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296: Bo Giertz - Christ’s Church: The Parish Church

March 1, 2023 | 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

February 22, 2023 | 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

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?

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293: Capon - All God Needs to Make a Preacher is a Nobody

February 8, 2023 | 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

February 1, 2023 | 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.

291: Schleiermacher - The Death of the Saviour the End of All Sacrifices

January 25, 2023 | By Christopher Gillespie, Donavon Riley
Isn’t That A Daisy? In this episode, we discuss Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Good Friday sermon, focusing on preaching the cross, where to locate sin, what effect the law has on our external works, and why a proclaimer is necessary to get the Gospel.

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290: Schaeffer - A Protestant Evangelical Speaks to His Lutheran Friends

January 16, 2023 | By Christopher Gillespie, Donavon Riley
Francis & The Sunshine Band. In this episode, we discuss Francis Schaeffer’s ecumenical address to Lutherans, the consequences of seeking church unity using legal categories, the dilemma with Christian purity, the distinction between the hidden and revealed church, and why it matters.

288: Tertullian - What then has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

January 5, 2023 | By Christopher Gillespie, Donavon Riley
How I Met Your Other Mother. In this episode, we discuss Tertullian on Heresies, especially the relationship of philosophy to theology, and how to pastorally address heresies past and present.

287: 1 Clement - Let our whole body be kept in working order in Christ Jesus

January 2, 2023 | By Christopher Gillespie, Donavon Riley
Welcome to the Church, Can I Take Your Order? In this episode, we discuss Clement of Rome on the Church, especially good order, fruits of faith, and why the congregation at Corinth shouldn’t run off its pastors.

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285: R.C. Sproul - The Birth of Jesus

December 21, 2022 | By Christopher Gillespie, Donavon Riley
Let’s Not Talk About Love. In this episode, we discuss R.C. Sproul’s Christmas sermon wherein he preaches on the Gospel of Luke chapter 2. The espresso kicked in early, and we read through the whole sermon before diving deep into the distinction between exposition and proclamation, so buckle up. Riley talks too much while Gillespie exercises patience and restraint.

284: Early Church Fathers on the Birth of Jesus

December 19, 2022 | By Christopher Gillespie, Donavon Riley
Is It Too Early for Jesus’ Birth? In this episode, we read excerpts from various early church fathers on Jesus’ birth, with a heavy emphasis on the historicity of God’s incarnation. What part did earthly signs play in announcing Jesus’ birth? Why did it matter to the early fathers that God was born on an actual day, in an actual place, at an actual time? Do we at the present place the same emphasis as the early fathers on Jesus’ birth?

283: Luther - It is true that the child was born of the virgin and is mine

December 16, 2022 | By Christopher Gillespie, Donavon Riley
It’s Addressed To You. Open It! In this episode, we discuss Martin Luther’s sermon on Luke 2 for Christmas afternoon. What’s the consequence of the “to you” and “for you” of Luke’s Gospel message for Christians?

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2015 - 2023
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