Weekend Review 2-28-21: Freethinking Archery, A Churchmosqueagogue, and Nobody (except Jeff Bezos and Planned Parenthood) Expects the Secular Inquisition.
What’s Wrong with You? A sermon for Lent
Weekend Review 2-21-21: Prayer Books, Gender Dystopia, and RZIM.
The Sermon of the World and the Preacher of the Cross
Weekend Review 2-7-21: Cancelling the Transphobes, “Church” Decline, and Whose afraid of the Unwoke Dreher? (AUDIO FIXED)
Weekend Review 1-31-21: Blue Check Homes, a Progressive Pushback, and Culturally Acceptable “Catholicism”
This is Why People Come (and don’t) to Church
Law, Gospel, Galatians 3, and You
Weekend Review 1-24-21: Cancelling Sea Shanties, Roe and other SCOTUS Precedents, and the Other Worldview
The “Other Reading” (Or How to Understand the Bible): 1 Corinthians 6
The Other Reading (or, How to Understand the Bible): Acts 10
Why We Baptize
Weekend Review 1-17-21: Sea Shanties, White Supremacist Christians?, and CRT Explained.
Light in the Holiday Darkness
The Meaning of Christmas: A theological reflection on the reasons for the season
Weekend Review 12-20-20: Christian Nationalism?, FCA, and no Biden cabinet will/can ever be big enough. (audio fixed!)
Weekend Review 12-6-20: Live not By Lies in the ACNA, Hallmark and the Binary, and White Fragility revisited.
Weekend Review 11-29-20: Hyperreality, Queer Ecology, and Coney-Barrett for the win.
Why then the Law? Wk 7: Thou Shalt not Covet
Why then the Law? Wk 6: Thou Shalt Not Steal, bear False Witness
Weekend Review 11-15-20: Mask Hysteria, New Doubleplus Good Words, and Justice Alito sounds the Alarm
Weekend Review 11-8-20: Divided we Stand, Wokevangelicals Won’t Stop, and Vote by Mail.
Why then the Law? wk 5: Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
Weekend Review 11-1-20: Who’s afraid (and why) of Coney-Barrett?, Omni-Gender, and the Woke Inquisition.
Why then the Law? wk 4: Thou Shall Not Murder
He Needs to Show what Love Is.
Weekend Review 10-25-20: Frenchlam, Piper Fails, and a Pope on a Rope (take 2).
Why then the Law wk 3: Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother
Why then the Law? Wk 2
Weekend Review 10-18-20: Love Confusion, Amy Coney-Balance, and Faithless Fornicators
The Power of His Resurrection
You’re Invited to the Wedding Feast
Weekend Review 10-11-20: Martian Masks, Court Gestures, and “What Americans Really think about Abortion”
Why then the Law week 1: The Unknown God made Known
The Pastoral Epistles (Timothy & Titus) Week 1
Weekend Review 10-4-20: ICYMI Stand(in) Firm Podcast on Ibram Kendi and Adoption as Colonialism
Liza and I were traveling this past weekend so I had this Stand Firm podcast fill in for the Weekend Review here at CC. Some of you have already listened to it, but in case you missed it, here it is!
Weekend Review 2-27-20: Polyamorous Goat Frogs, Scary Evangelicals(?), and the Gender Repeal.
Forgiveness is the Wage of Life
Weekend Review 9-20-20: How Then Shall We Live, why the SCOTUS fight is all about Abortion, and the End of Marriage?
Weekend Review 9-13-20: Black and White Lies, a Defense of Looting, and the Problem with “Cuties.”
Weekend Review 9-6-20: The Goat Man Cometh, DCFacing DC, and Who Needs a Minister?
Get Behind Me Satan: The Sermon that Rebukes the World
Weekend Review 8-30-20: Colonialism, Autonomy, and the Emperor’s New Gender.
Weekend Review 8-23-20: The Price of Monotheism, Equity vs. Equality, and when Bishops are Pawns
Wednesday BLT 8/19/20: Romans 12 and the Renewal of your Mind:
Weekend Review 8-16-20: Real Fragility, Thought Crimes, and Young Life in the Crosshairs.
Dogs, Demons, and the Mercy of God
Weekend Review 8-9-20: Ideological Fiction, Political Mysticism, and Above Ground Pools (audio fixed)
Faith, Hope, and Walking on Water
Weekend Review 8-2-20: BLMatters, Playing (and standing) alone, and the limits of Government.
Let us not forsake meeting together: the Church and the Pandemic.
Weekend Review 7-19-20: 198forlorn, Cancel Culture Club, and why I’m an (infant) Baptist.
Weekend Review 6-28-20: Harried Potter, Live Not by Lies, and Havel’s Powerful Warning
Every Drop of Blood: A Patriotic Sermon
Weekend Review 6-21-20: the Rule of Law, Complicated Theories of Justice, and A Hero of the Faith—Peter Moore
Weekend Review 6-14-20: Communist fear of the Bible, Selective Scientific Outrage, and McDermott’s Statment on Race and Redemption.
Romans 5 and the Great Reconciliation
Weekend Review 5-31-20: The Sting of Death, Online Posturing, and Critical Virtue Theory
As I and the Father are One: the One in Three for You
Weekend Review 5-24-20: Introducing the Stand Firm Podcast, Mother Earth doesn’t like You, and the Importance of Roe. Vs. Truth.
Weekend Review 5-17-20: Mask Wars, the Rule of Law, and the Emptiness of Decadence (oh, and I’ve got music now)
Weekend Review 5-10-20: Social Coronacontract, Masking our Souls, and Religious Grounds for the Partisan Divide
Midweek Review 3-6-20: The Theology of Government, Dante’s Murder Hornets, and the Intolerant Samaritan.
Easter 4: Herd Redemption
Weekend Review 5-3-20: The Tyranny of the Greater Good, Faith, Hope, and Marriage.
Midweekend Review 4-30-22: Illegal (and illiberal) Lockouts, Anti-Social Distancing, and the various contemporary euphemisms for Eugenics.
Weekend Review 4-26-20: Homescolding, Polluters in the Hands of an Angry Planet, and the Origins of Love
MidWeekend Review 4-22-20: [Fixed Audio] My Girlfriend is a Text-Bot, the Samaritan’s Purse Snatcher, and a Reasonable Coronaversation
Weekend Review 4-19-20: Romans 13 and the Consent of the Governed, Weird Al, and the end of a pro-life Democrat.
MidWeekend Review 4-15-20: Atonement Theories, Theodicy, and Special Revelation (from 50k feet:)
The Lord is Risen Indeed: Easter 2020
Weekend Review 4-12-20: Virtual Easter, Technocracy, and the Humbling of the World
Good Friday: the Great Unveiling
MIDWeekend Review 4-8-20: Dear Listener, Un-Scripted Lives, and Relational (in)Security.
Weekend Review 4-5-20: Essential Services, Closing Church, and the Once and Future Apocalypse
midWeekendreview 4-1-20: Scripture as PPE, America’s Top (epidemiological) Model, and Lord Acton’s Ghost
From Grave to the Grave: Lazarus and Lent 5
Weekend Review 3-29-20: R. Reno (911), Moral Deliberation, and the Denial of Death
Unblinded by the Light: Lent 4
Weekend Review 3-22-20: CoronaGnostics (take 2), Hot Button Issues, and how to spot a “progressive” Christian.
Weekend Review 3-15-20: Coronagnostics, Church and State, and Zero-Gravity Sex
Good Without God: Romans 5 1-11
No Longer Condemned
Weekend Review 3-1-20: the perils of Biblical ignorance, Polyamory again (this time with feeling), and the Nuclear Family option.
Life of the Promise, East of Eden: Lent 1
Even at the Grave we make our Song: Ash Wednesday 2020
Weekend Review 2-23-20: The Diagnosis of Romans 1, Law & Gospel (again), and Consensual Non-Monogamous Wokevangelicals
The Mountains of the Lord: A Sermon for the Feast of the Transfiguration
Weekend Review: 2-16-20: Porno Valentines, Law & Gospel, and why/how to end your associations with unbelief.
Weekend Review 2-9-20: Truth Claims, Goop, and the reality of the un-mocked God.
The Crucifixion on the Mount
Weekend Review 2-2-20: Cowardly Bishops, Epistemology, and the Elephant in the World
True Repentance
Straining at the Oars: a talk for the Women of Christ Church by Liza Koch
Weekend Review 1-19-20: a reflection on Biblical Ignorance, or, how non-Christian ideas take hold of the church. (including a short discussion of Dr. Pimple popper)
What’s the deal with that baptism, Baby? (a sermon on the baptism of Jesus)
Weekend Review 1-12-20: Niceness, Hate, and the Christian understanding of Love (this time with feeling)
Weekend Review 1-5-20: VDMA, the Personal God, and the failure of pragmatic evangelism
Weekend Review 12-29-19: One issue voters, or, why Abortion is such a big deal.
Weekend Review 1-22-19: WWChristiantiyTodayD?, Evangelicals, and the Cultured Despisers of the Gospel
Weekend Review 12-15-19: Christian Voting Rights (and Wrongs)
Jesus and the End of the Law
Weekend Review 12-8-19: Gaslighting “Evangelicals,” agnostic “churches,” and lying to your kids about God.