Ringside Preachers

Yes, I know all cultures, all religions, all societies, all of science has understood that there are only two sexes and genders and natural sexuality. But wait, a couple of freshman girls coming back from a sorority party would like to say otherwise! Better listen now before Amber and Stacy change the history of the world.

Topics:

1. Summer cocktails by Ringside
2. Marriage was created to be picture of Christ in the Church
3. Addressing LGBTQ community in God's design
4. Satan's reign in a rage room

Guest:

Rev. Jonathan Petzold

Male and Female, Embracing Your Role in God's Design

For info and to order: cph.org/malefemale

Facebook Launch group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/maleandfemalecph

Facebook Live Book Launch Party: https://fb.me/e/Jkx2njv4

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

The Craft of Preaching and Ringside Preachers

and The Jagged Word

Music:

Willing Virginia - sure as hell on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Wise Blood, Flannery O Connor

Outlaw God, Steven Paulson

Your baseball team has a losing record. Your favorite gum is gone. Your AC is broke for summer. Your mother's politics are wrong. Turn off your turntable. Shut the door. Throw your coat in the corner. Lay down on the floor. Listen to some Ringside.

Topics:

1. The End of Denominations
2. Boring stuff in the Bible - should we read all of it?
3. What are Elders in the church?

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

Topics:

1. Jesus' family thinks he's crazy, they're right. Grace is insanity!
2. Pride month: who is benefitting?
3. UFOs & aliens
4. Virtual reality in church, work, life

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia - Let's Roll, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

It's Raining Men, Weather Girls

Should you Baptize an Alien? Ringside Podcast

Joe Rogan Experience #1347 - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Surrogates (movie)

Deep Work, Cal Newport

We are all veterans of some sort. Wounded from little wars with no heroes welcome and scars disguised as character flaws. Let the dead bury their own. Grab a seat, O weary soldiers. Let us entertain you with a fairy tale that might be actually be real.

Topics:

1. Ross "Chaps" meets Jocko and Leif
2. Military Leadership informs Pastoral Leadership
3. The Trinity - why even say the Athanasian Creed? Or any Creed?
4. Which prayers should you build into your life?
5. "If I die before I wake"… sleep is death
6. Explaining the Trinity…

Guest: Cindy Koch

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia - man, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Revolutionary New Ministry Plan, Caleb Weight thejaggedword.com

Echelon Front Extreme Ownership Muster

Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

The Dichotomy of Leadership, Jocko Willink

Leadership Strategy and Tactics, Jocko Willink

Seculosity, David Zahl

St. Patrick's Bad Analogies, Lutheran Satire

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