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Thinking Fellows — 516 episodes

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1

Law and Gospel with Rod Rosenbladt

2

Can We Trust Luther?

3

Are Young Men Coming Back To Church?

4

Lutheranism in Finland w/ Toni Kokkonen

5

Jesus vs. Paul? The Myth of a Divided New Testament

6

Certainty and Assurance

7

What Is the Athanasian Creed, and Why Does It Matter?

8

How American Christianity Lost Baptism

9

What Do Christians Have to Say About Hell?

10

Does God Have a Plan for Your Life?

11

Do I Have A Guardian Angel?

12

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

13

Just War Theology and the Christian Conscience

14

Go To Church

15

Did Jesus Claim to Be God?

16

Confessional, Evangelical, and Catholic with Magnus Persson

17

Thinking About a Post-Christian West

18

Reasons To Be Lutheran

19

A Reasoned Defense of the Faith

20

Identifying The Antichrist

21

Abortion: Serious Questions Christians Should Be Prepared to Answer

22

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

23

Can Christians Use Lethal Force

24

Has Lutheranism Failed?

25

How Education Problems Affect Handing Down the Faith

26

A Review of David (Angel Studios 2025)

27

The Worst Phrases Christians Use

28

Year End Announcement from 1517

29

When Christians Contradict Themselves

30

Where Lutheranism Disagrees with Thomas Aquinas

31

Why Mormonism Isn't Christianity

32

Why is Luther's Bondage of the Will Ignored?

33

The Bondage of the Will: A Simple Overview

34

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

35

Differences Between Evangelicals and Lutherans

36

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk: A Brief Christian Perspective

37

What Christians Should Know About Islam

38

The Pivotal Influence of the Book of Romans on the Reformation

39

Freedom of the Christian

40

Augustine of Hippo

41

Justin Martyr Father of Apologetics

42

Martin Luther And The Rule Of Faith

43

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

44

Was Peter the First Pope?

45

The Difference Between the Comfort of the Gospel and Therapeutic Language

46

James Bond and Other Nonsense

47

Thinking Fellows Live in Northwest Arkansas

48

Our Pet Peeves

49

Does Christianity Have a Reliable Morality?

50

Can You Trust the Bible?

51

Are Lutherans Catholic?

52

Are Lutherans Protestant?

53

Are Lutherans Evangelicals?

54

What is a Confessional Lutheran?

55

A Lutheran Identity Crisis

56

Things Christians Shouldn't Do

57

Let's Talk About Infant Baptism

58

Can You Make The Gospel Relevant?

59

Hypocrisy or Consistency? The Church and Sexual Sins

60

Should We Still Send Our Kids to College?

61

Did Martin Luther Start a New Religion?

62

Technology Can't Stop Death

63

The Limits of Worldview and the Utility of Epistemology

64

Crusades

65

Lutherans React to Wesley Huff's Joe Rogan Appearance

66

The Venerable Bede

67

Bonaventure: The Souls Journey into God

68

Eusebius

69

Broken Bonds: A Novel of the Reformation

70

Fueling the Mission: Supporting 1517 to Proclaim the Gospel

71

Gregory of Nyssa

72

On the Priesthood St. John Chrysostom

73

Winning and Losing Political Elections

74

Is the Church Dying? (Live at HWSS)

75

A Reading List for Getting To Know Lutheransim

76

Remembering John Warwick Montgomery

77

The Myth of Spiritual But Not Religious

78

The End of the World

79

Elected To Salvation

80

You Need a Preacher

81

What is Church?

82

The True Body and Blood of Jesus Christ

83

Baptism Now Saves You

84

The Olympic Opening Ceremonies: A Twisted Liturgy

85

Law and Gospel Must Be Preached

86

Preserved in the Faith

87

Sanctified by Faith not Works

88

Justified by Christ

89

Do You Have Saving Faith?

90

The Offices and Work of Christ

91

The Doctrine of Christ Matters

92

Humanity is Sinful and Unclean

93

Grace and Peace in Christ (Live Recording)

94

The Sexual Revolution and Its Consequences

95

Who Is God?

96

Scripture Is the Only Source and Norm of Christian Theology

97

Starting To Do Theology

98

Why Do Theology?

99

Christianity and Materialism

100

Preserving Christian Community

101

Are Roman Catholics Christians?

102

The Reality And Utility Of The Three Estates

103

Just Preach the Gospel

104

Remembering Rod Rosenbladt

105

How Do You Establish Christian Values?

106

Why is God Silent?

107

The Decline of Christianity in Europe and the West

108

Is Technology Evil?

109

Does Christmas Have Pagan Origins?

110

The Science

111

Is Israel God's Chosen Nation?

112

Where Have Christians Gone?

113

Freedom Lessons

114

The Impact of C.S. Lewis with Greg Koukl

115

Gray Space Issues

116

Dealing with Doubt

117

Revealed by Scripture Alone

118

On Account of Christ Alone

119

Justified by Faith Alone

120

Saved by Grace Alone

121

Virtue Ethics

122

The Importance of Friendship

123

Accountability

124

Movies with Meaning

125

Do The Four Gospels Contradict?

126

Does God Want You To Be Happy?

127

The Apocrypha

128

The Place and Function of Adiaphora

129

The Struggle Between Church and Sports

130

Reading Recommendations

131

Is Christianity a Religion of Doctrines?

132

Sacred Spaces

133

Orthodoxy

134

The Tough Texts of Scripture

135

Christianity and Liberalism Part 2

136

Christianity and Liberalism

137

The Church and The Culture War

138

What is Woke?

139

If Christ Be Not Raised

140

Christianity and Psychology

141

Is Atheism Foolish?

142

Should Christians Engage With Philosophy?

143

What Does Athens Have To Do With Jerusalem?

144

In The World Not Of The World

145

Aliens

146

Christ and Culture

147

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

148

The Two Towers (Lord of the Rings Trilogy)

149

Remembering Jim Nestingen

150

New Year, New You

151

The Fellowship of the Ring

152

Merry Christmas 2022

153

The Hobbit

154

Reading Tolkien

155

How the Church Reads the Bible

156

A Time to Be Thankful

157

Trust Not In Princes

158

Literary Apologetics (Why You Should Study Them)

159

Why You Should Celebrate the Reformation

160

Justification By The Word

161

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

162

Postmodernism (Why You Should Know the Intellectual Origins)

163

Why You Should Be Aware of Cultural Nihilism

164

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

165

Why You Should Be Aware Of Secularism

166

Why You Should Care About the World Wars

167

Why You Should Do Hard Things

168

Why And What You Should Read From The Reformation

169

Why You Should Study Apologetics

170

Why You Should Confess the Creeds

171

Why You Should Know about the Church in Conflict

172

Why You Should Read the New Testament

173

Why You Should Read the Old Testament

174

Why You Should Know the Parts of Worship

175

Why You Should Have Children

176

Why You Should Read Things With Which You Disagree

177

Why You Should Study History

178

Why You Should Read a Little More Philosophy

179

Why You Should Study Philosophy

180

Why You Should Distinguish Law and Gospel

181

Why You Should Have a Theology

182

Why You Should Know Something About Islam

183

Why You Should Learn About the Reformation

184

Why You Should Have a Low Anthropology

185

Why You Should Believe in The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

186

Why You Should Delete Social Media

187

Why You Should or Should Not Go to College

188

Why You Should Read Old Books

189

Do You Have a Higher Calling?

190

The Abolition of Man

191

C.S. Lewis on The Way

192

Men Without Chests

193

Proclamation and Apologetics

194

Jordan Peterson Needs a Preacher

195

The Last Battle

196

The Magician's Nephew

197

The Horse and His Boy

198

The Silver Chair

199

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

200

Prince Caspian

201

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

202

The Chronicles of Narnia

203

J.R.R. Tolkien

204

The Inklings

205

Reading C.S. Lewis

206

C.S. Lewis: The Most Reluctant Convert

207

Last Theological Will and Testament

208

Baptize Babies

209

Comfort and Assurance

210

Repentance and the Gospel

211

The Pope and the Law

212

The Chief Article of the Christian Faith

213

Introducing The Smalcald Articles

214

What is the Canon?

215

Nobody Talks About Melanchthon

216

Vocation and the Drowning of Baptism

217

Correction to Abuses

218

What is a Good Work?

219

Freedom and Reason

220

Do I Have To Obey Government?

221

Does Tradition Matter?

222

The Life of the Church

223

Confession is for Absolution

224

How to Obtain Forgiveness

225

How am I Saved?

226

A Race Toward Justification

227

A Crisis in Christianity

228

What About Evolution?

229

What Does Baptism Offer?

230

How to Talk to God

231

Reading the Bible

232

I Believe in the Holy Spirit

233

I Believe in Jesus Christ His Only Son Our Lord

234

I Believe in God the Father Almighty

235

Thou Shalt Not Covet

236

Thou Shalt Not Steal

237

Thou Shalt Not Murder

238

Remember the Sabbath

239

In Defense of Christian Ritual

240

What Does It Mean To Have a God?

241

Introduction to the Large Catechism

242

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

243

Christian Questions and Answers

244

Daily Prayers and Table Duties

245

The Sacrament of the Altar

246

Confession and Absolution

247

Holy Baptism in the Small Catechism

248

The Petitions of the Lord's Prayer

249

The Creed

250

The Second Table of the Law

251

Introduction to the Small Catechism

252

Introduction to the Lutheran Confessions

253

Mall Santa

254

Christmas and Church Seasons

255

Repent!

256

Stewardship

257

Post-Christians

258

Tools for Catechesis and Other Questions

259

Fathers and Friends

260

Unveiling Mercy

261

The Seculosity of COVID

262

What Happened in 1520?

263

Scripture and the Word of God

264

All My Deeds Are Sin

265

Free Will Is a Fiction

266

The Promise With Steve Paulson

267

The Telos of the Law

268

The Doctrine of Sin

269

Heading Toward a Confession

270

Donatism

271

The Freedom of The Christian

272

Back to School and Melanchthon

273

Theology and Literature

274

Weak on Sanctification

275

Why Not Just Study The Bible

276

Is the Church an Essential Service?

277

Scientific Method and Faith

278

Thomism and Theological Systems

279

Church and State

280

The Theologian's Craft

281

Are the Categories of Cross and Glory Useful?

282

Mortal and Venial Sin

283

Expertism

284

COVID and Our Neighbor

285

Quarantined Reading

286

Lutheran Language and Other Questions

287

Hard Choices

288

Scandinavian Luther Renaissance

289

Gerhard Forde

290

Fasting, Natural Law, and Baptism

291

The Craft of Preaching

292

Are You Afraid?

293

COVID-19

294

Christ in the Straw

295

Happiness

296

Islamic Apologetics and Questions about Young People

297

Apologetics and Your Neighbor

298

The Empty Tomb

299

Faithless to Fearless

300

Common Objections to Christianity

301

Christian Apologetics?

302

Sharing the Faith and Other Questions From January

303

Where Two or Three are Gathered

304

New Year's Resolutions

305

Merry Christmas

306

The Gospel in the Old Testament

307

Why Do We Worship?

308

The State of the Thinking Fellows

309

Is Baptism a Good Work?

310

Historical Methodology

311

A Missionary to the U.S.

312

Seculosity

313

The Common Faith

314

Religious Language

315

The World Is Ending... Again

316

What's a Guy to Do

317

Reformed?

318

Repentance and Sin

319

What Good is Philosophy?

320

Mutual Conversation of The Brethren

321

Live from Bergen Norway

322

Apologetics for Comfort and Other Questions for Dr. Francisco

323

The Bible

324

Creeds and Confessions

325

Q&A: Prayer, Communion, and Other Questions

326

The English Reformation and the Lutherans

327

Does the Church Still Stand or Fall on Justification?

328

Stoicism

329

Contemporary Christianity: Christianity in America

330

Fundamentalism and Modernism

331

The Second Great Awakening and the Move West

332

The First Great Awakening

333

Christianity in America: The Founding Generation

334

Christianity in America: The Colonies

335

How Do You Know What You Know?

336

Knowing Why You Believe

337

The Reformation: Conclusions

338

Gnesios, Philipists, and the Formula of Concord

339

The Peace of Augsburg and the Death of Philip Melanchthon

340

Luther's Death

341

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

342

Evolution, Zwingli, and other Questions

343

Luther's Commentaries and Smalcald

344

The Fallout from Augsburg: 1530-1534

345

1530: The Augsburg Confession

346

Ulrich Zwingli

347

Luther's Catechisms

348

Visitations, Antinomians, and the Small Catechism

349

Liberation and the Bondage of the Will

350

The Diet of Worms

351

Melanchthon Goes to Wittenberg

352

The Three Treatises

353

Luther Goes to Wittenberg

354

Origins of the Reformation

355

The Soul of Christianity

356

Discussing Atonement

357

Merry Christmas

358

Creativity and Vocation

359

The Ideas Behind Here We Still Stand

360

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

361

An Introduction to Analytic Language

362

Translation

363

The Craft of Preaching

364

Absolution

365

Christ in All the Scriptures

366

Theology and the Theologian of the Cross

367

Why Apologetics?

368

Why Do We Preach?

369

Apologetic Questions: Postmodernism, and Apologetics in Luther

370

Christian living, the Augsburg Interim, and other Questions

371

Theology is for Proclamation

372

The Doctrine of Sin

373

Praying the Catechism

374

When Doing Your Best Isn't Enough

375

Postmodernism

376

Reflecting on the International Academy of Apologetics

377

Augustine of Hippo

378

Translating Luther's Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

379

Being a Student of Theology

380

C.S. Lewis: The Invasion

381

Orthodox, Historical, Reformational

382

On Being a Theologian of the Cross

383

Baptism, Apostasy, and Lutheran History

384

Philosophy and Theology

385

Father's Day: 2018

386

C.S. Lewis: The Case for Christianity

387

Questions about Church, Confirmation, and Other Things

388

Natural Law

389

Vocation Special: Spring 2018

390

Faith and Technology

391

Martin Chemnitz: The Two Natures in Christ

392

Book Recommendations: Spring 2018

393

Questions and Answers: April 2018

394

Introducing Exegesis and the Parables

395

The Resurrection of Christ

396

Questions and Answers for March

397

Dr. Keith and Pastor Riley Talk About Everything

398

Shakespeare and Reformation Thought

399

The Formula of Concord

400

The Theology of the Cross

401

Thomas Cranmer

402

Romans 9 and a Thinking Fellows Reading List

403

Epistemology of Theology

404

Luther's Small Catechism

405

The Two Natures in Christ

406

C.S. Lewis

407

Q&A: January 2018

408

Defining Our Terms Part 3

409

Defining Our Terms Part 2

410

Defining Our Terms

411

Vocation Revisited

412

Synergism

413

Repentance

414

The Liberal Arts

415

Politics and the Reformation

416

The Task of the Apologist

417

Mockingbird

418

Night Driving with Chad Bird

419

Faith and Reason

420

The Reformation and Islam

421

The Heidelberg Disputation

422

Matthias Flacius

423

Sinners and the Gospel

424

Norway Special

425

The Necessary Distinction Between Law and Gospel

426

What Drove Luther's Hammer?

427

Luther and Melanchthon

428

The Jagged Word Field Guide

429

Why We Stand

430

Old Man Luther

431

Soli Deo Gloria

432

Woman the Forgotten Story

433

Christ Alone (Solus Christus)

434

Sola Fide

435

Sola Gratia

436

Sola Scriptura

437

Hugo Grotius

438

Father's Day Special

439

Theodore Beza

440

John Calvin Part Two

441

Philip Melanchthon Part 2

442

Philip Melanchthon

443

John Calvin

444

Reading the Bondage of the Will

445

Luther: Biographies

446

Kierkegaard

447

Aquinas Part 2

448

Transhumanism and the Crosswise Institute

449

John of Damascus

450

Thomas Aquinas

451

Episode One On Luther

452

Gresham Machen

453

Johan Arndt

454

Augustine

455

Great Thinkers of the Christian Faith

456

Friendship

457

Preaching Law and Gospel

458

Christians and War

459

Camp Ministry

460

Anniversary Special Part 2

461

Anniversary Special Part 1

462

What Now?

463

Luther and Apologetics

464

Christianity and Islam

465

The Problem of Evil

466

Christmas Episode 2016

467

Jesus' View of the New Testament

468

Jesus and the Old Testament

469

God Breathed

470

Philosophical Apologetics pt.2

471

Philosophical Apologetics pt.1

472

Miracles

473

Apologetics for Young Adults

474

Reformation Special 2016

475

The Claims of Christ

476

Reliability of the New Testament

477

Intro to the Reliability of the New Testament Documents

478

Epistemology and Apologetics

479

Melanchthon Nerds

480

Do's and Dont's of Apologetics

481

Drs. Kolb and Siemon-Netto talk Two Kingdoms

482

The Challenge of Islam

483

Introduction to Apologetics part 2

484

Introduction to Apologetics

485

The Bondage of the Will

486

In The Bar

487

The Role of a Pastor

488

Masculinity with Joel Fitzpatrick

489

Eternal Subordination

490

Vocation

491

Missions

492

Fitzes Sepecial

493

Eschatology

494

Two Kingdoms

495

The Augsburg Confession

496

Father's Day

497

The Church

498

Hitmen and Midwives of God

499

The Lord's Supper

500

Confession and Absolution

501

Baptism

502

The Means of Grace

503

Good Works

504

Predestination

505

Wittenberg vs. Geneva

506

The Will

507

Conversion

508

Atonement

509

The Person and Work of Christ Part II

510

Faith

511

The Person and Work of Christ

512

Justification

513

Grace

514

Gospel

515

Law

516

Sin