Take a break from wailing at your own personal wailing wall made up of unfulfilled dreams, cold-hearted gods, and broken relationships. Pull the tab on a Schlitz and sit down for some yucking it up, and little Holy Spirit! We'll buy this one: just relax.

Topics:

1. Holy Spirit: what the heck is going on in Acts 2?
2. Israel and Christianity… send in the bomb shelters!
3. Misunderstandings of the Christian Faith
4. Jesus breaks out of his information bubble

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia - Baboon, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche

Long Beach Griffy

Tired of looking for your one great purpose in life? Jesus took care of that too! Relax with Ringside and special guest Dr. Jeff Leininger, campus pastor at Concordia Chicago and author of "Callings for Life".

Topics:

1. God's Calling for your Life: Is there ONE great thing?
2. Vocation and Gloves of God
3. What would it take to do a funeral?

Guest:

Dr. Jeff Leininger

Concordia University Chicago's University Pastor

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia - I See a Light, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Love and Friendship, Emily Bronte

Callings for Life: God's Plan, Your Purpose, Dr. Jeffery Leininger

Beneath the calm, within the light,

A hid unruly appetite

Of swifter life, a surer hope,

Strains every sense to larger scope,

Impatient to anticipate

The halting steps of aged Fate.

Now listen to Ringside.

Topics:

1. Were the Nazis wrong? Can you say something is "bad"
2. Pastor fraud
3. Should people even read their Bible at home?
4. How should new Christians change their life?
5. Moral Injury and how to respond… but Ross skipped the last session

Guests:

Rev. Matt Nolte

Bonnie Hicks

Mercedes Smith

Rev. Mike Shultz

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia, GIna GIna on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other Stuff:

May Day, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Preparing to Die, Caleb Weight

Put down all the other documents you take for granted, light a cuban, drip some water on your sugar sitting in spoon over your Pernod's, and consider the possibility that God's thoughts are recorded down on papyrus.

Topics:

1. Is the Museum of the Bible just another boring "museum"?
2. History of Bible, not theology of Bible
3. Biblical copy tradition, produced to accomplish something
4. Distrust of the Bible? It's all the same manuscripts…
5. What's the deal with 3 John?
6. Overcome the world (1 Corinthians 5)

Guest:

Dr. Jeff Kloha

Museum of the Bible: museumofthebible.org

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia, Lament of a Confederate Soldier on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

According to the make believe wokeness-ometer, Jesus qualifies as the most authoritative voice because he was the most oppressed. Poor Jew, not from Jerusalem, under Roman rule, betrayed by his own, even his friends, killed because of his identity. Listen to him.

Topics:

1. Inventing a cause to protest?
2. Identity Politics and the Identity of the Preacher
3. External identity for the Gospel
4. What do you do with grown ups who lose the way?
5. "Jesus is Lord" (1 John 4)

Guest:

Rev. Dennis Matyas

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Infirm, Gwendolyn Brooks

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, Carl R. Trueman

Topics:

1. Sending prayers… but do we?
2. American flag in church equals Christian Nationalism?
3. "Here I Stand" Anniversary of the Diet of Worms
4. Mixing Metaphors Sunday: the lamb shaped door…

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia - People, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

The Gods of Greece, Friedrich Schiller

Standing Where The Fire Has Been, Joel Hess on thejaggedword.com

Killing the Sheep - Paul Koch on thejaggedword.com

Need a resurrection in your life? Listen to Ringside.

Topics:

1. Why do unbelievers celebrate Easter?
2. Experiencing Jesus now (Gospel and letters of John)
3. Are you Christian if you don't go to church?

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia - People, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

1-3 John (Concordia Commentary) Dr. Bruce Schuchard

Christ is risen! So you can sit... and listen to Ringside. That's the gospel.

"Let no one fear death, for the Death of our Savior has set us free. He has destroyed it by enduring it. He destroyed Hell when He descended into it. He put it into an uproar even as it tasted of His flesh.

Christ is Risen, and the tomb is emptied of its dead!"

- Chrysostom

Topics:

1. Halle or Alle?
2. Did Jesus choose who he would appear to?
3. Church membership declining under 50%, it doesn't matter.
4. Would you believe what the women said about Jesus' resurrection?
5. New angles for the Easter proclamation

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia - Lament of a Confederate Soldier, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

The Easter sermon of John Chrysostom

It's weird, don't you feel like you need to do something while Jesus carries the cross and we just sit here drinking tea and eating crumpets? Help him out? Cheer Him on? Or put your feet up and listen to some fools talk about Him.

Topics:

1. Crazy Easter Tradition Game
2. Christ's descent into hell? What the hell.
3. Real bread and really break it for really special Maundy Thursday
4. Strepitus Slam on Good Friday
5. Palm Sunday or Sunday of the Passion…
6. And what do you do with the crowds?

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Sacred Harp Singers - Idumea

Dead Horse One - I love my man

I always root for the underdog in March Madness. That's why you can count on Ringside to not only root for the underdog, we'll go down with the ship with him.

Topics:

1. Self-obsessed Covid Concern
2. "Do This in Remembrance of Me" and how often?
3. Pastoral ministry gets boring…
4. Real strength in church and culture

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

thejaggedword.com

and Concordia Seminary St. Louis

Music:

Willing Virginia - I see a Light, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Ash Wednesday, T.S. Eliot

Back Street Girl, Rolling Stones

James, the Apostle of Faith: A Primary Christological Epistle for the Persecuted Church, Dr. David Scaer

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