Banned Books

Featured text: "Amazing Grace" — John Newton

This week, Gillespie and Riley begin a four episode discussion on how to judge a hymn. In the first installment, they look at Amazing Grace and ask: "Is this a great, good, or bad hymn?" What makes a Christian hymn great? What should a church do with bad hymns?

Show Notes:

• Amazing Grace (Wikipedia)
• Amazing Grace: A Journey in Time and Faith
• Why Johnny Can't Sing Hymns: How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal
• Faith Plus One - South Park
• Psalms Devotions - Christ Hold Fast
• Wedding March - Wagner

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Featured text: "The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded" — John Bunyan

This week, Gillespie and Riley go live, reading, discussing, and responding to your questions and comments about Bunyan's writing on law and grace.

Text: The Doctrine of the Law and Grace Unfolded, John Bunyan

Show Notes:

• Banned Books LIVE
• American Gods
• Law and Gospel Lectures of CFW Walther

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Featured text: "The Schwabach Articles" — Martin Luther

In this episode, Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss the Schwabach Articles. Baptism, the Lord's Supper, Church, and all things churchy.

Text: The Schwabach Articles, Sources and Contexts of The Book of Concord, trans. William R. Russel, p.83.

Show Notes:

• Banned Books #57 - Schwabach Articles, Part 1
• Banned Books LIVE
• Blues Brothers SWAT scene
• Beatles "All Together Now"
• Banned Books #56 - Marburg Articles
• Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Protestant Reformation - Thomas Tentler

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Featured text: "The Schwabach Articles" — Martin Luther

In this episode, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss The Schwabach Articles. Sin, faith, lots of Holy Spirit, and why the Schwabach Articles are the roots of Lutheran, Reformed, and Protestant confessions of faith.

Text: The Schwabach Articles, Sources and Contexts of The Book of Concord, trans. William R. Russel, p.83.

Show Notes:

• Banned Books LIVE
• Christendom - Capon
• Your Jesus Has Made You Well

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Featured text: "The Marburg Articles" — Martin Luther

In this episode, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss the Marburg Theses. The Reformers, Luther and Zwingli (and their colleagues), sat down to try to find common theological ground. What resulted has influenced the Church to this day.

Text: The Marburg Articles, Sources and Contexts of The Book of Concord, trans. William R. Russel, p.88.

Show Notes:

• Banned Books #55 - Zwingli
• Banned Books LIVE

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Featured text: "Sixty-seven Theses" — Ulrich Zwingli

This week, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Ulrich Zwingli's 67 Theses defending the theological reforms in Zurich. Zwingli is provocative, sometimes hyperbolic, but driven by a zeal for the reformation doctrine of Christ alone for the salvation of sinners apart from their works.

Text: Ulrich Zwingli Sixty-seven Theses, 27 January 1523

Show Notes:

• Zwingli bio
• Aquinas Episode
• Oswald Chambers episode
• Zaphod Beeblebrox
• The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology

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There are less than 100 tickets left for the Here We Still Stand conference, and it WILL sell out. Join us for three days of singing, teaching, food, and fellowship. Tickets are $199 and include all the sessions and your meals. But as a 1517 podcast network listener, you can save $25 by using the promo code: PNET19 at checkout. And if you want to be part of the live podcast pre-conference be sure to register for that as well. You can find all the information at www.herewestillstand.org

Featured text: "My Utmost for His Highest" — Oswald Chambers

This week, Gillespie and Riley give Oswald Chambers a second go-round, reading and discussing The Collision of God and Sin.

Text: The Collision of God and Sin, Oswald Chambers, His Utmost for Our Highest, April 12

Show Notes:

• My Utmost for His Highest
• Oswald Chambers bio
• Oswald Chambers - Complete & Effective Dominion
• Martyrology - Perpetua
• Bonnie Raitt
• Blazing Saddles - "Morons!"
• Jurgen Moltmann - The Crucified God
• Gaffigan - Hot Pockets
• Built on the Rock - Grundtvig
• Abide with Me
• Confession Concerning Christ's Supper (1528)
• You Are Forgiven (1517 Podcast Network)
• Water, Blood, and Spirit Crying (hymn)

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There are less than 100 tickets left for the Here We Still Stand conference, and it WILL sell out. Join us for three days of singing, teaching, food, and fellowship. Tickets are $199 and include all the sessions and your meals. But as a 1517 podcast network listener, you can save $25 by using the promo code: PNET19 at checkout. And if you want to be part of the live podcast pre-conference be sure to register for that as well. You can find all the information at www.herewestillstand.org

Featured text: "My Utmost for His Highest" — Oswald Chambers

Riley and Gillespie tackle a daily devotion from one of the OG's of the Holiness Movement, Oswald Chambers.

Text: "Complete and Effective Dominion," Oswald Chambers, His Utmost for Our Highest, April 12

Show Notes:

• My Utmost for His Highest
• Oswald Chambers bio
• Letters of Paul and Seneca
• The Good Place (Netflix)
• Ratzinger a.k.a. Benedict's Letter

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There are less than 100 tickets left for the Here We Still Stand conference, and it WILL sell out. Join us for three days of singing, teaching, food, and fellowship. Tickets are $199 and include all the sessions and your meals. But as a 1517 podcast network listener, you can save $25 by using the promo code: PNET19 at checkout. And if you want to be part of the live podcast pre-conference be sure to register for that as well. You can find all the information at www.herewestillstand.org

Featured text: "The Catechism of St. Thomas Aquinas: Baptism" — Thomas Aquinas

Riley and Gillespie dig into the Doctor Angelicus and his catechism on Baptism.

Text: The Catechism of St. Thomas Aquinas - BAPTISM

Show Notes:

• Bio
• Luther's Small Catechism - Baptism
• Council of Orange
• Faustus de Riez
• Slap a confirmand

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Featured text: "We Are All Called to Be Christian Communicators" — Beth Moore

Riley and Gillespie tackle a request from a listener to engage with Beth Moore, popular author and speaker among evangelical Christian women.

Text: WE ARE ALL CALLED TO BE CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATORS, Beth Moore

Show Notes:

• Video

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