What does it mean to remember the Sabbath Day? In this episode, Dr. Paulson and Caleb discuss what it means to worship God and receive his gifts. They address the notion that the Sabbath is about imitating God's rest and see how God uses the Sabbath to forgive our sins. Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Freedom Lessons Album Free 2023 Advent Resources Your God is too Glorious, 2nd...

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain. What does it mean to use God's name, and how does one misuse it? In this episode of the Outlaw God podcast, Dr. Paulson and Caleb Keith discuss the second commandment and how to hear and learn it.  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Free 2023 Advent Resources 2024(May 3-4) NWA Tickets are Now Available! Join the 1517...

Caleb and Dr. Paulson continue to discuss the explanation of the First Commandment. This time, they focus on what it means to love and trust God. Paulson explains how the "fear, love, and trust" explanation relates all the commandments to the central command: "You shall have no other gods."  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: 2023 HWSS Conference Livestream Signup Free 2023 Advent...

Dr. Paulson introduces the First Commandment. "You shall have no other gods." He uses this episode to explain why this is the central commandment and how Luther uses the following explanation to create a pattern for instruction. What does "fear, love, and trust in God above all things." mean? Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: 2023 HWSS Conference Livestream Signup Free 2023 Advent...

Dr. Paulson begins teaching Luther's Small Catechism. In this episode, Steve Paulson and Caleb Keith discuss the significance of Luther's Catechism. What is a catechism, and why did Luther publish his own? Paulson uncovers how Luther retained all the classical catechetical elements while shifting the focus to the distinction between God's law and God's gospel.  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from...

Dr. Paulson summarizes the end of Luther's Outlaw God Volume 1. He ends this volume by showing how Luther proclaimed the Law and the Gospel to Erasmus and against the problem of evil. The episode ends with an overview of where the podcast is going next with a series on Luther's Small Catechism.  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: 2023 HWSS Conference Livestream Signup Free 2023 Advent...

Dr. Paulson Discuss John chapter six. Specifically, Paulson deals with the offense of the Gospel as God's electing word to salvation. Why is it troubling that election comes apart from the Law? How does the Gospel choice assault the idea of free will? Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Free 2023 Advent Resources Faith and Reason Exchange @ 1517.org 2023 HWSS Conference Livestream...

The problem of evil is constantly nagging at the conscience. Dr. Paulson addresses some harmful ways the question "why does evil exist?" has been answered by Christians. This time, he addresses the idea that evil is a lesser-good that is used to form our character.  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Free 2023 Advent Resources Faith and Reason Exchange @ 1517.org 2023 HWSS Conference...

In this episode, Dr. Paulson describes what hearing the Gospel does to those who listen. He describes the offense of the Gospel and its attack on our will and desire to be saved by the Law. And finally, how the Gospel overcomes sinful hearts to deliver saving faith.  Show Notes: 1517 Podcast Survey Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Faith and Reason Exchange @ 1517.org 2023 HWSS Conference...

In this episode, Paulson goes back to the issue of hardened hearts. He teaches from the Apostle Paul that access to the heart begins with the ears. This leads him to discuss how God's word is opposed by blocked-up ears. Show Notes: 1517 Podcast Survey Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Faith and Reason Exchange @ 1517.org 2023 HWSS Conference Livestream Signup Join the 1517 Academy Faith...

Dr. Paulson goes deeper into the idea of opposing God in his word. He describes how this opposition and attack on the faith interacts with our suffering. Finally, he leads the podcast to the hope that all suffering and opposition have been brought to an end in the cross of Christ.  Show Notes: 1517 Podcast Network Survey Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Faith and Reason Exchange @ Apple...

Dr. Paulson continues to talk about the end times. In this episode, he proclaims the truth that the last battle of this world is already won. Christians are not sent out into the world with uncertainty about the end times but are free in already possessing the victory.  Show Notes: 1517 Podcast Network Survey Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Faith and Reason Exchange @ Apple Podcasts Faith...

Dr. Paulson continues to examine what it means to oppose God. In this episode, the discussion revolves around the eschaton, the end of the world, and its purpose and place in Christian theology. This conversation addresses the idea of the anti-Christ and what kind of power the "man of lawlessness" actually possesses.  Show Notes: 1517 Podcast Network Survey Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Join...

Dr. Paulson dives deeper into 2 Thessalonians. Here he teaches how God is opposed by sin and the devil by an assault on and rejection of His Word. Paulson describes that this understanding of opposition to God's word is necessary for teaching the Bondage of the Will.  Show Notes: 1517 Podcast Network Survey Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Join the 1517 Academy Freedom Lessons Street Team ...

In this episode, Dr. Paulson highlights the importance of distinguishing between law and gospel. He emphasizes how distinguishing between concepts and definitions requires exclusion and certainty. He goes on to demonstrate how Luther taught necessary distinctions through Scripture. Show Notes Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Join the 1517 Academy Freedom Lessons Street Team ...

Dr. Paulson transitions into the final chapter of Luther's Outlaw God Volume 1. This time, he looks at 2 Thessalonians to address the issues of suffering and evil. Paulson, along with Scripture and the Lutheran confessions, teaches that God is patient with evil in this world so that he can come and rescue you with the precious blood of his Son. Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Join the...

Dr. Paulson discusses human suffering. He demonstrates different flawed ways that suffering is utilized to purpose a meaning of life. He utilizes Scripture to show why suffering is not a "lesser good" but is something that God puts to an end in Christ. Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: Freedom Lessons Street Team The New Quest for Paul and His Reading of the Old Testament by Timo...

In this episode, Dr. Paulson and Caleb go back yet again and discuss the events of the book of Exodus. Paulson uses the crossing of the Red Sea to demonstrate what it looks like to receive and be delivered by God's promises and what it looks like to stand in direct opposition to those same promises. This helps show why Luther so frequently referenced Pharoh while debating Erasmus.  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube ...

Dr. Paulson picks up the themes of monism and dualism again. This time, he directly demonstrates the issues with these two accounts of evil by going into Scripture. Paulson also discusses the sin against the Holy Spirit.  Show Notes: Support the Podcast Network Fundraiser 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: The New Quest for Paul and His Reading of the Old Testament by Timo Laato Finding God in the Darkness:...

In this episode, Dr. Paulson outlines two more attempts at defining God and containing evil. He explains how monism and dualism attempt to account for sin. Paulson concludes with Luther that both approaches are void of the reality of the one true God because they cannot account for or describe God as he reveals himself in the Gospel. Show Notes: Support the Podcast Network Fundraiser 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from...

In this episode of The Outlaw God, Dr. Paulson outlines the issues with deism. He identifies how deism presents God as a mighty creator but attempts to get around the problem of evil by making God distant and inactive. Paulson demonstrates how deism promotes the problem of free will and rejects the plain text of Scripture.  Support the Podcast Network Fundraiser 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What’s New from 1517: The New Quest for...

Dr. Paulson outlines some of the major interpretive issues of modern Bible historians. He demonstrates how they reduce the Scripture down to moral lessons. He does this while showing that these patterns and problems are not new in the history of biblical interpretation but simply rebranded.  Show Notes Support the Podcast Network Fundraiser 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube More from the hosts Caleb Keith Steven Pauslon  

In this episode, Dr. Paulson talks about the significance of Christ's actual death and resurrection and its effect on how we view the "plain text" of Scripture. Paulson uses 1 Corinthians 15 as the grounds for discussing how the realities of our resurrection and salvation depend on the physical death and resurrection of a savior who entered human history for us. Show Notes Support the Podcast Network Fundraiser If Christ Be Not Raised Thinking Fellows Episode 1517 Podcasts The 1517...

Paulson continues to outline interpretations of Biblical texts that reject the idea of plain sense meaning. In this episode, Paulson looks at Psalm 51 and addresses how David's proclamations and prayers have been moralized. He then presents a reading that does not interject a moral key or decoding.  Show Notes Support the Show Tough Texts 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube More from the hosts Caleb Keith Steven Pauslon  

In this episode, Dr. Paulson begins to outline what Luther means when he talks about the "plain text" of Scripture. Paulson shows how the plain text meaning works alongside doctrines like Sola Scriptura. He then talks about how Luther confronts Erasmus with the plain text. Show Notes Support the Show 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube More from the hosts Caleb Keith Steven Pauslon