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Stop the White Noise with Jonathan and Meridith — 422 episodes
SF2029: Ep 242 This Changes Things
STWN 145 First Draft TOU KOSMOU
Wisdom Looks Like Suffering
STWN 144 1st Draft Take 2
STWN 143 1st Draft on X 01
STWN 142 After I Die
STWN 141 Searching for Meaning
STWN 140 Turning Corners, Sticking with It
STWN 139 Simul Justus et Pec Things
STWN 138 It's My Birthday
STWN 137 Push Back
Small Stories
STWN 136 Are You Ready to Die?
Psalm 55: Old Problems, Eternal Solutions
STWN 135 Is God There?
STWN 134 w/ Special Guest Chloe
STWN 133 Mystery Not Math
STWN 132 Good Friday
STWN 131 Manhood and Motherhood
STWN 130 Medicine of Immortality
STWN 129 The Listening Room, and Even Cooler Anecdotals
128 In Like a Lion
Worship Is A Lifestyle
127 The Name on Your Lips
Telling Stories
Lutherans Are Evangelicals
126 L.O.L Love's Own Language
125 Choose Your Idols Wisely
124 Demonology, Pastors Who Abuse, Churches that Refuse to Close
Speaking Man, Speaking Woman
123 And What of Civil War?
Love the sinner, hate the sin?
122 Abandoned to the True Shepherd
121 Ask for Joy
120 Feel Forgiven
119 22nd Anniversary Edition
118 Merry Christmas 23!!!
117 Gedaliah and the Matriarchy
Six Things That Have Changed in the LCMS since the 60s
116 Publish the Name
115 "Ifs" are Stupid
114 It's ALWAYS Legalism
Ruling Indirectly
Going the Way of the Righteous
113 On Higher Things
112 Tall Tropes and True
111 All My Problems are Greek Problems
The Devil's Catechism
Buyer Beware!
110 A Lot of Good Fortune
109 Friday Night Special 10/20
Talking in a circle
108 Meaning with Distinction
107 "Songs Not About God"
A Tool To Inspire Your Spirit
Thank You, Pass The Fish
106 A Little Inspiration
No Power Suit Necessary
105 No Bad Weather, Just the Wrong Clothes
Shout Good Words Into The Chaos
For Ladies-in-Waiting
104 Work is How We Live
Spirit of sobriety
103 It's All a Gnostic Lie (fixed)
102 Fear of Death Kills the Spirit
A Battle you can do Something About
101 I Have a Dream
100 Fight the Battles (Plural)
Poetic quantum physics
Out of Plato, back to Solomon
The clarity of perspicuity
Zeal, wisdom, leading and being led
Talking heads, default heads
Taking charge on the Emotional Express
The measurement guy
099 What's the Appeal? Reboot
A kaleidoscope memorial
My Father's identity
098 Monster Trucks, Killing Bears and Pumping Iron
The family hedge
Stop living other people's lives
097 The Dark Shore...Everything
Man mind, woman mind
Jesus is not worried
096 Dark Shore - Tell a Better Story
Salty Lutherans
The beast isn't worth your time
Babies need Jesus too
095 June is Gift of Life Month
Letting in souls
Masculine dozen roses
094 No More Questions! Ever?
093 Intense Sobriety
Immoveable love wins
092 That's *Our* Rainbow, & Other Subtle Thieveries
Fathers out, clowns in
Nice enough is not enough
091 Busy Worship and a Handful of Holy Spirit
The Practice of OMT
The blessing of difficult people
090 You'll Want Them Back
The Chosening of evangeltainment
Notes for men and boys
089 Dinah's Ancient Wisdom
We've got enough entertainment
Idols of commercialization
088 Don't 2nd Guess
Outsourced hospitality
087 Gain of Assurance FTW
Alone together
The limited American family
086 Don't argue with demons
The Cross is our tautology
085 - Announcement
Crucifix-shaped notification
Commands vs Promises
Being the antidote
Psalms to rule your spirit
084 The Political Whisperer
Glory or the Cross?
083 April 1st
Reclaiming surrender
082 Feed the Trolls Meat Only - No Snacks!
Field trips with Jesus
081 How to get in a stupid debate
Zombietainment
Task vs time-oriented
080 The Love of Money
Reading to your angel
Slow drip is good
079 What are you now?
Outsmart your doubts
Why do you ask?
078 "Explaining" God
Jesus is not a hobby
077 Don't settle for guilt
Being ready to die
076 Friday Night Special
Mutual submission is not a thing
075 Perspicuity Vs. The Nihilism
074 Fight the Machines, Fight the Madness
Apples and oranges
In memorial of me
073 End the bloodshed
"Be nice" is not the Gospel
Fear God not man
072 Disciple Means Disciplined
The place for modesty
Mixing darkness with light
071 Deo Volente
You are their mission
070 Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
069 Wisdom Takes Time
Trauma salvation fantasy
068 The Good Shrinking
Life, the movie:starring you
The damage lingers
067 Friday Evening Special
Not on the label
You could just meet together
Beset by pornography
066 Wake up!
Slowly taking down the high places
Just be the best
065 Mutual Trust
Remember your Creator and rest
God did it, you can trust it
Woe to me if I don't go to every meeting
064 Standing firm, set apart
Build towards Paradise
Love is not calculus
063 Can We Do Hard Things?
Disembodied work
Delete them one by one
Busy pastors and their wives
062 Who's in charge here?
We live as if God's not here
How women can actually help men
Expectation world
061 Incise Your Gates!
The Rule Of Faith is clear
Why are they in darkness?
Quia, quatenus, lemon juice and Luther
060 All Hallow's What?
On writing the Fisk way
Defense, not offense
An ongoing new reality
059 Christmas in October
Build a bad chair
Walk, don't run
Organic Greek
A paper bubble
058 On offense, or something
Allergic to Methodism
Solution-seeking questions
It's not a test
057 Be a Karen
Marking and avoiding the fool
The devil's one lie
Expose the wound and heal
Scripture has an order
Hatred of authority
056 Prayer and Trust
Pray for the power to resist
Teach fathers to teach
TV is about suspending belief
It's worth the pain
The quiet spirit
055 Apologia Boom!
Tell yourself true stories
Girl, you're forgiven
Gospel boiled down
Time to contemplate
The weight of being seen
Called to be at peace
054 Good Mishpat
Taking the safety off
Conditional and unconditional
053 Labor Day Weekend - Friday night special
The purpose of my election
Communion belongs to the church
Feeling bad makes sense
052 Degrees of Bliss
Permission to grow up
Preserving life for the sake of life
The heart of the catechism
Losing but not despairing
051 FOMO kills
Repentance is a good rule of thumb
Men will stop doing their job
When reason gets in the way
50th Episode! Inside baseball
Preaching to the unconverted
Be worth following
When you fall down a rabbit hole
Culture of life – for moms and babies
049 Turn it Off
It's not about happy
Can we face the truth?
Seeing, hearing, believing
048 Jesus + Something Something
047 Transcendence Rules
Acting first and justifying later
Think about it now
Justice, not magic water
046 Bad Categories
Expecting wrath, finding grace
The impact of a Pastor's wife
No need to apologize
Jesus doesn't have a Plan B
045 Yay! Algorithms! (Friday Night Special)
What's your reason for staying?
044 Life Wins
Who are the least of these?
Teach them diligently
Being absent, being present
Generosity
Red flags and a godly wife
043 Alleluia Day of History!
042 Get ready it
Building to last
The land cries out
Could Luther join the LCMS?
041 The Admonition of Jesus
Upon this rock 'n' roll I will build my church
Feelings and facts
Go to the King
040 The Misinformation Age
Just plain selfish
You're not sure but Jesus is
Don't look back
039 Prepping for Judgement
It's okay to say goodbye
038 Don't say that
Dwelling richly in your heart
Enjoy not being a prepper
Sacrament vs the lie machine
037 Opinions may vary
Why not have both?
To die is more Christ
Sharing the hurt
The idol of Jesus+
I've got you - now keep going
036 Luxury Opining
035 Not Banned
Walking out of trauma
Get on your knees
Why run?
The reality is Christ
034 Friday Night Special
Covering ourselves in glory
When you stop trying so hard
The division is a construct
033 The Theology of How
Proving their unbelief
Treasure in earthern vessels
Why we can have nice things
032 Daring Greatly in Ungrateful Times
The great Apostate
Pastoral Interoperability
You don't need a vice
031 Stand by for Tyranny
Bitter then sweet
030 Truth Seeking
Going in circles
One per family
The magical thinking behind profanity
Wisdom and strength
Eternal cyborg life
Looking for grace in all the wrong places
029 Breaking Cages
Who's in first?
The hand that used to feed you
028 It's on purpose
Order of Creation and Christian freedom
The called out ones
People are more than lists
027 Friday Night Special
026 From Canada to Ukraine
Teaching emotional control
Grace, not karma
From fools for fools
Giving your Bible that "lived in" look
025 Live from Louisiana
Simple but true
Representative Order
Talking past each other
Scalable silence
Fractal commandments
024 The Science changing
Engineers on the battlefield
The Psalter is good for your soul
Darkness always casts a shadow
The False Doctrine Police
023 Freedom Conveyed
Enemies within your walls
Not a chance
What makes a marriage
022 Interim Stating
Getting tangled in your own piety
It's a no from me
In sickness and in health
The best time is right now
021 Life and the kitchen sink
Don't feed a fantasy
The Crucifix Preaches The Cross
020 Walk for Life Special
He calls you by his name
There are no emergencies
019 Subordination and Freedom
You can't fix the mess with anarchy
Not a stop but a turn
Tomorrow never comes
Embracing your cross
018 2022
The sojourn is a passing dream
Holiday dinners and ending friendships
Healing the divorce horcrux
Stolen bread and a mouth full of gravel
Hope for world-weary sinners
Weighty, glorious wisdom
Check list not included
017 Christmas Special 2021
Saved from your own good works
Checking the indulgence
A slow formation
Livin' la Lord's Day Loca
016 When Depression Gets Real
Flesh gonna flesh
Selah's delight, selah's warning
Some dreams must die
Opiate of the masses
The juicy stuff
015 No Substitute for Obvious
Not a prophet nor the son of a prophet
It doesn't have to be from your heart
Running without being sent
Valid for eternity
014 Electing to Pray
Hollywood, the drug of a nation
013 Obsess on the good
Eating and drinking can do such great things
Casting bread and paying it forward
Suffer long and prosper
A Thanksgiving table in this wilderness
Idolatry is tricksy but forgiveness is precious
Thumb on the scales
012 Pain and Crosses
Our Father knows best
Your life is in the hands of God
Luther, St James and the straw man
011 Illusion of Control
010 Arrogance and Judgment
Getting past bread
The organization of King Solomon
Rock bottom is a great place to start
Dreams, revelation and terrors in the night
009 Crawl in a hole and die
But we see Jesus
008 The AntiReality Juggernaut Society
007 Inoculatory Realities
Things can go downhill fast
You had your turn
The Von Trapps didn't have a TV
The TV ate my brain
Not so hasty
006 No Local Support
Use at your own risk
005 Pray for a Man of God
Speak about God like he hears you
Are you biblical or not?
May cause some emotional discomfort
004 Slow Avalanching
Domestic bliss and how less is more
Check your Idolatry
Seeds, soulmates and the world to come
003 The World is Upside Down
We can't all be Batman
Daily bread and living in Babylon
What worldliness looks like
002 Small Steps and the Slow Avalanche
STWN 001 Like a Tree