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Blind Faith Is Worthless Unless It’s Blind Faith in Us. In this episode, we discuss Augustine’s Confessions, specifically Augustine’s reflection on the Manichaeans and the effect God’s Word had on his conversion to Christianity. — SHOW NOTES: Augustine - Confessions https://amzn.to/3DFhBau SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St John's Lutheran Church (Webster, MN) - FB Live Bible Study Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/356667039608511 Gillespie's Sermons and Catechesis: https://stjohnrandomlake.org/church/media/ Gillespie Coffee https://gillespie.coffee Gillespie Media https://gillespie.media The Banned Pastors https://t.me/bannedpastors CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter SUBSCRIBE YouTube Rumble Odysee Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio

We Are Live! In this episode, we recorded a live show at the Here We Still Stand 2022 conference, so of course, we read Nietzsche and discussed salvation. — SHOW NOTES: Nietzsche - The Antichrist https://genius.com/Friedrich-nietzsche-the-antichrist-full-text-annotated SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St John's Lutheran Church (Webster, MN) - FB Live Bible Study Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/356667039608511 Gillespie's Sermons and Catechesis: https://stjohnrandomlake.org/church/media/ Gillespie Coffee https://gillespie.coffee Gillespie Media https://gillespie.media The Banned Pastors https://t.me/bannedpastors CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter SUBSCRIBE YouTube Rumble Odysee Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play TuneIn Radio iHeartRadio

Do You Read The Bible? What’s Your Secret? In this episode, we discuss how to understand the Bible from Matthias Flacius’ book, How to Understand the Sacred Scriptures. — SHOW NOTES: Matthias Flacius - How to Understand the Sacred Scriptures https://amzn.to/3CDHs22  More Flacius https://amzn.to/3eeLJzH  Formula of Concord https://bookofconcord.org/epitome/  Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History - Erik H. Erikson https://amzn.to/3elrMXT  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St John's Lutheran Church (Webster, MN) - FB Live Bible Study Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/356667039608511 Gillespie's Sermons and Catechesis: https://stjohnrandomlake.org/church/media/ Gillespie Coffee https://gillespie.coffee Gillespie Media https://gillespie.media The Banned Pastors https://t.me/bannedpastors CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitt

It’s A Bittersweet, Scientific Symphony of Atheism. In this episode, we discuss Josh McDowell’s book, More Than A Carpenter, and the topic of belief, science, and atheism. Do science and faith contradict one another? Is atheism a reasonable position over-against belief in God? — SHOW NOTES: Josh McDowell - More Than a Carpenter https://amzn.to/3xQwXWy or http://www.voiceofthewatchman.org/warriorsofgod/More_Than_a_Carpenter-Josh_McDowell.pdf  Robert Alter - The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary https://amzn.to/3fwkukz  Josh McDowell https://www.josh.org  Esperanto https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-many-people-speak-esperanto-and-where-is-it-spoken Hitchen's deathbed letter https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/04/deathbed-conversion-christopher-hitchens-defiant-to-last John Cleese Versus Malcolm Muggeridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syA5Cg7vL6o  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym &

Liar, Liar, Jesus Is A Lunatic? In this episode, we read More Than A Carpenter by Josh McDowell. We discuss the cultural-historical argument that Jesus was either a good moral teacher or a prophet, or whether he was a liar, lunatic, or Lord. — SHOW NOTES: Josh McDowell - More Than a Carpenter https://amzn.to/3xQwXWy or http://www.voiceofthewatchman.org/warriorsofgod/More_Than_a_Carpenter-Josh_McDowell.pdf  CFW Walther - On Masonry https://crossings.org/cfw-walther-on-law-gospel/ Membership in Certain Fraternal Organizations https://twitter-mahlerlcms.coreyjmahler.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2020/12/Membership-in-Certain-Faternal-Organizations-2009.pdf  Black Books (2000) https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/black-books  Interactive Nicene Creed https://stjohnrandomlake.org/church/interactive-nicene-creed/ SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St John's Luth

Does God Care Whether We’re Good or Bad? We conclude our discussion of Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. If Christians live in enemy territory, as Lewis writes, how does that affect the defense of our faith? Do we have free will, and why would God give us free will if he knew we’d eat from Eden’s tree? What does conscience have to do with our relationship with God and one another? — SHOW NOTES: C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/Mere%20Christianity%20-%20Lewis.pdf  Fritz Lang - Die Nibelungen | With English Subtitles & Piano Film Score https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x_j4VlEnRc  M - Full Movie - B&W - Mystery/Suspense - Fritz Lang - Peter Lorre - German with English subs (1931) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdSL9FvCv0U  Notes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc  Baal: The Nemesis of Yahweh https://youtu.be/XXgIVeKny-0  Law and War: International Law and American History https://amzn.to/3BOGeRn  The Obstacle is the Way https://amzn.to/3BovS98 SUPPORT 1517 Podca

Let’s Fight! In this episode, we read and discuss C.S. Lewis’ popular book: Mere Christianity. What do Christians believe? How do we discuss religion, good and evil, God and the devil, and why Christianity isn’t something anyone would ever think to invent? — SHOW NOTES: C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/Mere%20Christianity%20-%20Lewis.pdf  Zombie beetles https://www.livescience.com/59493-fungus-turns-beetle-into-zombie.html Here We Still Stand 2022 https://learn.1517.org/en/livestream  Crucifying Religion https://shop.1517.org/products/crucifying-religion  Tartarus https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/words/Tartarus True Detective https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/true-detective  Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/expelled-no-intelligence-allowed  Men in Black https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/hommes-en-noir  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym &

Singing in Tune, But Singing The Wrong Song... In this episode, we conclude our discussion of Revelation by Flannery O’Connor. How does a theologian of the cross reveal the truth to people who don’t want to listen? Paradox, misdirection, and revelation. — SHOW NOTES: "Revelation" From "Everything That Rises Must Converge" By Flannery O’Connor https://www.ohio.k12.ky.us/userfiles/1153/Classes/7791/OConner%20Revelation.pdf  The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor https://amzn.to/3AKl7hp Idiocracy https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/idiocracy  Kleo https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/kleo  Bishop Barron Presents | Shia LaBeouf - Padre Pio and the Friars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjxKG4mR3U4&t  Shia LaBeouf on REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnVKqQiQyTQ Padre Pio Official Trailer 1 (2022) - Shia LaBeouf Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOd7fBjFJSE  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest

A Christ-Haunted Parable... In this episode, we discuss faith, segregation, and the Christ-haunted south as described by Flannery O’Connor in her short story, Revelation. What happens to us when we discuss race, gender, class, and culture apart from Christ Jesus? What does it mean that the churches are Christ-haunted? What happens when the churches are quiet about what God’s Word says to a nation’s leaders, clergy, and people? — SHOW NOTES: "Revelation" From "Everything That Rises Must Converge" By Flannery O’Connor https://www.ohio.k12.ky.us/userfiles/1153/Classes/7791/OConner%20Revelation.pdf  The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor https://amzn.to/3AKl7hp In Memoriam – Kenneth Korby (1924-2006) http://cwirla.com/2018/06/15/in-memoriam-kenneth-korby-1924-2006/  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St John's Lutheran Church (Webster, MN) - FB Live Bible Stud

You Silver-tongues Devil... We conclude our discussion of Dostoevsky’s dialogue between Ivan Karamazov and the devil from the Brothers Karamazov. — SHOW NOTES: The Brothers Karamazov - Book 11 - Chapter 9 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28054/28054-h/28054-h.htm  Reds https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082979/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1  Biblia Pauperum https://amzn.to/3dECVm0  The Unseen Realm - Michael Heiser https://amzn.to/3Cezi0f  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St John's Lutheran Church (Webster, MN) - FB Live Bible Study Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/356667039608511 Gillespie's Sermons and Catechesis: https://anchor.fm/stjohnrandomlake Gillespie Coffee https://gillespie.coffee Gillespie Media https://gillespie.media The Banned Pastors https://t.me/bannedpastors CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter SUBSCRIBE YouTube Rumble Odysee Apple

Speak if The Devil… In this episode, we discuss Ivan Karamazov’s argument with the devil from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, The Brothers Karamazov. How do we recognize the evil one when he comes to us, mainly when he portrays himself as someone who wants what’s best for us? — SHOW NOTES: The Brothers Karamazov - Book 11 - Chapter 9 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28054/28054-h/28054-h.htm  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St John's Lutheran Church (Webster, MN) - FB Live Bible Study Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/356667039608511 Gillespie's Sermons and Catechesis: https://anchor.fm/stjohnrandomlake Gillespie Coffee https://gillespie.coffee Gillespie Media https://gillespie.media The Banned Pastors https://t.me/bannedpastors CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter SUBSCRIBE YouTube Rumble Odysee Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast

Welcome to The Terrordome. In this episode, we read and discuss “The Sermon” from Moby Dick. What is a preacher's responsibility to his congregation in his preaching? What happens when the Gospel is talked about but never preached? What happens when Jonah is preached without Christ at the conclusion of the sermon? — SHOW NOTES: Moby Dick by Herman Melville - CHAPTER 9: THE SERMON https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/634/chapter-9-the-sermon/  Moby Dick (1956) - Father Mapple's Sermon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DAQ8Az5Gpc  Orson Welles - The sermon on Jonah from Moby Dick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb-g4O2QDZg  A Christian’s Satanic Comfort https://www.1517.org/articles/a-christians-satanic-comfort  BIG FISH IN A PULPIT http://en.posztukiwania.pl/2016/05/06/big-fish-in-a-pulpit/  Is There Forgiveness? Absurdity and Cruelty of Relativist Platitudes https://youtu.be/i4WHi6Ykmo0  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Pries

Was It Only A Dream? We conclude our reading and discussion of "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathanial Hawthorne. What happens when sin, death, and Satan are unaddressed by Christians, and especially the churches? What kind of damage does hypocrisy do to a community, congregation, and our Christian relationships? — SHOW NOTES: Young Goodman Brown https://www.owleyes.org/text/young-goodman-brown/read/young-goodman-brown  Hawthorne bio https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nathaniel-hawthorne  Night on Bald Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_on_Bald_Mountain Cannabis and Israel https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cannabis-found-altar-ancient-israeli-shrine-180975016/  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St John's Lutheran Church (Webster, MN) - FB Live Bible Study Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/356667039608511 Gillespie's Sermons and Catechesi

Good Christian People? In this episode, we read and discuss the parable of Young Goodman Brown, a short story by Nathanial Hawthorne. What happens when Christians don’t have a Gospel preacher? What happens when we carry our guilt and are tempted by the devil? How do we distinguish between God and the devil? — SHOW NOTES: Young Goodman Brown https://www.owleyes.org/text/young-goodman-brown/read/young-goodman-brown  Hawthorne bio https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nathaniel-hawthorne  Sympathy for the Devil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwtyn-L-2gQ  Devil and Daniel Webster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_and_Daniel_Webster  Flannery O’Connor - Good Country People, part 1 https://www.1517.org/podcasts/banned-books/46-oconnor  Flannery O’Connor - Good Country People, part 2 https://www.1517.org/podcasts/banned-books/47-oconnor  522. Lord God, to Thee We Give All Praise https://hymnary.org/hymn/LSB2006/522  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http:/

It’s For Your Own Good. We conclude our reading and discussion of Dostoevsky’s, The Grand Inquisitor. What are we willing to sacrifice to accept the devil’s offer of miracles, mystery, and authority? Why do we surrender to temptation, and what do we expect are the consequences? What can we learn from Jesus’ rejection of the devil’s temptations, and what does that mean for Christians today? — SHOW NOTES: The Grand Inquisitor By Fyodor Dostoyevsky https://stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DostoevskyF-Grand-Inquisitor-text.pdf  The Same with Pictures and Introduction https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil100/11.%20Dostoevsky.pdf Nietzsche's Christ https://www.1517.org/articles/nietzsches-christ  The Gospel in Dostoyevsky https://amzn.to/3IEKlRM  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St John's Lutheran Church (Webster, MN) - FB Live Bible Study Grou

Happiness in Slavery. We continue to read and discuss the parable of the Grand Inquisitor in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s, The Brothers Karamazov. In this episode, the Grand Inquisitor details why Jesus’ rejection of Satan’s temptations in the wilderness doomed humanity. — SHOW NOTES: The Grand Inquisitor By Fyodor Dostoyevsky https://stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DostoevskyF-Grand-Inquisitor-text.pdf  The Same with Pictures and Introduction https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil100/11.%20Dostoevsky.pdf  Psalm 27 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2027&version=NKJV  The Book of Eli https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-book-of-eli  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St John's Lutheran Church (Webster, MN) - FB Live Bible Study Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/356667039608511 Gillespie's Sermons and Catechesis: https://an

Why? Why? Why? We read and discuss Dostoevsky’s parable of the Grand Inquisitor. What happens when we discuss evil and the work of the evil one apart from God’s Word, his preacher, and Christ’s cross? — SHOW NOTES: The Grand Inquisitor By Fyodor Dostoyevsky https://stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DostoevskyF-Grand-Inquisitor-text.pdf  The Same with Pictures and Introduction https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil100/11.%20Dostoevsky.pdf  Gematria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St John's Lutheran Church (Webster, MN) - FB Live Bible Study Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/356667039608511 Gillespie's Sermons and Catechesis: https://anchor.fm/stjohnrandomlake Gillespie Coffee https://gillespie.coffee Gillespie Media https://gillespie.media The Banned Pastors https://t.me/bannedpastors CONTACT and

Gatekeepers & Madmen. We read and discuss two parables, by Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche. What happens when people don’t have a preacher sent by the Holy Spirit to declare forgiveness? Without the Gospel, where does the law end? — SHOW NOTES: Before the Law by Franz Kafka https://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html  Friedrich Nietzsche, The Parable of the Madman (1882) http://historyguide.org/europe/madman.html  208a: Nietzsche - Human history is built upon sacrifice https://www.1517.org/podcasts/banned-books/208a-nietzsche  208b: Nietzsche - Seeing the alternative between Dionysus and the “Crucified” https://www.1517.org/podcasts/banned-books/208b-nietzsche  The Trial (1962) Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_7weUR0oMY  Young Men and Fire - Norman McLane Steven Hazard - Media = Message: Tower of Babel, Top Floor, 1984 https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/media-message-tower-babel-top-floor-66531  Eucharist and Church Fellowship in the First Four Centuries https://amzn.to/3aUzKFw 

Humble Kings & Flightless Geese. We read and discuss two parables by Soren Kierkegaard. In this episode, the purpose of parables, the condescension of God, and why there’s no forgiveness in Kierkegaard’s parables. — SHOW NOTES: The Minister's Black Veil - Nathaniel Hawthorne https://www.owleyes.org/text/ministers-black-veil  The Withertongue Emails: A Pastor’s Satanic Temptation, with Apologies to C.S. Lewis https://shop.1517.org/products/the-withertongue-emails-a-pastor-s-satanic-temptation-with-apologies-to-c-s-lewis The Gentlemen https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8367814/  Hamlet https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hamlet  Little Boxes - Melvina Reynolds https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Little+Boxes+-+Melvina+Reynolds  Dekalog (Polish) 1988 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dekalog+1988  SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St

The God Behind The Veil. In this episode, we read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Minister’s Black Veil, and discuss the hidden God, divination, and the mirror of the law. — SHOW NOTES: The Minister's Black Veil - Nathaniel Hawthorne https://www.owleyes.org/text/ministers-black-veil  The Withertongue Emails: A Pastor’s Satanic Temptation, with Apologies to C.S. Lewis https://shop.1517.org/products/the-withertongue-emails-a-pastor-s-satanic-temptation-with-apologies-to-c-s-lewis SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of 1517 http://1517.org/give Warrior Priest Gym & Podcast https://thewarriorpriestpodcast.wordpress.com St John's Lutheran Church (Webster, MN) - FB Live Bible Study Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/356667039608511 Gillespie's Sermons and Catechesis: https://anchor.fm/stjohnrandomlake Gillespie Coffee https://gillespie.coffee Gillespie Media https://gillespie.media The Banned Pastors https://t.me/bannedpastors CONTACT and FOLLOW BannedBooks@1517.org Fa