1. The year was 1796. We remember the pastor and philosopher Thomas Reid. The reading is an excerpt from Eugene Peterson's "A Long Obedience in the Same Direction."
  2. The year was 1919. We remember Baron Paul Nicolay, the Lutheran evangelist in Russia. Our reading is from Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, titled "Confession."
  3. The year was 1695. We remember the Reverend John Glas. The reading is "Sing Hosanna" by Glas.
  4. The year was 1965, and Pope Paul VI became the first Pope to travel to the Western Hemisphere. The reading is from Karol Jozef Wojtyla, his “Meditations on the Book of Genesis: at the Threshold of the Sistine Chapel."
  5. The year was 1943. We remember Danish Lutheran pastor Kjeldgaard Jensen. The reading is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, his "Meditations on the Cross."
  6. God the Father, God the Space Ghost, and God the Holy Ghost? That doesn't seem right. How about, God the Father, God the Created Son, and . . . no, that's not right either. Craig and Troy look at some more Christoogical heresies that try to understand Jesus, but miss the mark.
  7. The year was 1800. We remember Nat Turner. The reading is from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians chapter three, verse twenty-five.
  8. Forget prayer, America needs the use of logic and civilized discourse! So do preachers. What if preachers actually honestly engage the culture instead of cry “martyr”? Ringside meets The Craft of Preaching with special guest Dr. Ben Haupt.
  9. The year was 1567. We remember a few stories filled with court intrigue, suspicion, and murder, as well as Pietro Carnesecchi, a humanist and would-be Reformer. The reading is “The World is not Conclusion” by Emily Dickinson.
  10. The year was 1958. We remember the author Elsie Singmaster. The reading is from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “That Blessed Hope.”
  11. The year was 1349. We remember the English hermit, mystic, and author Richard Rolle. The reading is from 19th-century poet James Montgomery, “Come To Calvary’s Holy Mountain.”
  12. The year was 1529. We remember the death of Adolf Clarenbach and Peter Fliesteden. The reading is from Martin Luther's Large Catechism in response to the petition in the Lord's prayer for the forgiveness of sins.