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TGC 018 - Bernard of Clairvaux "On the Joy His Birth Should Inspire"

In this Gottescast, we hear from Bernard of Clairvaux in his sermon for the Vigil of our Lord's nativity entitled "On the Joy His Birth Should Inspire." You can read this sermon here: https://archive.org/stream/sermonsofstberna00bernuoft/sermonsofstberna00bernuoft_djvu.txt

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TGC 017 - Lutherans' Three Tools

In this Gottescast, The Gottesdienst Crowd discusses the three tools in Lutheran Catechesis. Lutheran Catechesis is drawn from the Bible, confessed in the Catechism, and expressed in the hymnal. Ben Ball (pastor of St. Paul, Hamel, IL, and Gottesblogger) and I look at how these three tools are put to use in the church, the school, and the home. 

Here is a link to Larry Beane's post mentioned: https://www.gottesdienst.org/gottesblog/2018/11/10/78fb9b799w9tnca1yrclji5p410mcr

Here is a link to Ben Ball's post: https://www.gottesdienst.org/gottesblog/2018/11/7/bible-catechism-and-hymnal

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TGC 016 - The Triumph of Formlessness

In this Gottescast, The Gottesdienst Crowd discusses art, architecture, and music, and how our culture has ruined it and us to receive what our fathers in the faith have bequeathed to us. Two of our new bloggers, Sean Daenzer (pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Great Bend, ND, and Peace Lutheran Church, Barney, ND) and Anthony Dodgers (pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Charlotte, IA) join us for the discussion.

Here is a link to the book mentioned: The Heresy of Formlessness by Martin Mosebach

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TGC 015 - Ceremonies of Advent & Christmas

In this Gottescast, The Gottesdienst Crowd discusses the ceremonies of Advent and Christmas and preaching on Christmas Eve and Day. David Petersen (pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, IN, and author of the recurring column "Commentary on the War" in the Gottesdienst Journal) joins us for the discussion.

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TGC 014 - The Office

In this Gottescast, The Gottesdienst Crowd discusses The Office in light of 1 Corinthians 4:1ff. Fritz Eckardt (pastor of St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Gottesdienst Journal) and Karl Fabrizius (pastor of Our Father Lutheran Church, Greenfield, WI, and author of two recurring columns in the journal: Musing on the Mysteries and Musing on Hymns) joins us for the discussion.

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TGC 013 - Adiaphorocracy

In this Gottescast, The Gottesdienst Crowd discusses the phenomenon of Adiaphorocracy, or the Argumentum ad Adiaphoram. Larry Beane (pastor of Salem Lutheran Church, Gretna, LA, and Sermons editor for the Gottesdienst Journal and the Gottesblog Whip) joins us for the discussion.

You can read Larry's post on the subject here: https://www.gottesdienst.org/gottesblog/2018/10/24/adiaphorocracy

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TGC 012 - Generational Blindspots

In this Gottescast, The Gottesdienst Crowd discusses generational blindspots. Two of our new bloggers, Sean Daenzer (pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Great Bend, ND, and Peace Lutheran Church, Barney, ND) and John Bussman (pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Coleman, AL) join us for the discussion.

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TGC 011 - Liturgy as Catechesis

In this Gottescast, The Gottesdienst Crowd discusses how the liturgy serves as our catechist. Rick Stuckwisch (pastor of Emmaus Lutheran Church, South Bend, IN, and contributing editor to the Gottesdienst Journal and the Gottesblog) joins us for the discussion.

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TGC 010 - Observing the Feast of All Saints

In this Gottescast, The Gottesdienst Crowd discusses how and why the church observes the Feast of All Saints with Mark Braden (Gottesdienst Editor, the author of the recurring column "Taking Pains," and pastor of Zion Lutheran, Detroit, MI). 

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TGC 009 - On Observing the Reformation

In this Gottescast, The Gottesdienst Crowd discusses how one is to understand the Lutheran Reformation and how we thus observe it liturgically. David Petersen (pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, IN, and author of the recurring column "Commentary on the War" in the Gottesdienst Journal) joins us for the discussion.

You can read Bugenhagen's sermon for Luther's funeral here: http://luther.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/luther/luther_site/luther_frame.html

You can read Hamann's essay here: http://mercyjourney.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-false-antithesis-not-lutheran-but.html

You can read Stuckwisch's LSB Core Hymnody post here: http://sword-in-hat.blogspot.com/2007/08/lsb-core-hymnody-kernlieder.html

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