Dear Listener, Once more–the Stand Firm Podcast! (We’ll be back to regularly scheduled programming next week!)
Eviction, Conviction, and Hope: A Sermon about Supreme Courts and Christian Courage

Weekend Review 5-8-22: Molech’s Last Legs? SCOTUS, Abortion, and the Sacramental Life
Once again, dear listener, everything that I wanted to say during this week’s Weekend Review we covered on the Stand Firm podcast, so here you go!
Weekend Review 6-1-22: “Eviction Notice: Lawsuits, Church Buildings, and Whether it’s All Worth It.”
Dear Listener, in light of the recent South Carolina Supreme Court ruling against some of our ACNA parishes here (including ours here at Christ Church), I thought (and hope!) that this would be an encouragement to you.
Easter 2022: Forgiveness Has Risen from the Grave

God’s Wrath and Good Friday

True Joy Among the Swift and Varied Changes of this World

Weekend Review 4-10-22: “Building New Things: Christians, Culture, and What Happens Next” (The Stand Firm Podcast)
Hello there, dear listener:), we are pausing our Adult Education for Holy Week so I’m going to post the Stand Firm podcast for this week and next; I pray that you’ll be strengthened and encouraged!
Weekend Review 4-3-22: “Three Non-Biologists: Big Lies, Little Kids, and the Truth about Womanhood” (The Stand Firm Podcast)
Weekend Review 3-27-22: In Defense of Hope, O’Woman What Art Thou, and the Meaning of our Bodies

Lent 2: The Tragedy of Sort of Believing (and how to avoid it)

Weekend Review 3-20-22: Wars and Rumors of Wars, the Limits of Consent, and the Emperor’s New Gender

Weekend Review 3-13-22: Once More (this time with feeling) The Stand Firm Podcast
Breakfast with the Rectors “Romans Recap”

Some Have Said the Dead Are Raised: 1 Corinthians 15

Weekend Review 3-6-22: “It’s Out There: Truth, Cynicism, and Preaching for Today” (The Stand Firm Podcast)
Once again, I was at a conference this weekend (the last for a while!), so here is the Stand Firm Podcast we recorded this week; enjoy!
#91: It’s Out There: Truth, Cynicism, and Preaching for Today
Weekend Review 2-13-22: Rage Against the Modest, the Origins of the ACNA, and the Limits of the Big Tent.

Weekend Review 2-6-22: A “Non-Smitey” Almighty?, David Brooks’ prescription for Revival, and the Good Evangelicals™

Luke 4: Jesus, Epiphany, Conversion, and You

Weekend Review 1-30-22: One Blood, Race and Ethnicity, and Men and Women in Christ

Weekend Review 1-23-22: Roe vs. Wade, Conversion Therapy, and and Jordan Peterson Calls it Quits

Weekend Review 1-16-22: Fur Babies?, the Non-Binary Normalcy, and How (and why) to Love Your Confused Neighbor.

The Other Reading: Cornelius, Peter, and the End of the Unclean (Acts 10)

The Other Reading: Micah, Hebrews, and the Law & Prophets

The Word Made Flesh: The Meaning of the Incarnation for You

Christmas Eve 2021

Weekend Review 12-19-21: The Incarnation, Human Dignity, and the Enduring Gender Binary.

Weekend Review 12-12-21: The Affront of Adoption, “Deconstruction,” and the Blessings of the Bible Belt.

Weekend Review 12-5-21: Abortion and the Clash of Civilization, Truly Toxic Masculinity, and Hope for the Hopeless.

Advent 1 and the Ground of Hope

Weekend Review 11-28-21: Gratitude Adjustment, the Curse and Childlessness, and Further Reasons to Invite Your Neighbor to Church.

Thanks be to God? The Question at the Heart of Thanksgiving

What is Truth? Christ the King

Weekend Review 11-21-21: The Inevitable Conflict, Post-Liberal Christendom, and the Tragedy of Godless Anglicanism.

Weekend Review 11-14-21: “Deaths of Despair,” the Devil and Travis Scott, and the Hope Set Before Us.

Jesus, the Church, and the World

Weekend Review 11-7-21: The Failure of Seminaries, Millennial Confusion, and Whose Afraid of Glenn Youngkin (and Doug Wilson)?

The Other Reading: Hebrews 7 and The Protestant Face of Anglicanism

Weekend Review 10-31-21: Reformation Sunday, Your Kids are Not Alright, and Preparing for the Pastorate

Why then the Law? Romans 5

The Justification of (Formerly) Blind Bartimaeus

Weekend Review 10-24-21: The Persistent Binary, (supposed) Texts of Terror, and The Honesty of “Radical Self-Love.”

The Cross and the Crown: A Discipleship Sermon

Weekend Review 10-17-21: The Oxford Martyrs, The Sad State of Evangelical “Elites,” and What to do about the “Young People” in Church.

The Other Reading: The Importance of the “Gender Binary” (Genesis 2)

The Impossible Made Possible: A Sermon for Sinners

Weekend Review 10-10-21: Escape from Facebook, Ministry Burnout, and Elite-Adjacent Evangelicals.

The Other Reading: Law and Gospel (James 5)

Weekend Review 10-3-21: The Battle of Ideas, Non-Religious Exemptions, and Good Reasons to Leave a Church.

Weekend Review 9-26-21: The Purpose of the Church, In Thor We Trust, and Being People of the Lie

Count it All Joy: A Sermon on James

Weekend Review 9-19-21: Outlawing God, the Abortion Divide, and True and False Bishops

The Other Reading: James 2 and Faith in Works

Weekend Review 9-5-21: What Has God Said?, Godless Chaplains Unite, and the Texas Abortion Outrage

The Other Reading: Mark 7 and the Heart of Darkness

Weekend Review 8-29-21: Atheist Chic, Crystal Courage, and the Laws of our Lives.

Ephesians 5: Sex, Marriage, and the Bible

Weekend Review 8-22-21: Theological Anthropology, Exscamgelicals, and Non-Monogamous Consensual Fornication.

Weekend Review 8-15-21: Pray Away?, Gender Bending “Marriage,” and The Benedict Option Redux

Ephesians 4: Come Ye Sinners

Weekend Review 8-8-21: Christianity OR Wokeness, #Exvangelicals = #Neo-Pagans, and the Persistent Witness of Courage.

How (and why) a Man Prays for His Wife

Ephesians 4: The Church of Blood Bought Unity

The Unfrozen Chosen: A Sermon on Predestination

Weekend Review 7-18-21: The Emperor’s New Emojis, Examining the Decline of the American Church, and a New Resource for Christian Reconciliation.

Hebrews 11 and the Power of Faith

Weekend Review 6-27-21: Baby Fears, the Infinite Plus, and Androgyny as Pagan Spirituality.

Jesus and the Redemption of Suffering

Weekend Review 6-20-21: CRT and the ACNA (the Stand Firm Podcast take 2)

Weekend Review 6-13-21: The Long Decline of Marriage, Endless Identities, and the Looming End of Religious Liberty

What’s Wrong With the World? You, Me, and Genesis 3

Weekend Review 6-6-21: Proud Out Loud, the “Stand Firm” Podcast

The Good News of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Weekend Review 5-31-21: Human (Embryo) Dignity, Running with Males, and Stay Strong Young Life

Weekend Review 5-23-21: The Satanic Sacrament, Absurd (and Irrelevant) “Churches,” and the Present Evangelical Collapse.

Weekend Review 5-16-21: Questions of Human Dignity, Pope Francis and the new German Sexual Reformation, and the problem with “Western Religious Traditions.”

Weekend Review 5-9-21: The Fundamental Distinctions, the Birth Dearth, and the “Pro Life” Prophet: Archbishop Cordileone

Weekend Review 5-2-21: the Secular Sacrament of Abortion, Drag Queen Sermon Hour, and the Samaritan’s Purse snatched by the Seattle Police.

Moses, Jesus, and the Truth Among Other Gods.

Weekend Review 4-25-21: The Myth of “Sexual Identity,” the Future of Conversion Therapy, and Confronting Racism in the Church.

Out Living, Out Loving, and Out Dying the World: a Sermon for No-Longer Doubting Thomas

Weekend Review 4-18-21: Biblical Men and Women, Critical Race Weary, and the Uncomfortable Truth about All the Frozen Embryos.

Weekend Review 4-11-21: The Next Great Awokening, Everything is Religious, and the Fear of Babies.

Maundy Thursday 2021: Do This in Remembrance of Me

Wednesday in Holy Week 2021: Judas and the Forgiveness Business

Weekend Review 3-28-21: Teach Your Children Well (or else), the End of Women, and the Progressive Power of the NCAA.

Palm Sunday 2021: Life Goes On

How to Read the Bible: Psalm 51 and You

The Glorious, Non-Mysterious, Trinity: A Sermon for St. Patrick

Weekend Review 2-21-21: Pope on a Rope, Kicking the (Co)Habitation, and the Last Adult Video Store.

But God. . . a Lenten Sermon on Ephesians

Weekend Review 3-7-21: Sheep among Wolves, #WhatIsProgressiveChristianity (hint: not Christianity), and Abortion Abolition.

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 Shalt 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? Images, Idols, and Speaking for God.

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.

The “Other Reading” : Deuteronomy and Just War Theory

Weekend Review 2-27-22: The Stand Firm Podcast

I’m at the Diocesian Christian Men’s Retreat this weekend, so I wasn’t able to record a new Weekend Review, but we were able to get a Stand Firm done; enjoy!
The “Other Reading”: The Bible and Marriage
