Author: Rev. Christopher Gillespie

Rev. Christopher Gillespie is a strange brew of husband & father; Lutheran pastor (St. John Ev. Lutheran Church - Sherman Center, Random Lake WI); media producer (gillespie.media); specialty coffee roaster (gillespie.coffee).

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60: Martin Luther Lents Psalm 6

In this episode, pastors Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Martin Luther’s commentary on Psalm 6 – God’s two kinds of discipline 

Text: The Penitential Psalms: Psalm 6, Luther’s Works, Volume 14

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“Rejoice and Be Refreshed” Laetare 2019

Maybe you have even lamented like your fathers, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full…” Life was so much better before? Ignorance was bliss? But you are not simply physically hungry, because there is a greater hunger and thirst. No amount of earthly bread or the loveliest spring water will satisfy the demands of the Law and death.

Text: John 6:1-15 (One Year)

Preacher: Pastor Christopher Gillespie, St. John Ev. Lutheran Church — Sherman Center, Random Lake, WI

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59: Psalm 32 – Still Getting Lent-ed with Martin Luther

In this episode, pastors Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Martin Luther’s commentary on Psalm 32. This week, they talk about sins forgotten. blessedness, and the upside down, the backward reality of the comfort of confessing one’s sin to God.

Text: The Penitential Psalms: Psalm 32, Luther’s Works, Volume 14

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58: Get Lent-y with Martin Luther

This week, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Martin Luther’s commentary on Psalm 51. This episode is all about repentance, conscience, sin, and grace. 

Text: The Penitential Psalms: Psalm 51, Luther’s Works, Volume 14

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57: Christoph Homburg – Christ, The Life of All The Living

In this episode, Pastors Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Christoph Homburg’s “Christ, The Life of All The Living.” Affliction, church militant and triumphant, holding the “simul” tension in pastoral care. 

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56: Martin Franzmann – Preach You The Word

This week, Gillespie and Riley discuss Franzmann’s “Preach You the Word” – God’s Word, pastoral ministry, singing doctrine, and always repenting.

Text: Preach You the Word, Martin Franzmann

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55: Nikolaus Selnecker – Lord Jesus Christ, with Us Abide

In this episode, pastors Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Selnecker’s hymn of prayer, to be kept safe by and in God’s Word and Sacraments 

Text: Lord Jesus Christ, with Us Abide (LSB 585), Nicolaus Selnecker, 1532-92

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“The Purpose of God’s Word” Sexagesima 2019

Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, shelters His tender shoot from the pecking of Satan’s beak, from the suffering rays of the midday sun, and from the encroachment of the thorny cares of this world. This Word came forth from the Father’s mouth to forgive, to give life, and to take you into eternal salvation.

Text: Isaiah 55:10-13; Luke 8:4-15 (One Year)

Preacher: Pastor Christopher Gillespie, St. John Ev. Lutheran Church — Sherman Center, Random Lake, WI

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54: John Mason Neale – Sing, My Tongue, the Glorious Battle

This week, Pastors Gillespie and Riley discuss Neale’s translation of Fortunatus’ hymn, prayer, the two kingdoms, right and left-handed power, and the importance of a “catholic” confession of the Christian faith.

Text: “Sing, My Tongue, the Glorious Battle,” Fortunatus, tr. John Mason Neale

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53: Paul Speratus, Salvation Unto Us Has Come

In the fall of 1523 Paul Speratus penned his most famous hymn, Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, “Salvation Unto Us Has Come.” It was one of the hymns in the first Lutheran hymnal in 1524, commonly known as Achtliederbuch (literally “Eight Song Book,” thus called because it contained eight hymns), but formally titled Etlich christlich lider. It was originally identified as “A Hymn of Law and Faith, Powerfully Furnished with God’s Word.” This hymn, originally 14 stanzas, is well-known in Lutheranism and has been called “the true confessional hymn of the Reformation and the poetical counterpart of Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans.” 

Text: Paul Speratus, “Salvation Unto Us Has Come,” LSB 555

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