On this episode Dr. Aaron Davis interviews Prof. Mel Bringle (Brevard College) about her work in church music. They talk about things like the differences between writing hymn texts and composing, how Mel got into the former, the potential benefits of singing together in church, and more.

Links

• Nativity's website - Link
• Mel's faculty page - Link
• Mel's hymn text book In Wind and Wonder - Link

Questions or Suggestions?

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Pastor Sean Barrett preaches from Luke 17:11-19. 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 answers a question about the sermon from 10-5-25: In yesterday's sermon you mentioned that the mustard seed is the smallest seed Jesus's followers would've known about. But in Matthew's version of this story Jesus says the seed "is the smalled of all seeds." Is this difference significant? Was Jesus wrong in Matthew, but not in Luke?

Pastor Sean Barrett preaches from Amos 6:1a, 4-7, 1 Timothy 6:6-19, and Luke 16:19-31. 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 Christian parenting in the age of TikTok. We discuss things like what TikTok is and whether/how we use it, general advice for approaching technology with kids of various ages, and more.

Questions or comments about the episode? Send a message to [email protected].

Links

Nativity's website - Link

Pastor Sean Barrett answers this week's question about yesterday's readings: Amos 6:1a, 4-7; Psalm 146; 1 Timothy 6:6-19; and Luke 16:19-31.

On this episode Dr. Aaron Davis interviews Prof. Mike Austin (Eastern Kentucky University) about his book, American Christian Nationalism: Neither American Nor Christian. They talk about what Christian nationalism is, how it relates to American political history, how it defies Christian ethical norms, and more.

Links

• Nativity's website - Link
• Austin's Ameriacn Christian Nationalism (Eerdmans, 2024) - Link
• Mike's website - Link
• J29 Coalition - Link

Questions or Suggestions?

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Carolyn Anderson preaches from Deuteronomy 26:1-11, 2 Cotinthians 9:6-15, and Matthew 13:24-43.

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 pneumatology. We discuss things like what pneumatology is, where we see the Holy Spirit described in Scripture, and more.

Questions or comments about the episode? Send a message to [email protected].

Links

Nativity's website - Link

St Andrews Encyclopedia article, "The Spirit in the Christian Bible" - Link

Sarah Coakley's God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity' - Link

Cheryl Peterson's Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century - Link

Dr. Aaron Davis preaches from Exodus 32:7-14, 1 Timothy 1:12-17, and Luke 15:1-10. 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.