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13 mins read|04/19/19And when He says, “It is finished,” He doesn’t just mean His life and ministry. He means you, your sin, your brokenness, and ultimately your death.
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7 mins read|04/02/19If everyone would just live by the rules, the world would be a better place, wouldn’t it?
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7 mins read|03/26/19Martin Luther knew something about economics. Well, God’s economics anyway.
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8 mins read|03/04/19Americans love the vicarious sense of pride they get from the odds-defying underdog myth.
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7 mins read|02/25/19Your eternal salvation isn’t dependent on performance or effort. Well, not your performance anyway...
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7 mins read|02/06/19In our democratic society we love to talk about freedom. But anybody out there ever tried to be perfect? Ah, shucks. Turns out we’re not as free as we thought.
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3 mins read|01/02/19The Brutal, Humiliating, Joyous Christmas Gospel! Gillespie and Riley return this week with another episode dedicated to Martin Luther's Christmas sermon. This time, they dig into the underlying brutality of the Christmas Gospel, Mary's humiliation, and Joseph's dilemma.
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3 mins read|12/25/18Christmas: the Perfect Time of Year for a Theologian of the Cross! In this episode, Gillespie and Riley read from a Christmas sermon by their favorite heretic, Martin Luther. They discuss Mary's example of how God makes theologians of the cross through suffering, oppression, weakness, and hopelessness.
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13 mins read|12/05/18Luther’s theology lets the believer in Christ dwell under the cerulean sky of God’s unchanging grace.
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9 mins read|12/01/18There’s no watch on the Lord’s wrist. No iPhone in the back pocket of his blue jeans. He did create time; it was his idea. But for him “the right time” is never our time. From our perspective, he’s either way too early or—more usually—way too late.
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3 mins read|11/28/18Please, Love Me Like You Do... This week, Gillespie and Riley wrap up their reading of Gerhard Forde's "On Being a Theologian of The Cross." What are the ramifications for Christians when God creates (He does not find) that which is pleasing to Him?
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2 mins read|11/21/18Don't Like That We're Righteous Apart From Works? We're Not Done Yet. Continuing their conversation from episode #31, Gillespie and Riley follow Gerhard Forde, and with him examine Luther's Heidelberg Disputation. This week, Aristotle, righteousness, and whose work is worth calling "good."
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