We’re told the same thing over and over. Christianity doesn’t fit with today’s culture. The thing is, it isn’t the culture saying it. It’s the church. We’ve done a great job figuring out what we’re not. Sometimes we forget what we are. We’re the saints, washed in the blood of the lamb. We’re sinners Jesus made holy. This defines us. There are places Christianity doesn’t fit with today’s culture because Christianity isn’t bound by culture. We’re free in Christ to be uncultured. Not against it. Not apart from it. Undefined by it, because we’re defined by something greater. Join Pr. Goodman and Pr. Lietzau, the uncultured saints, as we tackle today’s issues through the lens of the Lutheran Confessions and find answers to today’s questions rooted in a timeless truth in Christ.
Our Salvation Rests on Christ's Forgiveness | A Study of Galatians 4:12-31
In Episode 8 of Season 7 of the Uncultured Saints, Pastors Goodman and Lietzau are tackling Galatians 4:12-31:
Topics discussed in this episode include:
> What is Paul’s bodily ailment he talks about in this text?
> How the Galatians first received Paul and the gospel.
> Why Paul is so perplexed by the change in the Galatians.
> Why law and gospel can’t be mixed when it comes to salvation.
> Why we cannot rely on our works to secure our salvation.
> What it means to be children of the promise rather than slaves to the law.
> How the Gospel speaks to both the sinner and the sinned against.
> Why forgiveness does not mean someone must immediately stop hurting or resume a relationship as if nothing happened.
> The promise of the resurrection: Our hope for the day when the pain and shame caused by sin will be gone.
> Can we forgive ourselves?
> And more!
Contributor Rev. Harrison Goodman is the Higher Things Executive Director of Missions and Theology.
Contributor Eli Lietzau is the pastor at Wheat Ridge Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wheat Ridge, CO.
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What does the Gospel mean for both the sinner and the person who has been sinned against?
In this conversation on Galatians 4, we dig into the difference between the law and the Gospel, the freedom Christ gives us, and the difficult reality of forgiveness when sin leaves deep wounds.
22 Oct 2026
From Slavery to Adoption | A Study of Galatians 4:1-11
In Episode 7 of Season 7 of the Uncultured Saints, Pastors Goodman and Lietzau are tackling Galatians 4:1-11, where Paul explains what it means to move from slavery under the law to adoption as sons and heirs through Christ.
Topics discussed in this episode include:
> What it means that we were once enslaved to the "elementary principles of the world."
> How Christ's coming "in the fullness of time" redeems us from under the law.
> Why being adopted as sons means we are no longer slaves to the law.
> How Luther's reading of the law as a guardian is meant to point us to Christ.
> Why, once Christ has come, the law can only point back to us instead of to a Savior.
> The difference between Christ's proper work (dying for sinners) and his accidental work (miracles and teaching the law).
> How Jesus' miracles function as a "down payment," pointing to the cross.
> Why Jesus' own teaching of the law belongs to the doctrine of good works, not justification.
> The three uses of the law: curb, mirror, and guide, and how each points to how things ought to be.
> Paul's warning against turning back to slavery under the law and the things that are not of God.
> The difference between knowing God and being known by God.
> Paul's fear that his labor over the Galatians "may have been in vain."
> Luther's take on that fear as a call for pastors to keep teaching the catechism, again and again.
> And more!
Contributor Rev. Harrison Goodman is the Higher Things Executive Director of Missions and Theology.
Contributor Eli Lietzau is the pastor at Wheat Ridge Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wheat Ridge, CO.
#higherthings #lcms #lutheran #galatians
15 Oct 2026
The Role of the Law | A Study of Galatians 3:15-2
In Episode 6 of Season 7 of the Uncultured Saints, Pastors Goodman and Lietzau are tackling Galatians 3:15-29, where Paul addresses the role of the law and why it exists.
Topics discussed in this episode include:
> God’s covenant with Abraham.
> Why the Ten Commandments come 500 years after God’s covenant with Abraham.
> Why God gave us the law if it doesn’t save.
> What the law would look like if we created it.
> What God is trying to protect through the law.
> Why Paul says that the law is a “good gift.”
> What the law teaches us about God.
> What the law teaches us about ourselves.
> The three uses of the law and why they matter.
> What the law can do and what it can’t do.
> Whether or not the law stands contrary to the promises of God.
> What Paul means when he says the law was our “guardian” before Christ came.
> How the law keeps us safe from trying to save ourselves.
> Luther’s take on this passage.
> What we receive in baptism.
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