Episodes
Monday Mar 28, 2022
TGC 180 — Thinking Out Loud (Lent 5)
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for The Fifth Sunday in Lent, John 8:42–59.
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TGC 179 — Book Talk: It’s Good To Be A Man
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
In this episode, we take up a something l have wanted to do for a long time: long-form book reviews. In this Book Talk, Andrew Packer walks us through the book It’s Good To Be A Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity by Michael Foster and Dominic Bnonn Tennant.
Host: Fr. Jason Braaten
Special Guest: Fr. Andrew Packer
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Mar 21, 2022
TGC 178 — Thinking Out Loud (Lent 4)
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for The Fourth Sunday in Lent, John 6:1–15.
Read the rest of this entry »Thursday Mar 17, 2022
[Gottesblog] Jesus Is Not In the Way, He Is the Way — Larry Beane
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Read the blog post at Gottesdienst.org.
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
TGC 177 — Reclaiming the Psalter
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
The Psalter was once central to the life of the Christian. It served as the basis for much of the sermons of the New Testament and the arguments put forward by St. Paul and the Book of Hebrews. In this episode, Ryan Loeslie makes the case for reclaiming the Psalter to make it part of your regular study. He demonstrates that they serve as a compendium and summary of the whole Bible. He gives practical steps on how to make this a daily practice and even on how to begin to learn them by heart.
Host: Fr. Jason Braaten
Special Guest: Fr. Ryan Loeslie
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Mar 14, 2022
TGC 176 — Thinking Out Loud (Lent 3)
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for The Third Sunday in Lent, Luke 11:14–28.
Read the rest of this entry »Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
TGC 175 — The Gods of Our Age (Information)
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
In the first episode of The Gods of Our Age, Mark Preus walked us through an introduction. That the people of Rome, Galatia, Corinth, and Ephesus could hardly not know that they were idolaters when Paul preached to them. They had idols of stone and wood and precious metals. They had temples with statues devoted to their gods. We know from Luther’s Catechisms that an idol is anything that you fear, love, and trust in above all things. We have idols too. They are not statues of stone or wood or precious metals. But they look exactly like the idols of the ancient world.
In this episode, He narrows our focus on the God of Information, Hermes/Mercury.
Host: Fr. Jason Braaten
Special Guest: Fr. Mark Preus
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Mar 07, 2022
TGC 174 — Thinking Out Loud (Lent 2)
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for The Second Sunday in Lent, Matthew 15:21–28.
Read the rest of this entry »Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
TGC 173 — The Great Awokening
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
We have all heard of The Great Awakenings of the United States. These watershed moments in history affected both the religious and political spheres of those days. In this episode, Ramirez talks about the watershed moment that we have undergone over the past decades, The Great Awokening. He notes the key features in both political and religious life, how they affect both, and what the differing generations have to offer in terms of defending the church, the home, and the community from its more virulent strains.
Host: Fr. Jason Braaten
Special Guest: Fr. David Ramirez
Read the rest of this entry »Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
TGC 172 — Called to Defend
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
We have heard of the issues at Concordia University Wisconsin surrounding the suspension of Rev. Dr. Gregory Schulz. In this episode, we hear from the good doctor himself. We talk about the definition of Woke-ism, how it is manifested at CUW, how the students are the unwitting targets, and how we are all called to defend the truth of God’s Word against those who would sideline it. Let God be true and every man a liar.
Host: Fr. Jason Braaten
Special Guest: Rev. Dr. Gregory Schulz
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