Being Lutheran Podcast

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason continue their examination of Baptism in the New Testament by doing a Bible study on Romans 6:3-4. The Lutheran confession of Baptism is that Baptism is God’s work and not man’s work. Baptism is our connection to the death...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason continue their examination of the New Testament passages about baptism, focusing today on Peter’s Pentecost sermon and the response of the crowds from Acts 2:36-39. Pentecost is the definitive Christian experience, but not in the way you might expect...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason switch their focus to the New Testament as they continue their examination of the Sacrament of Baptism. There is something that is appealing and refreshing about talking about your beliefs as opposed to what you don’t believe in. In...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason conclude their examination of OT allusions to baptism by looking at Ezekiel 36:25-27. These verses have several connections to Acts 2:38-39. By seeing these connections, it helps us to appreciate that all of Scripture has one, unified message. This...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason continue to look at how baptism is taught in the Old Testament. Today, they take up the story of Naaman and how his washing in the Jordan River cleansed him from leprosy. Leprosy makes for a consistent metaphor in...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason continue their study of Old Testament passages that teach us about and point us to baptism. According to 1 Corinthians, we are baptized into Christ just as the Israelites were baptized into Moses. Christ is the new and greater...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason shift their focus to the Old Testament as they continue to discuss the Sacrament of Holy Baptism. The nature of baptism is that it is an event. God has done it. It has happened. This is the first parallel...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason complete their topical examination of the Sacrament of Holy Baptism. In the Lutheran mind, infant baptism is both the logical and biblical conclusion one arrives at because of the reality of original sin and the truth of Divine Monergism....

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason continue their discussion on the Sacrament of Holy Baptism. How do you recognize the Reformation confession of Sola Fide and the Lutheran confession that Baptism saves? The first step in answering that question is defining the term “faith” itself....

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason continue their discussion on the Sacrament of Baptism. At the beginning of the episode, they take up the question, “Why do we baptize?” It is in God’s nature to have mercy and it is in God’s nature to save.

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason continue their discussion on baptism by moving from the content in the Small Catechism and looking at some other issues that are addressed in the Large Catechism and elsewhere. One of the primary differences between Lutherans and other Protestants...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason conclude their discussion on the Sacrament of Baptism from Luther’s Small Catechism. Along with the salvific value of Baptism, there is also a ceremonial and symbolic value to Baptism. Baptism is our entrance into the Christian Church and signifies...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason continue their discussion on the Sacrament of Holy Baptism from Luther’s Small and Large Catechisms. We recognize that the power and effectiveness of baptism is not in the water, but in the Word of God. Your Baptism is an...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason continue their discussion of the Sacrament of Baptism from Luther’s Small and Large Catechisms. Salvation was won for us on the cross, but it is delivered through the means of grace. The nature of the Sacraments is that they...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason begin their examination of the Sacrament of Baptism from Martin Luther’s Small and Large Catechisms. God’s Word is the effective element in Baptism. Baptism saves because God’s Word saves. Another effective means for understanding the Lutheran position on Baptism...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason answer listener questions about the nature of prophecy and the Holy Spirit and about changing church membership.  

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason conclude their discussion on the Seventh Petition of the Lord’s Prayer by doing a Bible study on 1 John 3:4-10.  The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil, because the devil works...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason continue their examination of the Seventh Petition of the Lord’s prayer by doing a Bible study on Genesis 3:15-24.  When we pray “deliver us from evil” in the Lord’s Prayer, the answer to that prayer is Christ on the...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason complete their examination of the Seventh Petition of the Lord’s Prayer from Luther’s Small and Large Catechisms.  In society today, we have lost the ability to call a thing evil.  The Seventh Petition shows us what it looks like...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason begin their examination of the Seventh Petition of the Lord’s Prayer from Martin Luther’s small and large catechisms.  The Seventh Petition serves as a summary of the entire Lord’s Prayer.  In it, we simultaneously pray for deliverance from evil...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason conclude their examination of the Sixth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer by doing a Bible study on the temptation of Christ from Matthew 4:1-11.  In his temptation, Jesus stands in the place of Adam and Eve in the Garden...

In today’s episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason continue their examination of the Sixth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer by doing a Bible Study on Genesis 39 and the account of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife.  Joseph’s account, from beginning to end, is excellent development of the doctrine...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason continue their discussion of the Sixth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer from Martin Luther’s small and large catechisms.  As we are tempted, we fail to understand how deep our own depravity goes.  God knows how bad we are in...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason began a study on the Sixth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer from Martin Luther’s small and large catechisms.  In the Lord’s Prayer, we remember that God is already working and he is doing so without our help.  In the...

In this episode, Brett, Brian, and Jason conclude their examination of the Fifth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer by doing a Bible Study on the parable of the unforgiving servant from Matt. 18:21-35.  In this parable, we focus on the absurdity of the king wanting to...