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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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01:10:29

Panel Discussion on Deconversion from Christianity on...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/14

*** NOTE: This episode features a panelist talking frankly about his history of drug use. This episode may not be suitable for younger viewers. *** In 2021, I was invited onto an atheist podcast five times to represent an evangelical perspective. The podcast is known as "Analyzed" and can be found in your podcast distributor. This episode was originally called "Episode #21 Our Deconversion Stories." This episode has been edited by the Blue Collar Scholar podcast in order to ensure that we would

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02:10:58

Panel Discussion on Sex and Relationships on the...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/13

This is my very first podcast of all time, back in 2021 when I was invited onto an atheist podcast to discuss sex and relationships. The podcast is known as "Analyzed" and can be found in your podcast distributor. This episode was originally called "Episode #19 Challenging a Pastor on Monogamy and Sexuality." This episode has been edited by the Blue Collar Scholar podcast in order to ensure that we would not need an "E" rating, but the views of all panelists have been left unchanged. Therefore, the

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00:36:02

Sermon: The Life of Christ - Resurrection (11-10-2013)

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/10

The final episode in the Life of Christ series is also the last extant recording of any of the sermons I gave at First Baptist Church of Goodman, at least any recordings I am aware of. In this sermon, I explore the resurrection of Christ and why it is such an important event.

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00:35:31

Sermon: The Life of Christ - Death (11-3-2013)

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/09

The death of Jesus Christ is perhaps the most important moment in all history, according to a Christian theological interpretation of history. The death gives the resurrection obvious meaning, it represented (once again) prophecy fulfilled by Jesus, and mostly it was the moment of atonement, went Christ's blood served as the penal substitutionary atonement that makes salvation possible.

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00:31:32

Sermon: The Life of Christ - The Triumphal Entry...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/08

One week before Easter each year, most churches celebrate what is called "Palm Sunday." This commemorates the moment when Jesus enters into Jerusalem to begin his final week of ministry before His death, burial, and Resurrection. As Jesus is entering the city, his followers wave palm branches and lay down their cloaks on the ground to hail His arrival. That is why we call it Palm Sunday; but that is not a term that the Bible uses. Scripture refers to it as a triumphal entry. This event teaches us a

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00:32:25

Sermon: The Life of Christ - Jesus Calls His...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/07

Jesus chose His closest disciples from amongst the working class, the poor, the outcasts, & the unwanted. And Jesus took those men - men that society saw as losers - and the Lord changed the world with these men. Each person who belongs to the family of God with the name Christian applied to our name is a disciple, and it is our duty to worship the Lord and to love the least of these, a.k.a. those that society discards.

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00:39:47

Sermon: The Life of Christ - Birth to Baptism...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/06

At the risk of stating the obvious, Jesus Christ is the most important person in Christian teaching and theology. The Old Testament points to Him, the New Testament documents His ministry and the birth of the Church that exists to worship Him, and of all human history since the First Century has been affected by His life. This sermon is the first in an 8 part series on the Life of Christ. Unfortunately, only 5 of those messages were recorded. This sermon is based off of Matthew chapters 1-4.

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00:39:37

Sermon: The End Times Series: The Tribulation...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/05

This was not the conclusion to the End Times Series, but the last couple of messages were not recorded. So this sermon about the Tribulation is the last teaching about the End Times that we will have on this podcast for a very long time, since I have already covered this topic thoroughly in Sunday School format and in lectures from a Revelation class for senior citizen learners. In this message, I do not attempt to go into every detail about the Tribulation, but rather to hit a few highlights and

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00:37:18

Sermon: End Times Series, part 3: Rapture! (10-14-2012)

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/04

I am always careful when dealing with the topic of the rapture, acknowledging that many (perhaps most) Biblical scholars scoff at this piece of dispensational theology, and I remain extremely non-dogmatic about it. Nevertheless, this episode of the pod makes a Scriptural case for the rapture, but also gives a more expansive set of lessons that we can learn from this bit of doctrine.

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00:44:35

Sermon: End Times Series: Future History 102 - Other...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/03

This episode explores the differences between premillennial dispensationalism, historic premillennialism, and amillennialism. (Unfortunately, the recording got cut off before discussing postmillennialism or preterism.) In short, there are many different interpretations of eschatology. Scripture is not as crystal clear about eschatology as we would like, and therefore, Christians should be very tolerant of other Christians with different interpretations about End Times verses.

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00:38:43

Sermon: End Times Series: Future History 101 - A...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/02

If your exposure to my teaching is mostly limited to the content of this podcast feed, then you might have concluded by now that I am one of the those End Times preachers. After all, I have already done a Bite-Sized Theology series on the End Times, a pandemic-era Sunday School series on the End Times, and a Lifetime Learning college class on eschatology. I ask you to believe that I actually do not fixate on these teachings; I just happen to have recordings of most of my End Times teaching

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00:35:57

Sermon: The Hurt & the Healer, part 4: Healing … &...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/01

In this conclusion to The Hurt & the Healer series, we talk about what it looks like to heal, and how God can use the tragedies in your life to bring glory to Him, to enrich your life, and to love and serve others in their times of trouble.

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00:33:04

Sermon: The Hurt & the Healer, part 3: VICTORY!!!...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/07/31

The Hurt & the Healer series continues by showing that the ultimate struggle between God and Satan is already a foregone conclusion. Satan and evil and death and pain are marked for defeat. Ultimate victory and healing belong to God, and Christ's victory is our victory. For in New Heavens & New Earth, He will wipe every tear and there will be no more pain or death, and God will make His dwelling with humans, and we will be His people and He will be our God. Hallelujah!

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00:34:56

Sermon: The Hurt & the Healer, part 2: Why Do Bad...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/07/30

This episode digs into the age-old Problem of Evil, or as it is usually expressed: "Why do bad things happen to good people?" The question can be answered, but we need to be careful. Telling a hurting person that God may have sufficient reasons to allow a certain instance of suffering, or that there are not really any purely good people, is probably not helpful. Such explanations are not going to provide any healing for a hurting person. But having a proper theological understanding of suffering is

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00:32:46

Sermon: The Hurt & the Healer, part 1: At Your...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/07/29

This is the first sermon in a series called "The Hurt & the Healer." This series was inspired by the Mercy Me song of the same title. This series seeks to provide hope to those who are hurting. The theme of this message is "strong tower," as in: "The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe." (Proverbs 18:10) Each of us has a crossroads moment when hard times and suffering happen. (1) We can run to Him. (2) We can abandon God. Which shall you choose?

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00:36:44

Sermon: How to Love God (6-26-2011)

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/07/28

This is one of my favorite sermons from the archives. By mining the rich mines of Jesus' parables and teachings, this sermon seeks to show that loving people is how you love God. Now, of course, love for God is more complex, as it involves worship, something that you should never offer to any person short of Jesus Christ. But Christ makes it clear. Whatever you do for the least of these ... you do for Him!

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00:44:47

Sermon: An Introduction to the Occult, part 2 of 2...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/07/27

This episode clears up some confusion I had in my lecture notes for the previous episode regarding the Church of Satan, and I go into much greater detail on the New Age Movement(s).

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01:08:37

Sermon: An Introduction to the Occult, part 1 of 2...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/07/26

This episode is less of a sermon and more like a lecture. At First Baptist Church of Cherokee (KS) we called it the Winter Workshop 2010. I had taken a class at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary about the dangers of the occult. Part of the class was to prepare a lecture or sermon to be delivered at a church or other community organization. This was my presentation. I talk about the origins of wicca, Mormonism, Islam, Scientology, and the New Age. This ends with a series of recommendations for

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00:58:42

Sermon: The Price Is Right (11-13-2010)

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/07/25

This is an evangelistic Gospel message presented at a youth conference in November 2010. The theme of the conference and of the message is "The Price Is Right."

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00:39:38

Sermon: Your Day in Court (8-8-2010)

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/07/24

This is a presentation of the Gospel in the form of a short story. Note: I shared the same story on Facebook Live during the pandemic, and the audio of that recording in available on this podcast feed, Episode #166.

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