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  • 130: Martin Luther - The Totality of a Christian's Wisdom is to be Unacquainted with the Law

    Featured text: "Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle To the Galatians (1535)" — Martin Luther

    Badges? We Don't Need No Stinking Badges! Gillespie and Riley continue their discussion of Martin Luther's Galatians commentary. In this episode, more talk about active and passive righteousness, and the practical consequences of confusing law and Gospel, the two kingdoms, and active and passive righteousness.

    Text: Martin Luther's Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle To the Galatians (1535)

    Show Notes:

    • Martyr Made Podcast
    • Making Sense #197: Sam Harris

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    36 min
  • 129: Martin Luther - The Difference between Christian Righteousness and All Others Types of Righteousness

    Featured text: "Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle To the Galatians (1535)" — Martin Luther

    Sit still; this won't hurt... much. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Martin Luther's Galatians commentary. This episode, active and passive righteousness.

    Text: Martin Luther's Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle To the Galatians (1535)

    Show Notes:

    • The Bondage of the Will - Martin Luther Banned Books series
    • 97: Martin Luther, "Scripture with Its 'Internal' and 'External' Clarity" from "The Bondage of The Will"
    • Seculosity - David Zahl

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    50 min
  • 128: Interlude, Rumination, and Pastoral Debrief on Pandemics, Maturity, and Vocation

    The show is about nothing! Gillespie and Riley read nothing in this episode. Instead, it's pastoral care debrief about the quarantine, worship, and how to balance faith and love.

    Show Notes:

    • 109: Viktor Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning," part 1
    • 110: Viktor Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning," part 2
    • The Problem of Suffering: A Father's Hope by Gregory Schulz
    • Young Men in Fire, Norman McLean

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    46 min
  • 127: Martin Luther - Self-Righteousness from Works Produces Idiots Like the Galatians

    Featured text: "Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle To the Galatians (1535)" — Martin Luther

    It's very beautiful and very cold, and you're not allowed to touch anything. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Martin Luther's Galatians commentary. This episode, the easiest way to get rid of Jesus.

    Text: Martin Luther's Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle To the Galatians (1535)

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    56 min
  • 126: Martin Luther - Let's Hear It for Self-Righteousness and Its Fifty Select Virtues Resulting from Works!

    Featured text: "Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle To the Galatians (1535)" — Martin Luther

    Oh, he's very popular... they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Martin Luther's Galatians commentary. This episode, self-righteousness, false virtue, and human works.

    Text: Martin Luther's Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle To the Galatians (1535)

    Show Notes:

    • Wag the Dog

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    44 min
  • 125: Martin Luther - The Papists and Anabaptists are foxes tied at the tail

    Featured text: "Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle To the Galatians (1535)" — Martin Luther

    Luther moves pretty fast. You don't stop and read carefully once in a while, you could miss it. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Martin Luther's commentary on Galatians (1535). This episode, Jesus, jerks, COVID-19, and foxes.

    Text: Martin Luther's Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle To the Galatians (1535)

    Show Notes:

    • Astonished Heart BB series
    • If I were the devil - Paul Harvey

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    45 min
  • 124: Martin Luther - We are justified... by relief outside of us

    Featured text: "Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle To the Galatians (1535)" — Martin Luther

    Luther's Gospel Piñata! Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Martin Luther's 1535 Galatians commentary. This episode, true wisdom, Satan, and the point of Paul's letter to the Galatian church.

    Text: Martin Luther's Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle To the Galatians (1535)

    Show Notes:

    • Jefferson's Bible

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    And lastly, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast.

    37 min
  • 123: Friedrich Nietzsche, A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god

    Featured text: "The Antichrist" — Friedrich Nietzsche

    I'm Not Really A Joiner. Gillespie and Riley finish their reading and discussion of Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." This episode, state religion, Christian civil religion, and being your own god.

    Text: The Antichrist (1888), Aphorisms 16

    Show Notes:

    • Nietzsche (bio)

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    And lastly, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast.

    50 min
  • 122: Friedrich Nietzsche, Neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality

    Featured text: "The Antichrist" — Friedrich Nietzsche

    Welcome to A Church of Pure Imagination. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." This episode, what happens when Christianity disconnects itself from what's concrete and real, especially the incarnation of God.

    Text: The Antichrist (1888), Aphorisms 15

    Show Notes:

    • Nietzsche (bio)
    • Problem of Evil
    • When Bad Things Happen to Good People - Rabbi Harold Kushner
    • Warrior Priest Podcast
    • Free Solo

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    48 min
  • 121: Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity is Called the Religion of Pity

    Featured text: "The Antichrist" — Friedrich Nietzsche

    All right, let's put a pin in this, I gotta help your pathetic faith. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." How does the Christian church promote weak piety and a denial of life? How does Christianity as a religion of pity weaken believers and society? What happens to Christianity when it mixes philosophy and theology together?

    Text: The Antichrist (1888), Aphorisms 7 & 8

    Show Notes:

    • Nietzsche (bio)
    • Strange Brew (1983)
    • Jocko Podcast 219: Auschwitz. You Had To Have Guts To Survive. With Rose Schindler. Two Who Survived

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    And lastly, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast.

    57 min

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