Small Catechisms

Dr. Aaron Davis preaches from Acts 1:1-11, Ephesians 1:15-23, and Luke 24:44-53. You can find all the readings for this Sunday here.

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Nativity, visit our website at NativityArden.org.

Pastor Sean Barrett preaches from John 14:23-29. You can find all the readings for this Sunday here.

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Nativity, visit our website at NativityArden.org.

In this episode Dr. Aaron Davis talks through Dr. Taylor Ross's article "The Severity of Universal Salvation" in Notre Dame's Church Life Journal. Dr. Ross explores what universalism is, how divine justice fits into the doctrine, what past Christians have said about universalism, and more.

Links

• Nativity's website - Link
• Ross's "The Severity of Universal Salvation" - Link
• Aaron's "Hopeful Universalism and the Goodness of God" - Link

Questions or Suggestions?

Contact Dr. Davis with your input: [email protected].

Pastor Sean Barrett preaches from John 13:31-35. You can find all the readings for this Sunday here.

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Nativity, visit our website at NativityArden.org.

In this episode Dr. Aaron Davis hosts a conversation with Nativity's pastor, the Rev. Dr. Sean Barrett, about faith and music. We discuss things like the difference between "Christian music" and "secular music," the role music can play in one's life of faith, whether anti-Christian music can ever be appropriate for a Christian to listen to, and more.

Links

Nativity's website - Link

The Nicene Creed - Link

Questions or Suggestions?

Contact Dr. Davis with your input: [email protected].

Pastor Sean Barrett addresses the question, "Pastor talked about the creeds: some might wonder why we recite them every service, when it's all written down? I thought it was tied to practice in the early church when more was said than written, and with church doctrines evolving/splitting, it was important to remind ourselves, in community, of what holds us together, our shared beliefs. Is that why, or are there other reasons we recite them?"

In this episode Dr. Aaron Davis interviews Prof. Andrew Torrance of the University of St Andrews about his book Accountability to God (Oxford University Press, 2023). We discuss what accountability is, how accountability might be thought of as a theological virtue, the risks and rewards of accountability relations, what accountability looks like in Scripture, and more.

Links

• Nativity's website - Link
• University of St Andrews faculty profile for Torrance - Link
• Torrance's Accountability to God (Oxford University Press, 2023) - Link
• Torrance's, "Accountability as a Virtue," Studies in Christian Ethics 34, no. 3 (2021): 307-315 - Link
• Torrance's, "A Baptismal Theology of Accountability," Studies in Christian Ethics 34, no. 3 (2021): 336-346. - Link
• Torrance's, "Accountability as the Ground of Human Flourishing," Studies in Christian Ethics 36, no. 4 (2023): 814-826. - Link

Questions or Suggestions?

Contact Dr. Davis with your input: [email protected].

Pastor Sean Barrett preaches from John 10:22-30. You can find all the readings for this Sunday here.

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Nativity, visit our website at NativityArden.org.

Pastor Sean Barrett addresses the question, "In the past, Catholics and Lutherans excommunicated each other and said some terrible things about one another (e.g., Luther calling the Pope "AntiChrist"). What are Catholic-Lutheran relations like now, given that we prayed for the new Pope yesterday?"

In this episode Dr. Aaron Davis walks through Prof. Oliver Crisp's book Approaching the Atonement: The Reconciling Work of Christ (IVP Academic, 2020). Prof. Crisp's book addresses questions about what the atonement is, what sorts of views of the atonement have existed through Christian history, how one can think well about the atonement, and more.

Links

• Nativity's website - Link
• Crisp's Approaching the Atonement - Link
• Aaron's introductory article on analytic theology - Link
• Aaron's review of Approaching the Atonement - Link
• Crisp's Participation and Atonment - Link

Questions or Suggestions?

Contact Dr. Davis with your input: [email protected].