Just And Sinner Podcast

This is the first part of a series interacting with Robert Koons' book "A Lutheran's Case for Catholicism." I deal with the doctrine of justification and defend the Reformation approach.

In this program, I discuss a recent interview with Ben Handelman on Pints with Aquinas in which he gives several misrepresentations of the Protestant view. I offer a number of correctives.

In this continuation of our study of Henry Eyster Jacobs' book A Summary of the Christian Faith, Jordan and Rev. Lewis Polzin discuss law and gospel and its application in the life of the believer.

Today's podcast was a live Q&A program, answering your questions on a broad variety of topics.

In this fourth program on a series dealing with the invocation of the saints, I interact with some of the most common arguments I have heard in support of the practice.

On this program, I discuss the topic of prayers to the saints and the theology of the church fathers. I argue that the practice is not apparent at all in the earliest Christians.

This is the third and final part of a series of podcasts in which I respond to Patrick Ramsey's arguments against Luther's doctrine of baptismal regeneration.

Today's program is a discussion of the doctrine of objective justification in light of some current controversies on the doctrine. I outline the idea as taught in the early LCMS and give some of my own thoughts. 

This podcast is a lecture I gave at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Newtown, CT on the topic: Is the Reformation Relevant Today?

This program is a continuation of our study of the Augsburg Confession, in which I discuss articles VII and VIII on the marks of the church and its definition. 

This week's podcast was a live Q&A recording in which I answered listener questions sent beforehand, along with some in the live chat. Some topics covered are: Chalcedonian Christology, divine simplicity, and doctrinal development.

This episode is the audio from the first class in our upcoming Intro to the Christian Life course offered through the Weidner Institute.

This program is the second part of a series in which I address the practice of praying to the saints. Here, I begin to exposit some of Chemnitz arguments against the practice.

This week's podcast is a conversation with Rev. Matthew Fenn on the relationship between Philip Melanchthon and Martin Luther's theologies. 

On this podcast, we continued the previous discussion of Lutheran-Reformed relations. Here, I identify what I view of the key difference between these two branches of the Reformation.

This is a historical discussion of Lutheran/Reformed relations, from the Colloquy of Marburg to Samuel S. Schmucker's attempt to merge Lutheran and Reformed ideas in so-called "American Lutheranism."

In this episode I discuss arguments from authority in Roman Catholicism, and why I do not find them compelling. I show the inconsistent positions taken on a number of issues in Rome. 

This program is a continuation of our discussion of the Augsburg Confession. I covered the subject of new obedience, or sanctification.

This is a live Q&A podcast, addressing a variety of topics as requested by listeners.