Radical Grace/The Lutheran Difference

Part of my personal re-evaluation includes trying to discover both the lies in the world around me and the lies that I tell myself about the world around me. Lately, the world around me seems nuts, but I can also imagine that people who read Jesus' parables think that he was nuts as well. One such parable doesn't seem that strange when you realize that the Prodigal Son (Luke 15) came to a realization about the world around him. I can imagine that he also realized he'd been lying to himself as well. That's the collusion of our sinful nature and the world. They both lie to us. In this edition of Radical Grace Radio, the Prodigal Son.

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So The Pope went viral again, stating to an Italian Newspaper Magnate that Atheists and Agnostics can go to heaven if they just follow their conscience and do good works. Now, why do Lutherans care about this? And why should you? This on Radical Grace Radio.

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In this edition of Radical Grace Radio we're talking about Jesus' saying in Luke 14, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple." This is the Gospel of the Lord. The Good News of the Lord. Doesn't seem like good news now does it? We're not promising a law and gospel interpretation for this, but what we've got is pretty interesting.

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The Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark Texas recently had an outbreak of Measles. Yes, that's Measles, the disease we all get immunized for when we're kids, that one. The church in question is the same church that noted Word of Faith teacher Kenneth Copeland planted many moons ago. Now, the focus of our commentary isn't on the irony of the situation (an irony that we do recognize as tremendous), but rather on how Copeland and his church parrot many of the objections to vaccinations that parents of Autistic Children do these days. We recognized that this is a problem with rejecting the Gifts that God gives his entire creation (First Article Gifts), where regardless of whether someone is Christian or not, God gave us all Doctors who created Vaccines that prevent deadly childhood diseases. On the back half of the hour we talked "real life Parables"...

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With the Fiftieth Anniversary of the March on Washington happening this week, I've been thinking about something controversial. I think that with all the fist pumping, speech making and slogan chanting there should have a been a moment where everyone makes a pledge. A pledge to take a hard look at ourselves, make an effort for personal responsibility and take an oath to be the kind of people who treat others with respect and dignity. Take a listen and see if you agree.

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While he was writing his sermon for the days service, Pastor Gary noticed something that's likely true about every person he reads this verse from Hebrews. They likely read this verse like this, even though the word "obedience" is not in the verse. Hebrews 11: 39 These were all commended for their obedience, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

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This week we're taking a break, but we're posting the very first Radical Grace Radio program. In this program our first caller, ever, wondered what he should do to "cover all his bases" with God. You guys will enjoy this, but Pastor Gary and I would just cringe at how inexperienced we sound.

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Because someone said, "that line 'I'm too holy for you' is from Monty Python and the Holy Grail," here's the scripture verse. "Isa 65:5 (I say to a people) who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you!’ Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day."

So in this special edition on how to Drive the Millennials away, we let Good Charlotte answer some of the nonsense spewed over Millennials.

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The question that keeps coming up, over and over again, is how to attract and keep the so called "millennial" generation. We at Radical Grace Radio take a different approach. We're going to research how to drive them away. Yes we are, folks. All the stupid, obnoxious things that are done in the name of Christianity that tends to make millennials roll their eyes. You betcha. All that stuff. Maybe we can get a government grant for this...

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I thought that this weird doctrine about the Mark of Cain had long since been put to bed. Apparently there are still some people who say that the "Mark" is that God turned Cain black. Seriously. This is still being taught. Pastor Gary, however, put that to rest in 3 seconds flat. Also, we talked about Repentance. Pastor Gary seems to have found something interesting comparing how the word "repent" is used either by St. Paul or Jesus. Fascinating stuff.

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