Cross Defense

Challenge your theological synapses with Rev. Tyrel Bramwell, Pastor of St. Mark Lutheran Church in Ferndale, CA, as he examines curious topics to excite the imagination, equip the mind, and comfort the soul with God’s ordering of the world in the Law and Gospel.

Show Time: Saturdays at 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. Central Time
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Cross Defense — Bringing Your Kids to Church (Rebroadcast)

Pastor Bramwell gives practical instruction from Scripture on how to ease the struggle of bringing children to church.

Cross Defense — 1 Clement on Division, Pt 2: Combat, Love, and Repentance (Rebroadcast)

The Church is militant. Her warfare is not against people but for people—so that all would reach repentance.

Cross Defense — 1 Clement on Division, Pt. 1: Combat and Love (Rebroadcast)

1 Clement draws from Scripture to address division and instruct the faithful in matters of Christian combat.

Cross Defense — Adoptionism: Then and Now (Rebroadcast)

Pastor Bramwell discusses the 2nd-century heresy of adoptionism and how it is still alive and actively held by Unitarians today.

Cross Defense — Woman and the Divine Image (Rebroadcast)

Cross Defense returns with a look at Scripture’s answer to the controversial question, what is a woman?

Cross Defense — Unionism is Not Unity (Rebroadcast)

Orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and unionism. God prohibits church fellowship with heterodox churches.

Cross Defense — Women in Bible Study, and the Lord’s Prayer in the Face of Lawlessness and Bad Government (Rebroadcast)

Study relationships between the saints and how they are lived out in love and service to all. Then it’s on to lawlessness, bad government, and praying the Lord’s Prayer.

Cross Defense — Equality: Satan’s Lie (Rebroadcast)

Pastor Bramwell turns us to Rev. C.F.W. Walther’s lectures on Communism and Socialism as a springboard into God’s Word on the question.

Cross Defense — Wokeness is the Antithesis to Christianity (Rebroadcast)

Pastor Bramwell addresses nine wicked spiritual effects that wokeness has on Christianity

Cross Defense — Constellations and the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Rebroadcast)

What do the Scriptures say about the sun, moon, and stars? What does the fourth day of creation tell us about them?