A Brief History of Power

BHoP#294 The New King James Bible and the Open Bible with Philip Nation

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk with guest Philip Nation of Thomas Nelson Bibles about the New King James Bible and the Open Bible.
Dr. Philip Nation, VP, Thomas Nelson Bibles
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Dr Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
Pr. Willie Grills - Zion Lutheran Church
Music thanks to Verny

BHoP#293 What's Going On in Canada? State, Church, and the Church's State of Silence

Dr Adam Koontz talks with guest Pastor David Smilek about the politics and churches in Canada.
Related Links - Angus Reid Institute survey on Canadian religious life
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Smilek - Redeemer, Sudbury, ON
Dr Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#292 Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians: The Meiji Restoration

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about the modernization of Japan and the rise of Imperial power.
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Dr Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
Pr. Willie Grills - Zion Lutheran Church
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BHoP#291 The End(s) of the LCMS with Pastor Joseph Beran

Dr Adam Koontz talks with guest Pr Joseph Beran about educating pastors, church planting, demographic decline, and more.
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Dr Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#290 The Christian Century in Japan: Jesuits, Fumi-e 踏み絵, Lessons for Today

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about how Christianity came to Japan, why it didn't last there, and applications to evangelism to draw from it.
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Dr Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
Pr. Willie Grills - Zion Lutheran Church
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Brief#14 What Decimated the Lutheran Churches in America?

Dr Adam Koontz talks about what caused the decline in the American Lutheran churches.
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Dr Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#289 On How Things Started - The Sacraments and the American Republic

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about how to handle accommodations in communion, and the different American republics.
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Dr Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
Pr. Willie Grills - Zion Lutheran Church
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Brief#13 A Letter from the Department of Eucharistic Significance (DOES)

Dr Adam Koontz talks about closed communion and the benefits that the Lord's Supper imparts.
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Dr Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#288 Listener Questions - On Textual Criticism, On Turning the Other Cheek, On Buford Pusser, On "Catholic", and on the Superiority of the Group Chat

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills answer a variety of listener emails on Bible translations, self-defense, and more.
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Dr Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
Pr. Willie Grills - Zion Lutheran Church
Music thanks to Verny

Brief#12 Cooperation among Christians

Dr Adam Koontz talks about what cooperation between churches of different confessions should and shouldn't look like.
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Dr Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
Music thanks to Verny