Casting Nets Podcast

Pastor Harley and Pastor Ruddat walk you through the day of atonement. What made this day special, and where did God forecast the Messiah in this most holy and solemn day of the year for God's Old Testament people? #Leviticus

What makes an animal clear or unclean? Prescriptions for Bodily discharges and leprosy? The alternative lifestyle that God presribed for his people maye leave us shaking our heads, but there are reasons why God prescribed this for his Old Testament people. We who have have the witnesses of the Messiah's arrival can look back and appreciate these silhouettes of the savior. Join us as we talk about...

Dave Ruddat and Will Harley talk about Congregational Statistics and the good that come from all the work in putting them together. Can the business work of church numbers be interesting and helpful to a church? Listen to a great conversation as these two talk about Gospel ministry and the nightmare of numbers and figures.

When God choses to use earthly elements to do wonderous things it is an important thing. When he chooses to work in water with his word for saving purpose in Baptism that is awesome. When he chooses to place himself in bread and wine with his body and blood with his word for our forgiveness, it is amazing. When he chooses to reach through time and space and share his grace it should cause us to st...

Pastor Will Harley travels to the Casting Nets Northern Command in Shirley Wisconsin to talk to Pastor Dave Ruddat about blood sacrifices/offerings in Leviticus 1-7. Topics talked about 1. Should we think of them as sacrifices or offerings? 2. Whole/ Burnt 3. Fellowship/Peace 4. Sin 5. Restitution #Leviticus

We still think in terms of Holiness. We mark things as clean and unclean. We think in terms of ordinary and extraordinary. Let's begin the study of Leviticus and see what our Lord has to say about these topics and much more. Through it all let's see Jesus fulfill all things for us. This podcast is also featured on https://www.raisedwithjesus.com/podcast/ (https://www.raisedwithjesus.com/podcast/)...

Pastor Harley and Pastor Ruddat welcome Pastor Enderle back to talk about the War on Your Christmas. Books we mentioned: A link for the book Unoffendable https://www.amazon.com/Unoffendable-Brant-Hansen-audiobook/dp/B013VFBYQ4/ref=sr11?crid=2MHQT6GTU6KFN&keywords=unoffendable&qid=1640024443&s=audible&sprefix=Unoff%2Caudible%2C106&sr=1-1 A Link for the Book UnChristian https://w...

Pastor Enderle and Pastor Ruddat attended the same summer quarter course (in fall) from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary on discipleship. A book from Thom Rainer posits that one way to address the church membership losses that christian churches are experiencing is to revisit what does it mean to be a church member, so we review the book from a Lutheran perspective. Pastor Will Harley also joined us th...

Pastor Enderle and Pastor Ruddat attended the same summer quarter course (in fall) from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary on discipleship. A book from Thom Rainer posits that one way to address the church membership losses that christian churches are experiencing is to revisit what does it mean to be a church member, so we review the book from a Lutheran perspective. Passages read from the Evangelical H...

What lessons can we learn from how God's people gave thanks throughout history? History that is covered in this podcast: The First Thanksgiving Cain & Abel (Genesis 4:2-5a) Thanksgiving after the Flood Noah & His Family (Genesis 8:15-22 & 9:12-15) Thanksgiving at the Harvest Ruth & Boaz (Ruth 2:2-9) Thanksgiving in the Gospels Jesus & the Ten Lepers (Luke 17:11-19) Thanksgiving...

Pastor Dave Ruddat fishes solo talking about three Things you may not have known about discipleship:1. Discipleship has always been around but may not have always been utilized.2. Discipleship has always been a stuggle to carry out in the organized church.3. God's Word stands ready to disciple us and the next generation. Our podcast on 5 reasons why your pastor should engage in professional growth...

We talk today about seeing Jesus in the Old Testament. Often many Christians forget that the Scriptures that Jesus, the disciples, and Paul used were the Old Testament and Jesus is there. Let's not read Jesus into them, but let us learn to read Jesus out of the Old Testament.

Links to look at from the show. The Conversation (We do not agree with these statments) https://theconversation.com/as-texas-ban-on-abortion-goes-into-effect-a-religion-scholar-explains-that-pre-modern-christian-attitudes-on-marriage-and-reproductive-rights-were-quite-different-167170 https://theconversation.com/when-does-life-begin-theres-more-than-one-religious-view-167241 https://theconversatio...

Itching ears, a head clear of illusions, fighting loneliness, and Pastor Harley's love of the smell of leather... all topics Pastor Will Harley and Pastor Dave Ruddat talk about, all in the big finish to our pastoral epistles. What combats itching ears, loneliness, and being in the same room as someone who obsesses over the smell of leather? Christ for us!

Pastor Will Harley and Pastor Dave Ruddat stare with Paul into a world that is burning, but come away with the same conclusion, continue in the Word of God. Pastor Ruddat guesses Pastor Harley's favorite verse in this chapter, but is he right?

When Pastor Ruddat thinks of Timothy, often times he thinks of the young man that Paul mentored. 2 Timothy reminds us that Timothy is a seminary professor, one with responsibility yet one needing encouragement to be strong. In the midst of Paul's encouragement to Timothy to be strong, we find encouragement for ourselves to be strong, for the encouragement we need is Christ for us.

Pastor Will Harley and Pastor Dave Ruddat introduce 2 Timothy, Paul's Last Will and Testament, and go over the chapter section by section. At the end of the episode, we talk about what we would want on our epitaphs

Join Pastor Harley and Pastor Ruddat finish off the book of Titus, with a great discussion on the truths in Titus chapter 3, truths we don't want to be true sometimes. Join us as we explore situations when we don't want God's truth to be true. Listen to the great thing God has done even when we would rather listen to our "but's."

Doctrine, not a stuffy word just for seminaries or classrooms, but a concept that shapes how we live our lives, just as it shaped how elders, widows, and slaves lived their lives in ancient Crete.

Join Will and Dave as they start off on the book of Titus

Join Dave and Will as we talk about slavery, books, use of language and money all in the final thoughts of 1 Timothy.

Dave and Will talk about Paul's instructions to Timothy concerning widows. We explore what the widows did and how they served the church and the family. While the ministry of widows in 1 Timothy 5 would not make a snazzy Marvel action movie (like "Black Widow"), Will and Dave explore how the widow ministry in Ephesus worked and what it could look like today. Join us as we talk about 1 Timothy 5.

Pastor Dave and Will talk about the great certainty we have in the sound teaching of God's Word, but the demons have some ideas as to what teachings we should focus on. That are those doctrines of demons, and how do they lead us away from Christ?

Pastor Will Harley and Pastor Dave Ruddat go over 1 Timothy 3.

We expound on the conversation of Men and Woman and their callings as we practice this great gift in society. For further information on this discussion the Wisconsin Lutheran Synod has put out a statement about the Callings of Men and Women that can be found on their website. You can also turn to the devotions on the Women's Ministry page at https://wels.net/dev-women/uc20210729/