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1

Does God Have a Plan for Your Life?

2

Do I Have A Guardian Angel?

3

Demons Are Real But Christians Don't Need to Be Afraid

4

Just War Theology and the Christian Conscience

5

Go To Church

6

Did Jesus Claim to Be God?

7

Confessional, Evangelical, and Catholic with Magnus Persson

8

Thinking About a Post-Christian West

9

Reasons To Be Lutheran

10

A Reasoned Defense of the Faith

11

Identifying The Antichrist

12

Abortion: Serious Questions Christians Should Be Prepared to Answer

13

Are There Hidden Secrets in the Old Testament? Featuring Chad Bird

14

Can Christians Use Lethal Force

15

Has Lutheranism Failed?

16

How Education Problems Affect Handing Down the Faith

17

A Review of David (Angel Studios 2025)

18

The Worst Phrases Christians Use

19

Year End Announcement from 1517

20

When Christians Contradict Themselves

21

Where Lutheranism Disagrees with Thomas Aquinas

22

Why Mormonism Isn't Christianity

23

Why is Luther's Bondage of the Will Ignored?

24

The Bondage of the Will: A Simple Overview

25

Why Do Christians Sing Hymns? | Dr. Steve Mueller, Concordia University Irvine

26

Differences Between Evangelicals and Lutherans

27

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk: A Brief Christian Perspective

28

What Christians Should Know About Islam

29

The Pivotal Influence of the Book of Romans on the Reformation

30

Freedom of the Christian

31

Augustine of Hippo

32

Justin Martyr Father of Apologetics

33

Martin Luther And The Rule Of Faith

34

C.F.W Walther: The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel

35

Was Peter the First Pope?

36

The Difference Between the Comfort of the Gospel and Therapeutic Language

37

James Bond and Other Nonsense

38

Thinking Fellows Live in Northwest Arkansas

39

Our Pet Peeves

40

Does Christianity Have a Reliable Morality?

41

Can You Trust the Bible?

42

Are Lutherans Catholic?

43

Are Lutherans Protestant?

44

Are Lutherans Evangelicals?

45

What is a Confessional Lutheran?

46

A Lutheran Identity Crisis

47

Things Christians Shouldn't Do

48

Let's Talk About Infant Baptism

49

Can You Make The Gospel Relevant?

50

Hypocrisy or Consistency? The Church and Sexual Sins

51

Should We Still Send Our Kids to College?

52

Did Martin Luther Start a New Religion?

53

Technology Can't Stop Death

54

The Limits of Worldview and the Utility of Epistemology

55

Crusades

56

Lutherans React to Wesley Huff's Joe Rogan Appearance

57

The Venerable Bede

58

Bonaventure: The Souls Journey into God

59

Eusebius

60

Broken Bonds: A Novel of the Reformation

61

Fueling the Mission: Supporting 1517 to Proclaim the Gospel

62

Gregory of Nyssa

63

On the Priesthood St. John Chrysostom

64

Winning and Losing Political Elections

65

Is the Church Dying? (Live at HWSS)

66

A Reading List for Getting To Know Lutheransim

67

Remembering John Warwick Montgomery

68

The Myth of Spiritual But Not Religious

69

The End of the World

70

Elected To Salvation

71

You Need a Preacher

72

What is Church?

73

The True Body and Blood of Jesus Christ

74

Baptism Now Saves You

75

The Olympic Opening Ceremonies: A Twisted Liturgy

76

Law and Gospel Must Be Preached

77

Preserved in the Faith

78

Sanctified by Faith not Works

79

Justified by Christ

80

Do You Have Saving Faith?

81

The Offices and Work of Christ

82

The Doctrine of Christ Matters

83

Humanity is Sinful and Unclean

84

Grace and Peace in Christ (Live Recording)

85

The Sexual Revolution and Its Consequences

86

Who Is God?

87

Scripture Is the Only Source and Norm of Christian Theology

88

Starting To Do Theology

89

Why Do Theology?

90

Christianity and Materialism

91

Preserving Christian Community

92

Are Roman Catholics Christians?

93

The Reality And Utility Of The Three Estates

94

Just Preach the Gospel

95

Remembering Rod Rosenbladt

96

How Do You Establish Christian Values?

97

Why is God Silent?

98

The Decline of Christianity in Europe and the West

99

Is Technology Evil?

100

Does Christmas Have Pagan Origins?

101

The Science

102

Is Israel God's Chosen Nation?

103

Where Have Christians Gone?

104

Freedom Lessons

105

The Impact of C.S. Lewis with Greg Koukl

106

Gray Space Issues

107

Dealing with Doubt

108

Revealed by Scripture Alone

109

On Account of Christ Alone

110

Justified by Faith Alone

111

Saved by Grace Alone

112

Virtue Ethics

113

The Importance of Friendship

114

Accountability

115

Movies with Meaning

116

Do The Four Gospels Contradict?

117

Does God Want You To Be Happy?

118

The Apocrypha

119

The Place and Function of Adiaphora

120

The Struggle Between Church and Sports

121

Reading Recommendations

122

Is Christianity a Religion of Doctrines?

123

Sacred Spaces

124

Orthodoxy

125

The Tough Texts of Scripture

126

Christianity and Liberalism Part 2

127

Christianity and Liberalism

128

The Church and The Culture War

129

What is Woke?

130

If Christ Be Not Raised

131

Christianity and Psychology

132

Is Atheism Foolish?

133

Should Christians Engage With Philosophy?

134

What Does Athens Have To Do With Jerusalem?

135

In The World Not Of The World

136

Aliens

137

Christ and Culture

138

The Return of the King (Lord of the Ring's Trilogy)

139

The Two Towers (Lord of the Rings Trilogy)

140

Remembering Jim Nestingen

141

New Year, New You

142

The Fellowship of the Ring

143

Merry Christmas 2022

144

The Hobbit

145

Reading Tolkien

146

How the Church Reads the Bible

147

A Time to Be Thankful

148

Trust Not In Princes

149

Literary Apologetics (Why You Should Study Them)

150

Why You Should Celebrate the Reformation

151

Justification By The Word

152

Consciences Captive to the Word of God (HWSS Live 2022)

153

Postmodernism (Why You Should Know the Intellectual Origins)

154

Why You Should Be Aware of Cultural Nihilism

155

Rings of Power (Why You Should or Shouldn't Watch the Show)

156

Why You Should Be Aware Of Secularism

157

Why You Should Care About the World Wars

158

Why You Should Do Hard Things

159

Why And What You Should Read From The Reformation

160

Why You Should Study Apologetics

161

Why You Should Confess the Creeds

162

Why You Should Know about the Church in Conflict

163

Why You Should Read the New Testament

164

Why You Should Read the Old Testament

165

Why You Should Know the Parts of Worship

166

Why You Should Have Children

167

Why You Should Read Things With Which You Disagree

168

Why You Should Study History

169

Why You Should Read a Little More Philosophy

170

Why You Should Study Philosophy

171

Why You Should Distinguish Law and Gospel

172

Why You Should Have a Theology

173

Why You Should Know Something About Islam

174

Why You Should Learn About the Reformation

175

Why You Should Have a Low Anthropology

176

Why You Should Believe in The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

177

Why You Should Delete Social Media

178

Why You Should or Should Not Go to College

179

Why You Should Read Old Books

180

Do You Have a Higher Calling?

181

The Abolition of Man

182

C.S. Lewis on The Way

183

Men Without Chests

184

Proclamation and Apologetics

185

Jordan Peterson Needs a Preacher

186

The Last Battle

187

The Magician's Nephew

188

The Horse and His Boy

189

The Silver Chair

190

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

191

Prince Caspian

192

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

193

The Chronicles of Narnia

194

J.R.R. Tolkien

195

The Inklings

196

Reading C.S. Lewis

197

C.S. Lewis: The Most Reluctant Convert

198

Last Theological Will and Testament

199

Baptize Babies

200

Comfort and Assurance

201

Repentance and the Gospel

202

The Pope and the Law

203

The Chief Article of the Christian Faith

204

Introducing The Smalcald Articles

205

What is the Canon?

206

Nobody Talks About Melanchthon

207

Vocation and the Drowning of Baptism

208

Correction to Abuses

209

What is a Good Work?

210

Freedom and Reason

211

Do I Have To Obey Government?

212

Does Tradition Matter?

213

The Life of the Church

214

Confession is for Absolution

215

How to Obtain Forgiveness

216

How am I Saved?

217

A Race Toward Justification

218

A Crisis in Christianity

219

What About Evolution?

220

What Does Baptism Offer?

221

How to Talk to God

222

Reading the Bible

223

I Believe in the Holy Spirit

224

I Believe in Jesus Christ His Only Son Our Lord

225

I Believe in God the Father Almighty

226

Thou Shalt Not Covet

227

Thou Shalt Not Steal

228

Thou Shalt Not Murder

229

Remember the Sabbath

230

In Defense of Christian Ritual

231

What Does It Mean To Have a God?

232

Introduction to the Large Catechism

233

Q&A: Lewis, Tolkien, and Hearing the Gospel

234

Christian Questions and Answers

235

Daily Prayers and Table Duties

236

The Sacrament of the Altar

237

Confession and Absolution

238

Holy Baptism in the Small Catechism

239

The Petitions of the Lord's Prayer

240

The Creed

241

The Second Table of the Law

242

Introduction to the Small Catechism

243

Introduction to the Lutheran Confessions

244

Mall Santa

245

Christmas and Church Seasons

246

Repent!

247

Stewardship

248

Post-Christians

249

Tools for Catechesis and Other Questions

250

Fathers and Friends

251

Unveiling Mercy

252

The Seculosity of COVID

253

What Happened in 1520?

254

Scripture and the Word of God

255

All My Deeds Are Sin

256

Free Will Is a Fiction

257

The Promise With Steve Paulson

258

The Telos of the Law

259

The Doctrine of Sin

260

Heading Toward a Confession

261

Donatism

262

The Freedom of The Christian

263

Back to School and Melanchthon

264

Theology and Literature

265

Weak on Sanctification

266

Why Not Just Study The Bible

267

Is the Church an Essential Service?

268

Scientific Method and Faith

269

Thomism and Theological Systems

270

Church and State

271

The Theologian's Craft

272

Are the Categories of Cross and Glory Useful?

273

Mortal and Venial Sin

274

Expertism

275

COVID and Our Neighbor

276

Quarantined Reading

277

Lutheran Language and Other Questions

278

Hard Choices

279

Scandinavian Luther Renaissance

280

Gerhard Forde

281

Fasting, Natural Law, and Baptism

282

The Craft of Preaching

283

Are You Afraid?

284

COVID-19

285

Christ in the Straw

286

Happiness

287

Islamic Apologetics and Questions about Young People

288

Apologetics and Your Neighbor

289

The Empty Tomb

290

Faithless to Fearless

291

Common Objections to Christianity

292

Christian Apologetics?

293

Sharing the Faith and Other Questions From January

294

Where Two or Three are Gathered

295

New Year's Resolutions

296

Merry Christmas

297

The Gospel in the Old Testament

298

Why Do We Worship?

299

The State of the Thinking Fellows

300

Is Baptism a Good Work?

301

Historical Methodology

302

A Missionary to the U.S.

303

Seculosity

304

The Common Faith

305

Religious Language

306

The World Is Ending... Again

307

What's a Guy to Do

308

Reformed?

309

Repentance and Sin

310

What Good is Philosophy?

311

Mutual Conversation of The Brethren

312

Live from Bergen Norway

313

Apologetics for Comfort and Other Questions for Dr. Francisco

314

The Bible

315

Creeds and Confessions

316

Q&A: Prayer, Communion, and Other Questions

317

The English Reformation and the Lutherans

318

Does the Church Still Stand or Fall on Justification?

319

Stoicism

320

Contemporary Christianity: Christianity in America

321

Fundamentalism and Modernism

322

The Second Great Awakening and the Move West

323

The First Great Awakening

324

Christianity in America: The Founding Generation

325

Christianity in America: The Colonies

326

How Do You Know What You Know?

327

Knowing Why You Believe

328

The Reformation: Conclusions

329

Gnesios, Philipists, and the Formula of Concord

330

The Peace of Augsburg and the Death of Philip Melanchthon

331

Luther's Death

332

The Power and Primacy of the Pope, Calvin's Geneva, and Luther on the Quran

333

Evolution, Zwingli, and other Questions

334

Luther's Commentaries and Smalcald

335

The Fallout from Augsburg: 1530-1534

336

1530: The Augsburg Confession

337

Ulrich Zwingli

338

Luther's Catechisms

339

Visitations, Antinomians, and the Small Catechism

340

Liberation and the Bondage of the Will

341

The Diet of Worms

342

Melanchthon Goes to Wittenberg

343

The Three Treatises

344

Luther Goes to Wittenberg

345

Origins of the Reformation

346

The Soul of Christianity

347

Discussing Atonement

348

Merry Christmas

349

Creativity and Vocation

350

The Ideas Behind Here We Still Stand

351

Q&A December 2018: Sin, Love, and Wrath

352

An Introduction to Analytic Language

353

Translation

354

The Craft of Preaching

355

Absolution

356

Christ in All the Scriptures

357

Theology and the Theologian of the Cross

358

Why Apologetics?

359

Why Do We Preach?

360

Apologetic Questions: Postmodernism, and Apologetics in Luther

361

Christian living, the Augsburg Interim, and other Questions

362

Theology is for Proclamation

363

The Doctrine of Sin

364

Praying the Catechism

365

When Doing Your Best Isn't Enough

366

Postmodernism

367

Reflecting on the International Academy of Apologetics

368

Augustine of Hippo

369

Translating Luther's Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

370

Being a Student of Theology

371

C.S. Lewis: The Invasion

372

Orthodox, Historical, Reformational

373

On Being a Theologian of the Cross

374

Baptism, Apostasy, and Lutheran History

375

Philosophy and Theology

376

Father's Day: 2018

377

C.S. Lewis: The Case for Christianity

378

Questions about Church, Confirmation, and Other Things

379

Natural Law

380

Vocation Special: Spring 2018

381

Faith and Technology

382

Martin Chemnitz: The Two Natures in Christ

383

Book Recommendations: Spring 2018

384

Questions and Answers: April 2018

385

Introducing Exegesis and the Parables

386

The Resurrection of Christ

387

Questions and Answers for March

388

Dr. Keith and Pastor Riley Talk About Everything

389

Shakespeare and Reformation Thought

390

The Formula of Concord

391

The Theology of the Cross

392

Thomas Cranmer

393

Romans 9 and a Thinking Fellows Reading List

394

Epistemology of Theology

395

Luther's Small Catechism

396

The Two Natures in Christ

397

C.S. Lewis

398

Q&A: January 2018

399

Defining Our Terms Part 3

400

Defining Our Terms Part 2

401

Defining Our Terms

402

Vocation Revisited

403

Synergism

404

Repentance

405

The Liberal Arts

406

Politics and the Reformation

407

The Task of the Apologist

408

Mockingbird

409

Night Driving with Chad Bird

410

Faith and Reason

411

The Reformation and Islam

412

The Heidelberg Disputation

413

Matthias Flacius

414

Sinners and the Gospel

415

Norway Special

416

The Necessary Distinction Between Law and Gospel

417

What Drove Luther's Hammer?

418

Luther and Melanchthon

419

The Jagged Word Field Guide

420

Why We Stand

421

Old Man Luther

422

Soli Deo Gloria

423

Woman the Forgotten Story

424

Christ Alone (Solus Christus)

425

Sola Fide

426

Sola Gratia

427

Sola Scriptura

428

Hugo Grotius

429

Father's Day Special

430

Theodore Beza

431

John Calvin Part Two

432

Philip Melanchthon Part 2

433

Philip Melanchthon

434

John Calvin

435

Reading the Bondage of the Will

436

Luther: Biographies

437

Kierkegaard

438

Aquinas Part 2

439

Transhumanism and the Crosswise Institute

440

John of Damascus

441

Thomas Aquinas

442

Episode One On Luther

443

Gresham Machen

444

Johan Arndt

445

Augustine

446

Great Thinkers of the Christian Faith

447

Friendship

448

Preaching Law and Gospel

449

Christians and War

450

Camp Ministry

451

Anniversary Special Part 2

452

Anniversary Special Part 1

453

What Now?

454

Luther and Apologetics

455

Christianity and Islam

456

The Problem of Evil

457

Christmas Episode 2016

458

Jesus' View of the New Testament

459

Jesus and the Old Testament

460

God Breathed

461

Philosophical Apologetics pt.2

462

Philosophical Apologetics pt.1

463

Miracles

464

Apologetics for Young Adults

465

Reformation Special 2016

466

The Claims of Christ

467

Reliability of the New Testament

468

Intro to the Reliability of the New Testament Documents

469

Epistemology and Apologetics

470

Melanchthon Nerds

471

Do's and Dont's of Apologetics

472

Drs. Kolb and Siemon-Netto talk Two Kingdoms

473

The Challenge of Islam

474

Introduction to Apologetics part 2

475

Introduction to Apologetics

476

The Bondage of the Will

477

In The Bar

478

The Role of a Pastor

479

Masculinity with Joel Fitzpatrick

480

Eternal Subordination

481

Vocation

482

Missions

483

Fitzes Sepecial

484

Eschatology

485

Two Kingdoms

486

The Augsburg Confession

487

Father's Day

488

The Church

489

Hitmen and Midwives of God

490

The Lord's Supper

491

Confession and Absolution

492

Baptism

493

The Means of Grace

494

Good Works

495

Predestination

496

Wittenberg vs. Geneva

497

The Will

498

Conversion

499

Atonement

500

The Person and Work of Christ Part II

501

Faith

502

The Person and Work of Christ

503

Justification

504

Grace

505

Gospel

506

Law

507

Sin