In this episode, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss C.S. Lewis' thoughts on God being born a man.

Our Text: C.S. LEWIS - Mere Christianity (The Obstinate Toy Soldiers)

Show Notes:

6 Heretics Who Should Be Banned From Evangelicalism: A few church leaders who have just gone too far.

Theological Inception - Banned Books Episode 1

Pr. Riley's Sermon for Christmas 1

Seneca's Moral letters to Lucilius

"I have called you gods" - Psalm 82:6; John 10:34

Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov

Toy Story

Small Soldiers

Prometheus

Manducatio Oralis

BBC Broadcast of C.S. Lewis

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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.

Our Text: Martin Luther's Christmas Book, p. 30-31

Show Notes:

Roland Bainton, Reformation in the 16th Century

Bainton, Luther bio

A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio

Bad Religion Christmas

Seinfeld - Yada Yada

Immaculate Conception

Midi-chlorian

Time Magazine - Is God Dead?

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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.

Our Text: Martin Luther's Christmas Book, p. 28-29, Roland Bainton

Show Notes:

Roland Bainton, Reformation in the 16th Century

Bainton, Luther bio

The Magnificat, Luther

HWSS Riley talk

Seven Marks of the Church, Luther

Christ the Bodybuilder

Isenheim Altarpiece

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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.

Our Text: Shipwrecked At The Stable by Brennan Manning

Show Notes:

Planking with Brennan Manning, part 1

Virtue in the Wasteland

The New Logic of the Cross - Jeff Mallinson @ HWSS18

Kids in the Hall - Brain Candy

Three Kings Bread

Bar Dice

The Giving Tree

The Tale of Three Trees

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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.

Our Text: Shipwrecked At The Stable by Brennan Manning

Show Notes:

Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)

New Mysticism

Johnny Mathis Christmas

Manning Biography

Existentialism

Deep Thought - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Watchman

History of the Christmas Tree

Icarus (Documentary)

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This week, Gillespie and Riley tackle your questions and comments. We discuss election, Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Bible translations, Sunday School, and much, much more.

Our Text: There is no text this week, just your wonderful, probing, sometimes chaffing questions and comments.

Show Notes:

Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia by Allan D. Fitzgerald

Augustine of Hippo: A Biography First Edition, Forty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

by Peter Brown

Calvin's Institutes Book 3, Chapter 21

Lutheran Confessions, Solid Declaration, XI

Double-ended podcast recording

The Sunday School movement

Wilhelm Löhe

Thinking Fellows on Isalm #50 and #90

Forde episodes

Captivation of the Will - Forde

From Luther to Kierkegaard, Pelikan

A History of Lutheranism

F. Bente's Introduction to the Lutheran Confessions

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This week, Gillespie and Riley wrap up their reading of Gerhard Forde's "On Being a Theologian of The Cross." What are the ramifications for Christians when God creates (He does not find) that which is pleasing to Him?

Our Text: On Being a Theologian of the Cross, Gerhard Forde, Thesis 28

Show Notes:

Here We Still Stand 2019

Get Well Soon Roadkill

Hamlet

You Were Never Really Here

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Continuing their conversation from episode #31, Gillespie and Riley follow Gerhard Forde, and with him examine Luther's Heidelberg Disputation. This week, Aristotle, righteousness, and whose work is worth calling "good."

Our Text: On Being a Theologian of the Cross, Gerhard Forde, Part IV: "God's Work in Us: The Righteousness of Faith"

Show Notes:

David Goggins Instagram

Your Job is BS

The 10,000 hour rule

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Gillespie and Riley return this week, in conversation with Gerhard Forde about death, doing your best, and getting the "good" of works put in its proper place.

Our Text: On Being a Theologian of the Cross, Gerhard Forde, Part IV: "God's Work in Us: The Righteousness of Faith"

Show Notes:

The Offense of the Cross - Riley's talk from HWSS18

BB #29 & BB#30

Thinking Fellows - Absolution with Nestigen and Paulson

The Soul of Christianity

Here We Still Stand 2019

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Gillespie and Riley continue their conversation about thesis nineteen of Luther's Heidelberg Disputation (with commentary by Gerhard Forde), and what distinguishes a theologian of the cross from a theology of glory.

Our Text: On Being a Theologian of the Cross, Gerhard Forde, Section Three (Theses 19-21)

Show Notes:

Heidelberg Theses Article Series (1517)

Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris

Black Mirror

The Orville

Night of the Gun - David Carr

Lois Lowry - The Giver

Myth of Sisyphus - Camus

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) - Neil Young

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