Truth At All Costs

Part two of my review of a Michigan pastor’s horrible presentation on how to talk to gay people. In today’s show, we resist the temptation to pit grace against truth, learn about the third use of the law, and look at the Samaritan woman at the well. Plus no more CoWo! The better term is culturally-oriented worship. Join the YouTube channel to participate in the production of the Truth at All Costs...

A viewer sent in a troubling (publicly posted) video of a retired LCMS pastor publicly teaching erroneous things about the LGBTQ at a 2024 Michigan District theology conference. In this episode of Truth at All Costs, we review his presentation, learn why his use of words like husband and cisgender are bad, and open the Scriptures to consider whether he has been duped by the world's lies. Plus,...

Hey yo, we're talking CoWo! Yes, the music aspect, but contemporary worship is about so much more than just what style of music is being played. Our worship practices reflect the Church's teachings, our creed, what we confess to believe. While some frame it as liturgical v. contemporary, Scripture addresses it in terms of apostolic or human traditions. We're called, not to conform to t...

Criminal co-eds took over college campuses. They say it’s about Palestine, but it’s really about despising Romans 13. But what does this evil have to do with our Concordia Universities? If you said DEI, you guessed it. Join the YouTube channel to participate in the production of the Truth at All Costs podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDS-LBPLMg5IE9nqWUyni8A/join Do you agree with samtalle...

What do chickens have to do with being a pastor? Is your pastor a scholar? What should young pastors who are just entering the ministry, and indeed all pastors and all Christians know about the role of the pastor? What is his job? What has he been called to do in the parish? Rev. C.F.W. Walther gives us the foundation and then Rev. Theodore Graebner fleshes out the reality that your pastor should...

We hear from both the right and the left, both inside and outside the Church that all people are made in the image of God. Is this true? What does Scripture say about who is made in the image of God? What has the historic Church taught about who is made in the image of God? Are babies born in the image of God? Are transgender people made in the image of God? Ephesians 4:24 and Colossians 3:10 have...

Gog and Magog wage war against the Church! Nevertheless, Christ is King! Why has it become controversial to declare that Christ is the king? Why do some people consider it antisemitic? To answer these questions we’ll listen to what Andrew Klavan of the Daily Wire, a convert from Judaism to Christianity, has to say about the statement and then hear what the excommunicated Corey Mahler has to say ab...

A viewer posted a comment that Jesus had to die on Thursday, not Friday, in order to be in the tomb for three days and three nights as He said. She overlooked a very important detail of the Lord’s passion. Rev. Chris Rosebrough helps us understand that Jesus really did die on Good Friday. Plus, there are some Lampwick “Lutherans” on Pleasure Island (X) rejecting the office of the ministry, but the...

After disarming the population, Canada’s government is now advising upstanding citizens to give gun-toting bad guys their cars. The Pittsburgh police won’t respond to 911 calls concerned with burglary, and a pastor in Connecticut has formed an armed brigade to protect his neighbors. Response times to 911 calls are reported to have tripled to over 2 hours in some American cities, and our governing...

Do you embrace diversity? Yeah, me neither, but according to a re-post on X.com, KFUO Radio does. Let’s talk about it. Along the way we discuss women’s ordination, confessing Christ against the spirit of the world as it is in our generation, learn a thing or two from Francis Schaeffer, and a look at the faithful disposition of the global church, especially in Ghana! Stick around. This is the Truth...

Are you a farting peasant? How do you know? Maybe you don’t know what you don’t know, you know? How should the Christian act in light of ridicule and in the midst of an evil culture? Nice, right? At all times, always be nice. Is that true? I don't know if #MarkRobinson would agree with you, and I know Martin Luther wouldn't. In this episode, given that it’s no longer Black History Month, w...

Many listeners of Cross Defense want to know why I terminated my contract with KFUO. I tell you in this video as we talk about symbols, creeds, and confessions, as well as Dylan Mulvaney, Google’s Gemini, a female pastor who kicked the Bible to entertain goats and a cop-thief, plus, we consult Soren Kierkegaard, Rod Dreher, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn... and so much more on this tacky episode of th...

God’s Law is a loving word. If we used it appropriately our culture wouldn’t be in the mess it is today. In this first episode of Truth at All Costs, we come face-to-face with our sin of hypocrisy to learn not to give lip service to God’s Law and avoid being Gospel reductionists, not for ourselves, but in service to our neighbors. Join the YouTube channel to participate in the production of the Tr...