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  1. 457: Post-Conference Debrief

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    10/23/26
    13 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    I Long to Tell the Story of… Bondage and Grace. In this episode, we hold a pastoral debrief where we discuss the 2026 “Here We Still Stand conference,” the preaching method of Rev. Dr. James Nestingen, how the stories we tell confess our bondage to sin, and what is being done by Christ to break us free. Lots of stories, exegesis, and pastoral discussion on this episode of the podcast.
    457: Post-Conference Debrief

  2. 456: Nestingen - The Gospel and Repentance

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    10/05/26
    13 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough! In this episode, we continue our conversation about repentance, reading Rev. Dr. James Nestingen’s article on the Gospel and Repentance. We discuss Luther's view of the Gospel’s relationship to repentance, preaching a doable law, and what awaits those who leave the Church in a state of unrepentance. This and much, much more on this week’s episode of the podcast.
    456: Nestingen - The Gospel and Repentance

  3. 455: Nestingen - Preaching Repentance Is a Problem

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    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.
    455: Nestingen - Preaching Repentance Is a Problem

  4. 451: Listener Question on the Work of the Holy Spirit

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    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.
    451: Listener Question on the Work of the Holy Spirit

  5. Episode # 18 "1 Corinthians 8:1-9

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    08/17/26
    4 mins
    By Rod Rosenbladt
    Dr Rosenbladt Teaches On 1 Corinthians 8:1-9
    Episode # 18

  6. Episode # 486 Featuring Pastor Edward Killian "Suffering As A Christian"

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    08/16/26
    4 mins
    By Edward Killian
    Pastor Killian Teaches On 1 Peter 4:12-21
    Episode # 486 Featuring Pastor Edward Killian

  7. Episode # 17 "1 Corinthians 7:36-40"

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    08/10/26
    4 mins
    By Rod Rosenbladt
    Dr Rosenbladt Teaches On 1 Corinthians 7:36-40
    Episode # 17

  8. Episode #485 Featuring Pastor Edward Killian "The Way, The Truth, And The Life"

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    08/09/26
    4 mins
    By Edward Killian
    Pastor Killian Teaches on John 14:1-14
    Episode #485 Featuring Pastor Edward Killian

  9. Episode # 16 "1 Corinthians 7:10-24

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    08/03/26
    4 mins
    By Rod Rosenbladt
    Dr Rosenbladt Teaches On 1 Corinthians 7:10-24
    Episode # 16

  10. Episode # 484 Featuring Pastor Edward Killian "On Christ's Ascension I Now Build"

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    08/02/26
    4 mins
    By Edward Killian
    Pastor Killian Teaches on Luke 24:44-53
    Episode # 484 Featuring Pastor Edward Killian

  11. 447: Forde - The Argument about Christ and Salvation

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    08/01/26
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Ride On… In this episode, we engage a listener question — is Lutheran teaching double predestination within his debate with Erasmus? How are we to understand arguments for the bound will, such as: “Man’s will is like a beast standing between two riders. If God rides, it wills and goes where God wills… If Satan rides, it wills and goes where Satan wills. Nor may it choose to which rider it will run, or which it will seek; but the riders themselves fight to decide who shall have and hold it”? And so, we discuss God’s will, divine necessity, predestination versus election, the preacher's vocation, the effects of free will theology on American churches, the scandal of arguing for a bound will in relation to Christ, and much, much more on this episode of the Banned Books podcast.
    447: Forde - The Argument about Christ and Salvation

  12. Episode # 483 Featuring Pastor Edward Killian "The Road To Emmaus"

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    07/26/26
    4 mins
    By Edward Killian
    Pastor Killian Teaches On Luke 24:13-35
    Episode # 483 Featuring Pastor Edward Killian