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Lutheran teaching for daily formation.
RWJ Daily: Raised with Jesus is a steady stream of WELS-rooted teaching, worship preparation, sermons, and cultural commentary. Its strongest moments move from biblical text to family life, church health, grief, sin, baptism, resurrection hope, and the pressure points of modern American Christianity.
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RWJ Daily: Raised with Jesus functions less like a single-format podcast and more like a living archive of Lutheran teaching. Its center of gravity is doctrinal and pastoral. Sermons, Bible classes, preacher preparation, conference sessions, and roundtable conversations all share the same instinct: read the text closely, name the doctrine plainly, and ask what it means in ordinary life. The pacing is measured. A baptism class can move from the sequence of salvation to Philip and the Ethiopian man, then pause for a student question about Timothy without treating the detour as a distraction. Sermons often turn abstract theology into a simple frame. In one sermon, conditional logic becomes a way to speak about life in the Spirit, the danger of the sinful nature, and the promise of being children and heirs of God. The Easter material is especially direct. A sermon about Jesus being alive is tied to the speaker’s own family tragedy, including the death of a two-year-old son, which gives the language of peace and resurrection a grave, lived-in force. The roundtable episodes add a sharper edge. Men Who Understood the Times places Michael Zarling, Andy Miller, and other named participants in early-morning conversations about the churches in Revelation and their application to modern American Christianity. These discussions can be joking, plainspoken, and severe in quick succession. One moment is coffee, weather, family travel, and a Minnesota Gophers mug; the next is a critique of church cultures that look active on paper while neglecting Scripture, catechesis, and Christian life at home. The show is comfortable arguing. It addresses feminism, masculinity, Christian Zionism, sexual sin, youth formation, church decline, baptism, absolution, and resurrection confidence from a Lutheran frame. It is also comfortable repeating a point until the application lands. The result is not a neutral survey of Christian topics, but a doctrinally committed feed for listeners who want preaching, teaching, and cultural analysis to come from the same theological center. Its best use is steady formation: Scripture opened, errors named, comfort given, and the life of the church pulled back into view.
Made for: Best for listeners who want WELS-rooted Lutheran sermons, Bible classes, and doctrinal conversation with clear applications to church, home, and culture. It especially suits Christians who prefer patient exposition over inspirational generalities.
What sets it apart: The feed blends pulpit, classroom, preacher workshop, conference lecture, and blunt roundtable discussion in one place. Its distinctive strength is moving from biblical text to pastoral comfort, household practice, and contested cultural questions without changing theological gears.
The daily podcast for Resurrection (WELS) of Maumee, Ohio. Episodes include daily Bible readings, sermons, and Bible classes, as well as commentary on religious & cultural issues.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Lutheran pastors connect close biblical teaching with sermon craft, church life and contested questions of Christian practice.
RWJ Daily: Raised with Jesus (WELS) moves among pastoral roundtables, Bible classes and sermon-preparation conversations, with Michael Zarling serving as a recurring voice.
Saturday coffee talk about homeschooling sits beside baptism class; your faith questions have room to roam.
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John 20 becomes a clear-eyed conversation about doubt, proof, and the peace Christ's resurrection gives.
The second Sunday of Easter is framed as a test of resurrection faith once the feast day has passed. The conversation follows John 20 from Christ's appearances to the proof and peace those appearances give, then brings that movement into temptation, illness, death, and doubt.
A Revelation 3 warning that lands on home life, youth formation, and the small work of a church.
The episode centers on Revelation 3 and the gap between a church's public reputation and the habits that shape life at home. It moves through sign-up sheets, VBS snacks, teens on TikTok and Instagram, and the contrast between a busy congregation and a home that teaches faith…
A logic lesson becomes a clear sermon on sin, the Spirit, and the path to life.
Logic gives the sermon its clean central frame. It begins with conditional reasoning, from rain to test scores, then lets that pattern carry moral weight through Paul's warning that life ordered by the sinful nature ends in death.
A Scripture-centered lesson on holy baptism that stays closely tied to the cross.
This lesson moves steadily from God's word into holy baptism, keeping the class centered on the path that leads to saving faith. The tone stays plain and classroom-like, with the speaker pausing for questions, circling back to page 42, and laying out each step without fuss.
A direct Thyatira discussion linking Jezebel, feminism, God's protection, and the morning star.
Revelation's message to Thyatira becomes a pointed discussion of Jezebel and what the speakers identify as feminism in the modern American Christian church.
A pastoral reflection on Jesus' blessing and the kingdom that overturns worldly measures of success.
The episode brings the Epiphany theme of "Identity Revealed" close to the Christian listener, asking what it means to receive the blessing Jesus names.
A confessional discussion of homeschooling, Christian formation, and parental responsibility.
Homeschooling is treated here less as a preference about where children learn and more as a question of Christian formation. Michael, Andy, and Josh move from curriculum and socialization into the deeper assumptions they see behind public education, pressing the point that no…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Catholic arguments with pint-table warmth.
Daily headlines under Christian judgment.
Serious Bible questions, patiently reasoned.
Catholic homilies for the next faithful step.
Catholic teaching for ordinary discipleship.
Michael, Andy, and Josh open with homeschooling.
Reverend Jeffrey Hemmer presents on the necessity of biblical masculinity in a post-Christian America at a Lutheran conference.
Pastor Michael Zarling and Pastor Nathan Klusmeier examine the theme "Identity Revealed: Jesus Calls You Blessed." They begin with the service's hymns and Psalm 1.
A preview of a Lenten sermon series focusing on the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, emphasizing that only Jesus can quench spiritual thirst.
This RWJ Daily adult-catechesis lesson explains how the Holy Spirit brings people to faith in Jesus and sustains that faith.
Michael Zarling opens with Andy Miller and Zach Von Dalen.
The Preacher Podcast frames John 20:19-31 as a question about how Jesus' resurrection gives proof and peace a week after Easter.
Lesson seven turns to God's grace and holy baptism.
RWJ Daily: Raised with Jesus (WELS) presents a sermon on Romans 8 that uses five 'if A, then B' statements to explain Christian identity, sin, resurrection, and hope.
A priest shares his personal story of losing his son to cancer and connects it to the hope of Easter, affirming that Jesus' resurrection makes everything okay.
"Hold fast to what you have until I come" becomes the episode's central command.
Reverend Jeffrey Hemmer presents on the necessity of biblical masculinity in a post-Christian America at a Lutheran conference.
Three pastors discuss the theological and practical implications of Christian Zionism.
A discussion among pastors about the third Sunday in Lent, focusing on the Samaritan woman at the well and the theme of spiritual thirst quenched by Jesus.