Our Smalcald Articles discussion continues, this time talking about the sweet news of the Gospel.

Our 6th episode of season 4 continues with repentance and Luther's ramblings against the papacy.

Our discussion on the Smalcald Articles continues! This time tackling sin and the law in the modern world.

Today we discuss the thing all Lutherans love to hate, the Papacy. 

Today we continue our discussion on the Smalcald Articles, this time talking about the Saints and possibly detouring to cloisters.

Today we continue our discussion on the Smalcald Articles.

Today we begin season 4 of Uncultured Saints! Now on Youtube! This season we will be tackling the Smalcald Articles.

Hello Internet! The Uncultured Saints are back for season three. Pastor Harrison Goodman and Pastor Eli Lietzau are joined by Erica Jacoby, Executive Director of Higher Things. She’s definitely here as a guest, and not to keep us hosts on task. 

Season 3 is here, and we’re talking about Christ. Christ in the Old Testament in fact! And up first we’re talking about creation. 

A group of youth makes fun of the prophet, Elisha.  They call him, “Baldy.”  It seems like a harmless, although snarky, comment.  It would perhaps warrant a sharp reproof, but certainly nothing more than that.  But what comes later is straight out of a horror movie.  Bears from out of nowhere, mauling these young youths to death, tearing them limb from limb.  The Old Testament is littered with these types of stories.  Are they just mindless, acts of violence with no foundation or continued meaning?  That doesn’t sound like our God.  And besides all that, Jesus must be found in the Old Testament.  He is there:  golden thread woven through, bloody red spots splattered on every page.  So where is Jesus in a text like this?  Where is the Gospel?  Where is the cross?  It’s all there.  Let’s find our where.

We all know this story.  It is one of the bad ones, the fire and brimstone ones.  This is one our favorite texts to club our neighbor over the head with the Law.  Homosexuality, incest, unbelief, pillars of salt:  It has it all, and it’s seemingly all about the Law.  But it can’t just be about the Law.  Jesus’ cross is for Lot and his daughters.  It is for Lot’s salty wife and for smoldering Sodom and Gomorrah.  Jesus and His cross is for all people.  So if Jesus died for the sinners in these infamous cities then that should probably affect the way in which we hear this.  That isn’t to say that the Law has no place.  It does, it always does.  But the cross does, too.  Let’s not forget about that.  The cross has a place, even amongst the ash heaps of Sodom and Gomorrah.