Radical Grace/The Lutheran Difference

Reverend Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach in Florida has decided to hang Barack Obama in Effigy outside his church... Is it just us, or as time goes by is there more and more just stupid stuff going on in the name of Christ? Pastor Gary and I have challenged Terry Jones and his best pick to a Cage Match that will be on pay per view live streamed on Youtube. Because?STUPID SELLS!

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"For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." Galatians 5:1It's easy to abuse Christian Freedom, no so easy to use it wisely. Again, anyone's ability or inability to live a proper Christian life has no bearing on their adoption as Children of God. However it can have a lot of bearing upon our neighbors, which is why we're taking on this topic.

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Who could be on the radio the day before Memorial Day and not talk about Memorial Day? So that's what we did, but we also talked about the Valley of Dry Bones from Ezekiel 37, and how that which Ezekiel saw was a beautiful vision of what Jesus did for us. There's just no way of getting tired of this stuff!

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Someone objects to "Radical Grace" because it sounds too much like "Gnarly Grace". So in response, we get Gnarly with Christian living by telling you how to just stop sinning because that will apparently make everyone feel better and whatever... So stop sinning! Stop it! Just stop! That's how you stop.Now, when you have found that even that simple advice doesn't work, Let's talk again about why God's grace is so important, not as a power source, but rather as God's divine mercy towards you. That grace never stops.

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How can the Christian life be about abiding the love of Jesus today, and how is it relevant to giving meaning for a Christian life? Seriously folks, there's a Doctrine for everything in the Christian's life, and all of them have something do with what Jesus has done, is doing or will do.

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People are so worried that their Christian life is Mediocre that they'll do anything to improve it. So Christian Self Help books are all the rage, iPods and iPhones are filled to the last bit of ram with Sermons and teaching Mp3s, and everyone goes here and there searching for that magic ingredient that will make the Christian life really take off.What if it's more simple than that? What if it's as simple as joining a local Congregation? Where else are you going to find the Christ if not with his people? And finding him, don't you then believe that your Christian life will improve? I'm not going to say this edition of Radical Grace radio will change your life, because we're not really trying to change your life. We're merely pointing out the obvious here.

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Bill Marallo of Adoptions Services joins us to talk about "re-parenting", and we of course talk about in terms of God re-parenting us. A lot of people think of "sanctification" in a lot of weird ways, but try listening to this program for a better perspective.

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So the person you're witnessing to doesn't believe in God or Hell. What do you do? You could try to make him feel guilty under the law, but he doesn't believe in any of that. Now what? On Radical Grace Radio we talk about what you could do besides just give up.

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The most common way of evangelizing these days is to ask this question of people: If you were to die tonight, where would spend eternity. In this show we submit to you that this is categorically the wrong method of persuasion. In fact, I personally think that the approach of asking "where will you spend eternity" does nothing but appeal to our narcisim. But this is exactly the problem. We've been trained by the world to think of things in terms of how it benefits us, how it impacts our lives, so much so that any other way of thinking is deemed as backwards and irrelevant. But how do you begin to offer a corrective to this viewpoint?How about proclaiming "the kingdom" like Jesus did?

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Do those words bore you? "He is Risen!" I was reading an article that was Newsweek Magazine and in the Huffington Post where the Author (More about him next week) keeps referring to Jesus as though he's not around anymore. "He was" and "If he were here"... even though this guy swears he believes in Jesus' divinity and the Resurrection he keeps talking about Jesus as though he were dead. No. HE... IS... Risen! Three important words. Let's talk about the Gospel. Let's talk about Christ raised from the dead. Yeah, let's do it. I like this plan.