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Pastor Nicholas Kandoll
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Episode 18 -- The Hammer of God: Chapter 2 Part 2 -- Awakened By the Law
In this episode of God’s Peace, we continue through the first part of Bo Giertz’s The Hammer of God as Henrik Savonius travels with Pastor Linder to a house catechization.
As the people gather around the Word and begin asking questions, Giertz takes us into some important questions about the Christian life: How much sorrow over sin is enough? What does repentance look like? What about restitution for past sins? Must a Christian give away everything he owns? How often should we receive the Lord’s Supper? And how can we know that God has called us when we don’t feel anything?
We also look at Pietism and its influence on Lutheran Christianity, including some parallels with our own Laestadian heritage, the good gift of confession and absolution and the danger of making confession exacting.
Finally, we look at the growing opposition to the awakening, and the dean challenges Savonius over Christian freedom, outward rules, and the danger of binding consciences where God has not bound them.
11 Aug 2026
Episode 18 -- The Hammer of God: Chapter 2 Part 1 -- Awakened By the Law
We continue through The Hammer of God as Savonius’s preaching begins to bear fruit but also creates controversy. We look at the response of the laity, the charges brought against him, the dean’s defense, and Hedvig’s struggle over her mother’s brooch as we consider the difference between God’s commandments and the commandments of men.
24 Jun 2026
Episode 17 -- The Hammer of God: Chapter 1 Part 2
We continue our study of Bo Giertz’s The Hammer of God as young Pastor Henrik Savonius is sent from the comfort of the deanery to the bedside of Johannes, a dying man whose troubled conscience cannot believe that God’s grace is for him.
Savonius quickly discovers that he is in over his head. His learning and polished words are not enough for a terrified sinner. Help comes from the Lord through Katrina, a faithful peasant woman who opens the Scriptures and points Johannes away from himself and to Christ.
In this episode, we reflect on repentance, faith, troubled consciences, absolution, the Lord’s Supper, the pastoral office, and Savonius’s own conversion into what he calls “a real pastor.”
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