Radical Grace/The Lutheran Difference

Lenten Readings for this season, this one based on the Story of Deborah in the Book of Judges, part of a series written by Pastor Gary Held for Lenten services. The readings so far are titled...

1. 8 Souls In All
2. 7 Years of Famine
3. 6 Days until Sabbath

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On the way back to Jerusalem after the triumphal Entry, Jesus encounters a fig tree that has no fruit on it, and he promptly curses it. Therefore, Jesus must hate fig trees. No wait, Jesus is teaching you how to curse fig trees, yeah that's it. No, wait, Jesus is teaching you about having faith and speaking to fig trees and mountains so you can overcome these obstacles. There has been so much bad teaching on this one incident that whole versions of Christianity have grown up around the strange interpretations of this incident. But what if, just what if... Jesus was talking about cursing Israel? What if Jesus had gone to the tree that is Israel, found no fruit on it, and per the covenant made with Israel Jesus calls down the condemnation upon the nation for neglecting the message they were to spread?

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Pastor Gary contends that in Jesus' day, the biggest headache the average Israelite had didn't come from the Roman occupation, but rather the Temple itself. If you lived during that time in Judea, you likely owed money to the temple, one way or another and the religious leaders of the time weren't interested in "forgiving debts". First up on the show however is Bill Marello of Child Services updating us on the current plight of children in the Foster car system in Central Florida.

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The second Lenten service featured a monolog written by Pastor Gary, and is written from the point of view of an accountant who delivers a report to governor over Egypt and second to Pharaoh, Joseph. Pastor Gary loves the Joseph narrative (as I do) and for more than a little while we got excited about this one. If we drone on too long in the first part of this show, sorry about that...

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Due to some of our listeners asking about Pastor Gary's Lenten "Dramatic Monologs", we decided to take some time to release one or two of these in the show. The first one from Ash Wednesday was called "8 souls in all", and is one of a countdown to Good Friday. We hope you enjoy it.

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It's Ash Wednesday, and it's the beginning of the Season of Lent. So what better topic to talk about than Pope Benedict XVI Abdicating the Holy See? Upon hearing this, I thought to myself how much of a shame that was because of all the good things this pope had to say about Martin Luther... So we speculate, "what would have happened if this pope had vacated Martin Luther's Excommunication?" We did also talk about Lent, and repentance, and doing good works.

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Warning: This program is too hot to handle. The contents of this program have been know to shake up legalists, crush pietists, burn the innards of sinners and salve the consciences of the faithful.We also talk about the hottest, most evil chili ever... DANGER! If you're satisfied with your Christianity, DO NOT LISTEN!!!

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Have we crossed over to the darkside? In this episode of Radical Grace Radio, Joel Osteen get's front and center stage to make his case before he gets slapped by Nikolaos of Myra.

We also talk about Supernatural Debt Relief. Yup, darksided...

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So Pastor Gary wants to be in a "back to basics" mode, and we wound up talking about the Faithfulness of God. Did you know, for instance, that God faithfully shows up everywhere He's promised He'll be? If that's so, then where has He promised to be?Also, huge water jars, the impossibility of having grape juice in the ancient world, and servants who'll do anything Jesus' mom tells them to do.

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Historic Jesus. By that we mean the Christ as we find him in scripture. Problem is because so many people read their Bibles for moral principles and tips to have your best life now, too many people miss the Jesus that matters. Also it's about time to get back to basics again. The mind of Christ first up, which we've talked about before and are about to hammer on again.

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