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Jesus' Triumphal Entry. Lots of good stuff and again stressing an emphasis this Easter season on Jesus and what he has done for all humanity. Behold! You King arrives! Also, a lot of churches are shifting emphasis on the traditional Palm Sunday from the triumphal entry to Jesus' Passion. Good or bad?

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Bill Marallo is an Adoption Recruiter for Intervention Services here in Central Florida, and he joins Pastor Gary and I to talk about Adoption from a human point of view, then he stay to have his mind blown about the Biblical Concept of Adoption.

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Jeffrey Dahmer died in Christ. A good portion of the church does not believe this. And that's sad. But God's grace is that disturbing. Really, truly disturbing. God's grace is for the wicked. You. Me. Jeffrey Dahmer. And Pastor Roy Ratcliff, who heard Dahmer's confession and baptised him into Christ.

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Each and everyone one of us is guaranteed to experience the death of someone we love in our lifetimes. You'd have to be a literal Scrooge who hated everyone to not be moved at the news of the death of a parent, a child, a friend... In this edition of Radical Grace Radio we offer comfort from a surprising place in the Bible: The Parable of the Wedding Banquet in Matthew's Gospel.

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On this edition of Radical Grace Radio we start off with, and never really get off of, the topic of the recent tornado touchdowns and the lives that have been touched by the devastation. What are Christians to think about all of this? Is God angry at us and punishing us? Again?

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On this edition of Radical Grace Radio we're joined by Dan Engle of both necessaryroughness.org and Lutherantimeout.org to talk about our recent online colaboration on a hymn for his Timeout Podcast. The hymn is Savior when in Dust to Thee, and we had a blast doing it. Also for a limited time, if you donate to either Lutherantimeout or Radical Grace Radio, you'll get a copy of the Master track (lossless studio version) of them hymn.

Also Lent for beginners. Yes, that's you. Get your repent on!

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We're certain that by now all of you have heard about the HHS (Health and Human Services) mandate stating that religious employers have to provide insurance coverage for birth control and how that effects various Church Bodies. On this edition of Radical Grace Radio, we talk about Religious Liberty, because to be honest with you, we don't think most of you are exercising your Religious Liberties in the first place. If we thought we could get away with it at radio station, we'd demonstrate religious freedom with a few brews on air.Also, hear about two kinds of righteousness. Righteousness before God, and Righteousness before men. Don't miss it.

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This edition of Radical Grace Radio is the beginning of a re-release of four programs that began with an episode that goes into Justification and Propitiation.

If I were to take a microphone with me right now out on the street and ask Christians how important the forgiveness of sins is to the Christian Faith, I’m certain that nearly all them would agree that it is most important. But if I were to ask this same group of Christians how is it that God forgiving sins amounts to salvation, there would be all kinds of answers. The problem with many of the answers is that too often what is said is that salvation comes from either us having cleaned up our act, or that we’ve quote “believed” unquote, and that these things are the conditions we must meet in order to stand before the Holy and Righteous God. On the one hand there are people who teach that Salvation comes from obeying the law and that obedience is rewarded by God with Salvation, while on the other hand more Christians would teach that it’s by faith that we are saved and that only by believing in Jesus Christ can salvation come to the sinner. But both of these definitions amount to the same thing. On the one hand people who teach Works, called Pelagians, are obviously teaching that we can manipulate God by obeying his law, as if we could ever hold our many works over God that he would have to owe us something in return. But, all too often the opposite teaching, that we are saved by faith, is stated like this: If you believe God and believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, that’s ALL you have to do to be saved, as if you can manipulate God by performing the ONE work that God will accept. But scripture teaches us that no one will be justified by works before God. So what gives?The Bible talks about “salvation” in a different way, in terms of being “justified”. Indeed, the Apostle Paul talks about how God “Justifies the wicked”. But again, we have to be careful, because a lot people would say, “oh, I know what Justified means. “Just as if I’d never sinned”. Well, in this program, as always, we refuse to talk down to people, but rather would tell them the truth the way the truth really is. To be Justified is something more than just forgiveness. Wicked, constantly sinful people need more than forgiveness to make it to heaven, and that’s what we’re going to talk about on this edition of Radical Grace Radio.

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In this second part of a two part edition of Radical Grace Radio, Pastor Gary Held and I continue a discussion on what is Church, what is truth, and something that only a True Christian church can do, and that is deliver God's forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ. Guilt is a real problem that we face, not because we have a psychological problem of Guilt, but because we truly are guilty before God. Wouldn't it be wonderful to find a Church that has the solution to that problem?

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In this first part of a two part discussion on what is a church, Pastor Gary and I start with a problem that we discussed last week about people not knowing what church is, or even if it's Christian or not. It's interesting that people would equate the word "church" with anything other than Christian, and it's even more interesting that people, rather than actually find out or ask what church is, make up a definition on the fly. But what if one day you suddenly find that you need a church? How would you recognize a church? Is it where they sing songs? And listen to a guy "preach" about living a so called Christian life by giving you pointers about morals and such?

What if it's not about that at all? What about a place where God has promised to be for you?

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