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Thinking Fellows — 514 episodes
Are Young Men Coming Back To Church?
Lutheranism in Finland w/ Toni Kokkonen
Jesus vs. Paul? The Myth of a Divided New Testament
Certainty and Assurance
What Is the Athanasian Creed, and Why Does It Matter?
How American Christianity Lost Baptism
What Do Christians Have to Say About Hell?
Does God Have a Plan for Your Life?
Do I Have A Guardian Angel?
Demons Are Real But Christians Don't Need to Be Afraid
Just War Theology and the Christian Conscience
Go To Church
Did Jesus Claim to Be God?
Confessional, Evangelical, and Catholic with Magnus Persson
Thinking About a Post-Christian West
Reasons To Be Lutheran
A Reasoned Defense of the Faith
Identifying The Antichrist
Abortion: Serious Questions Christians Should Be Prepared to Answer
Are There Hidden Secrets in the Old Testament? Featuring Chad Bird
Can Christians Use Lethal Force
Has Lutheranism Failed?
How Education Problems Affect Handing Down the Faith
A Review of David (Angel Studios 2025)
The Worst Phrases Christians Use
Year End Announcement from 1517
When Christians Contradict Themselves
Where Lutheranism Disagrees with Thomas Aquinas
Why Mormonism Isn't Christianity
Why is Luther's Bondage of the Will Ignored?
The Bondage of the Will: A Simple Overview
Why Do Christians Sing Hymns? | Dr. Steve Mueller, Concordia University Irvine
Differences Between Evangelicals and Lutherans
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk: A Brief Christian Perspective
What Christians Should Know About Islam
The Pivotal Influence of the Book of Romans on the Reformation
Freedom of the Christian
Augustine of Hippo
Justin Martyr Father of Apologetics
Martin Luther And The Rule Of Faith
C.F.W Walther: The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel
Was Peter the First Pope?
The Difference Between the Comfort of the Gospel and Therapeutic Language
James Bond and Other Nonsense
Thinking Fellows Live in Northwest Arkansas
Our Pet Peeves
Does Christianity Have a Reliable Morality?
Can You Trust the Bible?
Are Lutherans Catholic?
Are Lutherans Protestant?
Are Lutherans Evangelicals?
What is a Confessional Lutheran?
A Lutheran Identity Crisis
Things Christians Shouldn't Do
Let's Talk About Infant Baptism
Can You Make The Gospel Relevant?
Hypocrisy or Consistency? The Church and Sexual Sins
Should We Still Send Our Kids to College?
Did Martin Luther Start a New Religion?
Technology Can't Stop Death
The Limits of Worldview and the Utility of Epistemology
Crusades
Lutherans React to Wesley Huff's Joe Rogan Appearance
The Venerable Bede
Bonaventure: The Souls Journey into God
Eusebius
Broken Bonds: A Novel of the Reformation
Fueling the Mission: Supporting 1517 to Proclaim the Gospel
Gregory of Nyssa
On the Priesthood St. John Chrysostom
Winning and Losing Political Elections
Is the Church Dying? (Live at HWSS)
A Reading List for Getting To Know Lutheransim
Remembering John Warwick Montgomery
The Myth of Spiritual But Not Religious
The End of the World
Elected To Salvation
You Need a Preacher
What is Church?
The True Body and Blood of Jesus Christ
Baptism Now Saves You
The Olympic Opening Ceremonies: A Twisted Liturgy
Law and Gospel Must Be Preached
Preserved in the Faith
Sanctified by Faith not Works
Justified by Christ
Do You Have Saving Faith?
The Offices and Work of Christ
The Doctrine of Christ Matters
Humanity is Sinful and Unclean
Grace and Peace in Christ (Live Recording)
The Sexual Revolution and Its Consequences
Who Is God?
Scripture Is the Only Source and Norm of Christian Theology
Starting To Do Theology
Why Do Theology?
Christianity and Materialism
Preserving Christian Community
Are Roman Catholics Christians?
The Reality And Utility Of The Three Estates
Just Preach the Gospel
Remembering Rod Rosenbladt
How Do You Establish Christian Values?
Why is God Silent?
The Decline of Christianity in Europe and the West
Is Technology Evil?
Does Christmas Have Pagan Origins?
The Science
Is Israel God's Chosen Nation?
Where Have Christians Gone?
Freedom Lessons
The Impact of C.S. Lewis with Greg Koukl
Gray Space Issues
Dealing with Doubt
Revealed by Scripture Alone
On Account of Christ Alone
Justified by Faith Alone
Saved by Grace Alone
Virtue Ethics
The Importance of Friendship
Accountability
Movies with Meaning
Do The Four Gospels Contradict?
Does God Want You To Be Happy?
The Apocrypha
The Place and Function of Adiaphora
The Struggle Between Church and Sports
Reading Recommendations
Is Christianity a Religion of Doctrines?
Sacred Spaces
Orthodoxy
The Tough Texts of Scripture
Christianity and Liberalism Part 2
Christianity and Liberalism
The Church and The Culture War
What is Woke?
If Christ Be Not Raised
Christianity and Psychology
Is Atheism Foolish?
Should Christians Engage With Philosophy?
What Does Athens Have To Do With Jerusalem?
In The World Not Of The World
Aliens
Christ and Culture
The Return of the King (Lord of the Ring's Trilogy)
The Two Towers (Lord of the Rings Trilogy)
Remembering Jim Nestingen
New Year, New You
The Fellowship of the Ring
Merry Christmas 2022
The Hobbit
Reading Tolkien
How the Church Reads the Bible
A Time to Be Thankful
Trust Not In Princes
Literary Apologetics (Why You Should Study Them)
Why You Should Celebrate the Reformation
Justification By The Word
Consciences Captive to the Word of God (HWSS Live 2022)
Postmodernism (Why You Should Know the Intellectual Origins)
Why You Should Be Aware of Cultural Nihilism
Rings of Power (Why You Should or Shouldn't Watch the Show)
Why You Should Be Aware Of Secularism
Why You Should Care About the World Wars
Why You Should Do Hard Things
Why And What You Should Read From The Reformation
Why You Should Study Apologetics
Why You Should Confess the Creeds
Why You Should Know about the Church in Conflict
Why You Should Read the New Testament
Why You Should Read the Old Testament
Why You Should Know the Parts of Worship
Why You Should Have Children
Why You Should Read Things With Which You Disagree
Why You Should Study History
Why You Should Read a Little More Philosophy
Why You Should Study Philosophy
Why You Should Distinguish Law and Gospel
Why You Should Have a Theology
Why You Should Know Something About Islam
Why You Should Learn About the Reformation
Why You Should Have a Low Anthropology
Why You Should Believe in The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Why You Should Delete Social Media
Why You Should or Should Not Go to College
Why You Should Read Old Books
Do You Have a Higher Calling?
The Abolition of Man
C.S. Lewis on The Way
Men Without Chests
Proclamation and Apologetics
Jordan Peterson Needs a Preacher
The Last Battle
The Magician's Nephew
The Horse and His Boy
The Silver Chair
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Prince Caspian
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Inklings
Reading C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis: The Most Reluctant Convert
Last Theological Will and Testament
Baptize Babies
Comfort and Assurance
Repentance and the Gospel
The Pope and the Law
The Chief Article of the Christian Faith
Introducing The Smalcald Articles
What is the Canon?
Nobody Talks About Melanchthon
Vocation and the Drowning of Baptism
Correction to Abuses
What is a Good Work?
Freedom and Reason
Do I Have To Obey Government?
Does Tradition Matter?
The Life of the Church
Confession is for Absolution
How to Obtain Forgiveness
How am I Saved?
A Race Toward Justification
A Crisis in Christianity
What About Evolution?
What Does Baptism Offer?
How to Talk to God
Reading the Bible
I Believe in the Holy Spirit
I Believe in Jesus Christ His Only Son Our Lord
I Believe in God the Father Almighty
Thou Shalt Not Covet
Thou Shalt Not Steal
Thou Shalt Not Murder
Remember the Sabbath
In Defense of Christian Ritual
What Does It Mean To Have a God?
Introduction to the Large Catechism
Q&A: Lewis, Tolkien, and Hearing the Gospel
Christian Questions and Answers
Daily Prayers and Table Duties
The Sacrament of the Altar
Confession and Absolution
Holy Baptism in the Small Catechism
The Petitions of the Lord's Prayer
The Creed
The Second Table of the Law
Introduction to the Small Catechism
Introduction to the Lutheran Confessions
Mall Santa
Christmas and Church Seasons
Repent!
Stewardship
Post-Christians
Tools for Catechesis and Other Questions
Fathers and Friends
Unveiling Mercy
The Seculosity of COVID
What Happened in 1520?
Scripture and the Word of God
All My Deeds Are Sin
Free Will Is a Fiction
The Promise With Steve Paulson
The Telos of the Law
The Doctrine of Sin
Heading Toward a Confession
Donatism
The Freedom of The Christian
Back to School and Melanchthon
Theology and Literature
Weak on Sanctification
Why Not Just Study The Bible
Is the Church an Essential Service?
Scientific Method and Faith
Thomism and Theological Systems
Church and State
The Theologian's Craft
Are the Categories of Cross and Glory Useful?
Mortal and Venial Sin
Expertism
COVID and Our Neighbor
Quarantined Reading
Lutheran Language and Other Questions
Hard Choices
Scandinavian Luther Renaissance
Gerhard Forde
Fasting, Natural Law, and Baptism
The Craft of Preaching
Are You Afraid?
COVID-19
Christ in the Straw
Happiness
Islamic Apologetics and Questions about Young People
Apologetics and Your Neighbor
The Empty Tomb
Faithless to Fearless
Common Objections to Christianity
Christian Apologetics?
Sharing the Faith and Other Questions From January
Where Two or Three are Gathered
New Year's Resolutions
Merry Christmas
The Gospel in the Old Testament
Why Do We Worship?
The State of the Thinking Fellows
Is Baptism a Good Work?
Historical Methodology
A Missionary to the U.S.
Seculosity
The Common Faith
Religious Language
The World Is Ending... Again
What's a Guy to Do
Reformed?
Repentance and Sin
What Good is Philosophy?
Mutual Conversation of The Brethren
Live from Bergen Norway
Apologetics for Comfort and Other Questions for Dr. Francisco
The Bible
Creeds and Confessions
Q&A: Prayer, Communion, and Other Questions
The English Reformation and the Lutherans
Does the Church Still Stand or Fall on Justification?
Stoicism
Contemporary Christianity: Christianity in America
Fundamentalism and Modernism
The Second Great Awakening and the Move West
The First Great Awakening
Christianity in America: The Founding Generation
Christianity in America: The Colonies
How Do You Know What You Know?
Knowing Why You Believe
The Reformation: Conclusions
Gnesios, Philipists, and the Formula of Concord
The Peace of Augsburg and the Death of Philip Melanchthon
Luther's Death
The Power and Primacy of the Pope, Calvin's Geneva, and Luther on the Quran
Evolution, Zwingli, and other Questions
Luther's Commentaries and Smalcald
The Fallout from Augsburg: 1530-1534
1530: The Augsburg Confession
Ulrich Zwingli
Luther's Catechisms
Visitations, Antinomians, and the Small Catechism
Liberation and the Bondage of the Will
The Diet of Worms
Melanchthon Goes to Wittenberg
The Three Treatises
Luther Goes to Wittenberg
Origins of the Reformation
The Soul of Christianity
Discussing Atonement
Merry Christmas
Creativity and Vocation
The Ideas Behind Here We Still Stand
Q&A December 2018: Sin, Love, and Wrath
An Introduction to Analytic Language
Translation
The Craft of Preaching
Absolution
Christ in All the Scriptures
Theology and the Theologian of the Cross
Why Apologetics?
Why Do We Preach?
Apologetic Questions: Postmodernism, and Apologetics in Luther
Christian living, the Augsburg Interim, and other Questions
Theology is for Proclamation
The Doctrine of Sin
Praying the Catechism
When Doing Your Best Isn't Enough
Postmodernism
Reflecting on the International Academy of Apologetics
Augustine of Hippo
Translating Luther's Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
Being a Student of Theology
C.S. Lewis: The Invasion
Orthodox, Historical, Reformational
On Being a Theologian of the Cross
Baptism, Apostasy, and Lutheran History
Philosophy and Theology
Father's Day: 2018
C.S. Lewis: The Case for Christianity
Questions about Church, Confirmation, and Other Things
Natural Law
Vocation Special: Spring 2018
Faith and Technology
Martin Chemnitz: The Two Natures in Christ
Book Recommendations: Spring 2018
Questions and Answers: April 2018
Introducing Exegesis and the Parables
The Resurrection of Christ
Questions and Answers for March
Dr. Keith and Pastor Riley Talk About Everything
Shakespeare and Reformation Thought
The Formula of Concord
The Theology of the Cross
Thomas Cranmer
Romans 9 and a Thinking Fellows Reading List
Epistemology of Theology
Luther's Small Catechism
The Two Natures in Christ
C.S. Lewis
Q&A: January 2018
Defining Our Terms Part 3
Defining Our Terms Part 2
Defining Our Terms
Vocation Revisited
Synergism
Repentance
The Liberal Arts
Politics and the Reformation
The Task of the Apologist
Mockingbird
Night Driving with Chad Bird
Faith and Reason
The Reformation and Islam
The Heidelberg Disputation
Matthias Flacius
Sinners and the Gospel
Norway Special
The Necessary Distinction Between Law and Gospel
What Drove Luther's Hammer?
Luther and Melanchthon
The Jagged Word Field Guide
Why We Stand
Old Man Luther
Soli Deo Gloria
Woman the Forgotten Story
Christ Alone (Solus Christus)
Sola Fide
Sola Gratia
Sola Scriptura
Hugo Grotius
Father's Day Special
Theodore Beza
John Calvin Part Two
Philip Melanchthon Part 2
Philip Melanchthon
John Calvin
Reading the Bondage of the Will
Luther: Biographies
Kierkegaard
Aquinas Part 2
Transhumanism and the Crosswise Institute
John of Damascus
Thomas Aquinas
Episode One On Luther
Gresham Machen
Johan Arndt
Augustine
Great Thinkers of the Christian Faith
Friendship
Preaching Law and Gospel
Christians and War
Camp Ministry
Anniversary Special Part 2
Anniversary Special Part 1
What Now?
Luther and Apologetics
Christianity and Islam
The Problem of Evil
Christmas Episode 2016
Jesus' View of the New Testament
Jesus and the Old Testament
God Breathed
Philosophical Apologetics pt.2
Philosophical Apologetics pt.1
Miracles
Apologetics for Young Adults
Reformation Special 2016
The Claims of Christ
Reliability of the New Testament
Intro to the Reliability of the New Testament Documents
Epistemology and Apologetics
Melanchthon Nerds
Do's and Dont's of Apologetics
Drs. Kolb and Siemon-Netto talk Two Kingdoms
The Challenge of Islam
Introduction to Apologetics part 2
Introduction to Apologetics
The Bondage of the Will
In The Bar
The Role of a Pastor
Masculinity with Joel Fitzpatrick
Eternal Subordination
Vocation
Missions
Fitzes Sepecial
Eschatology
Two Kingdoms
The Augsburg Confession
Father's Day
The Church
Hitmen and Midwives of God
The Lord's Supper
Confession and Absolution
Baptism
The Means of Grace
Good Works
Predestination
Wittenberg vs. Geneva
The Will
Conversion
Atonement
The Person and Work of Christ Part II
Faith
The Person and Work of Christ
Justification
Grace
Gospel
Law
Sin