Theocast
Law & Gospel (with Bob Hiller @ 1517)
May 14, 2025
Summary
Today's episode is a special recording from the 1517 Conference in Bentonville, Arkansas. Jon and Justin are joined by Bob Hiller, senior pastor of Community Lutheran Church in Escondido, California, and a valued member of the 1517 family. In this episode, we explore the challenges of balancing grace and law, emphasizing that the Christian life is about receiving Christ's work rather than striving for perfection through self-effort. We discuss the freedom found in the gospel, encouraging each other to trust in Christ's completed work rather than relying on our own achievements for spiritual growth.
Topics
- Balancing grace and law without self-effort perfectionism
- The Christian life as receiving Christ’s work
- Freedom in the gospel with Bob Hiller at 1517
Links
- Bob Hiller — 1517
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Transcript
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Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ: Conversations about the Christian life from a pastoral and reformed perspective.
Basically, Theocast is about pulling the clutter off the gospel and showing you all of Christ for all of life.
That's what our hope is for today.
And this is a unique podcast.
If it sounds different, it is because we're actually at a conference.
We're at the 15-17 conference.
And we'll explain a little bit more about that in a moment.
Your host of Theocast is Justin Perdue, who's the pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.
And I'm John Moffat.
I'm pastor of Grace Reform Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
And as I mentioned, we're at the 15-17 conference here in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Have enjoyed the weather and all of this amazing city.
If you're listening to this podcast and you've never been to Bentonville, you don't know what you're missing.
It's not just the home of Walmart, it's a great city to come visit.
So you should definitely do so.
And they invited us to come and do a podcast.
And so we have a special guest with us, and we have an amazing topic to talk about.
So, Justin, tell us a little bit.
Well, for those of you that may not know who we are, we started this podcast.
Justin and I have been doing this almost for five years now.
