TOPIC INDEXChristmas (16)

  1. 38: "Martin Luther’s Christmas Book," p. 30-31

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    01/02/19
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    The Brutal, Humiliating, Joyous Christmas Gospel! Gillespie and Riley return this week with another episode dedicated to Martin Luther's Christmas sermon. This time, they dig into the underlying brutality of the Christmas Gospel, Mary's humiliation, and Joseph's dilemma.

  2. 37: "Martin Luther’s Christmas Book," p. 28-29

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    12/25/18
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Christmas: the Perfect Time of Year for a Theologian of the Cross! In this episode, Gillespie and Riley read from a Christmas sermon by their favorite heretic, Martin Luther. They discuss Mary's example of how God makes theologians of the cross through suffering, oppression, weakness, and hopelessness.

  3. 36: "Shipwrecked At The Stable" by Brennan Manning pt. 2

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    12/19/18
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Planking with Brennan Manning... Gillespie and Riley follow up their reading of Brennan Manning's Advent Meditation, "Shipwrecked at The Stable" by discussing why Roman Catholic theology, as Manning presents it, is so appealing to Protestants.

  4. 35: "Shipwrecked At The Stable" by Brennan Manning

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    12/12/18
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Planking with Brennan Manning... This week, Gillespie and Riley dive into Brennan Manning's Advent Meditation, "Shipwrecked at The Stable," and they go deep into Manning's expression of Roman Catholic theology.