Ringside Preachers

Topics:

1. Favorite Christmas Treats
2. Seasons for Pastors
3. Everything you wanted to know about circumcision
4. What do Jesus' experiences mean for us?

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Thank you:

1517.org

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran, Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "there" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Little Tree, EE Cummings

Topics:

1. Cranky Christmas Observations
2. What do you say to someone who died outside of the faith?
3. The Incarnation
4. Post-incarnate Christ
5. Gift ideas for your lady

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1517.org

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "christmas bells" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

The Christmas Rose, Cecil Day-Lewis

Scandal of the Incarnation: Irenaeus

Our God made the world and said, "I'm going to die for you because this is how I roll". From the Beginning. Salvation by Jesus is before all time, redemption is now, and always was. Joel Hess from Ringside Preachers Podcast and Donavon Riley from Banned Books Podcast expose things that you won't hear in church. in this micro-series, "The Ringers" talk philosophy, heresy, art, and faith focused on the Advent of our Lord.

TOPICS & SOURCES:

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Mirror or mortality

Scandal of the Incarnation: Irenaeus Against the Heresies

God's timeline is now

Jesus redeems "the land"

Dualism

Jesus is the Torah of God

Mr. Rogers, "Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence... And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives."

God's words translate you

The Myth of Sisyphus

Genesis 1 and John 1, Recapitulation

Recapitulation Theory

Gustaf Fredrik Wingren

Music:

Emmanuel by Joel A Hess

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

Ringside Preachers

Banned Books

Topics:

1. Christmas and Family?
2. Guess the Real Christmas Song GAME!
3. The Government is always the problem?
4. Advent is now
5. Renewing Marriage Vows

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Thank you:

1517.org

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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

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:

Sermon for the 1st Sunday in Advent 1520, Martin Luther

Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

Putting the Advents back into Advent, Lutheran Forum, Mary Jane Haemig

Everything that we do in the name of God is a justification for our impiety. We call it worship, we call it repentance, we call it preparation, but really it's performative acts. But when the Word becomes Flesh, it is not performance. Jesus comes and this is not a test! Joel Hess from Ringside Preachers Podcast and Donavon Riley from Banned Books Podcast expose things that you won't hear in church. in this micro-series, "The Ringers" talk philosophy, heresy, art, and faith focused on the Advent of our Lord.

TOPICS & SOURCES:

Athanasius

Luther on Genesis

You can't separate God's word from Jesus (John 1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Jesus was not performing for an audience

Matthew 5:29

Free in Christ to laugh at Scripture

Human being vs. Creature

The Matrix

Wachowski Brothers

Controlling Death

Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke

Elysium (film)

Bondage of the Will, Martin Luther

Bill Burr

The long boring martyrdom of Christ: His life

Music:

Emmanuel by Joel A Hess

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

Ringside Preachers

Banned Books

The Body of Christ is in chaos - No, not in the U.S. (which increasingly might be taking the prize for crazy) - Haiti. We talk to our friend Israelson Isidor about being Church amidst the current turmoil in our neighbor, south of Florida.

Guest: Israelson Isidor

Donations needed:

Copiers, printers, cellphone, laptops

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Thank you:

1517.org

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR:

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Advent sets us free to make an absolute train wreck of the incarnation. And the miracle of Advent is that we still end up reading about the birth of Jesus. Joel Hess from Ringside Preachers Podcast and Donavon Riley from Banned Books Podcast expose things that you won't hear in church. in this micro-series, "The Ringers" talk philosophy, heresy, art, and faith focused on the Advent of our Lord.

TOPICS & SOURCES:

The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, T.S. Eliot

Priscillianism and Advent

If Nietzsche heard about the Incarnation

The Simul

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

To a God Unknown, Steinbeck

Incarnation is the Gospel

Small Catechism, Third article of the Creed

Bondage of the Will, Martin Luther

Christmas depression and suicide

The humiliation of Jesus

Luther on the Magnificat

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

Ringside Preachers

Banned Books

Music: "Emmanuel" by Joel A Hess

Artwork: Donavon Riley

Topics:

1. Paternity Leave
2. Can modern-day theologians beat old-school scholars?
3. Kingdom is Now: John 5: 24-27

Thank you:

1517.org

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR:

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

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "christmas time" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Fire and Ice, Robert Frost

Woodcuts from Weimar Edition

Ringside Stocking Stuffers

Topics:

1. Singles are changing politics
2. Hero stories: are they heroic?
3. Wrong BE-Attitudes

Thank you:

1517.org

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR:

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

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "no heroes" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

If, Rudyard Kipling

What's Wrong with the World? G.K. Chesterton

Joe Rogan and Matt Walsh, YouTube

War and Peace, Tolstoy

Jaber Crow, Wendell Berry

Topics:

1. Forgiveness for COVID
2. Accidental A.A. member
3. Fasting in November
4. Politics in Church

RINGSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EVENT:

"What is Wrong with Christianity" at Grace in Ventura!! Check it out on Ringside Preacher's Youtube channel!!

Thank you:

1517.org

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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

YOU CAN BE A RINGSIDE SPONSOR:

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

Music:

Joel Allen Hess - "sure as hell" More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

LET'S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY, The Atlantic

More Americans Want Their Church to Share Their Politics, ChristianityToday.com