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The Blue Collar Scholar

This podcast will cover the topics covered by the history lectures, sermons, and Bible/theology studies of Will Reitz.

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01:47:15

Revelation, Episode 7: The Rapture

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2024/10/07

Well, any discussion of the End Times requires one to cover the Rapture, which is the least-agreed-upon topic in all of Christian theology. In this episode, we examine the passages of Scripture from which John Nelson Darby and Dispensationalists draw out the teaching of a Rapture event. Then, assuming the truth of the Rapture event, we examine the implications of such an event. Finally, we look at a few alternate viewpoints of the Rapture, and look at the strong criticisms of this teaching. ..

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01:53:09

Revelation, Episode 6: The Four Schools of Eschatology

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2024/09/30

In this episode, I give ample air time to the other Schools of Thought when it comes to Christian Eschatology. I, as the professor, freely admit that I am a premillennialist. Furthermore, I am a premillennial dispensationalist, though I am the least dogmatic premillennial dispensationalist that I know of. But I want to give a fair hearing to those who disagree with me wholeheartedly about the End Times. So this episode attempts to be a fair presentation and analysis of all four schools of

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01:25:13

Revelation, Episode 5: Introduction to Eschatology

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2024/09/21

This episode opens up the second section of our Revelation class, as we take a hard turn into eschatology, which is the study of the end times. In this introductory lecture, we take a look at the major themes of the End Times. The heavy emphasis of this lecture is that many end times gurus can be dangerous.

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01:25:27

Revelation, Episode 4: The Roman World of John

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2024/09/18

Well, I hope you like history podcasts, because this episode is a deep dive into the history of ancient Rome, from its legendary beginnings to the reigns of the first 11 emperors who reigned during the events of the New Testament. Because we cover over a thousand years of history, this lecture skips over much. This is only the highlights of Roman history as we try to firmly establish the setting, the culture, and the civilization of the Roman world in which John wrote the Book of Revelation.

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00:54:44

Revelation, Episode 3: Revelation as an Epistle to...

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2024/09/09

Our class collectively decided to do a half class this night, as we are 95% KC Chiefs fans and wanted to get home to watch them beat the Baltimore Ravens (which they did, 27-20, coming down to the last second of the game and a Ravens would-be-touchdown that was out-of-bounds by less than an inch. But I digress). In this episode, we make a case for John the Apostle as the author of the Book of Revelation, and explore how the book functioned as a hopeful epistle for the early church.

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00:19:06

Review of The Graduate (1967)

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2024/09/03

As part of the class I am taking ("Modern America Since 1968") for the History Master's Degree program at Pittsburg State University, I reviewed the classic American movie The Graduate. I gave the movie an A-, and recommend that all American adults see the movie at least once. It is perhaps the quintessential Sixties film without any over-the-top '60s tropes.

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01:44:52

Revelation, Episode 2: The Books of the Prophets

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2024/09/02

When John wrote the Book of Revelation, it was obvious that he was heavily influenced by large swaths of the Old Testament. There are obvious parallels between the plagues in Exodus 7-12 and the judgments in Revelation. But the parallels are even greater when comparing Revelation to the Books of the Prophets (Isaiah through Malachi). In many ways, Revelation has much more in common with these books - in terms of tone, style, voice, imagery, etc. - than with the other books of the New Testament. So

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01:53:12

Revelation, Episode 1: Introduction

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2024/08/27

Greetings! It is time for our Fall 2024 class: The Book of Revelation! We are glad to have you join us in this first lecture of the Fall, where we are introduced the the concept of "revelation" as a means by which we know things and how we know God. We take a brief journey through the Scriptures and conclude with the Bible Project videos about the Book of Revelation. Please note: the audio of these videos is shared with you for educational purposes only. This audio is not being shared with the

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00:35:23

Church-in-Quarantine, Episode 28: The Gospel

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2024/08/18

When our church went into lockdown in early March 2020, we were all expecting the Quarantine to last a few weeks. Well, in the early Fall, we finally started live worship services again, roughly 6 months after our lockdown began. A surge in COVID-19 would lead us to do a second, shorter lockdown a few months later, but our first foray into pandemic quarantine came to an end with this Facebook Live Sunday School lesson about the Gospel and the path to personal salvation.

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00:33:16

Church-in-Quarantine, Episode 27: The Ten...

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2024/08/16

The Bible makes it clear that "all have sinned & fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) The Ten Commandments are a great mirror to show the reader one's own need for salvation. Spoiler alert: In the next episode, we will see that Jesus Christ is the source of that salvation.

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00:36:11

Church-in-Quarantine, Episode 26: Jesus Christ as the...

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2024/08/14

The previous three episodes built a brief apologetic case for the existence of God. Now comes the closing argument, where we present the evidence for Jesus Christ as the Messiah of the Jewish people, prophesied frequently in the Old Testament, as powerful evidence for the existence of God. This closing argument also helps us move past apologetics arguments that argue for a generic deity, and now we are clearly talking about the Triune YHWH: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And Jesus, as God the

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00:43:46

Church-in-Quarantine, Episode 25: The Moral Argument...

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2024/08/13

This episode makes the positive case that the existence of objective moral values and duties proves that there is a God. This episode also addresses the arguments against God's existence collectively known as the Problem of Evil or the Problem of Suffering.

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00:46:24

Church-in-Quarantine, Episode 24: The Cosmological...

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2024/08/12

This episode analyzes the Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God. Or, rather, the cosmological arguments, plural. There is the Kalam, the Leibnizian, the Argument from Contingency, etc. I invite you to dive into this episode as we discuss these arguments, as we advance our mission to lead someone to Christ who does not even have a concept of God.

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00:39:37

Church-in-Quarantine, Episode 23: Apologetics

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2024/08/10

Apologetics has nothing to do with apologizing, even though "apologetics" and "apology" share similar etymology. Rather, apologetics is the intellectual defense of the faith. Over the next few episodes, we will explore both apologetics and evangelism as we engage in a thought experiment: how to talk about God and Jesus Christ to someone who is such a tabula rasa that they don't even have a basic concept of God (such a space alien, or a member of a tribe that has been completely untouched by modern

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00:31:51

Church-in-Quarantine, Episode 22: God's Righteous...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2024/08/08

Most people want to imagine God as a Mr. Rogers-type, friendly deity. And as we all learned in Vacation Bible School, Jesus is your friend. However, He is also a righteous Judge. And our understanding of God is incomplete if we don't have a rigorous theology that includes understanding God as Judge. But our great Judge is fair, mercy, thorough, and consistent as Judge. In this sermon, we explore the idea of God as Judge, and hopefully we will see that God as our righteous Judge is a good thing

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00:39:17

Church-in-Quarantine, Episode 21: The Marriage Series...

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2024/08/06

Our Sunday School series on marriage comes to an end with several topics that don't warrant their whole lesson: homosexuality, polygamy, and premarital sex. The episode closes with a brief survey of what a healthy marriage looks like, scripturally-speaking.

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00:38:36

Church-in-Quarantine, Episode 20: Unequally Yoked

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2024/08/05

Diversity is a wonderful thing. But not every incarnation of diversity is inherently good. In the last episode, we saw that interracial marriage is not only ok, but it is occasionally lauded in the Bible as wonderful. But what about interfaith marriage. Most liberals (and I am not using that as a particularly bad term) that I know would laud interfaith marriage as an excellent example of tolerance and diversity. However, Scripture does not support the idea. Those who belong to Christ have a

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00:38:05

Church-in-Quarantine, Episode 19: Interracial Marriage

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2024/08/01

My wonderful wife and I are part of an interracial marriage. I am proud of that fact. But does the Bible support the institution of interracial marriage? Many Christians have believed that the Bible prohibits these kinds of relationships. Spoiler alert: They are wrong. In this episode, we examine the Biblical texts involving interracial marriage. In short, if a man and a woman love Christ and they love each other, their racial and ethnic background does not at all prevent the relationship.

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00:43:03

Church-in-Quarantine, Episode 18: The Ethics of...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2024/07/27

This episode expands on the previous episode and explores what the Bible says about divorce and remarriage.

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00:42:57

Church-in-Quarantine, Episode 17: Divorce

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2024/07/23

Divorce is not ideal. It can even be described as an evil. That does NOT mean that those who have been touched by divorce are evil, defiled, unredeemable, yada, yada, yada. This episode begins to survey the Biblical texts on divorce, talking about what divorce is, what it is not, when it is allowable, etc.

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