<![CDATA[Cross+Sentinel: A Brief History of Power]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/s/a-brief-history-of-powerhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DLUf!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd9f427fd-dbaf-4b79-b669-4b4cb3a639c4_703x703.pngCross+Sentinel: A Brief History of Powerhttps://www.crosssentinel.com/s/a-brief-history-of-powerSubstackTue, 07 Apr 2026 12:53:25 GMT<![CDATA[Brief#29 The Shape of Things to Come]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief29-the-shape-of-things-to-comehttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief29-the-shape-of-things-to-comeThu, 30 Oct 2025 08:15:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz talks about living in days with challenges that are strange to previous generations, and how to talk to the people going through those challenges.

Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[Talking Family and Family Size with Josh Wilson of Free Indeed]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/talking-family-and-family-size-withhttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/talking-family-and-family-size-withThu, 08 May 2025 03:19:00 GMTJosh Wilson of the channel Free Indeed interviews Dr Adam Koontz regarding his lecture on A Biblical Theology of Human Fertility.

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Watch Koontz’s Lecture Discussed in this Episode

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

Rev Fisk – St Paul Rockford and Hebron Collegium

]]><![CDATA[Jaws, Malls, and the Church Growth Movement]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/jaws-malls-and-the-church-growthhttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/jaws-malls-and-the-church-growthMon, 05 May 2025 03:16:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about the movie Jaws and how it began the monoculture era, shopping malls and consumerism, and how it relates to evangelism.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

Pr. Willie Grills – Zion Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[Brief#16 How Do We Get More Pastors in the Lutheran Church?]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief16-how-do-we-get-more-pastorshttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief16-how-do-we-get-more-pastorsThu, 01 May 2025 09:09:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz talks about training pastors, pastoral shortages, and alternative routes to pastoral training.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[Forgiveness and the Gospel]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/forgiveness-and-the-gospelhttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/forgiveness-and-the-gospelMon, 28 Apr 2025 11:18:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about justice and forgiveness, church demographics, and delivering the gospel.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

Pr. Willie Grills – Zion Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[Brief#15 Will the LCMS Ordain Women Now? or Soon Anyway?]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief15-will-the-lcms-ordain-womenhttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief15-will-the-lcms-ordain-womenThu, 24 Apr 2025 01:45:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz talks about the history of women’s suffrage in the LCMS, obstacles to fellowship with WELS, and whether the LCMS will ever ordain women.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[The New King James Bible and the Open Bible with Philip Nation]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/the-new-king-james-bible-and-thehttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/the-new-king-james-bible-and-theTue, 22 Apr 2025 00:59:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk with guest Philip Nation of Thomas Nelson Bibles about the New King James Bible and the Open Bible.

Dr. Philip Nation, VP, Thomas Nelson Bibles

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

Pr. Willie Grills – Zion Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[What’s Going On in Canada? State, Church, and the Church’s State of Silence]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/whats-going-on-in-canada-state-churchhttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/whats-going-on-in-canada-state-churchThu, 17 Apr 2025 06:38:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz talks with guest Pastor David Smilek about the politics and churches in Canada.

Related Links – Angus Reid Institute survey on Canadian religious life

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Smilek – Redeemer, Sudbury, ON

Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians: The Meiji Restoration]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/revere-the-emperor-expel-the-barbarianshttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/revere-the-emperor-expel-the-barbariansMon, 14 Apr 2025 06:31:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about the modernization of Japan and the rise of Imperial power.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

Pr. Willie Grills – Zion Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[The End(s) of the LCMS with Pastor Joseph Beran]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/the-ends-of-the-lcms-with-pastorhttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/the-ends-of-the-lcms-with-pastorThu, 10 Apr 2025 08:31:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz talks with guest Pr Joseph Beran about educating pastors, church planting, demographic decline, and more.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[The Christian Century in Japan: Jesuits, Fumi-e 踏み絵, Lessons for Today]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/the-christian-century-in-japan-jesuitshttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/the-christian-century-in-japan-jesuitsMon, 07 Apr 2025 08:20:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about how Christianity came to Japan, why it didn’t last there, and applications to evangelism to draw from it.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

Pr. Willie Grills – Zion Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[Brief#14 What Decimated the Lutheran Churches in America?]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief14-what-decimated-the-lutheranhttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief14-what-decimated-the-lutheranWed, 02 Apr 2025 23:00:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz talks about what caused the decline in the American Lutheran churches.

Check out the 2025 Men’s Gathering, the Maier Conference, and What God Has Joined Together

Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[On How Things Started – The Sacraments and the American Republic]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/on-how-things-started-the-sacramentshttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/on-how-things-started-the-sacramentsMon, 31 Mar 2025 22:57:00 GMThanks to our sponsor, Gnesio Health

Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

Pr. Willie Grills – Zion Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[Brief#13 A Letter from the Department of Eucharistic Significance (DOES)]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief13-a-letter-from-the-departmenthttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief13-a-letter-from-the-departmentWed, 26 Mar 2025 22:33:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz talks about closed communion and the benefits that the Lord’s Supper imparts.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[Listener Questions – On Textual Criticism, On Turning the Other Cheek, On Buford Pusser, On “Catholic”, and on the Superiority of the Group Chat]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/listener-questions-on-textual-criticismhttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/listener-questions-on-textual-criticismSun, 23 Mar 2025 22:29:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills answer a variety of listener emails on Bible translations, self-defense, and more.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

Pr. Willie Grills – Zion Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[Brief#12 Cooperation among Christians]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief12-cooperation-among-christianshttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief12-cooperation-among-christiansWed, 19 Mar 2025 21:59:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz talks about what cooperation between churches of different confessions should and shouldn’t look like.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

Visit A Brief History’s own website for more

Music thanks to Verny

]]><![CDATA[The World that Made the Boomers #5 The Growth of the Syndicate and the JFK Assassination]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/the-world-that-made-the-boomers-5https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/the-world-that-made-the-boomers-5Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:55:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about the formation of the Mob in America and its activities during the Cold War and continue discussing the motivations around the Kennedy Assassination.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

Pr. Willie Grills – Zion Lutheran Church

Visit A Brief History’s own website for more

Music thanks to Verny

]]><![CDATA[Brief#11 What Do LCMS Lutherans Really Believe?]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief11-what-do-lcms-lutherans-reallyhttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/brief11-what-do-lcms-lutherans-reallyWed, 12 Mar 2025 23:53:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz talks about the Pew Religious Landscape Survey and what it says about our demographics and beliefs.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[The World that Made the Boomers #4 The Kennedy Assassination]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/the-world-that-made-the-boomers-4https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/the-world-that-made-the-boomers-4Sun, 09 Mar 2025 23:44:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about the political situation surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the people that benefitted from it.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

]]><![CDATA[Turning the Hearts and Freedom of Speech]]>https://www.crosssentinel.com/p/turning-the-hearts-and-freedom-ofhttps://www.crosssentinel.com/p/turning-the-hearts-and-freedom-ofWed, 05 Mar 2025 22:23:00 GMTDr Adam Koontz and Rev Jonathan Fisk talk about the activities of the US government coming to light, the benefits of freedom of speech, communism and national socialism in Germany, and convincing people of the truth.

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Dr Koontz – Redeemer Lutheran Church

Rev Fisk – St Paul Rockford and Hebron Collegium

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