1. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember an Emperor from the House of Habsburg and the Reformation.
  2. The Art of Noise. In this episode, we discuss the ins and outs of pastoral care — the art, the discipline, and the experience of pastoral care — while reading The Rule of Gregory the Great. It’s all about church leadership and pastoral ministry in this week’s episode of Banned Books.
  3. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the trial over, perhaps, the largest church scandal in 19th c. America.
  4. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember a momentous occasion between the United States and the Vatican.
  5. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we head to 19th c. India and an early indigenous convert.
  6. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about the show and its benediction.
  7. The Man Who Sold The World. In this episode, we discuss what attachment to things rather than Christ gets us while reading George Macdonald’s Unspoken Sermons. The conversation leads us through the topics of higher and lower things, bread-making, willing and wanting, God-gifted vocations, and how to properly end a sermon.
  8. On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss Christ's calling of his disciples, Philip and Nathaniel