The Lutheran Podcast

I'm Rev. Eric Wolf, a pastor, writer, and musician. I've previously posted almost exclusively sermons, but I'm writing a book called Myth of a Dying Church, and am now also posting episodes about the topics in and related to the book. I believe strongly that the task of preaching is to engage Scripture as a mirror held up to our lives so that we can confront what we see with integrity. This image we engage helps us to understand what it means to be Children of God; gain perspective of what it means that our primary citizenship and allegiance belongs to God’s Kingdom; and discover how the love of God transforms what we see when we look at ourselves, the people in our lives, and the world that God so loves.

The Lutheran Podcast is a religion podcast hosted by ericthelutheran, with 203 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

ericthelutheran hosts The Lutheran Podcast, a religion show with 203 episodes published.

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  What if Hell is Empty?

  May 11, 202617 minS0

  <p>What if Hell is Empty? </p><p>For the sake of transparency, “What if Hell Is empty?” isn’t a question I actually ask during this sermon, but it’s a question I’ve long asked. One reason for this is the idea that the credal confessions that “Jesus descended to hell” occupy an interesting space in Christianity tradition in the form of the idea that Jesus died and then went to take God’s Grace and glory to the famed in what we call the Harrowing of Hell. <br/><br/></p><p>The scriptures this week invite us to wrestle with ou...

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  Thomas’ Day of Visibility

  Apr 12, 202618 minS0

  <p>Being a disciple wasn’t easy in the days but it was even harder being Thomas because the other disciples saw Jesus — and he missed it. I imagine this hurt. Jesus saw Thomas’ hurt and offered what he needed to heal. </p><p>The kingdom of God os a place where love sees our wound’s and gives us what we need to heal.</p><p>Support the show</p>

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  Transfiguring It Out

  Feb 26, 202616 minS0

  <p>A prophet, a lawgiver, and the Messiah are transfigured on a mountain. Sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it's more about the identity of the Jewish people in Jesus' construction of the faith. It's about the discples' response and not knowing how to respond.</p><p>Faith isn't about morality or being a good person, but the lifelong pursuit of seeking the eternal in order to better understand ourselves. Faith is an exercise in identity. The transfiguration is about the identity of people who follow Jesus or seek faith two thousand years later in a moment when...

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  Ashen Dreams (Ash Wednesday 2026)

  Feb 26, 202612 minS0

  <p>Ash Wednesday is a singular moment, not only in the Church year, but in our culture as well. Very seldom do we feel comfortable engaging our mortality, and there are entire industries devoted to helping us forget that all of us are mortal and time comes for us all.</p><p>As challenging as it is to confront this reality, reckoning with our own mortality also brings an air of release. We aren't meant to be eternal in this life, but what we offer is something of the eternal mystery – love. We worship God, who doesn't need us for ex...

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  God Loves the Gays, and So Should We (Lent 1 2026)

  Feb 26, 202626 minS0

  <p>Our congregation is taking some bold steps during Letn this year, we're on the path to become a Reconciling in Christ congregation, meaning that we're becoming a congregation who intentionally and actively seeks out and welcomes LGBTQIA+ folks and persons of color.</p><p>The ACT of loving folks who have been traditionally eschewed by the Church isn't something new to St. James. We've welcomed LGBTQIA+ persons for a long time now. What's new is that we haven't enshrined it in writing as a core part of our identity as a congregation.</p><p>At its heart, while this...

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