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Episode 1 - The Gospel Offense?
[ download hifi version ]Sometimes the Gospel seems too good to be true. It's even (dare we say it?) offensive - especially when it comes to forgiving people we don't like and sins we'd rather see...
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Episode 2 - Who is a Saint?
[ download ]Saints aren't made by Christians trying to live heroic examples of faith (a violent martyr's death helps) but by God speaking His word of absolution to a person, forgiving sins and making a...
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Episode 3 - Who is a Sinner?
[ download ]It's easy to talk about sins as the big, law-breaking things we know we shouldn't do. But it goes so much deeper than that. The more we look to Christ, the more we realize how sinful we...
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Episode 4 - Being Repented?
[ download ]Repentance is not something we work up in ourselves to show that we deserve forgiveness. And it's not a free ticket to go ahead and sin some more. It's about the Holy Spirit turning us...
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Episode 5 - Forgiveness without Strings
[ download ]We talk about sin a lot as Lutherans. But that's so we can get to talking about forgiveness. Not forgiveness in theory, but actual forgiving of sins. Forgiveness isn't really forgiveness if...
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Episode 6 - Will the Real Church Please Stand Up?
[ download ]When you walk into a building, how do you know it's the Church? Could you distinguish the Christian Church from a church that calls itself "Christian"? In this episode, Sandra and Pastor...
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Episode 7: Preach
[ download ]A pastor is there to preach the Law and the Gospel to kill and raise to new life, so that's what congregations should be listening to hear in every sermon. This week, Sandra and Pastor...
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Episode 8: The Love Episode
[ download ]As sinners, we tend to understand love by how it makes us feel. When we translate this into how we look for a loving church, we can end up setting ourselves up for disappointment. This...
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Episode 9: Care and Feeding of Christians
[ download ]Not that long ago, "pastoral care" meant the same thing as basic psychological therapy. A lot of Christians believe that going to church will make a person's life better, and pastors may be...
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Episode 10: Kum Ba Yah, Unity, and the Lord's Supper
[ download ]It's easy to list off a ticker-tape of doctrines and practices that divide us as Christians and churches. But what makes us unified with each other is not a matter of everyone having all...
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Episode 11: The Happy Happy Joy Joy Episode
[ download ]This week, we're talking about sexual abuse, rape. Sins committed against us in such intimate ways affect us physically and mentally, and spiritually. Yet people who experience these sins...
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Episode 12: Gospel-ier and Gospel-ier...?
[ download ]So often we struggle to feel like we know the Gospel more or believe it better better than we did the day before -- or at least more or better than the next person. But is the Gospel even...
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Episode 13: We're not worthy! We're not worthy!
[ download ]Marriage, weddings, husbands and wives are a common theme throughout all of Scripture, with Christ and the Church as the image of the marriage relationship. The Lord's Supper is even...
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Episode 14: Boxes or Baptisms
[ download ]As sinners, we constantly put people into various pigeonholes on the basis of to their sins rather than according to who they are in Christ. And worse, we find ways to justify doing so as...
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Episode 15: Happy Sad-vent and the Baby Jesus
[ download ]On this episode, Sandra and Pastor Riley discuss the phenomenon that for many people, the Advent and Christmas seasons are full of traditions...and stress. People who don't attend the rest...
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Episode 16: María y José
[ download ]Many artists have depicted the Nativity showing the holy family in their own ethnicities, as a way to show that Jesus came to save all people. Similarly, some Bible translators have...
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Episode 17: All. The. Feelings.
[ download ]A lot of Christians (including ourselves) talk a big talk when it comes to loving God and loving our neighbors. It's great to do these things in theory, but practice is another story...
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Episode 18: ...And Your Sinful Flesh
[ download ]As Christians, we are assailed every day by the devil, the world, and our sinful flesh. But it's easy to dismiss the ways that our sinful flesh can betray us, especially when sin effects...
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Episode 19: Atheism and the Gods Christians Don't Believe In Either
[ download ]Has atheism changed in the last generation or so? It used to be that atheists tended to be more angry and militant about their lack of belief. But now it seems that a lot of people are...
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Episode 20: Social Justice, Politics, and the Church
[ download ]These days, many Christians are not only politically active but so are Christian congregations, and even entire church bodies. It can be confusing for many people because stances on both...
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