This week we’ve got Amos talking about justice rolling down like waters and a harsh parable about bridesmaids waiting on the groom. We end up with an EPIC playlist! Elton John, Ja Rule, Cindi Lauper, Alanis Morissette, Bruce Springsteen, John Legend, and Brittany Howard all in one place.

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Rocketman - Elton John

Always on time - Ashanti and Ja Rule

Time after time - Cyndi Lauper/Iron & Wine

Ironic - Alanis Morissette

Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen

Darkness and Light - John Legend featuring Brittany Howard

The Vinyl Preacher is supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and LuMin: the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network. It is produced by Nick Morris, aka Draze Force.

It's true. Death is an important part of the college experience. This week a playlist (featuring Mumford and Sons, Sufjan Stevens, the Civil Wars, U2, and Common) is paired with the Beatitudes and a text from Revelation or as Matt calls it, "The I have a dream speech of the bible."

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The Vinyl Preacher is supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and LuMin: the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network. It is produced by Nick Morris, aka Draze Force.

How do you observe the reformation in a non-traditional context...you keep it real. We keep it real on the playlist with tributes to Tom Petty, classics from Pharrell Williams and Neil Young, and some fresh new songs from Maggie Rogers and saba.

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The Vinyl Preacher is supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and LuMin: the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network. It is produced by Nick Morris, aka Draze Force.

Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar, but how are we supposed to know how to carve an image of God on our money when we can't see God's face? In the end there's a playlist with Wilco, Billy Bragg, Annie Lennox, the Tallest Man on Earth, the Queen Bey and more!

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The Vinyl Preacher is supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and LuMin: the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network. It is produced by Nick Morris, aka Draze Force.

A forgetful God leading a forgetful people and a classic Girardian story of a wedding banquet. No 'Cha-Cha Slide.' No chicken dance. Just straight good news. Also a playlist to listen to on your way to and from worship this week featuring Semisonic.

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The Vinyl Preacher is supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and LuMin: the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network. It is produced by Nick Morris, aka Draze Force.

We didn't get to record this podcast after the shooting on Sunday night. So, we don't talk about it directly, but I do think there's a lot of opportunity to preach to the events of the week. The militaristic and violent nature of the parable might find a word of hope in the midst of hopelessness this Sunday.

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The Vinyl Preacher is supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and LuMin: the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network. It is produced by Nick Morris, aka Draze Force.

The Vinyl Preacher is excited to unveil its first diss track. Or it's just a thoughtful engagement with a respected colleagues internet musings. Only one way to find out. Also we talk about this week's gospel and the people of Israel's continued wanderings in the wilderness.

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The Vinyl Preacher is supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and LuMin: the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network. It is produced by Nick Morris, aka Draze Force.

Matt calms down. Zach complains. They both wax nostalgia about how good things were back in Egypt. In the end they climb Mount Mordor with a playlist featuring the Beatles, U2, and Woody Guthrie.

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The Vinyl Preacher is supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and LuMin: the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network. It is produced by Nick Morris, aka Draze Force.

You may know Matt as our calm and mild mannered co-host. This week you see the other side as Matt unleashes a crazy rant on the connections between student loan debt and the Israelites escape from Egypt!!!

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The Vinyl Preacher is supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and LuMin: the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network. It is produced by Nick Morris, aka Draze Force.

This week there are instructions. How to prepare a meal and how to live together in a community. Sometimes the instructions call for banning people from intramural sports for life.

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The Vinyl Preacher is supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and LuMin: the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network. It is produced by Nick Morris, aka Draze Force.