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).

As Lutheran As It Gets

43: All the works-righteous dinosaurs feared the mighty Gospel T-Rex, part 2

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date November 17, 2018
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Continuing from Part 1, Gillespie and Riley ride the wave of Luther’s introduction to Paul’s letter to the Galatians as he doubles and triples down on the language of promise, old man versus new man, and the proper relation of God’s Word of Law to Christians.

Text: Martin Luther’s Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians (1535): Lecture Notes Transcribed by Students and Presented in Today’s English

Show Notes:

Heart of Darkness

Apocalypse Now

The Great Outdoors

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42: All the works-righteous dinosaurs feared the mighty Gospel T-Rex, part 1

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date November 12, 2018
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This week, Gillespie and Riley ride the wave of Luther’s introduction to Paul’s letter to the Galatians as he doubles and triples down on the language of promise, old man versus new man, and the proper relation of God’s Word of Law to Christians.

Text: Martin Luther’s Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians (1535): Lecture Notes Transcribed by Students and Presented in Today’s English

Show Notes:

Heart of Darkness

Apocalypse Now

The Great Outdoors

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41: We could go through Luther’s Galatians commentary all day… The point is, it’s good!

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date October 12, 2018
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In this episode, Gillespie and Riley read Luther’s opening lecture on Paul’s letter to the Galatians – mic drop moment after mic drop moment as Luther lays out his case for active versus passive righteousness.

Text: Martin Luther’s Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians (1535): Lecture Notes Transcribed by Students and Presented in Today’s English

Show Notes:

Weezer – Africa Video

Michael Jackson – Toto

Gulag Archipelago

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40: I know. We’re the same, you and I. Just a couple of sarcastic, Lutheran fools.

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date October 6, 2018
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In this episode, Gillespie and Riley continue to read Luther’s commentary on Galatians (1535). This week, Luther goes full Luther, sarcasm, and Luther’s preface to his Galatians lectures.

Text: Martin Luther’s Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians (1535): Lecture Notes Transcribed by Students and Presented in Today’s English

Show Notes:

ALAG #39

Kindle Edition

The Lutheran Confessions (free)

World War Z

28 Days Later

The Jocko Podcast

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39: I cannot die. Not until I fulfill my destiny, and read Luther’s Galatians commentary.

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date September 29, 2018
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This week, Gillespie and Riley begin an epic reading of Luther’s epic Commentary of Galatians (1535). This episode, Luther’s preface to his lectures on Galatians.

Text: Martin Luther’s Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians (1535): Lecture Notes Transcribed by Students and Presented in Today’s English

Show Notes:

Martin Brecht biography of Luther

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38: Once more into the fray… breach… biography thingie… with Heiko Oberman

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date September 15, 2018
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Another week, another episode reading Heiko Oberman’s biography of Martin Luther. In this episode, Luther as a Bible translator.

Text: Luther: Man Between God and the Devil by Heiko A. Oberman, p. 308ff

Show Notes:

Clutch – Hot Bottom Feeder

Jonathan Mann

Mike Rowe on Ben Shapiro

Matthius Flacius, How to Understand the Sacred Scriptures

Harvest of Medieval Theology

Roots of Anti-Semitism

Religion in Nazi Germany

Jordan Peterson – Bible Series

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37: Hey, let’s have a big round of applause for all of today’s contenders… with Heiko Oberman

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date September 6, 2018
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Here they go again… Pastors Gillespie and Riley continue with Heiko Oberman’s biography of Martin Luther. This week, they discuss the consequences, then and now, of Luther’s debate with Erasmus on the Bondage of the Will.

Text: Luther: Man Between God and the Devil by Heiko A. Oberman, p. 215ff

Show Notes:

36: Hey, let’s debate “free will.” Come on, you love it…. with Heiko Oberman

The history of confirmation

Martin Brecht biography of Luther

Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ)

The greek nose

Hans Holbein the Younger, Erasmus of Rotterdam

Fibonacci Sequence

How Tool Used Math to Create “Lateralus”

Critical Social Theorists, Frankfurt School

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36: Hey, let’s debate “free will.” Come on, you love it…. with Heiko Oberman

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date August 28, 2018
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In this episode, Pastors Gillespie and Riley continue with Heiko Oberman’s biography of Martin Luther. This week, Luther’s debate with Erasmus on the Bondage of the Will.

Text: Luther: Man Between God and the Devil by Heiko A. Oberman, p. 211ff

Show Notes:

Intellectual Dark Web

Jordan Peterson – Bible Series

The Rise of the “Nones”

Novum Testamentum Graece

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35: I’m sorry, but your theology is…. Christ-haunted… with Heiko Oberman

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date August 20, 2018
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In this episode, Pastors Gillespie and Riley dive back into Heiko Oberman’s biography of Martin Luther. This week, Oberman explains how The Freedom of a Christian was Luther’s formulation of the Christian as “simul” in order to counter the theological arguments of both Johann von Staupitz and Johannes Tauler.

Text: Luther: Man Between God and the Devil by Heiko A. Oberman, p. 13ff

Show Notes:

Gulag Archipelago

Liberal Christianity

Orthodoxy, Pietism, Rationalism, and Romanticism

F. Bente on Melanchthon

The Philippists

Weimar Ausgabe

Johannes Tauler

Johannes von Staupitz

The Brent Kuhlman Experience

Gospeled Boldly

The Freedom of a Christian

Liberation Theology

Oscar Romero

Jurgen Moltmann – The Crucified God

Book of Concord – Smalcald Articles

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Tags interpretation, luther, overman, scripture, shirer myth

As Lutheran As It Gets

34: Does This Look Reformationy to You? with Heiko Oberman

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date August 16, 2018
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This week, Pastors Gillespie and Riley read Heiko Oberman’s remarkable biography of Martin Luther. In this episode, Oberman explains the force of exegesis in Luther’s earliest Psalms lectures.

Text: Luther: Man Between God and the Devil by Heiko A. Oberman, p. 172-3

Show Notes: