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Every Monday and Thursday Dr. Koontz, Pastor Fisk, and Pastor Grills along with friends and guests explore truths and falsehoods, forgotten ways and forgettable fads, so that you can live wisely.
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Brian Yamabe talks with Dr Adam Koontz about the benefits and drawbacks of different approaches to pastoral formation and what that education needs to achieve.
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Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about David Lynch's film Lost Highway, confronting your own sin, and why the film portrays the horror of evil so well.
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Brian Yamabe talks with Dr Adam Koontz about the Koinonia gathering which discussed pastoral formation issues, and the positions on either side of the debate.
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Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about the invasion of Cities Church in St Paul, MN, practices to safeguard churchgoers and attitudes towards them, and how people see the doctrine of two kingdoms applied to immigration.
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Dr Adam Koontz talks about why Lutherans have no cultural elites, the societal mechanisms that create an elite, and what elites are supposed to do.
Links:
https://firstthings.com/the-problem-with-the-evangelical-elite/
https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/the-problem-with-the-evangelical-elite
https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/comments-on-the-evangelical-elite
https://americanreformer.org/2025/12/why-are-there-no-evangelical-elites/
https://americanreformer.org/2025/12/toward-an-elite-doctrine-of-vocation/
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Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about Rome's transition from republic to empire, how the church behaves in relation to government and often mirrors its structure, and why agreeableness is important in a heterogeneous society.
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Col Willie Grills talk about the US invasion of Panama and compares it to current military actions in Venezuela.
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Dr Adam Koontz follows up the brief on preferred pronouns and answers the question, "Why does what we say matter when God will save all his elect?"
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Col Willie Grills reads two short Christmas stories.
The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
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1Dr Adam Koontz reads various Christmas poems.
Christmas Day by John Keble
A New Christmas Carol by Arthur Machen
A Letter from Santa Claus by Mark Twain
The Christmas Tree by Robert William Service
Journey of the Magi by T. S. Eliot
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
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Dr Adam Koontz talks about withstanding the pressure to declare your pronouns and use those that others insist upon in work and in your family, and why acquiescing actually harms your ability to be a faithful witness to the truth.
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Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about Appalachia, how dependence on government support hurts a people, and people lose can their dignity even while leaving poverty.
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Dr Adam Koontz speaks at the Chemnitz Conference 2025 about the scriptural model of the church, Jerusalem in the book of Acts, and how human traditions are increased while divine commands are diminished.
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Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills answer listener emails about how to bring those living in sin into the church, how to talk to your family who have fallen away from the faith, and whether recent developments in the Catholic church are movements toward ecumenism.
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Dr Adam Koontz talks to Charlie of the Gird Up podcast about his journey to the Lutheran church, studying the scriptures with your family, and the work of a pastor.
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Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about disciplining the self, training in righteousness, and studying the Scriptures.
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In this special Thanksgiving episode Dr Koontz reads selections from various accounts and poems relating to Thanksgiving and Armistice Day (now known as Veteran's Day) and gives us meditations on Thanksgiving, and on surviving in dark times as the pilgrims who founded the holiday did.
Readings:
The Life of Saint Martin of Tours
"Martin's Tide" by William Barnes
Poetry of World War I
"Peace" by Rupert Brooke
"The Dead" by Rupert Brooke
"In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae
"And There Was a Great Calm" by Thomas Hardy
Thanksgiving proclamation and stories from the Pilgrims
"The Harvest Moon" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Thanksgiving Turkey" by George Parsons Lathrop
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Dr Adam Koontz talks about leading your family in prayer and how the roles of husband and wife relate to life in the scriptures.
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Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Communist influence in America, and understanding history without the filter of modern consensus.
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Dr Adam Koontz introduces key ideas for understanding the Acts of the Apostles and their relevance to today's church - why understanding this book is more important to a struggling church than almost any other.
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great commentary and breakdown of Revelation and other topics from a Lutheran perspective.