Podcast Overview

Author

Ecclesiastical and Doctrinal Authority

03/14/25

4 mins

By Caleb Keith | Steven Paulson

Erasmus and Luther struggle over the question of church authority. Erasmus makes an appeal to doctrinal authority based on ecclesial order.
What Is the Church?

03/06/25

5 mins

By Steven Paulson | Caleb Keith

Erasmus accused Luther of being outside of the church and having a novel understanding of Scripture.
A Very Friendly Debate: The Third Use of the Law

03/04/25

11 mins

By Kelsi Klembara | Steven Paulson | Robert Kolb

In a new segment of Outside Ourselves, Kelsi hosts theologians Robert Kolb and Steven Paulson for a debate on the third use of the law.
Propitiation: noun, to propitiate

01/17/25

4 mins

By Troy Neujahr | Craig Donofrio

Jesus is the forgiveness of our sins, Jesus is the forgiveness for your sins, Jesus is the forgiveness for all sins, period.
- Work of Christ
- Forgiveness
373: Luther - You have the Mystery of God

12/13/24

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Tighten Up. In this episode, we read Martin Luther’s Advent 3 ordination sermon, discussing rites and ceremonies, church traditions, God’s mysteries versus the devil’s, and much pastoral talk about transparency and honesty amongst brothers and sisters in the Gospel.
372: Luther - A Lovely and Joyous Sermon

12/09/24

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Countdown to Armageddon. In this episode, we read Martin Luther’s Advent 2 sermon (1532) and discuss signs and symbols, the liturgical calendar, funerals, preaching, and many many other things of an episodic nature.
Be Perfect as Jesus is Perfect

11/15/24

6 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

What does Jesus mean that we should be perfect, as Jesus is perfect? Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin look at the context of the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 5 where this passage is found.
366: Nestigen - Justification, Vocation, and Location in Luther's Reformation

10/04/24

8 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

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.
Being Christlike

09/12/24

4 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

Katie Koplin and Gretchen Ronnevik talk about what it means to grow in Christlikeness.
Fruitless and Faithless (Mark 11:12-33)

08/29/24

5 mins

By Scott Keith | Daniel Emery Price

In this episode of Tough Texts, Scott Keith and Daniel Emery Price delve into the puzzling story in Mark 11 about Jesus cursing a fig tree and clearing the temple.
"All Your Works Are Bad" and Other Hopeful Things

08/22/24

6 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

After chatting a bit about the names of their houses, and life in general, Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin jump back in to the Heidelberg Disputation of 1518, and how it is such a great foundation for Biblical counseling.
Uncomfortable Work of the Law

08/05/24

6 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

What does mental health have to do with the 95 thesis and the Heidelberg Disputations? Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin.