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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13: Veith – Vocation, Vocation, Vocation

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date January 5, 2018
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Our Text: Glory Versus the Cross by Gene Edward Veith

Show Notes:

Dr. Gene Keith is not Dr. John Kleinig. Pr. Riley flubbed it. By way of apology, we introduce you, faithful listener, to Dr. Veith himself.

You can read more from Dr. Veith at his blog: Cranach.
Or read God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life.
Check out this recent episode of the Thinking Fellows podcast: Vocation Revisited.

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12: For You Christmas – Norman Nagel

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date December 28, 2017
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Our Text: Selected Sermons of Norman Nagel, Sermon on Luke 2

Show Notes:

It’s Christmas with Dr. Nagel. Pr. Riley and Pr. Gillespie riff off Dr. Nagel’s sermon for Christmas from Luke 2.

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11: Kleinig – Luther’s handbook for evangelical piety

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date December 9, 2017
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Piety doesn’t demand signs and wonders. It’s not about obedience or works. Biblical piety is grounded in the Small Catechism, God’s handbook for family devotions, His textbook for evangelical piety.

Our text: Luther on the Practice of Piety – Dr. John Kleinig

Show Notes:

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10: Henrich Bornkamm – Luther and the Old Testament

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date December 1, 2017
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Your hosts dig deep into heavy duty historian Heinrich Bornkamm’s exploraton of Luther and the Old Testament.

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Tags Heinrich bornkamm, martin luther, old testament

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09: Kittleson – Luther the Pastor

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date November 29, 2017
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Pr. Riley and Pr. Gillespie free range graze on James Kittleson’s “Luther the Reformer.”

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Tags conscience, history, martin luther

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08: CFW Walther – Thesis XXV

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date November 20, 2017
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No one is more quintessentially Lutheran and the American Martin, C.F.W. Walther himself. Riley and Gillespie delve deep in the capstone thesis of Walther’s Magnum Opus.

Show Notes:

Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther
Perry County Missouri
Law and Gospel: How to Read and Apply the Bible
Thesis XXV – Lecture 39
Flacius – How to Understand Sacred Scriptures
John Travolta – Angel (search for it)
Wife of Manoa
Young Men and Fire – Norman Maclean
Tuvan throat singer
Joseph Campbell – The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Wide Open Stand the Gates – Löhe

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07: Luther – Bondage of the Will

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date November 9, 2017

Is Luther’s “Bondage of the Will” the most Lutheran of all of Luther’s writings? Let’s see if Pr. Riley can convince you.

Show Notes:

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06: Bayer – Living by Faith

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date October 27, 2017

Riley and Gillespie dive deep into Oswald Bayer’s “Living by Faith: Justification and Sanctification”

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Show Notes:

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05: Hamann – On Being a Christian

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date October 22, 2017

Riley and Gillespie dive deep into Henry P. Hamann’s “On Being a Christian: A Personal Confession.”

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Show Notes:

Henry Hamann

On Being a Christian: A Personal Confession

John Pless

“Cut to the chase”

Madonna – Crazy for You

Vision Quest (1985)

German sentence construction

Seven Marks of the Church – On the Councils and the Church

Episode 02: Sasse – Particularity of the Sacraments

LaCroix Lime Sparkling Water

Ecumenism

Marburg Colloquy

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

On the Freedom of a Christian (Luther)

Thinking Fellows – Reformation & Islam

Camp Crystal Lake

Friday the 13th Reboot

Black Holes

Knights of Ni

Chalice scene – Indiana Jones and Last Crusade

In Praise of Cowboy Boots (Cwirla)

Nietzsche on the struggle for truth and true worlds

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04: Giertz – Sermon the Belief and False Belief

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date October 15, 2017

Pr. Riley and Pr. Gillespie listen to Bo Giertz preach in 1961 on the difference between belief and false belief.

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Show Notes:

Text for our Study: Bo Giertz, Sermon on Belief and False Belief, p.133.

Bo Giertz – Wikipedia

Hammer of God at Amazon – By Bo Giertz.

The Knights of Rhodes: Bo Giertz, Bror Erickson …

Bo Giertz, Liturgy & Spiritual Awakening | Liturgy | Prayer

Bror Erickson – 1517 The Legacy Project

Then Fell the Lord’s Fire: Bo Giertz, Bror Erickson …

Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word

Amazon.com: communion kit

Brazilian jiu-jitsu ranking system – Wikipedia

The Matrix Reloaded: What Went Wrong? – Wisecrack Edition …

SparkNotes: The Matrix Trilogy: Philosophical Influences

Luther’s Small Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther

Why are Lutheran Hymns so hard and depressing and… icky?

Charlie Brown – True Meaning of Christmas – Luke 2, 8-14.mov …

The Three Ecumenical Creeds – Book of Concord

Gods and Goddesses of Death and the Underworld – ThoughtCo

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville: Text, Ebook

Alan Watts: Buddhism – YouTube

Paulskirche (Schwerin) – Wikipedia

Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy

The Cast of Fargo Reacts to This Season’s Most Bonkers Plot

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