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by Will Reitz
This podcast will cover the topics covered by the history lectures, sermons, and Bible/theology studies of Will Reitz.
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- 4 days ago58 min
History in My Lifetime, episode 4: Terrorist Attacks
For most of us, 9/11 is the biggest single-day historical event we have ever witnessed. So much changed after that terrible day. But 9/11 was hardly the only act of terrorism that has happened in our time. In this episode we survey the major terrorist attacks from Munich to October 7th.
- 5 days ago1h 43m
New Testament, episode 4: The Biography of Jesus of Nazareth
The episode 5 lecture in the New Testament class will examine the actual text of the New Testament. Before we do that, let us back up and see an overview of the life of the New Testament's central figure: Jesus of Nazareth. This episode examines Jesus as a religious figure, but also as an actual person in history who lived in a particular place and at a particular time.
- 6 days ago31 min
Sermon: Assurance of Salvation (1 John 5:6-13)
All of First John comes to a head in chapter 5, verse 13, when the Apostle tells us that he wrote all of the book so that we can KNOW that we have eternal life. It was not God's intention for us to be on pins & needles, never quite sure whether we've done enough to earn His favor. Rather, once we are adopted into His family, then we are part of His family, period.
- 1 weeks ago45 min
Sermon: How To Handle Strange & Difficult Bible Verses (1 John 5:7-8 & 16-17)
The 5th chapter of John has a couple of passages that are a challenge for Bible translators. In one passage, the Greek text seems clear, but a short clause seems to have been added by a Medieval commentator (the "Johannine Comma" of 1 John 5:7-8) and translators have to decide whether to keep in a passage that is very likely not written by John, but if they translators leave the passage out, it will be controversial. Leaving out the Johannine will lead to accusations of deleting the Trinity, but in this sermon, I have demonstrated that all reputable English translations have many other Trinitarian passages intact. In the other strange and difficult verse - 1 John 5:16-17 - John seems to indicate that some sins lead to death and some do not. I wrestle with this verse and try to come to a reasonable analysis.
- 1 weeks ago1h 14m
History in My Lifetime, episode 3 - American Wars: Vietnam to Iran
This episode is designed to jog your memory and trigger discussions regarding all of the American wars of the last 70 years. Special emphasis is given to the Vietnam War. It was such a drawn-out, bloody, and exhausting conflict. It was sold as part of a great struggle of the democratic West against communism. However, from the very beginning, the War in Vietnam felt like an anti-colonial struggle by the Vietnamese people against their colonizers, especially when they were facing the French in the earliest part of the war. By the time it was over, it was an exhausting war that challenged America's prevailing belief in our own military invincibility. The war spawned an anti-war movement so strong that even many conservative hawks grew to oppose the war by the early 1970s. This episode also digs into a variety of other Cold War-related struggles, as well as the War on Terror, with all of its individual conflicts across the broad Muslim world.
- 1 weeks ago1h 46m
New Testament, episode 3 - Context of the New Testament: Alexander the Great, the Apocrypha, & Rome
The final lecture on the context of the New Testament starts with a review of the major Near East empires leading up to Alexander the Great. We then look at Alexander's conquests to understand how Greek culture & the Greek language became so ubiquitous during the times of the New Testament. We see some of the collision of Greek & Jewish culture in the books of Maccabees in the Apocrypha (a.k.a. the Deuterocanonical books). Finally, we briefly examine the history of Rome.
- 2 weeks ago1h 53m
New Testament, episode 2 - Context of the New Testament: The Old Testament
In the introductory episode of this series, we discussed the context of the New Testament within the history of recorded history and written language. In this episode we keep building upon our understanding of the context of the New Testament by taking a long look at the Old Testament. The Old Testament is the primary and most important context for the New Testament. By looking at the Old Testament, we see the Jewish character of the New Testament, as Jesus and His Apostles were, in fact, Jewish.
- 3 weeks ago1h 47m
New Testament, episode 1: Introduction
What is the New Testament? It is a deeply Jewish book that serves as a sequel -- of sorts -- to the Old Testament. It is a small library of 27 books. It is a biography (or, rather, 4 biographies) of the greatest Man who ever lived, as well as a sequel (Acts) and 22 books that add to Jesus' legacy. It is a series of documents originally written in Koine Greek, and the beautiful collision of Jewish and Greek (and Roman) culture permeate the New Testament. It is also, at its heart, sacred writing. The Apostle John called it "the Logos" or the Word. With that in mind, this introduction places the New Testament in the broader history of written language going back to the earliest human writing. In the following episodes, we will expand on this by placing the New Testament in it Old Testament context, as well as its Greek and Roman context.
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