1. This is our conversation from the podcast pre-conference at Here We Still Stand 2024 in San Diego, CA.
  2. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we head to a kind of mailbag to answer a question about the “death of the church.”
  3. Seminary professor John Pless joins Craig and Troy for a discussion on the history, mystery, and beauties of the church year.
  4. What does that mean, and should we be concerned? Dr. Steve Hein returns to the For You studios to talk with Craig and Troy about masculinity, feminity, gender stereotypes, and how it all works together for Christ and His church.
  5. Watch Me Work. In this episode, we continue our discussion of justification and vocation as we read "Justification, Vocation, and Location in Luther's Reformation" by James A. Nestigen. Part two of our conversation continues with themes of vocation, location, repentance, humility, personal agency, divine instrumentality, atonement, the relationship of husband and wife to the land, the overlap of heaven and earth, and what to do when we feel like we’ve made a complete mess of our lives.
  6. In this episode of Tough Text, Scott Keith and Daniel Emery Price discuss the passage in Matthew 16 where Jesus rebukes Peter after Peter confesses that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.
  7. They Call Me Rhetorical Working Man. In this episode, we discuss Luther‘s teaching on justification and vocation while reading James Nestingen’s essay on the same topic. We cover feudalism, the rise of capitalism, how the reformation took hold in the cities in Germany, the three estates, the two kingdoms, church life versus social life, and the consequences for Christians of not being grounded in faith and prayer as detailed by Luther, in particular, in his explanations to the petitions of the Lord Prayer.
  8. Craig and Troy listen to the final piece of Dr. Rod Rosenbladt's classic lecture on the relationship of the church, Christ, and those who are estranged from the one but not the other.