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  1. 194b: Luther - Our knowledge of God is merely passive

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    03/01/21
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Just Sit Back and Let It Happen. In this episode, we continue our reading of Martin Luther’s Galatians lectures. This week, passive faith, internalizing virtue, and the law of the jungle.

  2. 194a: Luther - God’s will is to bless all nations... through Christ

    book
    02/23/21
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Free Will Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be. In this episode, more from Luther’s Galatians lectures. This week, God’s will, free will, identity, and taking the moral low ground.

  3. 193b: Luther - Christ has made us free, not civilly, not physically, but divinely

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    02/20/21
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Free For It All. This week on the podcast, we continue our Lenten series on Christian freedom in Martin Luther’s Galatians lectures. In this episode, Gospel, Satan, and competing freedoms.

  4. 193a: Luther - It is for freedom that Christ has set us free

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    02/18/21
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Lent Is About Freedom. In this episode, we read Martin Luther’s 1525 Galatians commentary. Why is freedom a vulgar word to the old Adam? And we consider why freedom must be Lent's primary focus for Christians.

  5. How to Be Human Again

    book
    02/16/21
    9 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    Jesus Christ is our peace because he doesn't criticize us. He declares us freed from our perceptions to accept the truth about ourselves.

  6. Liberated to be Excitedly Ordinary

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    02/10/21
    6 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    We can celebrate what others consider mundane and ordinary because it's miraculous. After all, it's God-given.

  7. A Christian is Pulled Between Two Extremes

    book
    02/02/21
    9 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    Our anxiety about the future is a consequence of our old self’s attempts to achieve freedom for himself apart from Christ Jesus.

  8. The Gift of Marriage

    book
    11/11/20
    5 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    Unlike human marriage, which is marred by sin, Jesus never seeks to divorce us due to irreconcilable differences.

  9. In Christ, We Are Free to Vote, Work, and Worship

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    11/03/20
    8 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    This new life is marked not by fear of death but hope in eternal life.

  10. How God Wants to Be Known By Us

    book
    10/29/20
    6 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    We need a God who acts for us, each of us in particular. We need a God who sticks to His Word that He will never abandon or forsake us.

  11. Killing in the Name of

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    10/27/20
    7 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    God uses the fifth commandment to protect us from selfishness, prevent us from only thinking about our needs, and to drive us to Christ and our neighbors.

  12. What a Friend We Have in Jesus

    book
    09/01/20
    6 mins
    By Donavon Riley
    What greater friend could we have than Jesus?
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