The Vinyl Preacher

Tyra Dennis, the house band leader for the ELCA's Youth Gathering this summer in Houston, stops by for an interview and to talk the trinity. Check. It. Out. Intro - 00:00 Space Jam Talk - 00:30 Matt's U2 Talk - 4:00 Vulnerability and Credibility in Preaching - 14:15 Trinity Sunday - 16:15 Tyra Dennis!!! - 23:45 Time for the Text - 1:11:50 The Playlist - 1:21:03 The Playlist of the Trinity ATM - J....

Matt and Zach break down the theological implications of Childish Gambino's new video 'This is America.' Then Matt gets ready to hang with Tina Knowles and Zach laments Synod Assembly. Timestamp Baylor's Preaching List - 1:10 This is America/Childish Gambino - 2:45 Preaching as making an album - 13:50 Graduation Season in Boulder - 19:30 Matt prepares to hang with Tina Knowles - 21:30 The Theodicy...

First we breakdown the Kanye West stuff, then Mother's Day, and finally, Ascension and Easter 7. Check. It. Out. R.E.M. talk - 00:15 Grand Theft Auto - 3:02 Synod Assembly - 6:01 womens/mothers day - 8:20 an announcement - 9:45 curb theme - 11;20 Kanye - 13:00 Time for the Text - 20:45 Ascension - 22:30 Easter 7A - 31:45 Good News - Somewhere in the Easter 7A talk The Playlist - 40:03 This week's...

Matt and Zach talk Day 3 at Coachella and the coronation of Beyoncé. Timestamp 2:45 - More Beyoncé at Coachella Reflections 5:00 - Beyoncé Merch!!!! 7:30 - Coachella Day 3 Reflection 8:30 - Miguel 9:10 - Cardi B w/ Chance the Rapper 10:20 - 2019 Coachella Headliner Talk 11:30 - Portugal. The man 14:15 - A Perfect Circle 18:00 - Eminem and the Dearth of White Pop Culture 20:40 - Dr. Dre 26:50 - Cha...

We went to Coachella for the best preaching of 2018. Check. it. out. Let's talk Tarps - 1:48 Ceviche for Camping - 4:15 The Great Salton Sea - 7:50 2 Kings 6.6 - 8:30 What's ICE-t praying for? - 14:00 Coachella Artist Rundown - 16:00 BEYONCE!!!! - 38:50 Time for the Text - 52:30 Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch - 53:45 John 15 - 1:04:00 Good News - 1:11:00 QnA - 1:13:15 Check out the TVP playlist...

Yes, this is another episode of the Vinyl Preacher. Zach talks Holden Village and has some hot takes on camping ministry. We talk about about RU Talking' R.E.M. RE:ME? AND...we got lots of hot sheep takes. That would have been enough, but there's also another fantastic playlist. Holden Village/Camp Hot Takes (2:45) John Green's Call Story Reviewed (9:30) Time for the Text (17:45) Let's go through...

Matt and Zach are in the desert with hot takes like the desert fathers. Unfortunately, this week's text is uninspiring, but we make some lemonade out of limes and end up with a sweet playlist. I wonder - Kanye West Eat it - Weird Al Yankovic I think I need a new heart - The Magnetic Fields Kick Drum Heart - The Avett Brothers Footprints in the Snow I will possess your heart - Deathcab for Cutie Wi...

Preacher, you gotta preach the week after Easter and we're here for you. We've got hot takes on Acts, John, and first John. Also, a hot playlist. Don't stop me now - Queen Return of the mack - Mark Morrison Let me clear my throat - DJ Kool Get on the peace train - Cat Stevens Keep on - Portugal. The Man This year - The Mountain Goats Check out the TVP playlist every week on Spotify (open.spotify.c...

Our advice for you this Easter, go out there and try and preach one that matters! Check out the TVP playlist every week on Spotify (open.spotify.com/user/vinylpreacher) The Vinyl Preacher is supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and LuMin: the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network. It is produced by Nick Morris, aka Draze Force.

Marathon episode where we take on preaching Palm/Passion Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil. If the whole week is a liturgy, maybe your sermon should stretch out over the week? Turns out Zach has Flu.0, so admire our persistence. In the end a playlist to listen to all week. Marching into the Darkness - John Legend Into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie Sunday Bloody Sunday - U...

A historic hater of the enneagram, Zach, took it seriously this week. Find out what happened as Zach talks about it in a closet at a Passonist Retreat Center in Sacramento. Also, we talk about our contexts (10:00). The time for the text is 15:40 and make a playlist (36:53). Check. It. Out. Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins Rhythm is Gonna Get You - Gloria Estafan and the Miami Sound Machine Seeds of Fre...

Matt and Zach have some ideas for your Godly Play station in worship this week. They've also got a playlist featuring White Snake, Snakehips, Earth, Wind, and Fire, and, of course, the gospel according to Lil Jon. Check. It. Out. Get Low - Lil Jon featuring - Ying Yang Twins Serpantine Fire - Earth, Wind, and Fire All my friends - Snake Hips Here I go again - White Snake Low - Flo Rida featuring T...

Jesus is occupying the temple, casting out the money changers, and occupying our lives. Another note of importance, Zach has a bitchin' Camaro. If you're looking for him this week, he'll be in the back of the Wal-Mart parking lot. In the end there's a playlist featuring Hamilton, Public Enemy, Rage against the Machine, and R.E.M. Check it out. Ten Duel Commandments - Hamilton Fight the Power - Pub...

Matt read a book on the enneagram and it causes Zach to roll his eyes so hard they fall out. We talk MLK for Lent and Thich Naht Hahn. We talk Peter 'buking, rebuking, and getting re-re-buked by Jesus. In the end another spectacular playlist. Satan pulls the strings - The Avett Brothers The first cut is the deepest - Cat Stevens (originally recorded by P.P. Arnold) The revolution will not be telev...

Matt and Zach set the table for Lent. What's it all about any ways? We end up falling into a commitment to read MLK for Lent, before we talk about Jesus' baptism in the gospel of Mark. In the end there's another killer playlist. River - IBEYI Step by step - Pete Seeger History - Mos Def featuring Talib Kweli When doves cry - Prince Check out the TVP playlist every week on Spotify (open.spotify.com...

As we get ready for the Transfiguration and Ash Wednesday Matt and Zach talk about why they've given up the goat on the public administration of ashes. The lesson? In the end Tim Brown always wins. In the end we've got a playlist that will transfigure your life featuring; the National, Journey, Beyoncé, Lisa Loeb, and U2. Hard to find - The National Separate Ways (Love will find you) - Journey Hal...

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This week we're in the gospel of Mark and Jesus is calling disciples (and punching people in the face). We also reflect on MLK Day and the role it might play in our civic religion. In the end another fantastic playlist featuring Dylan, Old Crow Medicine Show, and a memorial shoutout to Dolores O'Riordan and the Cranberries. Gotta serve somebody - Bob Dylan Zombie - The Cranberries Dreams - The Cra...

We're back in our home studios and back into the gospel of Mark. Jesus is calling fishers and turning them into fishers. In the end we go back to the 90's for a playlist from the halls of our middle schools. Check. It. Out. My name is Jonas - Weezer Big Eyed Fish - The Dave Matthews Band I'll follow you down - Gin Blossoms I will follow - U2 Check out the TVP playlist every week on Spotify (open.s...

We are live from Chicago...again! Matt's really there. TVP superfan, Ben Adams, is there. College students from around the country are there and...it's incredibly cold. We make a playlist for Epiphany II and the Baptism of Jesus (B)AND...we make a playlist for Chicago! Check. It. Out. Check out the TVP playlist every week on Spotify (open.spotify.com/user/vinylpreacher) New Year's Day - U2 Starman...

The Sunday after Christmas is the most important Sunday of the church year! Also, you'll have to preach unless you've copped out with Lessons and Carols. Surprisingly there's a lot of meat on the homiletical bone of the song of Simeon. Also, a stellar playlist. Check out the TVP playlist every week on Spotify (open.spotify.com/user/vinylpreacher) Old Man - Neil Young Grandma's Hands - Bill Withers...

Terra Rowe is a professor of philosophy and religion at the University of North Texas. She comes on the pod for a belated bookend to our science-first conversation with Jim White on climate change. Her new book is called, 'Toward a Better Worldliness: Ecology, Economy, and the Protestant Tradition.' We talk about how the protestant/Lutheran tradition might help us work on climate change. Check. It...

To celebrate the release of a new U2 album Matt brings on some of his fellow U2 apostles, Jon Bergstrom (hospice chaplain, Woodstock, Illinois) and Ryan Chaddick (pastor of American Lutheran Church, Burbank, California). Eventually we talk about Advent 4 (38:00), then Christmas Eve (45:00). Thanks to our new sponsor, IKEA, the best place to host your Christmas Eve service! Check out the TVP playli...

Jason and Tuhina join us on the pod to talk #shutthehellup, their online advent devotion. They also help us work through the gospel of John's rendition of the advent classic, John the Baptist in the wilderness. We talk through Tuhina and Jason's advent playlist including TVP favorites, Childish Gambino, U2, the Swet Shop Boys, and Depeche Mode, lots and lots of Depeche Mode. Check out the TVP play...

Nashville-based recording artist, Kristina Murray, takes us deeper into Advent with a conversation about the tensions of religious and southern U.S. cultural identity. Kristina is an alum of Lutheran Campus Ministry at Clemson University (Go Tigers!). Check out the playlist every week on Spotify (open.spotify.com/user/vinylpreacher) Public Service Announcement - Jay-Z The Corner - Common Get out o...