Category: As Lutheran As It Gets

As Lutheran As It Gets delves deep into the deep tracks, B-sides, and basement tapes of our Lutheran fathers. As Lutheran As It Gets is hosted by Rev. Donavon Riley with Rev. Christopher Gillespie interrupting the monologue and producing.

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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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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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52: Lazarus Spengler – All Mankind Fell In Adam’s Fall

For the next four episodes, Gillespie and Riley dig into Lutheran hymns that are “as Lutheran As It Gets.”

Lazarus Spengler originally wrote “Durch Adams Fall ganz verderbt Menschlich Natur und Wesen” as a nine stanza text of eight lines.  Matthias Loy freely translated Spengler’s text into Long Meter.  Spengler’s hymn first appeared in Walter’s Geystliche gesangk Buchleyn (Wittenberg, 1524), Johann Walter’s choir book.  This text was held in high regard at the time of the Reformation, but during the eras of Pietism and the Enlightenment, it fell into disuse.  Matthias Loy’s free translation appeared in The Lutheran Hymnal (1880) of the Ohio Synod and in The Lutheran Hymnal (1941), Lutheran Worship (1982) and now in Lutheran Service Book (2006).

Text: “All mankind Fell in Adam’s Fell” LSB 562, Lazarus Spengler

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51: The Last Galatians Lecture (for us) of Martin Luther

In this episode, Gillespie and Riley read Luther’s Galatians lectures on Christ and those who cut off from Christ by their works.

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, p.417

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Hegel

Augustine’s Platonism

Dichotomous thinking

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50: The (Almost) Last Martin Luther Galatians Lectures

Gillespie and Riley begin to wrap up their reading in Luther’s Galatians lectures. This week, we discuss Christ becoming most Savior and most sinner for us.

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, p.241

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49: Martin Luther’s Galatians Lectures – How to Measure a True Christian

In this episode, Gillespie and Riley go back to Luther’s Galatians lectures, to read and discuss how to measure the true Christian.

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, p.111

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Lost

T. David Gordon – Why Johnny Can’t Preach

T. David Gordon – Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns

Hackworth – About Face

Dostovesky – Crime and Punishment

 

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48: The Law… Until Christ – Luther’s Galatians Lectures

Gillespie and Riley get back to their epic reading of Luther’s epically epic Galatians commentary. This week, the law’s relation to Christ and 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, p.99-101

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Cicero – On Oratory

New Perspective on Paul

Hebrew Roots Movement

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47: Martin Luther’s Magnificat Meditation, Part 2

In the second part, Gillespie and Riley continue to read Martin Luther’s Magnificat, to discuss how God makes Mary a theologian of the cross. 

Text: Luther’s Works, Vol. 21: Sermon on the Mount and the Magnificat 

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Restrepo (Documentary)

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