Ringside Preachers

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

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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

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thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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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

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thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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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

Topics:

1. Favorite Brews?
2. Beer is a Gift from God
3. Path to becoming a Head Brewer
4. What good/bad beer tastes like…

Guest:

Andrew Ortega

Head Brewer at Uncle Bear's Brewery

RINGSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE in CHICAGO

Friday, April 28, 6:30 - 9pm

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1517.org

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "Long Road" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

Luther's quote concerning beer and the Gospel, Invocavite Sermons of 1522

Strong Beer Festival

Arizona Society of Homebrewers

The Perch Brewery, Chandler

Uncle Bear's Brewery

CBC (Craft Brewer's Conference)

We have the means of life but without the resurrection, our life has no meaning. We descend to despair, while we play pretend during Lent. Joel Hess from Ringside Preachers Podcast and Donavon Riley from Banned Books Podcast expose things you won't hear in church. "The Ringers" talk philosophy, heresy, literature, art, and faith to expand your mind this Lent.

TOPICS & SOURCES:

Walter Kaufmann (editor of Nietzsche)

Carl Jung

Slave morality

Tribal Identity

Therapeutic Worldview and Enthusiasm

The sacrifice of Isaac

Giving up something for Lent

Preaching Christ in the Present: there is joy today

Psalm 34

Smalcald Articles

Chronic anxiety from comparison

Exercising in the Law?

Marcus Aurelius: we are made for community

Slipknot "Old does not mean dead. new does not mean best"

We have hope in the resurrection

Pretending during Lent

Music:

Long Road by Joel A Hess

Check out Joel's & Donavon's Regular Podcasts:

Ringside Preachers

Banned Books

Topics:

1. Troubling Trends in the Foundations of our Society
2. Sarcastic Jesus

RINGSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE in Chicago

Friday, April 28 "What's Wrong with Christianity"

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thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Sponsors:

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

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "no heroes" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

The Donkey, G.K. Chesterton

WSJ/NORC Poll March 2023

Topics:

1. Does the great commission apply to women?
2. What things are reserved for clergy only?
3. Reviving private confession and absolution.

RINGSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE in Chicago

Friday, April 28 "What's Wrong with Christianity"

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1517.org

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Sponsors:

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

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "this is our goodbye" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

Palm Sunday, Malcolm Guite

Rick Warren: The Great Commission's 'Go and Teach' Applies to Women, christianitytoday.com

Service of Confession Absolution (Lutheran Service Book)

God seems to like material! He made it. He made us. He comes to us through the manger and the cross. Instead of giving up something for Lent, perhaps we should practice appreciation for God's gift of creation. Joel Hess from Ringside Preachers Podcast and Donavon Riley from Banned Books Podcast expose things you won't hear in church. "The Ringers" talk philosophy, heresy, literature, art, and faith to expand your mind this Lent.

TOPICS & SOURCES:

Matthew Arnold

Spiritual Art

Incantation in music

Dominion over the precious ecosystem

Jordan Peterson

Appreciate Material for Lent

Music:

Lets Roll by Joel A Hess

Check out Joel's & Donavon's Regular Podcasts:

Ringside Preachers

Banned Books

Topics:

1. Quality Burger Ratings at Midnight
2. Why anoint? James 5
3. Incense and Handbells

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 - "I'll be coming home" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day, Gerard Manley Hopkins

James 5:14-15

Psalm 23

Topics:

1. What is a real revival? Enthusiasm vs. Boring
2. Cross Roads with Satan
3. Who are the wives of Cain and Abel?
4. Aliens and the Faith - a desperate seeking for meaning

RINGSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE in Chicago

Friday, April 28 "What's Wrong with Christianity"

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thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

NEW Sponsor!: Chuck Daenzer

THANK YOU: Frances Meadows, Eddie Switek, Blayne Watts, ITO Radio America

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "no heroes" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

Cross Road Blues, Robert Johnson

Ringside Podcast at Best Practices

Asbury Revival

Smalcald Articles III, VIII, Of Confession (enthusiasm)

The real Cross Road: Clarksdale, MS

Between God and Satan, Helmut Thielicke

Joe Rogan: (there are many restarts to the world)