The Gottesdienst Crowd

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Epistle and Gospel reading for The Commemoration of the Reformation; Romans 3:19–28; Matthew 11:12–19. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Go...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity, Matthew 22:1–14. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.got...

Pastor Paul Schultz talks with Martin Cannon, an Omaha attorney who has spent 38 years in state and federal courts defending unborn children, pro-life advocates, religious liberty, and free speech. Much of that work was done pro bono, including years of partnership with the Thomas More Society. Cannon tells how he left the faith as a college student, came back to Christ with his late wife Deborah,...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity, Matthew 9:1–8. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.gott...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity, Matthew 22:34–46. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.g...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, Luke 14:1–11. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.gott...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, Luke 7:11–17. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.gottes...

In this episode, Paul Schultz talks with the Rev. Dr. Adam Hensley, Associate Professor of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, about the deliberate ordering of the Hebrew Psalter. Hensley explains how the five books of Psalms are marked by real editorial seams (not artificial divisions) and traces the influential but flawed thesis of Gerald Wilson, who argued that the Psalter rec...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, Matthew 6:24–34. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.got...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, Mark 7:31–37. ----more---- Host: Fr. David Buchs Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.gottesdien...

Dr. Paul Grime looks back on the making of Lutheran Service Book, twenty years after the project began. As the executive director overseeing the hymnal's development, Grime walks through what it took to produce a single book for a synod still split between The Lutheran Hymnal and Lutheran Worship — the committee structure, the doctrinal review process, the mid-project change in commission membersh...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity, Luke 18:9-14. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.gottesd...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity, Luke 19:41–48. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.gottesdie...

Rev. Chris Durham, chaplain at Wittenberg Chapel serving LCMS students at the University of North Dakota, joins the show to discuss Augustine on the theme of pilgrimage — the Christian life as movement from a beginning through this present age toward final rest in God. The conversation starts in Scripture before turning to Augustine: Hebrews 4 and 11 on the promised Sabbath rest and the patriarchs...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity, Matthew 7:15–23. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.gottes...

Pastor Ben Hayter of Imanuel Lutheran Church in Waterloo, IL, joins the show to work through the CTCR's 2025 document, Unity in Doctrine, Uniformity and Variety in Practice. The document came from a 2019 synodical resolution asking the CTCR to define what Article III.7 of the LCMS Constitution actually means by "unity in doctrine and uniformity and variety in practice." The CTCR responds with six...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity, Matthew 7:15–23. ----more---- Host: Fr. David Buchs Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.gottesdi...

Is beauty just personal preference, or is it real? Rev. Kyle Verage, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Pleasant Prairie, WI, joins the podcast to trace how Scripture answers a question philosophy never could. Verage starts with the common phrase "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and shows where it breaks down — some things are simply more beautiful than others, whether or not we can...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity, Mark 8:1–9. ----more---- Host: Fr. David Buchs Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.gottesdienst...

Rev. John Koopman, Associate Pastor at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Mankato, MN, joins the show to walk through C.F.W. Walther's essay "The Duties of an Evangelical Lutheran Synod," delivered at the first Iowa District convention. The essay was written against the backdrop of the split between Missouri and Iowa Synod Lutheranism — Iowa Synod pastors trained under Wilhelm Löhe who held that the co...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity, Matthew 5:17–26. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.gottesd...

Rev. Jason Braaten sits down with attorney and longtime LCMS delegate Mark Stern to walk through the first edition of Today's Business ahead of the upcoming Synod Convention. Stern explains how overtures become resolutions, how floor committees work, and what delegates and laypeople can do right now to weigh in. He highlights key resolutions on worship (including the proposed Commission on Worship...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity, Luke 5:1–11. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.gottesdiens...

Pastor Paul Schultz (filling in for Braaten) continues a two-part conversation with Pastor Joe Meunch on the baptismal theology of 1 Peter, this time working through Luther's catechism questions on baptism as a framework for the epistle. They trace how Peter's language of salvation, sonship, and the gift of the Holy Spirit echoes the Exodus pattern explored in part one, and dig into the notoriousl...

Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity, Luke 6:36–42. ----more---- Host: Fr. Jason Braaten Regular Guest: Fr. Dave Petersen ----more---- Become a  Patron ! You can subscribe to the Journal here:  https://www.gottesdienst.org/subscribe/ You can read the Gottesblog here:  https://www.gottesdie...