Ringside Preachers

TOPICS:

1. Lack of self reflection in America
2. Authenticity in Politics
3. Democratic and Republican pendulum
4. Conservative vs. Orthodox

Thank you: 

1517.org 

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, and Eddie Switek

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - “I love my man”

Other:

Election Day November 1884, Walt Whitman

TOPICS:

1. The Theology of Addiction: the Impossible Prize
2. Tangible vs. Abstract Gospel
3. God-given rights?
4. Four rules of Preaching
5. Institutionalize the Lutheran Confession

Guest: Rev. Donavon Riley

St John's Lutheran Church (Webster, MN)

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thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, and Eddie Switek

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - “I love my man”

Other Stuff:

A Sonnet for All Saints Day, Malcom Guite 

Brand Lutheran, thejaggedword.com

TOPICS:

1. Is it a sin to marry after divorce?
2. Does Lutheran MEAN anything anymore?
3. Pastors standing up for each other locally

Thank you: 

1517.org 

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, and Eddie Switek

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR: 

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - “I love my man”

Other Stuff:

LONELINESS— A GERMAN POEM BY MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Benjamin Button Christianity thejaggedword.com

Brand Lutheran thejaggedword.com 

Exclusive Ringside conversations with some of our favorite scholars from Concordia Seminary during Symposium 2024.

TOPICS:

1. James & Luther
2. Formation and Jesus in the University 
3. Liberal Arts Education

Guest:

Rev. Dr. Jason Lane

Thank you: 

1517.org 

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, and Eddie Switek

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR: 

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TZBU7UQQAWEVN

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - “I love my man”

Exclusive Ringside conversations with some of our favorite scholars from Concordia Seminary during Symposium 2024.

TOPICS:

1. What they hear in a sermon
2. Technology has changed those who listen
3. Why can’t preachers talk about their own preaching?

Guest:

Rev. Dr. David Schmitt

Thank you: 

1517.org 

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, and Eddie Switek

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR: 

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - “I love my man”

Other:

In Memoriam, Tennyson

The Third Room of Preaching: A New Empirical Approach, Marianne Gaarden

Deep Work, Cal Newport

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World, Maryanne Wolf

The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt

TOPICS:

1. Lamentations or Taylor Swift?
2. Ringside Growing up
3. What is a Lutheran?
4. Old Man Strength

Thank you: 

1517.org 

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, and Eddie Switek

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR: 

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TZBU7UQQAWEVN

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - “I love my man”

Exclusive Ringside conversations with some of our favorite scholars from Concordia Seminary during Symposium 2024.

TOPICS:

1. New Tech is just getting the job done!
2. Preaching for living life TOGETHER
3. Community Involved Sermon
4. Exegesis of Culture & People

Guests:

Rev. Dr. Peter Nafzger

Thank you: 

1517.org 

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, and Eddie Switek

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR: 

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TZBU7UQQAWEVN

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - “I love my man”

TOPICS:

1. Murder and the Gospel
2. Crumbs and Dawgs
3. Are Words Important?

Thank you: 

1517.org 

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, and Eddie Switek

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR: 

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TZBU7UQQAWEVN

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - “I love my man”

Exclusive Ringside conversations with some of our favorite scholars from Concordia Seminary during Symposium 2024.

TOPICS:

1. Biblical Languages go digital
2. Perils of technological pastors
3. AI may be the beginning of the end

Guest:

Rev. Dr. Bruce Schuchard

Thank you: 

1517.org 

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, and Eddie Switek

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR: 

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TZBU7UQQAWEVN

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - “I love my man”

TOPICS:

1. Great Bar Scenes
2. Preacher vs. CEO for a Church
3. Physical Contact in Ministry
4. Group-Think Brand-Image Sermon
5. Liking your own message

Thank you: 

1517.org 

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, and Eddie Switek

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR: 

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TZBU7UQQAWEVN

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - “I love my man”

Other:

Delilah’s, Chicago

Rick Rubin