luther - To this office of the law, however, the New Testament immediately adds the consoling promise of grace through the gospel

11/13/25

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Don’t Look Back in Anger. In this episode, we continue reading Martin Luther’s Smalcald Articles, focusing on contrition, repentance, and freedom. Why does the law need to terrify and leave us hopeless? How does attention to the self lead us into death and hell? What happens when belief is preached as something “we do” rather than something “done to” us? Likewise, when repentance is self-activated and self-actuated, what are the consequences for our daily lives? This and much, much more on this episode of the show.
On Apathy and Excuses

09/10/25

4 mins

By Adam Francisco | David Andersen

David and Adam discuss religious apathy and the excuses people give for avoiding church.
Spiritual but not religious, nones, et cetera episode artwork

09/03/25

4 mins

By Adam Francisco | David Andersen

David and Adam begin a conversation on what to think and do about the religiously unaffiliated--those who claim to be spiritual but not religious and/or check the "none" box on religious surveys.