CCC23, S4: Bryan Wolfmueller - ”What’s the Fix?”

The Christianity & Culture Conference of Spencer, IA

The Christianity & Culture Conference of Spencer, IA

July 7-8, 2023

"Competing Stories: God's v. the World's"

Speaker: The Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller

Session 4: What's the Fix?

Different problems require different solutions. What is the Christian solution to our problem? Do we need a Savior, or are we saving ourselves? Where do justification and self-justification come into the picture?

Feedback for Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller: [e-mail]

Podcast Feedback (Broken links, suggestions, etc): [e-mail]

Summary

• LSB 708 - Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart
• Continuing with chapters 2 & 3; Tracking the question, “What do most people think is wrong in the world?”
• Solutions not for the emergency; emergencies for the desired “solution”
• The only solution: “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life” & any other solutions are the anti-Christ.
• “He shouldn’t, but Jesus really loves you.”

References

• LSB 708 - Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart, Lyrics: https://hymnary.org/text/lord_thee_i_love_with_all_my_heart
• “Disputation Concerning Man,” Martin Luther, , Translated by Lewis Spitz, In Luther’s Works, Vol. 34, edited by Lewis Spitz, (Philadelphia, PA: Muhlenberg Press, 1960), 137. LW 34 can be found here: https://www.cph.org/luthers-works-volume-34-career-of-the-reformer-iv
• Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller’s email: [e-mail]
• Rev. Dr. Gregory Schulz’s “Ten Master Metaphors of Philosophy,” on Rev. Wolfmueller’s “Table Scraps” podcast: https://wolfmueller.co/philosophy/
  • The episode on Aristotles Four Causes is the second episode, and can also be found here with notes: https://www.whatdoesthismean.org/master-metaphors-of-philosophy/aristotles-cross-examination-of-nature-aka-the-four-causes-master-metaphor-2
  • St. Augustine’s Pears is the third episode, also found here: https://www.whatdoesthismean.org/master-metaphors-of-philosophy/st-augustines-stealing-the-pears-master-metaphor-3
• “The Briefing,” podcast by Albert Mohler: https://albertmohler.com/the-briefing
• Specific epidote on underpopulation can be found here: https://albertmohler.com/2023/06/29/briefing-6-29-23
• Cicero - LC - “Emergency knows no necessity” or “Emergency knows no law” (???)
• Pictures from Whiteboard: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aA6uMAUHqrvOqcS9du4dEprvy_xzX_8W?usp=sharing
• “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution,” by Carl Truman: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Triumph-Modern-Self-Individualism/dp/B09GWD6ZGL/ref=sr_1_4?crid=39VRR80VTVLR8&keywords=Carl+Trueman&qid=1695330813&sprefix=carl+trueman%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-4
• “Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution,” by Carl Trueman: https://www.amazon.com/Strange-New-World-Activists-Revolution/dp/B09VJY7G62/ref=sr_1_3?crid=39VRR80VTVLR8&keywords=Carl+Trueman&qid=1695330813&sprefix=carl+trueman%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-3
• John 14:1-14: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+14%3A1-14&version=ESV
• World Famous Nutty Bars: https://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/2XGzww1nvdOOQbPTREz6KQ/348s.jpg
• “A Personal Battle with COVID,” a two part podcast on Issues, Etc. featuring Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller: https://wolfmueller.co/2933-a-personal-battle-with-covid-pr-bryan-wolfmueller/

Clarification

23:19: Neo-Fascism - meant that it was a problem how it is a label to win arguments

24:01: “This is my body,” but the next phrase is different

58:03(1st Question): What are your thoughts about a problem being having taken Christ out of the (public) school?

1:08:29(2nd Question):Comment on emergency and COVID:That revealed a lot of things wrong in society and media and science and also what a church was willing to allow to change based on what they perceived as a crisis requiring a repentance for the change the Church allowed listening to the culture (Rev. Wolfmueller’s story of struggle with COVID)

Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller is pastor of St. Paul and Jesus Deaf Lutheran Churches in Austin, TX. He is the author of Take They Our Life: Martin Luther’s Theology of Martyrdom (2019), A Martyr’s Faith for a Faithless World (CPH, 2019), Has American Christianity Failed? (CPH, 2016) and Final Victory: Contemplating the Death and Funeral of a Christian (CPH, 2010). He is host of What-Not The Podcast, posts videos on YouTube at wolfmueller1, and has a number of other theological projects that all end up on his blog, www.wolfmueller.co. Bryan is a member of the Doxology Collegium. He and his wife Keri live with their four children in Round Rock, TX.

https://wolfmueller.co/

Conference Partners:

Christ the King Lutheran Church, Spencer, IA - Rev. Michael McGinley - www.ctkspencer.com

Immanuel Lutheran Church, Spirit Lake, IA - Rev. Paul Dare - www.lcmslakes.org

First English Lutheran Church, Spencer, IA - Rev. Paul Kaldahl - www.spencer-church.com

Immanuel Lutheran Church, Terril, IA - Rev. Tom Marth - https://lcmsterril.weebly.com

Spencer Circuit of the Iowa District West (LCMS)