The Blue Collar Scholar
This podcast will cover the topics covered by the history lectures, sermons, and Bible/theology studies of Will Reitz.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 269
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Prayer Walking (Personal Spiritual Disciplines Series)
Prayer Walking is a fantastic activity to jump start your prayers while connecting your prayer life to your community, workplace, or school. One could also "prayer walk" through a news website in ord…
00:26:40 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Praying Through a Psalm (Personal Spiritual Disciplines Series)
Using the words of Scripture to guide your prayer thoughts can be valuable in two ways. (1) It amplifies prayer as a conversation, with God's words intertwined with our words to Him. (2) Having an ex…
00:39:05 |
Sun 08 Jun 2025
Prayer Lists (Personal Spiritual Disciplines Series)
I personally find prayer lists to turn my prayer life into a tedium, like a poorly run committee meeting. But it doesn't have to be that way. Prayer lists make it possible not to forget to prayer for…
00:30:52 |
Sat 07 Jun 2025
Prayer (Personal Spiritual Disciplines Series)
Prayer is half of a "great conversation." God speaks to us in many ways, but primarily through the Word. So, when you read or study Scripture, you are hearing from God. Any conversation involves comm…
00:35:01 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Bible Translations (Personal Spiritual Disciplines)
Before this series moves past Bible intake as a personal spiritual discipline, we need to address why there are so many translations of the Bible, especially in English. These translations are - for …
00:36:54 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Bible Study (Personal Spiritual Disciplines Series)
To study the Bible is a skill that cannot be completely mastered. There is always another layer, another angle, another untapped resource that can help an individual know and understand a passage of …
00:31:56 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
Scripture Memorization (Personal Spiritual Disciplines Series)
We live in a day when we don't even memorize each others' phone numbers, because we don't have to. Memorization doesn't feel like a necessary skill, and it certainly doesn't feel like a vital spiritu…
00:32:35 |
Tue 03 Jun 2025
Meditation upon Scripture (Personal Spiritual Disciplines Series)
The topic of meditation can be confusing for anyone whose conception of meditation is based on how eastern religions do it. But Scripture meditation is actually quite simple: Free your mind of distra…
00:30:45 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
Variety in Bible Reading Plans (Personal Spiritual Disciplines Series)
Holy Mole, it's episode #200! In our last Sunday School lesson, we discussed Bible reading plans, but it is important to understand that there is a wide variety of Bible reading plans, and your plan …
00:32:35 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Bible Reading Plans (Personal Spiritual Disciplines Series)
This episode is basically an argument for Bible-in-a-Year plans. However, there are other kinds of Bible reading plans. This episode ends with a bunny trail where I present a list of Bible books in w…
00:33:17 |
Sat 31 May 2025
Bible Intake (Personal Spiritual Disciplines Series)
A Christian must be investing the Word of God into their mind and their heart. Bible intake - including listening to, reading, studying, memorizing, and meditating upon Scripture - is simply not nego…
00:31:43 |
Fri 30 May 2025
What Are Spiritual Disciplines? (Personal Spiritual Disciplines Series)
This series is long enough to have two introduction lectures. So, before we dig into the individual personal spiritual disciplines, let us prepare ourselves to learn and grow. Note: This teaching was…
00:35:00 |
Thu 29 May 2025
Why Spiritual Disciplines? (Personal Spiritual Disciplines Series)
This was one of the longest Sunday School series I ever taught. From Easter to Thanksgiving, we studied the personal spiritual disciplines, with Dr. Donald Whitney's book "Spiritual Disciplines for t…
00:37:17 |
Wed 28 May 2025
Sermon: The Protoevangelium
The Protoevangelium (Latin for "First Gospel") is the first Messianic prophecy found in the Bible. It is a pronouncement made by God regarding the serpent and the woman and curses that they receive b…
00:41:10 |
Tue 27 May 2025
Sermon: The Carmen Christi
Based on what is likely one of the earliest hymns created by and sung by the First Century Church, the Apostle Paul gives us a magnificent poem in Philippians chapter 2 verses 6 through 11. Paul uses…
00:36:29 |
Mon 26 May 2025
Bite-Sized Theology: Family Reconciliation & Adoption
As part of a Bite-Sized Theology series about families, I covered the topic of Family Reconciliation and also the topic of Adoption. These two short lessons are part of a larger whole that were taugh…
00:13:50 |
Fri 23 May 2025
Sermon: "Rebuke"
King David is one of the most inspiring heroes in Scripture, and also one of the biggest screwups whose sin struggles have launched a million sermon series' worth of object lessons. In David's life, …
00:38:24 |
Thu 22 May 2025
The Prophetic Chapters of Daniel
This is the finale of a 10-part Sunday School series on the Book of Daniel. Note: This teaching was recorded on Easter Sunday, 4 April 2021.
00:33:02 |
Wed 21 May 2025
Daniel, chapter 6
This is part of a 10-part Sunday School series on the Book of Daniel. Note: This teaching was recorded on 28 March 2021.
00:30:54 |
Tue 20 May 2025
Daniel, chapter 5
This is part of a 10-part Sunday School series on the Book of Daniel. Note: This teaching was recorded on 21 March 2021.
00:25:24 |
Mon 19 May 2025
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