Bible Studies Audio and Presentations

Faithful Responses to Common Christian Cliches
This monthly series addresses things heard in the culture and in the church that have a ring of truth but often are misleading. The recordings are a representation of the in-person study. The handout is for the current session only. If you would like a handout for a past session, ask the pastor.

“You don’t have to go to church to be a Christian.”

You Don’t Have to Go to Church to Be a Christian Download

“Sin Is sin.”

“Christians aren’t supposed to judge.”

Tough Topics

This monthly series focuses on issues and topics that are often not fully covered in sermons. This study considers what God’s Word says about a topic and what our response is to be as faithful Christians. The recordings below are a distillation of what was shared in the in-person class on Sunday. There is a handout to download as well (current offering only).
The list below runs newest to oldest.

Tough Topics A Biblical Theology of Fasting Download

Tough Topics: A Biblical Theology on Fasting

Tough Topics: Concerning Angels (and Demons)

Tough Topics: The Timeline of Jesus’ Passion in St. John

Tough Topics: The Lutheran (Scriptural) View of Mary, Part Four

Tough Topics: The Lutheran (Scriptural) View of Mary, Part Three

Tough Topics: The Lutheran (Scriptural) View of Mary, Part Two

Tough Topics: The Lutheran (Scriptural) View of Mary, Part One

Tough Topics: Hey Jude! A Quick Study on a Forgotten Book (Part Two–The Text)

Tough Topics: Hey Jude! A Quick Study on a Forgotten Book (Part One–The Background)

Tough Topics: What Is the Church’s Role in Politics?

Tough Topics: The Lutheran Liturgy: A View from Far and Near

Tough Topics: A Biblical Theology of the Temple

Tough Topics: What Is Speaking in Tongues? A Look at 1 Corinthians 14

Tough Topics: On Christian Modesty

Tough Topics: The Theology of Work, Part Two

Tough Topics: The Theology of Work, Part One

Tough Topics: Spiritual Warfare in the Modern (and Post-Modern) Age

Tough Topics: What Is Hate in the Bible? How Are the Meanings of Words Derived?

Tough Topics: What Is a Pastor and How Is He Trained?

Tough Topics: A Further Discussion on Who Is the Israel of God

Tough Topics: Ages and Origins (Part Two)

Tough Topics: Ages and Origins (Part One)

Tough Topics: Hats, Hairstyles and the Created Order in 1 Corinthians 11

Tough Topics: The Holy Spirit in the Life of the Believer

Tough Topics: The Three Models of the End Times in the Christ Event

Tough Topics: The Mark of the Lamb and the Mark of the Beast in Revelation

Tough Topics: What Is the Law of God?

Tough Topics: Anatomy of a Tough Passage: John 7:53-8:11

Tough Topics: Forgiveness, The Office of the Keys, and John 20:23

Tough Topics: Establishing the Text of the Bible

Tough Topics: Who is True Israel? The Jewish Question Considered

Tough Topics: Does God Condone Slavery? What Does the Bible Say?

Tough Topics: A Faithful Consideration and Response to Suicide

Tough Topics: The Anatomy of a Tough Passage–1 Timothy 2:8-3:1

Tough Topics: Why Do We Practice Closed Communion?

Tough Topics: What Does God Say About Cohabitation?

Tough Topics: What Does the Bible Say About the Rapture?

Tough Topics: Can Infants Have Faith? What Do the Scriptures Say?

Tough Topics: Christ’s Descent into Hell–What Does This Mean?

Tough Topics: What Does the Bible Say About Heaven and the Resurrection of the Dead? (Part Two)

Tough Topics: What Does the Bible Say About Heaven and the Resurrection of the Dead? (Part One)

Tough Topics: Does a Christian Have to Go to Church?

Tough Topics: Predestination and Election

Tough Topics: A Rethinking of Dating for the Christian in the 21st Century

Tough Topics: Ghosts, Demons, and Evil Spirits

Tough Topics: Marriage and Divorce

Tough Topics: Homosexuality and Same-Sex Attraction

Tough Topics: Unequally Yoked to an Unbeliever

Other Studies

Five Studies from the Five Books of Moses

Session Five: Deuteronomy 6

Session Four: Numbers 11

Session Three: Leviticus 19

Session Two: Exodus 3

Session One: Genesis 15

The First Epistle of St. John

A verse-by-verse walk through an incredible letter!

Session Four: 1 John 4:1-5:21

Session Three: 1 John 2:28-3:24

Session Two: 1 John 2:3-2:27

Session One: 1 John 1:1-2:2

The Christmas Story According to…

A three-part audio bible study on the story of the birth of Christ according to Matthew, Luke, and John.

Matthew 1:18-25

Luke 2:1-14

John 1:1-18

Three Days in the Tomb?

A short conversation of how we reckon the three days using Scripture and the common, Jewish way of reckoning time, days, and their practices. Enjoy!

A Short Teaching on the Three Days in the Tomb

St. Paul’s Epistle to Titus

A four-week study on a dynamite pastoral. Titus has much to say to us about the ministry, the Church and of course, our Savior Jesus.

Session Four: The Hymn of Baptismal Regeneration and TKR

Session Three: The Auxiliary Offices in the Body of Christ

Session Two: The Ministry in an Age of Debauchery and Lies

Session One: Who Is Titus?

The Letter of St. Paul to Titus

Bible Study: How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth
An in-depth study on the Bible, how it came to be and how we might read it faithfully, applying it to our lives. Questions of the canon, the history of its composition, and responding to issues of criticism are discussed. As well, a program for reading the Scriptures is modeled and suggested, that God’s people would learn to read, mark and inwardly digest all that God has to say.

The Gospel According to Mark Session Ninety Four The Three Texts of Anointing Class Handout Download

Session Sixteen (Bonus!): The Three Texts of the Anointing of Jesus

Session Fifteen: Reading the Psalms as Journey

Bonus Session! Putting It into Practice: Genesis 3:20-4:16

Session Fourteen: Scripture Interprets Scripture

Session Thirteen: Bible Translations

Session Twelve: Modelling an Approach for Family/at Home Devotion

Session Eleven: Reading Devotionally at Home

Sessions Nine and Ten: Issues of the Canon, Part Three

Session Eight: Issues of the Canon, Part Two

Session Seven: Issues of the Canon, Part One

Session Six: The Role of Creeds in Reading the Scriptures

Session Five: The Oral and Aural Quality of Reading

Session Four: The Human Character of the Bible, Part Two

Session Three: The Human Character of the Bible, Part One

Session Two: The Divine Nature of the Bible

Session One: What is the Bible?

Bible Class: the Resurrection Accounts in the Bible
This is a five part look at the four Gospel accounts and a final look at the chronology and possible sequence in how they all fit together. Pastor Heaton will discuss the significance of the text, and how God uses a four-fold narrative to give the full picture of the resurrection.