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Episode 9: October 31, 2008

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Post date February 22, 2019

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Happy Reformation! This week we’ll be celebrating the Festival of Reformation in episode 9 of Higher Things Radio. In a brand new segment called “Define the Terms”, Pastor Borghardt will pose Rev. Brent Kuhlman with a word and ask him to define it in a simple way for Lutheran youth. This week’s word is “Justification”, tune in to hear Pastor Kuhlman catechize us about this often used and often misunderstood word. In a foretaste of the feast to come, Pastor Borghardt will interview Rev. William Weedon on the Reformation. Pastor Weedon will be one of the plenary speakers at this summer’s conferences Sola. Join Pastor Weedon as he discusses the Reformation.

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Septuagesima 2019 – 1 Corinthians 9:26-27

Post author By Rev. Donavon Riley
Post date February 19, 2019
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Only the Gospel and Christ’s gifts can strengthen us to get on with the long, hard pull of a war that rages, that’s fought for our salvation. Only the Gospel and Christ’s gifts can secure the victory. Only the Gospel and Christ’s gifts keep us safe in the dirty, disagreeable business of fighting against sin, death, and hell.

Text: 1 Corinthians 9:26-27 (One Year)

Preacher: Pastor Donavon Riley, St. John Lutheran Church, Webster, MN

Tags Historic Lectionary, Pre-Lent, Septuagesima

As Lutheran As It Gets Higher History

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

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date February 16, 2019
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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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And as always, don’t forget Pr. Gillespie’s coffee for your caffeinated needs.

Tags cross, hymnody, John Mason Neale

HT Legacy-cast

Episode 3: September 18th, 2008

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Post date February 15, 2019

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The third episode of Higher Things Radio opens up with an interview with Stan Lemon on Holy Cross Day and the Gospel delivered for you in this ancient festival of the Church. Then Pastor Borghardt will interview Pastor Mark Buetow of Du Qoin, IL on a sectional that he delivered at this summer’s Higher Things Conference entitled, “Enemies at the Gate”. Together they’ll take a look at the devil, the world and our sinful flesh and how as Christians we fight and resist these things by virtue of the Gospel. Pastor Buetow will also answer the question, were we created sinful? In the segment, “Is this a sin?” Pastor Borghardt will cold-call Pastor Jonathan Baker of Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

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“He will Die… You will Shine” – Transfiguration 2019

Post author By Rev. George Borghardt
Post date February 10, 2019
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“And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.”

Text: Matt. 17:1-9 (One Year)

Preacher: Pastor George Borghardt, Immanuel Lutheran Church – Bossier, LA

Tags Epiphany, Historic Lectionary, Transfiguration

As Lutheran As It Gets

53: Paul Speratus, Salvation Unto Us Has Come

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date February 9, 2019
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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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Please rate and review the show in Apple Podcasts, via https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/as-lutheran-as-it-gets/id1288159643?mt=2.

And as always, don’t forget Pr. Gillespie’s coffee for your caffeinated needs.

Tags hymnody, romans, Speratus

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“Jesus Fills Up the Lord’s Word to Save You” – Candlemas 2019

Post author By Rev. Aaron Fenker
Post date February 4, 2019
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The Lord’s Word gets filled up. It gets fulfilled. It gets done. Laws cherished and obeyed. Promises kept, made good on. The Lord takes care of it all Himself. It’s all done in Jesus. Jesus cherished the Laws and did them purely and with a pure heart. Jesus kept the promises of salvation. He not only did them, He finished them.

Text: Lk 2:22–40 (One Year)

Preacher: Pastor Aaron Fenker, Bethlehem and Immanuel Lutheran Churches, Bremen, KS

Tags candlemas, Epiphany, Historic Lectionary, presentation

Didache

God’s Good Use of You — Protect Life!

Post author By Rev. Brent Kuhlman
Post date February 2, 2019

This week, Pastor Kuhlmann reads Exodus 20 and discusses the battle for life in a culture that worships death.

Tags bible study

As Lutheran As It Gets

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

Post author By Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Post date February 2, 2019
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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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Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at http://higherthings.org/contact.

Please rate and review the show in Apple Podcasts, via https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/as-lutheran-as-it-gets/id1288159643?mt=2.

And as always, don’t forget Pr. Gillespie’s coffee for your caffeinated needs.