Podcast Episodes

Brief#15 Will the LCMS Ordain Women Now? or Soon Anyway?

Episode 860

Dr Adam Koontz talks about the history of women's suffrage in the LCMS, obstacles to fellowship with WELS, and whether the LCMS will ever ordain women.

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Published on 8 months ago

BHoP#294 The New King James Bible and the Open Bible with Philip Nation

Episode 861

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk with guest Philip Nation of Thomas Nelson Bibles about the New King James Bible and the Open Bible.

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Published on 8 months ago

BHoP#293 What's Going On in Canada? State, Church, and the Church's State of Silence

Episode 859

Dr Adam Koontz talks with guest Pastor David Smilek about the politics and churches in Canada.

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Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

BHoP#292 Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians: The Meiji Restoration

Episode 858

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about the modernization of Japan and the rise of Imperial power.

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Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

BHoP#291 The End(s) of the LCMS with Pastor Joseph Beran

Episode 857

Dr Adam Koontz talks with guest Pr Joseph Beran about educating pastors, church planting, demographic decline, and more.

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Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

BHoP#290 The Christian Century in Japan: Jesuits, Fumi-e 踏み絵, Lessons for Today

Episode 856

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about how Christianity came to Japan, why it didn't last there, and applications to evangelism to draw from it.

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Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Brief#14 What Decimated the Lutheran Churches in America?

Episode 855

Dr Adam Koontz talks about what caused the decline in the American Lutheran churches.

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Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

BHoP#289 On How Things Started - The Sacraments and the American Republic

Episode 854

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about how to handle accommodations in communion, and the different American republics.

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Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Brief#13 A Letter from the Department of Eucharistic Significance (DOES)

Episode 853

Dr Adam Koontz talks about closed communion and the benefits that the Lord's Supper imparts.

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Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago

BHoP#288 Listener Questions - On Textual Criticism, On Turning the Other Cheek, On Buford Pusser, On "Catholic", and on the Superiority of the Group Chat

Episode 852

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills answer a variety of listener emails on Bible translations, self-defense, and more.

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Published on 9 months ago