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Banned Books

Banned Books Podcast

With Donavon Riley & Christopher Gillespie
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Welcome to Banned Books, where we read and converse with the rebel children, the holy mischief-makers of God, who fight against the kind of useless religious, spiritual, and moral methods of life improvement that seek to smother the glory of God in Jesus Christ. We want to introduce you to those who forgot everything except Jesus Christ and him crucified. Some were faithful to the end, and are safe in Jesus' death. Many lost their way and ended up expressing the biggest bad news of all, that we must stop sinning if we want God to like us.

But, we all struggle with fear of being last, lost, least, littlest, and dead, and so we are here to encourage, challenge, provoke, and maybe even offend you by introducing you to theologians who at one time or another were banned by their church, declared dangerous, or simply vilified for daring to confess that Christ alone is the way, truth, and life. They dare to be called fools for Christ's sake even when their own church throws ever larger stumbling blocks in front of them. This is the Banned Books podcast. Welcome rebel children, holy mischief makers, and fools for Christ. This podcast is for you.

Your Hosts

Donavon Riley
Host
Husband, father, and pastor. Host of Banned Books and Warrior Priest. Author of Crucifying Religion and The Withertongue Emails. He has written hundreds of articles, teaches mixed martial arts, and considers himself a story-teller and friend of trees.
Christopher Gillespie
Host
Husband, father, Lutheran pastor, and media producer (gillespie.media). A coffee roaster (gillespie.coffee) who produces content for 1517, Higher Things, Doxology, CPH Music, and Concordia Theological Seminary.

Reading List

Where "Election and Predestination" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 391: The gracious will and good pleasure of God in Christ Jesus — 39 mentions · watch from 00:18:33
  2. Ep. 311: Forde - Proclamation is the Present Tense of the Gospel — 38 mentions · watch
  3. Ep. 248: Grothe - Help for Hopeful Pilgrims — 35 mentions · watch
  4. Ep. 295: Melanchthon - The people of God are not made by fleshly propagation and the worship of the Law — 30 mentions · watch
  5. Ep. 410: Forde - Better not to let the 'common herd' in on such lofty and dangerous academic secrets — 22 mentions · watch from 00:14:50
  6. Ep. 87: Martin Luther, The Bondage of The Will, Conclusion, part 2 — 21 mentions · watch
  7. Ep. 412: Forde - The gospel, and only the gospel, spells the end of the hidden God — 16 mentions · watch from 00:03:35
  8. Ep. 413: Debrief on the Bondage of the Will — 16 mentions · watch from 00:35:11
  9. Ep. 294: Paulson - Trying to Believe in Double Predestination — 15 mentions · watch
  10. Ep. 98: Martin Luther, 'The Clarity of Scripture' from 'The Bondage of The Will' — 15 mentions · watch from 00:04:20
  11. Ep. 320: Whitford - Tyranny and Resistance — 14 mentions · watch
  12. Ep. 34: Turning the Metaphorical Gun on Ourself — 14 mentions
  13. Ep. 407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ — 14 mentions · watch from 00:01:22
  14. Ep. 181: Chesterton - Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God — 13 mentions · watch
  15. Ep. 302: Banned Books LIVE HOLY WEEK Q&A — 13 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 321: Luther - The Right and Power to Judge all Teaching and to Call, Appoint, and Dismiss Teachers — 13 mentions · watch
  17. Ep. 18: Now... okay, so, angels as people, tell me about that. Walk me through it. — 11 mentions
  18. Ep. 182: Sasse - The office of the governing authority belongs to God's created order — 11 mentions · watch
  19. Ep. 383: Tolkien - The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness ... is mistaken and indeed vain — 11 mentions · watch from 00:22:22
  20. Ep. 185: The Enlightenment - The Monolithic Nature of the Church Has Come to an End — 10 mentions · watch
  21. Ep. 235: Paulson - Darwin's real problem is … the command of God that has no restraint — 10 mentions · watch
  22. Ep. 189: Kennedy - A Christian stands for truth even when it hurts the most — 9 mentions · watch
  23. Ep. 328: John Piper - Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom, Past and Future — 9 mentions · watch
  24. Ep. 270: Matthias Flacius - Rules for Understanding the Sacred Scriptures — 8 mentions · watch from 00:15:48
  25. Ep. 310: Sasse - The Theologia Crucis belongs to the Western Church — 8 mentions · watch
  26. Ep. 312: Paulson - Preaching Categorically to Bound Wills — 8 mentions · watch
  27. Ep. 388: Luther - Maundy Thursday — 8 mentions · watch from 00:39:47
  28. Ep. 398: Paulson - A Preacher like Jonah — 8 mentions · watch from 00:10:57
  29. Ep. 8: Who are you? I'm Batma... I'm Constantine. — 8 mentions
  30. Ep. 89: Martin Luther, 'Free Choice is of the World' from The Bondage of The Will — 8 mentions · watch
  31. Ep. 16: No, boys. There's two 'O's in Goose. — 7 mentions
  32. Ep. 258: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 3 — 7 mentions · watch
  33. Ep. 27: I Want What I Want When I Want It! — 7 mentions
  34. Ep. 359: Table Talk — 7 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 374: Nagel - A Sermon for Christmas Day — 7 mentions · watch from 00:38:36
  36. Ep. 411: Forde - Are we puppets, being jerked around against our wills by a malevolent puppeteer? — 7 mentions · watch from 01:55:15
  37. Ep. 86: Martin Luther, The Bondage of The Will — 7 mentions · watch
  38. Ep. 165: Timothy Keller - Postmodernism: Only powerlessness and oppression brings moral high ground and true knowledge — 6 mentions
  39. Ep. 180: Whitford - The Church and State Have Existed in An Often Unhealthy Tension — 6 mentions · watch
  40. Ep. 184: Bowler - Christmas in Nazi Germany — 6 mentions · watch