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In this Episode, Terry Jones burns a Koran, people die, and he's surprised?  Really?  He says he "regrets what happened", but also says "we have no regrets", and when asked if burning a Koran is a Godly or not he says, "It's certainly not normal".  Also, an Email from a listener: My question concerns the Lutheran doctrine of salvation with regard to whether or not one can be damned after having be...

Ever wonder what Paul Meant by "the thorn in my side"?  Many people interpret that to be any thing that besets you, and sometimes they go far as assuming that it's your cross from the famous statement of Jesus, "Pick up your cross and follow me".  Pastor Greg Lesieur Joins us to talk about what the text actually says about this "thorny" topic. Also...  "comfort, comfort ye my people" is not a libe...

Yeah, since Pat Robertson's Magical Mystery Tour of craziness has been silent on the whole subject of Japan and the Earthquakes and Tsunami, Glenn Beck decided to chime in.  He thinks God did this to send us a message that we need to keep the 10 commandments.  Really Glenny?  Really? Also, what are you going to do when the time comes for catastrophy to strike your life, and all you've got in your...

You'll never guess who get's kudos for getting Grace and Faith right...  Andrew Wommack.  I kid you know, he made a serious turn in an effort to rightly describe the relationship between Grace and Faith to the people at a conference in Boston, and it played on the radio this past week.  Also, we get to think with the Mind of Christ on the great passage from Daniel, featuring an experience he had w...

Ok, you've heard it before.  "In our church, we're going to be about being missional, and compassionate, and spread the testimony, and be all loving to all the people"...  So, that's nice, but...  Exactly HOW are you going to do all of that?  Pastor Gary said it best.  If you can't imagine what your life or the life of the your church would look like in the next year as you get things rolling, the...

Oh to be able to simply talk about important things...  without people getting into a lather about them!  While thinking with the mind of Christ we begin to realize that the Church cannot simply look at it's past and pine for the good ole' days.  We have a committment to truth and that truth cannot be ignored.  So again, we talk about what it would mean should the mind of Christ be adhered to and...

We have a question:  If we're all so gung ho about getting people to shape up, why don't we just do it the way the early Puritans used to do it?  Make obedience to God's Law mandatory through civil law?  In fact, what we could do is make up a law like Muslims have (Sharia Law) and attach Penalties (extra tything, and what have you) for disobedience? So we on Radical Grace Radio did exactly that......

Another show, another time when people are confused about the acts of the Holy Spirit.  When a filling of the Holy Spirit comes, it would seem that the Bible testifies that the first thing that happens is, someone speaks.  Someone says something so incredibly important that someone has to remember it and write it down at some point.  So where people are looking for evidence of the filling of the H...

Is "having the mind of Christ" and "Being filled with the Holy Spirit" one and the same thing? In this edition of Radical Grace Radio we reveal a couple of interesting things.  One is that references to being "filled with the Spirit" are found primarily in Luke's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles.  The other is what the Biblical Evidence shows is the immediate effect of being "filled with the Sp...

Our opinions...  As much as we like 'em, sometimes they gotta go.  Still Ramping up on the topic "thinking with the Mind of Christ", we learn how devastating it is to our understanding when we can't admit that we are interpretting the scriptures by our "learned" responses and natural ways of thinking.

In this edition of Radical Grace Radio, we talk about how we as believers have a bunch of old habits that need to be broken when it comes to approaching the topic of "the Mind of Christ".  The number one habit is this:  not knowing we have bad habits of thinking in the first place.  Habits like believing we have to contribute something to the finished work of Christ in order to recieve every bless...

In this edition of Radical Grace Radio, we begin the topic of the year, thinking with the mind of Christ, by first setting up some ground rules.  Number 1:  Remember you're law and gospel distinction.  Number 2:  Remember that Jesus isn't just a cardboard cutout that people bend and mangle to make him fit their image of him.  He's a real person, both man and God.  He has a mind, just like you do,...

Being Angry at God.  We've all had that experience, but so few Christians are willing to admit it.  The reason they don't want to admit something so basic to the Christian experience is simple.  They likely will be vilified by other Christians for even saying or thinking such a thing.  But in an article on CNN's Blog "The Chart", Christians responding to a survey conducted by secular researchers a...

It's a new year at Radical Grace Radio.  A lot of things have happened over the last few years, not the least of which is discovering what the Christian Landscape looks like.  But perhaps more important is what we discovered about ourselves.  What we discovered was a couple of things in particular.  One is that doing Radio and Podcasting is not as easy as it sounds.  The other is that we discovere...

In this Boxing Day edition of Radical Grace Radio, we talk about the ongoing battles between Christians and the secular world regarding the terms "happy holiday", and whether there should be a better attempt by Christians abroad to show the world what a real Christmas celabration would like.  This edition's bumps:  Blackmore's Night - Good King Wenceslas, Jose Feciliano - Feliz Navidad http://www....

On This edition of Radical Grace Radio, we Talk to Tyrel Bramwell about his new Book, the Gift and the Defender.  As a gift to our Listeners, Tyrel has set up a coupon for 50 percent off of any eBook version of the book, which would include text versions, the Kindel version, the Nook version...  pretty much any version you could imagine.  We also read some of the responses we're getting about a qu...

Ok, you know me by now.  I often listen to the radio Sunday Mornings, and this time I was listening to Dr. (sic) David Jeremiah...  Who sent out advice about what to say to God at Judgement seat...  And the advice was so bad that I totally retasked the show to address this.  See, it's one thing to get the Gospel wrong and leave your congregation to wonder to themselves about what to do, but it's a...

Could it be that, along with Law and Gospel, a plain sense reading of the text is absolutely crucial? Pastor Gary explains to us that there is a devotional aspect to reading the Bible that is crucial, and we don't deny that way of interpreting the scriptures.  But it's possible to learn, just like a lot of musicians might also learn, only one way of looking at the scriptures.   We talk about a dif...

Last week we identified the problem of hate among Christians with regards to those who don't measure up.  This week, we're going to find out how Jesus handles hate, and how we should handle it from a law and gospel perspective. Rod Rosenbladt has been working on the problem of "Christians broken by the church" for many years now, and we agree with his assessment.  The problem, however, runs deeper...

Hate.  We've heard this before.  For all the talk that Christians make concerning holiness and self help, it appears that even after 2000 years the church still hasn't come to terms with this most perplexing problem.  To this day, because the majority of Christians do not properly distinguish law and gospel, people are calling all the time at each other blindly to repent of this or that or there c...

It's getting close to Advent folks.  That time of year where we celebrate the first coming of Christ while looking forward to the first coming.  Today, we're going to turn the end times on it's ear again by showing how that "terrible last day" will be the most joyous day of all times and ages. But first, more magical thinking, more annointing of doors and windows, and more sorcery in the name of G...

Today on Radical Grace Radio, we talked about what Christian Churches talked about last Sunday in lieu of Reformation day...  Magic and witchcraft.  More importanly, how Magic is incorporated by Christians when they get confused about what Magical thinking is and how dangerous it can be.  It's not about Bedknobs and Broomsticks.  It's about taking God's Holy Name and practicing magic and dark arts...

How does the Gospel appear to effect reality?  Most of the time, it looks like everything is being turned on it's ear.  In this reformation day special, we talk about the effects of the Gospel, and what there needs to be done for real reformation to occur...  He said, "what needs to be done"  Hu-hu-hu... Rev 14:6 Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim...

This edition of Radical Grace Radio is brought to you by the new book, Humility and how I achieved it by the High Reverend Gary Held.  Learn the finer points of achieving the most humble walk with God you will ever experience! Luther did say, in all seriousness, "those who think they are humble know the least about true humility".  We also talk about a simple subject...  one that is very difficult...