EPISODE #90: Ted asks about looking to our self improvement to determine the status of our salvation. Rod talks about where we look for the truthfulness of the Gospel, what Luther said on the matter, and examines the real Source of our consolation and peace versus what is in our sinful hearts and behavior.
EPISODE #58: Ted asks about struggling with feelings of our faith in Jesus Christ getting weaker. Rod talks about how easy it is to get mired in feelings which don’t reflect the unchanging nature of the Object of that faith, and the factual truth of it, and what we can look to for assurance to remind us that the Author…
EPISODE #56: Ted asks about what it means that Jesus’ disciples did as Jesus foretold and scattered, coming to the idea of ‘backsliding’ in our present day. Rod talks about whether the believer is hearing the Gospel preached to them FOR them, and was baptized, and is going to receive the Lord’s Supper, which is where we are absolved and…
EPISODE #45: Ted asks about the effect that a pastor with a good bedside manner can have on a sinner. Rod talks about how pastors who aren’t trained to have a good bedside manner have to fall back to their fathers, and about his experience being his father’s son and being trained in Springfield Seminary.