Go To Church
Thinking Fellows
1517 Podcasts
4.8 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
What is the difference between habitually missing church or removing it from your life, and simply missing a service? In this episode, the Thinking Fellows discuss the essential nature of gathering together as the Church while also considering how to admonish attendance without attacking faithful members who occasionally miss services.
Show Notes:
What's New from 1517:
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Stretched: A Study for Lent and the Entire Christian Life by Dr. Christopher Richmann
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The Essential Nestingen: Essays on Preaching, Catechism, and the Reformation
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Philip Melanchthon's Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Translated by Dr. Derek Cooper
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith and I am joined by |
| 0:24.7 | Adam Francisco, Scott Keith, and Bruce Hillman. The Thinking Fellows is part of the 1517 podcast network |
| 0:32.1 | of shows. You can go to 1517.org slash podcasts to see all the shows that we have there. You can also find all of the |
| 0:39.8 | 1517 podcasts where you listen to podcasts, whether that's Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and you can |
| 0:46.1 | find some of our shows like the Thinking Fellows in video format on YouTube. So you can go |
| 0:51.8 | subscribe now to that. And if you've been enjoying the Thinking Fellows |
| 0:56.5 | podcast, you should go subscribe to the main 1517 YouTube channel. It's free and consequence |
| 1:01.7 | free. And you will get to see some of the videos that we've been producing there. We put out |
| 1:06.8 | two to three videos a week over there. Some of them related to the topics that we do over at the |
| 1:11.8 | Thinking Fellows. Others just sort of were investing in high quality production of video over |
| 1:17.6 | there. And so we think you would enjoy that very much. |
| 1:22.2 | You should ask Adam, Caleb, how amazingly good I was this past weekend at telling people to subscribe to both the Thinking |
| 1:30.5 | Fellows podcast and the YouTube channel. |
| 1:34.3 | He was so much so that I don't think he even mentioned his book. |
| 1:39.1 | I did. |
| 1:39.7 | Somebody else did. |
| 1:41.5 | But are you going to applaud me? |
| 1:43.6 | I did it as well, which is... |
| 1:44.8 | You did do it as well, yeah. |
| 2:02.6 | Yeah, so... That's two weekends in a row for me, Minnesota and Texas, so I mean, you should be looking for that YouTube subscriber bump just because I'm back trotting it out again. Actually, now that you say that, go to the analytics here. Can I say something first? So you know how you guys always rib me for being an alleged tomist? |
| 2:03.6 | Yes. Which I'm not. |
| 2:04.2 | Oh, gosh. analytics here. Can I say something first? So you know how you guys always read me for being an alleged |
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