This week, Gillespie and Riley answer your questions and respond to your comments.

Show Notes:

• Episode 34 - Billy Graham
• John Kleinig - Concordia Commentary on Leviticus
• John Kleinig's site
• Episode 21 - William Seymour
• Episode 45 - Dostoevsky
• Gay Clergy Scandal
• Reclaiming the Lutheran Liturgical Heritage - Oliver Olson
• Christianity in Roman Africa
• The Kite Runner

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Featured text: "Good Country People" — Flannery O'Connor

Gillespie and Riley go back to O'Connor's short story, Good Country People to discuss faith, humility, and the uncomfortable truth about ourselves.

Our Text: Good Country People, Flannery O'Connor

Show Notes:

• Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
• Link to Part 1: #46
• Biography (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
• Mark Twain - Letters from Earth

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Featured text: "Good Country People" — Flannery O'Connor

This week, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Flannery O'Connor's short story, Good Country People. What does it mean that someone is a good Christian?

Our Text: Good Country People, Flannery O'Connor

Show Notes:

• Biography (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

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Featured text: "The Idiot" — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This week, Gillespie and Riley read from Dostoevsky's novel, The Idiot, and discuss the roots of the Roman Catholic church, atheism, socialism, and distinguishing between Christ and the Gospel and our own need to be God in God's place.

Our Text: The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Show Notes:

• Ep: 104 Silence (Shusaku Endo and Martin Scorcese)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (Wikipedia)
• Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag
• The Gospel in Dostoevsky
• The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
• Gospel for Those Broken By the Church

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Featured text: "The Hammer of God" — Bo Giertz

This week , we read from Bo Giertz's novel, "The Hammer of God," and discuss belief, revivalism versus liturgy, and what happens when Jesus alone is the focus of all our attention.

Our Text: Hammer of God, p.122-123ff

Show Notes:

• Luther the Seelsorger
• Sereneity - Shepherd Book death scene
• Liturgy and Spiritual Awakening - Bo Giertz
• 1517 article: "Defeat Evil with the Good"
• Schartau sermon preached at Lund, Transfiguration

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Featured text: "Christ's Answer to the World" — Billy Graham

In this episode, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Billy Graham's sermon, and the consequences of preaching law after the Gospel, adverbs, and the importance of staying away from God where He isn't preached, revealed, and worshipped in Christ Jesus.

Our Text: BILLY GRAHAM - Christ's Answer to the World (Sermon)

Show Notes:

• Billy Graham
• Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
• Another sermon from 1958

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Featured text: "William Barclay: A Spiritual Autobiography" — William Barclay

This week, Gillespie and Riley read from William Barclay's spiritual biography, whether all people go to heaven.

Our Text: William Barclay - "I am a Convinced Universalist", from William Barclay: A Spiritual Autobiography, pg 65-67, William B Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, 1977.

Show Notes:

• William Barclay Biography
• Transcendence
• Ex Machina
• Black Mirror
• Now... okay, so, angels as people, tell me about that. Walk me through it. Origen, Commentary on John, Book II, section 25.
• Righteousness - Thinking Fellows

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Featured text: "Against Two Letters of the Pelagians" — Augustine

In this episode, Gillespie and Riley read St. Augustine's response to the Pelagians, who used his earlier writings against him, about misrepresentation concerning the effect of baptism.

Our Text: ST. AUGUSTINE - Against Two Letters of the Pelagians (Book III) (Misrepresentation Concerning the Effect of Baptism)

Show Notes:

Pelagius & Pelagians

Semipelagianism

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Featured text: "Letters of Spiritual Counsel" — Martin Luther

This week, Gillespie and Riley read a pastoral letter written by Martin Luther advising a friend to not avoid being a sinner and put all his sins on Christ, who became the chief of sinners for us.

Our Text: MARTIN LUTHER - Letters of Spiritual Counsel, p. 109-111

Show Notes:

Theodore Tappert

Confession Concerning Christ's Supper

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Featured text: "Mere Christianity" — C.S. Lewis

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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