Category: HT Simulcast

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Pastor Riley and Kate discuss the ongoing identity crisis that we face each day. It is so easy to define ourselves according to our relationships with others, our jobs, our appearance. Where does the search lead us when we are looking inward? Praise be to God who has called us by the Gospel, enlightened us with His gifts, and has sanctified and kept us in the one true faith. We daily return to our baptism where we are grounded and find our true identity as God’s children.

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Pastor Riley, Sandra, and Kate discuss the purpose and challenges of fellowship in the church versus the community we find in other groups outside the church.

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Pastor Riley and Kate discuss the purpose of the law and why Christians try to do good. How are our good works different from the unbeliever’s? Pastor Riley points us back to Christ and His saving miracles in the Gospel. Are we out to save the world on our own because we’re “Christian superheroes” or do we love our neighbor because Christ first loved and saved us?

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Pastor Riley and Sandra are joined by Kate Olson as they continue to discuss the First Article and how Christians answer questions about how and why a good and gracious God allows bad things to happen. What do we confess about our Heavenly Father when things go wrong and we face suffering? How do we respond to God’s gifts? How do we know when God has given a gift or is allowing us to experience pain? Is there a difference?

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More on the First Article of the Creed as Pastor Riley and Sandra discuss how Christians can talk about the world we live in and the gifts of God in it, while still dealing with the whole problem of sin.

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Show Notes

• HT Video Catechism – Ep. 16: The Creed, First Article, Part 1
• HT Video Catechism – Ep. 17: The Creed, First Article, Part 2
• HT Video Catechism – Ep. 18: The Creed, First Article, Part 3
• Conference Breakaway – Science and Faith
• Coffee by Gillespie

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This week’s episode wanders around the Creed, sheep and goats, bearing crosses, baptism, vocation, sin, and helping God…among a host of other issues. Buckle in and hang on for the ride with Pastor Riley and Sandra.

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• Coffee by Gillespie

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I don’t know what happened in this episode. It’s about the Law, the Gospel, the Liturgy, the Sacraments, ministry to people with disabilities, babies, baptism, Genesis, sleeping…even a basement sink. Listen in as Pastor Riley and Sandra Ostapowich follow this week’s rabbit trails.

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Show Notes

• Is There Good News For Disabled People? – Rev. Donavon Riley
• Coffee by Gillespie

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As Pastors Riley and Brown close off their study of James, the importance of Christ and His Mercy shines forth through the end of James, a mercy that is shown to us and that is shown to our neighbors through us.

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Show Notes

Listen and Subscribe to The Gospeled Boldly Podcast with Rev. Eric Brown and Thomas Lemke.

Listen and Subscribe to The Higher Things® Simulcast Podcast with Rev. Donavon Riley and Sandra Ostapowich.

James Chapter 5.

Special Edition: Episode 43

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After the death of John the Baptizer, Jesus predicted his own death, making it clear that His own “exodus” was bound up in His suffering, death, and resurrection. This theme informed many of his parables of grace. All point to Jesus as Messiah and foreshadow His seemingly ungodly death and victorious resurrection as the mode of operation for God’s saving work. Come and study the importance of Jesus’ parables of grace for our Christian witness to atheists, doubters, and even to other believers.

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