All episodes
The Word Made Flesh: The Meaning of the Incarnation for You
Christmas Eve 2021
Weekend Review 12-19-21: The Incarnation, Human Dignity, and the Enduring Gender Binary.
Weekend Review 12-12-21: The Affront of Adoption, “Deconstruction,” and the Blessings of the Bible Belt.
Weekend Review 12-5-21: Abortion and the Clash of Civilization, Truly Toxic Masculinity, and Hope for the Hopeless.
Advent 1 and the Ground of Hope
Weekend Review 11-28-21: Gratitude Adjustment, the Curse and Childlessness, and Further Reasons to Invite Your Neighbor to Church.
Thanks be to God? The Question at the Heart of Thanksgiving
The Other Reading, Rev. 1: Eschatology, the Millennium, and the Coming Apocalypse
What is Truth? Christ the King
Weekend Review 11-21-21: The Inevitable Conflict, Post-Liberal Christendom, and the Tragedy of Godless Anglicanism.
Weekend Review 11-14-21: “Deaths of Despair,” the Devil and Travis Scott, and the Hope Set Before Us.
Jesus, the Church, and the World
The Other Reading: Hebrews 7 and The Protestant Face of Anglicanism
Weekend Review 10-31-21: Reformation Sunday, Your Kids are Not Alright, and Preparing for the Pastorate
Why then the Law? Romans 5
The Justification of (Formerly) Blind Bartimaeus
Weekend Review 10-24-21: The Persistent Binary, (supposed) Texts of Terror, and The Honesty of “Radical Self-Love.”
The Cross and the Crown: A Discipleship Sermon
Weekend Review 10-17-21: The Oxford Martyrs, The Sad State of Evangelical “Elites,” and What to do about the “Young People” in Church.
The Other Reading: The Importance of the “Gender Binary” (Genesis 2)
The Impossible Made Possible: A Sermon for Sinners
Weekend Review 10-10-21: Escape from Facebook, Ministry Burnout, and Elite-Adjacent Evangelicals.
The Other Reading: Law and Gospel (James 5)
Weekend Review 10-3-21: The Battle of Ideas, Non-Religious Exemptions, and Good Reasons to Leave a Church.
Weekend Review 9-26-21: The Purpose of the Church, In Thor We Trust, and Being People of the Lie
Count it All Joy: A Sermon on James
Weekend Review 9-19-21: Outlawing God, the Abortion Divide, and True and False Bishops
The Other Reading: James 2 and Faith in Works
Weekend Review 9-5-21: What Has God Said?, Godless Chaplains Unite, and the Texas Abortion Outrage
Ephesians 6: Stand Firm Christian Soldiers
The Other Reading: Mark 7 and the Heart of Darkness
Weekend Review 8-29-21: Atheist Chic, Crystal Courage, and the Laws of our Lives.
Ephesians 5: Sex, Marriage, and the Bible
Weekend Review 8-22-21: Theological Anthropology, Exscamgelicals, and Non-Monogamous Consensual Fornication.
Weekend Review 8-15-21: Pray Away?, Gender Bending “Marriage,” and The Benedict Option Redux
Ephesians 4: Come Ye Sinners
Weekend Review 8-8-21: Christianity OR Wokeness, #Exvangelicals = #Neo-Pagans, and the Persistent Witness of Courage.
How (and why) a Man Prays for His Wife
Ephesians 4: The Church of Blood Bought Unity
Weekend Review 7-18-21: The Emperor’s New Emojis, Examining the Decline of the American Church, and a New Resource for Christian Reconciliation.
Hebrews 11 and the Power of Faith
Weekend Review 6-27-21: Baby Fears, the Infinite Plus, and Androgyny as Pagan Spirituality.
Jesus and the Redemption of Suffering
Mercy among the Tombs (Mark 4-5)
Law, Gospel, and the “Corinthian Correspondence”
Weekend Review 6-20-21: CRT and the ACNA (the Stand Firm Podcast take 2)
Weekend Review 6-13-21: The Long Decline of Marriage, Endless Identities, and the Looming End of Religious Liberty
What’s Wrong With the World? You, Me, and Genesis 3
Weekend Review 6-6-21: Proud Out Loud, the “Stand Firm” Podcast
The Good News of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
Weekend Review 5-31-21: Human (Embryo) Dignity, Running with Males, and Stay Strong Young Life
Weekend Review 5-23-21: The Satanic Sacrament, Absurd (and Irrelevant) “Churches,” and the Present Evangelical Collapse.
Weekend Review 5-16-21: Questions of Human Dignity, Pope Francis and the new German Sexual Reformation, and the problem with “Western Religious Traditions.”
Weekend Review 5-9-21: The Fundamental Distinctions, the Birth Dearth, and the “Pro Life” Prophet: Archbishop Cordileone
Weekend Review 5-2-21: the Secular Sacrament of Abortion, Drag Queen Sermon Hour, and the Samaritan’s Purse snatched by the Seattle Police.
Moses, Jesus, and the Truth Among Other Gods.
The “Other Reading” Acts 1-4: The Certainty, Clarity, and Boldness of the Church.
Human Identity, Galatians 3:28, and the Elemental Spirits of the World.
Weekend Review 4-25-21: The Myth of “Sexual Identity,” the Future of Conversion Therapy, and Confronting Racism in the Church.
Out Living, Out Loving, and Out Dying the World: a Sermon for No-Longer Doubting Thomas
Weekend Review 4-18-21: Biblical Men and Women, Critical Race Weary, and the Uncomfortable Truth about All the Frozen Embryos.
Weekend Review 4-11-21: The Next Great Awokening, Everything is Religious, and the Fear of Babies.
Maundy Thursday 2021: Do This in Remembrance of Me
Wednesday in Holy Week 2021: Judas and the Forgiveness Business
Weekend Review 3-28-21: Teach Your Children Well (or else), the End of Women, and the Progressive Power of the NCAA.
Palm Sunday 2021: Life Goes On
How to Read the Bible: Psalm 51 and You
The Glorious, Non-Mysterious, Trinity: A Sermon for St. Patrick
Weekend Review 2-21-21: Pope on a Rope, Kicking the (Co)Habitation, and the Last Adult Video Store.
But God. . . a Lenten Sermon on Ephesians
Weekend Review 3-14-21: The Rise of the Modern Self, Detransition Baby, and the Sad Churches of Instagram.
Weekend Review 3-7-21: Sheep among Wolves, #WhatIsProgressiveChristianity (hint: not Christianity), and Abortion Abolition.
Weekend Review 2-28-21: Freethinking Archery, A Churchmosqueagogue, and Nobody (except Jeff Bezos and Planned Parenthood) Expects the Secular Inquisition.
What’s Wrong with You? A sermon for Lent
Weekend Review 2-21-21: Prayer Books, Gender Dystopia, and RZIM.
The Sermon of the World and the Preacher of the Cross
Weekend Review 2-7-21: Cancelling the Transphobes, “Church” Decline, and Whose afraid of the Unwoke Dreher? (AUDIO FIXED)
Weekend Review 1-31-21: Blue Check Homes, a Progressive Pushback, and Culturally Acceptable “Catholicism”
This is Why People Come (and don’t) to Church
Law, Gospel, Galatians 3, and You
Weekend Review 1-24-21: Cancelling Sea Shanties, Roe and other SCOTUS Precedents, and the Other Worldview
The Other Reading (or, How to Understand the Bible): Acts 10
Why We Baptize
Weekend Review 1-17-21: Sea Shanties, White Supremacist Christians?, and CRT Explained.
Light in the Holiday Darkness
The Meaning of Christmas: A theological reflection on the reasons for the season
Weekend Review 12-20-20: Christian Nationalism?, FCA, and no Biden cabinet will/can ever be big enough. (audio fixed!)
Weekend Review 12-6-20: Live not By Lies in the ACNA, Hallmark and the Binary, and White Fragility revisited.
Weekend Review 11-29-20: Hyperreality, Queer Ecology, and Coney-Barrett for the win.
Why then the Law? Wk 7: Thou Shalt not Covet
Why then the Law? Wk 6: Thou Shalt Not Steal, bear False Witness
Weekend Review 11-15-20: Mask Hysteria, New Doubleplus Good Words, and Justice Alito sounds the Alarm
The Hope of Sinners
Weekend Review 11-8-20: Divided we Stand, Wokevangelicals Won’t Stop, and Vote by Mail.
Why then the Law? wk 5: Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
Weekend Review 11-1-20: Who’s afraid (and why) of Coney-Barrett?, Omni-Gender, and the Woke Inquisition.
Why then the Law? wk 4: Thou Shalt Not Murder
He Needs to Show what Love Is.
Weekend Review 10-25-20: Frenchlam, Piper Fails, and a Pope on a Rope (take 2).