Radical Grace/The Lutheran Difference

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In this Episode, Terry Jones burns a Koran, people die, and he's surprised? Really? He says he "regrets what happened", but also says "we have no regrets", and when asked if burning a Koran is a Godly or not he says, "It's certainly not normal".

Also, an Email from a listener:

My question concerns the Lutheran doctrine of salvation with regard to whether or not one can be damned after having believed the Gospel and having been justified through faith alone. I read through Walther's Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel some months ago, and I loved the book. But I didn't understand how Walther could say that when one is in deliberate rebellion that one is not a child of God, one is, basically, damned.This sounds like the conditional security espoused by Arminians, and seems to fly in the face of the sound teaching on justification by grace through faith alone as taught by the Formula of Concord, Smalcald Articles, etc.Is there any way you could help me understand how Lutherans could simultaneously hold that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law, and yet say that if that man does not, so to speak, continue doing his part in persevering, he is lost, damned, reprobate, etc?

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Ever wonder what Paul Meant by "the thorn in my side"? Many people interpret that to be any thing that besets you, and sometimes they go far as assuming that it's your cross from the famous statement of Jesus, "Pick up your cross and follow me". Pastor Greg Lesieur Joins us to talk about what the text actually says about this "thorny" topic.

Also... "comfort, comfort ye my people" is not a liberal anthem. Get over it.

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Yeah, since Pat Robertson's Magical Mystery Tour of craziness has been silent on the whole subject of Japan and the Earthquakes and Tsunami, Glenn Beck decided to chime in. He thinks God did this to send us a message that we need to keep the 10 commandments. Really Glenny? Really?

Also, what are you going to do when the time comes for catastrophy to strike your life, and all you've got in your head is the remnants of a 100 sermons from all sorts of teachers as bad as Glenn Beck and Pat Robertson? Imagine that something awful happens, and instead of being fed with a regular diet of God's word you have been listening to the latest "sermon" series on how to have a better sex life? I'll tell you what it feels like.

$#1^

You'll never guess who get's kudos for getting Grace and Faith right... Andrew Wommack. I kid you know, he made a serious turn in an effort to rightly describe the relationship between Grace and Faith to the people at a conference in Boston, and it played on the radio this past week.

Also, we get to think with the Mind of Christ on the great passage from Daniel, featuring an experience he had with some lions and some Satraps who hated him.

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Ok, you've heard it before. "In our church, we're going to be about being missional, and compassionate, and spread the testimony, and be all loving to all the people"... So, that's nice, but... Exactly HOW are you going to do all of that? Pastor Gary said it best. If you can't imagine what your life or the life of the your church would look like in the next year as you get things rolling, then it's likely not going to roll.

Epic Winning? No, weak.

Also, some new ways and methods to learn how to read your Bible with better discernment.

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Oh to be able to simply talk about important things... without people getting into a lather about them! While thinking with the mind of Christ we begin to realize that the Church cannot simply look at it's past and pine for the good ole' days. We have a committment to truth and that truth cannot be ignored. So again, we talk about what it would mean should the mind of Christ be adhered to and used by his disciples... Change is hard folks, but so it repentence and faith.

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We have a question: If we're all so gung ho about getting people to shape up, why don't we just do it the way the early Puritans used to do it? Make obedience to God's Law mandatory through civil law? In fact, what we could do is make up a law like Muslims have (Sharia Law) and attach Penalties (extra tything, and what have you) for disobedience?

So we on Radical Grace Radio did exactly that... except, we made them Anti Rules... Rules you can do that aren't rules at all... you'd have to listen, in fact.

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Another show, another time when people are confused about the acts of the Holy Spirit. When a filling of the Holy Spirit comes, it would seem that the Bible testifies that the first thing that happens is, someone speaks. Someone says something so incredibly important that someone has to remember it and write it down at some point. So where people are looking for evidence of the filling of the Holy Spirit in the gift of tongues, it would seem the first place to look is isn't with tongues, but with plain ole' speaking.

However, it is a kind of speech that is with authority and power and confidence. Don't you wish you had that? Find out how on this week's Radical Grace Radio.

All this and more on Radical Grace Radio.

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Is "having the mind of Christ" and "Being filled with the Holy Spirit" one and the same thing?

In this edition of Radical Grace Radio we reveal a couple of interesting things. One is that references to being "filled with the Spirit" are found primarily in Luke's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. The other is what the Biblical Evidence shows is the immediate effect of being "filled with the Spirit". Can you guess what that might be?

All this and more on Radical Grace Radio.

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