TOPICS:

1. Homeless
2. Magic of Angsty Authentic Music
3. The Power of the Ark

GUEST: Rev. Ed Killian

The Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Inglewood, CA

RINGSIDE HOLY LANDS CRUISE

Learn More: https://www.eo.travelwithus.com/tours/pf24062224r61629?fbclid=IwAR3GId0t_Kzbp7CoIl2GMJg00KGMWJUKK-6y7VK1ZLicJa0nn-4R4t3lgJs#eotours

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1517.org

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, Eddie Switek, ITO Radio America

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "let's roll" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

Rise Above, Black Flag

You Are Forgiven Radio

Almost Famous (movie)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (movie)

TOPICS:

1. Pastors and Paraments: Serving Your Church
2. Swearing as a Sign of Intelligence
3. What's Wrong with Christian Music?

RINGSIDE HOLY LANDS CRUISE

Learn More: https://www.eo.travelwithus.com/tours/pf24062224r61629?fbclid=IwAR3GId0t_Kzbp7CoIl2GMJg00KGMWJUKK-6y7VK1ZLicJa0nn-4R4t3lgJs#eotours

Thank you:

1517.org

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, Eddie Switek, ITO Radio America

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "In the Arms of the King" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

Prologue at Sixty, W.H. Auden

Commissioning of the USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee

Why swearing is a sign of intelligence, CNN.com

Talking Funny, discussion about comedy, YouTube

Lutheran Insulter

TOPICS:

1. Judging Sermons
2. Tim Keller & the Gospel in America
3. Edict of Worms: Going against the Government
4. Mowing your lawn is good for the soul

RINGSIDE HOLY LANDS CRUISE:

Learn More: https://www.eo.travelwithus.com/tours/pf24062224r61629?fbclid=IwAR3GId0t_Kzbp7CoIl2GMJg00KGMWJUKK-6y7VK1ZLicJa0nn-4R4t3lgJs#eotours

Thank you:

1517.org

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, Eddie Switek, ITO Radio America

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "to the sun" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, Walt Whitman

Ross Prayer for the USS Lenah Sutcliff Higbee

Edict of Worms (1521)

Mow, Pilgrim, Mow: a Lawn, by Definition, is Natural, thejaggedword.com

1. Un-risky Religion is on the decline
2. What would you do differently after graduation?

Guest:

Rev. Tim Barkett

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Kingman AZ

RINGSIDE HOLY LANDS CRUISE

Learn More: https://www.eo.travelwithus.com/tours/pf24062224r61629?fbclid=IwAR3GId0t_Kzbp7CoIl2GMJg00KGMWJUKK-6y7VK1ZLicJa0nn-4R4t3lgJs#eotours

Thank you:

1517.org

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, Eddie Switek, ITO Radio America

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR:

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

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "arms of the king" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is shrinking, npr.org

The Churching of America, by Roger Finke and Rodney Stark

Craft of Preaching

Topics:

1. Religion and Superstition on a Ship
2. Blessing things in Church and Home

RINGSIDE HOLY LANDS CRUISE

Learn More: https://www.eo.travelwithus.com/tours/pf24062224r61629?fbclid=IwAR3GId0t_Kzbp7CoIl2GMJg00KGMWJUKK-6y7VK1ZLicJa0nn-4R4t3lgJs#eotours

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1517.org

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, Eddie Switek, ITO Radio America

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR:

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

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "nothing is much better than a friend" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

Life in Vain, Daniel Johnston

Craft of Preaching

Breaking Bad, TV Series

Poltergeist

Topics:

1. Children's Messages
2. Marriage counseling, is it worth it?
3. Where is Jesus? Ascension Day

Thank you:

Concordia University Chicago

1517.org

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, Eddie Switek, ITO Radio America

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR:

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "I see a Light" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot

Concordia Chicago Ringside Podcast

On the Children's Sermon, guttedienst.org

The Authority of Scripture Is Not the Problem, Russell Moore, christinaitytoday.org

unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity…and Why It Matters, David Kinnaman

Ringside and students from Concordia University Chicago tackle the question, What's Wrong with Christianity? Great observations and discussions with these young men and women!

Topics:

1. Treated as Commodity
2. Politicized issues hurting the church?
3. Modern Day Pharisees
4. Not understanding what church really is
5. Unveiling the mysteries
6. Question the Resurrection
7. Limiting our theological vocabulary

GUESTS:

Nick Vukalovich, Student

Christian Salemink, Student

Thank you:

Concordia University Chicago

1517.org

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR:

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

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "Arms of the King" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Music, Discussion, Food, and Drink with Ringside and the St. James Chicago Community. Check out the YouTube channel to watch!

Topics:

1. Preach Christ, not Christendom, Rev. Joel Hess
2. Trapped in Consumerism, Rev. Paul Koch
3. What's Wrong? THOSE Christians, Cindy Koch

Thank you:

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR:

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess, more on bandcamp

Dead Horse One "I love my man"

Topics:

1. A Good Smoke After Eater
2. What does the Resurrection Solve Today?
3. Cremation and our Resurrection

RINGSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE in CHICAGO

Friday, April 28th 6:30 - 9pm

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Guest:

Rev. James Hopkins

First Lutheran Lutheran Church, Boston

Thank you:

1517.org

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR:

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

Monthly Sponsors: Frances Meadows, Eddie Switek, Blayne Watts, ITO Radio America

Music:

The Pogues, "If I Should Fall From Grace With God"

Dead Horse One "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls, E E Cummings

If I Should Fall From Grace With God, The Pogues

Topics:

1. Belief in the Resurrection. Why is Jesus weeping?
2. Gossiping about the sacrament
3. Sterilized church - Worship is War
4. Wanting vengeance, not forgiveness

RINGSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE in CHICAGO

Friday, April 28 6:30 - 9pm

SIGN UP: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C48A5AB2AA1FFC16-whats1

Thank you:

1517.org

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR:

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

Monthly Sponsors:

Frances Meadows, Eddie Switek, Blayne Watts, ITO Radio America

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "Its hard to be lonesome" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

Easter, Edmund Spenser

Stephen to Lazarus, C.S. Lewis