Halting Toward Zion

Now that we've covered the practices of the different Old Testament sacrifices, we're going to dive deeper into the function of the sacrifices, and the specific ways in which they testify to the perfect sacrifice of Christ.

This Episode Features: The Old Testament Sacrifices In Under Three Minutes; Society, Community, And Communion; Representation; Individual And Collective Guilt (And Hornets' Nests); Puppy Dogs And Pony Noses; "Everybody Kills Hitler On Their First Trip"; Hogtying God; Still Infinity; Emergency Baptism; and A Hungry Cat.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3cajyOX-htz-56

Links:

1 Corinthians 15: https://www.esv.org/1+Corinthians+15/

American Gospel: Christ Crucified (2020): https://amzn.to/3pOoahr

"Wikihistory" - Desmond Warzel: https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/comment-page-1/

"N.T. Wright and the New Perspective on Paul" - Ligon Duncan: https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/nt-wright-and-new-perspective-paul/

Fighting for the Faith - Chris Rosebrough: http://www.piratechristian.com/fightingforthefaith/

Recos:

The Shortest History of Europe - John Hirst: https://amzn.to/3p3UqNw

Principium - The Arcadian Wild: https://amzn.to/2Ky7VGd

1066 And All That - W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman: https://amzn.to/3bXU8E7

This week we're starting to look at the sacrificial system in the Old Testament: we'll look at each of the five main types of sacrifice, and consider what they communicated to the Old Testament saints, as well as what they communicate to us now in light of the New Testament.

This Episode Features: Hebrews 10; Ding! Gnosticism; Everyone Likes A Dead Animal, Right?; Levitical SparkNotes; Ritual Barbecue; Spring Cleaning; Caveats; and Legoland California.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3qol5Vx-htz-55

Links:

Hebrews 10: https://www.esv.org/Hebrews+10/

Leviticus 1-7: https://www.esv.org/Leviticus+1/

Recos:

Hebrews 10: https://www.esv.org/Hebrews+10/

A House for My Name - Peter Leithart: https://amzn.to/2MUXAoA

Biblical Theology - Geerhardus Vos: https://amzn.to/3bq6MeR

God in our Midst - Daniel R. Hyde: https://amzn.to/3qb2goB

Understanding Dispensationalists - Vern Poythress: https://amzn.to/3qaBwVj

Book Clubs

The Literary Life Podcast 19 in 2021 Reading Challenge: https://www.theliterary.life/19-in-2021-reading-challenge/

For the last couple of weeks we've been talking about the Justice system in ancient Israel; today we'll put that in the broader context of Israel's civil government. There's a lot that God doesn't tell us about the mechanics of administering the government, but there's a lot that He does tell us--and much of it emphasizes the necessity of a populace that knows God and His word.

This Episode Features: Written Law And Civil Liberties; Remedies For Oxen That Gore In The Street; G.K. Chesterton; Achan, Who Hath Stolen The Bacon; Cool Motive, Still Murder; The Bill Of Rights; Vote Harder; and An Awfully Libertarian Theocracy.

Transcript: Coming soon

Links:

Exodus 21-23: https://www.esv.org/Exodus+21/

The Code of Hammurabi and the Rule of Law - The Federalist Society: https://bit.ly/2Ln20E6

Repairing the Timeline - Halting Toward Zion: http://bit.ly/3brhiSY

Proofs of a Conspiracy - John Robison: https://amzn.to/3bqaAwB

Joshua 7: https://www.esv.org/Joshua+7/

2 Samuel 1: https://www.esv.org/2+Samuel+1/

That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2Ms2FVb

Panel Discussion on Christian Education - Halting Toward Zion: http://bit.ly/39pqlBw

Recos:

Reading the Bible

Studying the Bible

Prayer

Garibaldi: "Oh, I'm an eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth kind of guy, Ambassador."

Delenn: "So you support a system that would leave everyone blind and toothless?"

Garibaldi: "Not everyone. Just the bad guys."

—“Passing Through Gethsemane,” Babylon 5 (1995)

This Episode Features: An Eye For An Eye; Babylon 5; When Musicians Fight; Demoted From Lounge Lizard; The Sword Is Not For Poking People; Robberbarons vs. Busybodies; Capital Punishment; and Jury Duty.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/2MmVuNP-htz-53

Links:

Babylon 5 S03E04 - "Passing Through Gethsemane": https://amzn.to/3hzTzRy

Exodus 21-23: https://www.esv.org/Exodus+21/

Matthew 5: https://www.esv.org/Matthew+5/

Luke 18: https://www.esv.org/Luke+18/

Romans 12-13: https://www.esv.org/Romans+12/

Proverbs 20:22: https://www.esv.org/Proverbs+20/

Proverbs 24: https://www.esv.org/Proverbs+24/

"Piano Man" - Billy Joel: https://youtu.be/QwVjTlTdIDQ

"Would That It Were So Simple" - Hail, Caesar! (2016): https://youtu.be/G629a_3MkkI

That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2Ms2FVb

God in the Dock - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3hCQ50O

"St. Patrick's Bad Analogies" - Lutheran Satire: https://youtu.be/KQLfgaUoQCw

The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/389mRDM

Recos:

Twelve Angry Men (1957): https://amzn.to/386SRbk

American Gospel: Christ Crucified (2020): https://amzn.to/3pOoahr

Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand: https://amzn.to/3oamYUS

Earth's Holocaust - Nathaniel Hawthorne: https://amzn.to/388ZDgI

Charles Dickens called the American prison system "slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain . . . immeasurably worse than any torture of the body." Who decided it was merciful to lock people up alone? Today as we look at the case laws of Exodus 21 and following, we see a system geared toward making things as close to right as possible so that the victim of a crime can move on with his or her life.

This Episode Features: Penitentiaries And Psychological Torture; A Very Cordial Discussion About Covid Masks; Punk Kids Running Over Kittens; Financial Independence; and Morgan Freeman And Co-Star.

Transcript: http://bit.ly/3aIZP8m-htz-52

Links:

PBS's The Question of God: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/nineconv/index.html

American Gods - Neil Gaiman: http://amzn.to/3mTDck3

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville: http://amzn.to/3nUvMOC

American Notes for General Circulation - Charles Dickens: http://amzn.to/3mQISv1

Gallup: Americans' Mental Health Ratings Sink to New Low - Megan Brenan: http://bit.ly/2Kuxyrx

Exodus 21-23: https://www.esv.org/Exodus+21/

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo: https://amzn.to/3rxwuUs

Luke 19: https://www.esv.org/Luke+19/

My Friend Flicka (1943): https://amzn.to/3mRQNIG

Romans 8: https://www.esv.org/Romans+8/

Shawshank Redemption (1994): https://amzn.to/37QrxOp

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller: https://amzn.to/3aN8zdI

Leverage (2009-2012): https://amzn.to/2WPzbm4

Recos:

A Muppet Christmas Carol (1992): https://amzn.to/3aTfZMe

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Fried Potatoes

Baking Sugar Cookies

After reading some email about taxation (is it theft? Yes and no!) we dive into a discussion of the application of the law--who it's for, why we need it, and where it comes from... and how our view of prophecy, and our ideas of interpreting the Bible, influence our perspective on the law.

This Episode Features: Taxation And Tyranny; Prophecy And Law; Stealing Gnostic Thunder; The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine); 17th-Century Devotional Mysticism And Anabaptist Political Thought; and Eating One's Vegetables.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3rgXsiQ-htz-51

Links:

Romans 13: https://www.esv.org/Romans+13/

1 Samuel 8: https://www.esv.org/1+Samuel+8/

Matthew 22: https://www.esv.org/Matthew+22/

"Render Unto Caesar" - Greg Uttinger: https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/render-unto-caesar

Faith Works - John Macarthur: https://amzn.to/3apUu5x

Recos:

The Law of God is Good and Wise - Matthias Loy: https://hymnary.org/text/the_law_of_god_is_good_and_wise

The Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3mDeF2m

An Eschatology of Victory - J. Marcellus Kik: https://amzn.to/3h300fO

Paradise Restored - David Chilton: https://amzn.to/2KFLDSu

Millennialism and Social Theory - Gary North: https://amzn.to/2Wx8Ade

To celebrate our fiftieth episode, we've invited Kate Uttinger and Sam and Laura Negus (along with the usual suspects) for a roundtable on education and discipleship! Tune in for a lively discussion of parenting, teaching, the cost and the value of Christian schools, and the communion of saints.

This Episode Features: Greg and Kate Uttinger; Sam and Laura Negus; Ecumenical, Non-Parochial Schools; Don't Tell Your Parents I Said...; Classroom Discipleship; The Wild Wild West; Kate Does Not Equate Bryan To An Old Woman; Literature and Liturgy; Wanted: The Larry P. Arnn Of The Christian School; Could You Tone Down This Trinity Thing?; Perhaps Vegans Should Eat Fewer Eggs; Two Different Emilies Totally Lose It; and Writing Your Own Wedding Vows.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3qHAOjh-htz-50

Links:

The Millennium - Lorraine Boettner: https://amzn.to/3oql6XU

More Than Conquerors - William Hendriksen: https://amzn.to/349c9e7

Israel and the New Covenant - Roderick Campbell: https://amzn.to/2L5W6H1

The Book of Common Prayer: https://amzn.to/33Sgt0U

My First Hymnal - Concordia Publishing House: https://amzn.to/3qFfYkS

The Nicene Creed: https://www.ccel.org/creeds/nicene.creed.html

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons - Siegfried Engelmann, et al.: https://amzn.to/3gz5r69

Augsburg Confession: https://bookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/

Heidelberg Catechism: http://www.heidelberg-catechism.com/en/lords-days/1.html

Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling: https://amzn.to/3gmQl3

Recos:

Indian Butter Chicken

Smart Classroom Management - Michael Linsin: https://www.smartclassroommanagement.com/

The Book of Common Prayer: https://amzn.to/33Sgt0U

Christmas Pudding

The Clown of God - Tomie de Paola: https://amzn.to/39Nv3e0

The Three Theban Plays - Sophocles: https://amzn.to/3qz86RH

Magazines

Not Cheering for Derby County Football Club

Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren: https://amzn.to/33T1bJh

Last week we compared liberalism (what Thomas Sowell calls the Unconstrained Vision) to the Ten Commandments; today it's time to turn the same scrutiny on conservatism (the Constrained Vision). What happens when conservatism, rather than the Bible, becomes our default authority?

This Episode Features: Civil Religion; Rotten Oranges; Quacking Like A Christian; Suddenly, Scientology!; As Real As Burnt Bacon; The Apotheosis of George Washington; Honesty Is A Policy; and Everyone Is Now Most Assuredly Mad At Us.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3gkGoDK-htz-49

Links:

A Conflict of Visions - Thomas Sowell: https://amzn.to/31jQRcm

Death in the City - Francis A. Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/3ouYeq6

For a Time Such as This - Jim Halsey: https://amzn.to/36Lj5zH

Total Truth - Nancy Pearcey: https://amzn.to/2VHsbqJ

Two Treatises of Civil Government - John Locke: https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/john-locke-two-treatises-1689

Lex Rex - Samuel Rutherford: https://www.monergism.com/lex-rex-ebook

The Constitution of the United States: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

The Apotheosis of George Washington - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington

The Children's Story - James Clavell: https://amzn.to/3lHQG1L

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: https://amzn.to/31lWbwk

Federalist 51 - James Madison: https://bit.ly/3mQ6alx

Horatius at the Bridge - Thomas Babington Macaulay: https://www.thoughtco.com/horatius-at-the-bridge-4070724

McGuffey's Readers: https://amzn.to/2JE8PR0

Recos:

In Search of the City on a Hill - Richard M. Gamble: http://bookstore.hillsdale.edu/MerchDetail?MerchID=725322

The Stormlight Archives - Brandon Sanderson: https://amzn.to/37GsyHx

Christmas Carolling in Public Buildings

Now that we've looked at each of the Ten Commandments, let's see how political liberalism--what Thomas Sowell calls the Unconstrained Vision of human nature--measures up. If human nature is basically good or improvable, what does that mean for morality, society, and law?

This Episode Features: Thomas Sowell's "A Conflict of Visions"; Ye Shall Be As Gods; The Ongoing French Revolution; Transcendentalism; Evolution; Thomas Jefferson; Communism; and Thanksgiving.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/36ltHVJ-htz-48

Links:

Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell: https://amzn.to/3fRNjUv

Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt: https://amzn.to/3fKWo1c

A Conflict of Visions - Thomas Sowell: https://amzn.to/31jQRcm

Can You Name All of the 10 Commandments? - Ray Comfort: https://youtu.be/AsekMG2Kva0

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley: https://amzn.to/3lj3Z8D

An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice - William Godwin: https://amzn.to/37ebCIw

Witness - Whittaker Chambers: https://amzn.to/2VeU1KI

That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3fNaQWQ 

1984 - George Orwell: https://amzn.to/3fZ58Qr

Recos:

Thanksgiving

Today we're looking at the Tenth Commandment, and the role of the heart--of strong desires, of love--in today's political landscape.

This Episode Features: Liberal and Conservative Passions; Who Died And Left You God?; St. Augustine and John Piper; Lambs And Their Lil Fluffy Knees; Mud Pies; Boromir; and Tax Revolts.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/339LL2Z-htz-47

Links:

Romans 7: https://www.esv.org/Romans+7/

The Virtue of Selfishness - Ayn Rand: https://amzn.to/3laG1gj

Unpublished Essay on the Trinity - Jonathan Edwards: https://www.ccel.org/e/edwards/trinity/trinity.html

Weight of Glory - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3dkIy35

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - The Council of Elrond: https://youtu.be/JSxo579azeI

Recos:

Desiring God - John Piper: https://amzn.to/2UQVzKY

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams: https://amzn.to/2IEYaF0

Listening