A Brief History of Power

BHoP#341 Pastoral Formation - Part 2

Brian Yamabe talks with Dr Adam Koontz about the benefits and drawbacks of different approaches to pastoral formation and what that education needs to achieve.
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Dr Adam Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#340 Evil Underneath - The Horror of "Lost Highway"

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about David Lynch's film Lost Highway, confronting your own sin, and why the film portrays the horror of evil so well.
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Dr Adam Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#339 Pastoral Formation - Part 1

Brian Yamabe talks with Dr Adam Koontz about the Koinonia gathering which discussed pastoral formation issues, and the positions on either side of the debate.
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BHoP#338 Minnesota Church Invasion, Holy Places, and Immigration

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about the invasion of Cities Church in St Paul, MN, practices to safeguard churchgoers and attitudes towards them, and how people see the doctrine of two kingdoms applied to immigration.
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BHoP#337 Can We Have an Elite?

Dr Adam Koontz talks about why Lutherans have no cultural elites, the societal mechanisms that create an elite, and what elites are supposed to do.
Links:https://firstthings.com/the-problem-with-the-evangelical-elite/https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/the-problem-with-the-evangelical-elitehttps://www.aaronrenn.com/p/comments-on-the-evangelical-elitehttps://americanreformer.org/2025/12/why-are-there-no-evangelical-elites/https://americanreformer.org/2025/12/toward-an-elite-doctrine-of-vocation/
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Dr Adam Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#336 The Transformation from Republic to Principate and Why It Matters

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about Rome's transition from republic to empire, how the church behaves in relation to government and often mirrors its structure, and why agreeableness is important in a heterogeneous society.
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Dr Adam Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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Brief#34 The Invasion of Panama

Col Willie Grills talk about the US invasion of Panama and compares it to current military actions in Venezuela. 
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Brief#33 Overcoming Christian Nihilism

Dr Adam Koontz follows up the brief on preferred pronouns and answers the question, "Why does what we say matter when God will save all his elect?"
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BHoP#335 A Brief Christmas Part 2 - The Heavenly Christmas Tree

Col Willie Grills reads two short Christmas stories.
The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
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Pr. Willie Grills - Zion Lutheran Church
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BHoP#334 A Brief Christmas Part 1 - Thy Lowly Shrine

Dr Adam Koontz reads various Christmas poems.
 
Christmas Day by John Keble
A New Christmas Carol by Arthur Machen
A Letter from Santa Claus by Mark Twain
The Christmas Tree by Robert William Service
Journey of the Magi by T. S. Eliot
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
 
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