Radical Grace/The Lutheran Difference

We've had two other programs devoted to this topic already... Now we feel compelled to offer a third one after Christians have attacked a young atheist for winning a court case to remove (of all things) a prayer banner. The prayer itself asks for grace to be kind and be a good sport and be honorable... too bad the Christians attacking this girl couldn't see that.

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Also, we discovered something interesting about people these days. The word "church" does not, in people's minds, automatically mean it's about Christian anything. In the minds of many people, Church could be Muslim or Christian, or any given sect of any religion. Strange, of course, since the word used to be exclusively Christian.

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>>This Video has been making the rounds, and it supposedly shows you they way in which religion is bad but Loving Jesus is good. It's nicely produced, the guy in the video I'm sure has his heart in the right place, but... well, you should listen to the show.

Also, stopping the Tebow train. Oh wait, it got stopped... By Wiccans. Uh huh...

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Ever have anyone tell you about "Using" God's name? Using it with Authority? You hear a lot about that, but have you ever heard someone talk about "Wearing" God's name with Honor? When Aaron was told to how to bless Israel, it was so that God would put His Name on the people. You have His Name on you via your baptism. How do you wear His name?

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Burnt Impressions... Offers you a burnt offering of Jesus' face burnt onto your toast! You can eat your toast while playing with your Jesus Bobble Head... Here's the thing. Most of you agree that Jesus' name shouldn't be used as a curse word. But seriously, there are other ways to misuse his name. Making a buck off Jesus' name is another way.

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Closed for Christmas? Jesus never closes heaven to those who answer the call! So why would churches be closed on Jesus' birthday?

So let's talk Messiah then. The annointed one, the Christ, was born to fulfill a promise made centuries before that. A promise that extends to all the earth, a promise that all the earth would be blessed through the seed of Abraham. And there he was, lying in a feed trough... And while the world despised him, people like you and me know him as the Lord of hosts, the one who we sing "Joy to the world, the Lord has come". In this special edition of Radical Grace Radio, we talk about "Messiah"... What else would you do on December the 25th?

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What else would you talk about if you're going to talk about Religion and Christianity this time of year? Come one, the Advent of our King is near! Imagine for a second, the advent message given to Mary all those years ago: The power of the Most High will overshadow you. Imagine that! One day, his power will overshadow us all! That's good news! This should be a season marked only by that news!

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In this edition of Radical Grace Radio, we talk about the Radical Favor of God... And how that famous verse, "for God so loved the world" points to the antecedent favor of God, where in time past God freely chooses to love the world, and THEN send his only begotten son... Mabye a lot of you hadn't thought of that.

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D. L. Moody once said "I can write the Gospel on a dime", and ever since then that's exactly what the Church at large seems to want to do. But if you do that, you wind up leaving out a full, robust proclaimation of the Gospel, leaving people with some "spiritual laws" to keep or who knows what. Whatever it is, it usually winds up leaving the believer in a quagmire of confusion. So this episode is dedicated to a different way of seeing the Gospel and all it's parts, seeing them rather through the lense of Christ and the work of the Godhead in history rather than through lense of "getting people saved".

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Think of the Gospel as a snowball rolling down the hill. As it rolls it picks up speed, and carries along with it anyone that gets in it's way. To the unbelieving world, it looks like arms and legs sticking out as the snowball rolls along, but this is the picture of you bowled over by God's good news and carried along by the spirit of God.

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The Parable of the sheep and the goats... Is not a parable at all. What? How can we say that? Well, it's simple, really, but you're going to have to listen to the show to find out why we would say that.

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