Look: You’ve Got Two Choices, Well, Maybe One... Or None. Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Martin Luther’s work on The Bondage of The Will. This week, the discussion focuses on where there’s room for choice [as regards to our salvation] when right and left-hand kingdoms are already ruled by Christ and Satan.

What I Choose Is My Choice! Gillespie and Riley continue their reading and discussion of Luther’s treatise on the bound will. This episode, what happens when God’s election of sinners in Christ Jesus is de-emphasized?

When we hear freedom, we have to ask about its opposite, bondage.

You Want The Truth? You Can’t Handle The Truth! Gillespie and Riley begin their series on "The Bondage of The Will," one of only two books Martin Luther wrote that he claimed were worth preserving. In this episode, we begin at the end.

Like the younger son, we can return to our Father every time our sinful hearts rebel against him. Like the older brother, we can complain and lament to our Father without fear of being destroyed.

Where American freedom shouts for individual rights and liberties, freedom in Christ binds neighbors together because our blessings are for each other.

We would rather be God ourselves. But, being God is always beyond our grasp.

This episode of the Thinking Fellows opens to the peasants revolt and the radical reform of Thomas Müntzer. To round out the show the Conversation moves to the Bondage of the Will and the begining of Luther’s family life.

Advent is one big answer to the question of free will in matters of salvation. God is free. Our will is bound.

This is the seventh installment in our special series on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation. Translation of Theses 13, 14 and 15 by Caleb Keith.

God preaches a concrete word to us in the present tense. We hear the Good News that Jesus is God’s mercy for us.

The folly of sinful man attempting to bridge such an infinite gap to God Who is holy becomes obvious.