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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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00:49:52

Ambassador Academy, episode 9: The Attributes of God,...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/10/09

Part 4 of "The Attributes of God" switches from attributes of God's abilities to attributes of God's character. This episode discusses God's Love, Holiness, Righteousness, Impeccability, Veracity (or Truthfulness), & Goodness (or Omnibenevolence).

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01:00:08

Ambassador Academy, episode 8: The Attributes of God,...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/10/01

In this series, I divide God's attributes into Abilities (or *what* God is) and Character (or *who* God is). This episode sees us complete the Abilities category by examining God's Omniscience, Providence, Incomprehensibility, & Invisibility.

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00:50:15

Ambassador Academy, episode 7: The Attributes of God,...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/30

In the previous episode, we only got through 2 of God's many attributes. This episode represents a welcome increase in pace. This episode examines 5 of God's many attributes: Sovereignty, Transcendence, Eternity, Omnipresence, & Omnipotence.

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00:49:30

Ambassador Academy, episode 6: The Attributes of God,...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/28

The next five episodes (including this one) will be about the attributes (or traits) of God. But first, what is the definition of God? The definition I came up with is thus: God is the uncreated Creator and the greatest possible Being, entirely unique in being, manifesting Himself in three Persons; and He is the Source of all reality and life, perfect in love and holiness, with all possible power and knowledge. The first two attributes on the list are the subject of this episode: God's Oneness

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01:00:36

Ambassador Academy, episode 5 - The Doctrine of...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/27

In the previous episode we learned that the Bible has two attributes: Authority, and Inerrancy. In this episode we examine the other three attributes of Scripture: Clarity, Necessity, & Sufficiency. The clarity of Scripture means that, while not every single verse of the Bible is crystal clear, the Holy Bible is readily available to any reader or listener, and that the Word of God can be understood by literally anyone. To say that Scripture has necessity is to say that the Bible is necessary to know

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00:56:32

Ambassador Academy, episode 4 - The Doctrine of...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/25

Christianity is a doctrinal religion that is entirely dependent upon God's revealed Word in the Holy Bible. But what is the Bible? In this episode, we will look at 2 aspects of Scripture: Authority & Inerrancy. The Authority of Scripture means that the words of Scripture are God's Word in such a way that to disbelieve or to disobey Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God. Inerrancy, a doctrine that many Christians do not defend, is the teaching that the Bible is without error. The logic here is

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00:56:53

Ambassador Academy, episode 3: General Revelation

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/22

Epistemology - or, how we know things - is important. We humans know things through logic, reason, observation, empirical research, etc. One way to know things is through revelation. So, for instance, what number am I thinking of right now? The answer is 42. How do you know that the answer is 42? Because I *revealed* it to you. And by the nature of the knowable thing in question, you can only ever know it by such revelation. God reveals Himself in Scripture and through direct communication with

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00:59:09

Ambassador Academy, episode 2: A Jet-Propelled...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/21

This episode is a quick overview of the entire Bible, placing the major characters and the 66 books of the Bible in their appropriate place in a mostly chronological survey of the Holy Bible.

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00:50:01

Ambassador Academy, episode 1: Introduction to Theology

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/19

In the Fall of 2017 & Spring of 2018, Fellowship Baptist Church of Neosho, Missouri, and its then-pastor Buddy Funk entrusted to me the Sunday nigh worship service, an honor that I still cherish almost a decade later. What I crafted was something I called "Ambassador Academy." 2 Corinthians 5:20 in the English Standard Version reads, "Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God." So, as ambassadors, we should be

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01:31:36

MOVIE ROYAL RUMBLE!!! crossover episode with Trying...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/17

The last episode with my friend Aaron was a serious discussion of immigration policy, but this episode is silly pop culture fun! First, we discuss the things we like, the things we're trying to like, and the things we can't like no matter how hard we try. But then, the main event! From the IMDB Top 250 Movies, I took the highest ranking films that (1) we both have watched, & (2) only one film per franchise. 25 MOVIES ENTER!!! ONLY ONE MOVIE WILL PREVAIL!!! Which movie will survive?

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00:32:25

Discussing Immigration with Aaron Carmichael of...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/15

This is the third interaction between Southeast Kansas' own The Blue Collar Scholar podcast and Southwest Missouri's own Trying to Like It podcast. In episode 66 (which is episode 84 of Trying to Like It), we talked about music festivals and classic rock. In episode 102 I respond to Trying to Like It episode 109 which talked about conspiracy theories. In this episode, my friend Aaron Carmichael and I had a long discussion that we recorded. I will split the discussion in two. In this episode, we

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01:42:52

What Is Religion?

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/04

The plan was to teach a "Comparing World Religions" class this fall. Unfortunately, too few students signed up for the class. Nevertheless, the first lecture was given and recorded, and here it is. In this episode, we ask the question "What is religion?" Each religion answers ten different questions, and each religion answers those questions quite differently. This lecture analyzes how different religions might answer these questions: (1) What is the nature of reality? (2) Does God exist & what is

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01:51:34

World War I

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/29

The plan was to teach a World War II class this fall. Unfortunately, too few students signed up for the class. Nevertheless, the first lecture was given and recorded, and here it is. In this episode, we take a look at the history leading up to "The Great War," and do an ever-so-brief survey of World War I (as the Great War came to be known).

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00:54:35

Panel Discussion about the Fall of Ravi Zacharias...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/17

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 #29 Celebrity Moral Failings and Societal Retributivism." 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 views expressed in this

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01:11:34

A Pre-Overturn-of-Roe-v.-Wade Panel Discussion on...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/16

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 #26 Abortion and Personhood Debate." 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 views expressed in this episode do not necessarily

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01:08:34

Panel Discussion on Evangelicalism on the Analyzed...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/15

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 #24 Convo with Will About the Atlanta Shooter and Evangelicalism." 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 views expressed in

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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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