Topics:

1. What you should be able to do with your stuff…
2. Is John 6 talking about the Lord's Supper?
3. Are men becoming more religious than women?

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St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Joel Allen Hess "Sure as Hell"- More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

My Boy Jack, Rudyard Kipling

Rich Rebuilds, V8 in a Tesla

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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Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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

Topics:

1. Gospel Tithing
2. Radical generosity
3. Teaching to give

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Guest: Rev. TIm Barkett

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Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

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Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Music/Photo:

Joel Allen Hess "convenience store"- More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Silence, Shusaku Endo

Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell

Topics:

1. American Response and Exposure to Opinions
2. Overturning of Roe v. Wade
3. The Church's response to Pro-life v. Pro-choice

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Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Death of a Naturalist, Seamus Heaney

ITO Radio America

Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman

Jaryon Myers

Richard Dawkins

Candace Owens video

Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood

Topics:

1. Welders or Philosophers: what do we really need?
2. Couples leading ministry: who's your first lady?
3. Pastor's finding their own replacement
4. Whats up with the Saints? (Revelation)
5. Galatians 3:23-29 What should we do with the Law?

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Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Music/Photo:

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

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

When I Consider How my Light is Spent, John Milton

Marco Rubio wants "more welders and less philosophers"

Caffeine and Philosophy (instagram Philosopher)

Everyone's a Theologian: An Introduction to Systematic Theology, R.C. Sproul

Shop Class as Soul Craft, Matthew Crawford

Bill Burr First Ladies (You Tube)

Topics:

1. When you pastor dies
2. What does ONE baptism really mean?
3. Biblical views vs. political issues in church

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and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

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St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Music/Photo:

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

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Photo by Paul Koch @rev_koch

Other stuff:

On the Death of a Pastor, thejaggedword.com

Topics:

1. God loves you because you are useful?
2. Blessing the boat and house
3. Christianity does the best job of explaining phenomena
4. Kingdoms on Earth (Alfred the Great)

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and thejaggedword.com

Grace Lutheran, Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Music/Photo:

Henry Hess "Never Changed" - Listen on Soundcloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Preludes, by TS Eliot

The Last Kingdom (Alfred the Great show)

Topics:

1. Point of Education?
2. Political Polarity: Gun control
3. What's the response of the Church? Christians?

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Grace Lutheran, Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

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Music/Photo:

Joel Allen Hess "I'm falling away"- More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Let Me Die a Young Man's Death, Roger McGough

Graduation verses: Isaiah 3:17, Galatians 6:11, 2 Timothy 4:13

Dead Poet's Society

The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It, Warren Farrell Ph.D. and John Gray

We Have Met the Enemy thejaggedword.com

Topics:

1. Starting something new & why bother getting better?
2. What's important: Pastoral Office or the Pastor Man?
3. Function of the minister
4. Shootings again…
5. Tyler's Confirmation/graduation verse: Galatians 6:11

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and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music/Photo:

Joel Allen Hess "I'm falling away"- More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Percy Shelley

Topics:

1. Environmental concerns: "Idontcarism"
2. "Silence" of God, movie, book, pastors and psalms
3. The Single Christian: unmarried human being ministry

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1517.org

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis and thejaggedword.com

Monthly sponsor: Eddie Switek

Music/Photo:

Joel Allen Hess "I'm falling away"- More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

How to be a Poet, Wendell Berry

Silence, Shusaku Endo

God on Trial

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl,