Podcast Overview

Donavon Riley

300: C.S. Lewis - A Grief Observed

03/27/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Are We Just Rats in a Maze? In this episode, we discuss grief, mourning, death, and hope while reading C.S. Lewis’s book, A Grief Observed.
299: Philipp Nicolai - The Joy of Eternal Life

03/18/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

I’ve Got That Joy, Joy, Joy, Down in My Heart. In this episode, we discuss death, rebirth, and eternal life as examined and explained in The Joy of Eternal Life by Philip Nikolai.
298: Gregory P. Schulz - Baptized to Die

03/15/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

A Harsh & Necessary Conversation About Death. In this episode, we discuss death and resurrection concerning the death of a child from Gregory P. Schulz’s book, The Problem of Suffering: A Father’s Hope.
297: Norman Nagel - A Lenten Sermon

03/08/23

7 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Red, Red Wine… In this episode, we discuss Norman Nagel’s Lenten sermon on Jesus’ parable of the vineyard workers, focusing on the gift-giving God and what interferes with Jesus being a gift for us.
- Lent
- Preaching
- Sermons
296: Bo Giertz - Christ’s Church: The Parish Church

03/01/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Say Hello to My Little Church! In this episode, we discuss Christ’s church and all its vagaries and particularities as expressed in Bo Giertz’s book, Christ’s Church.
295: Melanchthon - The people of God are not made by fleshly propagation and the worship of the Law

02/22/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Is It True, Or Is It Truly True? In this episode, we discuss election, true and false church, law, mercy, and why we can’t stop judging the Gospel as we read Philip Melanchthon’s 1541 commentary on Paul’s letter to the Romans.
294: Paulson - Trying to Believe in Double Predestination

02/15/23

7 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley | Steven Paulson

Predestination Is Sick! In this episode, we discuss Steven Paulson’s book, The Outlaw God, focusing our conversation on double presentation, preaching God’s electing promise to sinners, and the consequences of worshipping a philosophical-material god. What are the consequences for people who don’t have a preacher of God’s promise? What does God’s promise have to say to those who believe all people will go to heaven when they die? What are the consequences for sinners when they try to know God apart from the promise?
293: Capon - All God Needs to Make a Preacher is a Nobody

02/08/23

7 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Dirt Naps Are For The Living. In this episode, we wrap up our discussion of Robert Capon’s, The Foolishness of Preaching, focusing on preaching forgiveness, insisting that the dead reform their deadness, and the consequences of high anthropology.
292: Capon - Foolishness of Preaching

02/01/23

7 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Your Guilt Is Misplaced. In this episode, we discuss Robert Capon’s book, The Foolishness of Preaching. We focus on Capon’s argument for why death and resurrection must be preached for a sermon to be rightly called a Christian sermon, for it to be a Gospel proclamation, and the consequences for preachers who avoid addressing sin, death, and forgiveness of sins.
- Preaching
- Proclamation
291: Schleiermacher - The Death of the Saviour the End of All Sacrifices

01/25/23

7 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Isn’t That A Daisy? In this episode, we discuss Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Good Friday sermon, focusing on preaching the cross, where to locate sin, what effect the law has on our external works, and why a proclaimer is necessary to get the Gospel.
290: Schaeffer - A Protestant Evangelical Speaks to His Lutheran Friends

01/16/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Francis & The Sunshine Band. In this episode, we discuss Francis Schaeffer’s ecumenical address to Lutherans, the consequences of seeking church unity using legal categories, the dilemma with Christian purity, the distinction between the hidden and revealed church, and why it matters.
288: Tertullian - What then has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

01/05/23

6 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

How I Met Your Other Mother. In this episode, we discuss Tertullian on Heresies, especially the relationship of philosophy to theology, and how to pastorally address heresies past and present.