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Christopher Gillespie
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Lutheran Pastor (https://sjrl.org), Coffee roaster (https://gillespie.coffee), Media producer (https://gillespie.media), Podcaster (https://1517.org)
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dizziness 1 month ago
📖 New biblestudy Jeremiah Chapter 4–5 — The Foe from the North The Lord sends Jeremiah running through Jerusalem to find one righteous man so the city may be pardoned—and finds none. The foe gathers from the north and Jeremiah’s vision unmakes creation itself over a people wise to do evil. The one Just Man is found at last outside the walls, and for His sake the city is spared. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen: 🔗
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dizziness 1 month ago
📖 New sermon There's Always More Where That Came From For twelve years she had been unclean — exiled from the assembly, emptied by physicians who took everything and healed nothing. So she comes to steal a cure from the fringe of Jesus' garment, certain God's mercy runs out like everything else has. But His power goes out from Him and nothing is subtracted: she came to take a cure and leaves a daughter. There is always more where that came from. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen: 🔗
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dizziness 1 month ago
📖 New biblestudy Jeremiah: Chapter 3 — Bible Study, June 14, 2026 In Jeremiah 3:1–4:4, the Lord does the legally impossible: He calls back the wife the Law itself would bar from return. Yet mercy overrules statute — "Return, backsliding Israel," He says, "I am merciful." The one condition He names is not penance or probation but honest confession: "Only acknowledge your iniquity." Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen: 🔗
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dizziness 1 month ago
📖 New sermon "Blessed are you who eats bread in the Kingdom of God now!" Trinity 2 2026 A man sitting next to Jesus says it will be blessed to eat bread in the kingdom of God — someday. Jesus answers with a supper that is ready now. Three guests excuse themselves with fields, oxen, and a wife; where the fear of God dies, the Giver is ranked below His gifts, and the feast goes untasted. The master throws the doors wider and fills the hall with the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind — those with empty hands and no reason to refuse. Come, for all things are now ready. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen: 🔗
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dizziness 1 month ago
📖 New sermon “A mustard seed faith in the Lord of heaven and earth moves mulberry trees” Jesus warns that offenses are inevitable, and the worth of a single soul makes leading one of His little ones to fall worse than drowning. Yet He commands forgiveness seven times a day — a demand that drives the disciples to cry, “Lord, increase our faith.” The answer is not a bigger faith but a faith fixed on the right object: a mustard seed will do, because the power belongs to the Lord of heaven and earth, not to the one believing. Even when every duty is done we remain unprofitable servants, standing not on our works but on our Master — who girds Himself and serves His own at the Supper. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen: 🔗
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dizziness 2 months ago
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dizziness 2 months ago
📖 New sermon "The poor one has a name. Lazarus. God is my help." Trinity 1 2026 You have what Lazarus had. You have a name, given in the water. You have the promise — eternal life on account of the promise, not on account of your merits. You have Moses and the Prophets and the One they promised, who is here, on this altar, in your mouth and in your body. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen: 🔗
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dizziness 2 months ago
Banned Books 442: Giertz — A Shepherd's Letter Riley and Gillespie sit with Bo Giertz and read his open letter to the churches. Crisis, liberal theology, the shallow eschatology of liberalism, and the church's endurance through every age of the evil world. ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen: 📖 Show notes: #BannedBooks #Lutheran #Giertz #Theology #Podcast
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dizziness 2 months ago
📖 New sermon "The age to come arriving in this age, located, given out" Wednesday of Holy Trinity 2026 You went into that water still carrying the old premise — still asking what resurrection could possibly mean, still uncertain whether the age to come is anything more than this age with the dying removed. And you came out having been given something you did not generate, extra nos, outside yourself, from the One whose Name was spoken over you. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen: 🔗
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dizziness 2 months ago
📖 New article Teaching Evangelical Repentance to Children Your kid bullied another kid. You said, “Tell him you’re sorry.” You taught him penance, not repentance. Penance trusts the child’s willpower. Repentance kills the old child and raises a new one. New blog: how parents and teachers preach the Gospel in real time. Read it: 🔗
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dizziness 2 months ago
📖 New sermon “The Spirit gives you the peace Christ bought” Pentecost 2026 He who scattered at Babel gathers here at Pentecost. He who divided the tongues there of evil, now unites them here for good. The same Spirit. The same fire. At Babel, God came down and scattered. At Pentecost, God came down to gather, and He gathered by preaching. Not by making the nations speak one language. By making the one Gospel spoken in every language. Every tongue heard the same thing: the Spirit gives you the peace Christ bought. Read it: ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen: 🔗
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dizziness 2 months ago
📖 New sermon “Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world!” Friday of Exaudi (observed) 2026 Take heart. He did not say try harder. He did not say believe more. He did not say feel something. He said take heart. Be of good cheer. Because — and this is the only because that holds — “I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). He has done it. It stands done. It will be done tomorrow morning, and the morning after that, and the morning your believing finally collapses entirely. The I that holds you is not yours. Read it: ▶️ Watch: 🔗
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dizziness 2 months ago
📖 New sermon “You are the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand this?” Holy Trinity 2026 You look, and you live. You do not first understand, and then live. The teacher came carrying everything he knew and was handed two things he could do nothing with: a birth he could not perform and a cross he could only behold. And even the looking is not the last small work left to his credit — the eyes that turn to the lifted Son are opened by the same Spirit who blows where He wills, the birth of water and the Spirit, not of the will of the flesh, not of any man’s deciding. It is given the whole way down. Read it: ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen: 🔗
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dizziness 2 months ago
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dizziness 6 months ago
So yes—there is a “not yet.” Your body still breaks. Your heart still aches. Your house still gets sick. Your relationships still strain. The grave still waits. And Christ will come again to finish what you cannot see finished yet: the dead raised, the blind seeing, the oppressed fully freed, the captives fully released, the whole creation set loose from corruption. #biblestr View article →
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dizziness 6 months ago
Here is the good wine kept until now. Forgiveness that does not run out. Joy that does not depend on your mood. Hope that does not collapse when the test results, the bank statement, or the family meeting go badly. Fellowship with Him and with one another at a table that outlasts death. We are not playing religious pretend. He truly gives Himself. #biblestr View article →
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dizziness 6 months ago
The things you're not supposed to talk about in polite company are the very things we need to talk about. Don't be snookered into laying down your ideological arms and allowing the enemy to destroy family, church, and state.