Topics:

1. Personality of the Pastor
2. Identity Politics in in Culture and Church
3. Does Law and Gospel distinction make a good sermon?
4. Confession of Casket vs. Cremation

 

Guest: Rev. Dennis Matyas

 

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess  "baboon"- More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

 

Other stuff:

Fault Lines, Voddie Baucham

Liturgical Preaching: Contemporary Essays, article by David Schmidt

Anguish of Preaching, Joseph Sittler

Say It!: Celebrating Expository Preaching in the African American Tradition, Eric Redmond

More cremations mean fewer chance to grieve together, Christianity Today