Radical Grace/The Lutheran Difference

There are two edges to God's word. One is the law, the other is the gospel. Not hard to distinguish one from the other but... When do you use them? How do you apply law and gospel? Listen to this episode to find out.

Have you ever had an infection, then had a doctor mis-prescribe the wrong medicine for your infection? This is exactly what it's like when preachers presribe too much law to you and no Gospel, or too much Gospel with no law.

Listen up people! Do you have faith? A strong faith? How about a "reckless confidence" in Jesus as your Savior?

Do we really need to test that? I mean, seriously, most of us do wish we had a reckless confidence in Jesus, so here's the thing: How many promises does God have to make to you before you trust him?

In this edition of Radical Grace Radio, we talk about the Big if, or the words "if you" that get used way to often in a sermon these days. Examples of "the big if"...

"If you just smile more and have a positive attitude, God will bless you mightyly"...

"God is prepared to save you by the shed blood of Jesus Christ, IF YOU repent and believe"...

I could go on and on, but I think I'll let the blog post stand.

http://lutherandifference.blogspot.com/2010/04/big-if.html

In this edition of Radical Grace; what happens when people try to make the law something that's doable and the gospel is what help you do it? You get a dumbed down law and the dumbed down gospel.

You know what you get when you read Psalm 119? Some say law. Pastor Gary doesn't think so. Listen.

Internet Monk Michael Spencer died Monday, April 5th, after a long bout with Cancer. In this espisode of Radical Grace Radio, we pay tribute not by talking about him, but by talking about the things HE talked about during his time as a Post Evangelical commentator.

In this edition for Easter 2010, we talk about Jesus being risen from the dead and the importance of his resurrection, and we talk about how Christians bash each other over the head with the word "apostate" to the point that no one listens to each other.

We were live at Faith Viera Lutheran Church in Viera, with an open mike taking questions. The topic moved into "what should the Message of the Church be". Some people think it should be a law message. Some think it should be the Gospel (Yours truly thinks so). So we wound up talking about deception and how the law can't set those who are decieved free from lies and bondage.

We were live at Christ Lutheran in Cape Canaveral, Pastor Greg LeSieur's Church, where Pastor Gary preached to services and we did the radio show in between. A nice crowd turned out, and listened to us talk about Angels and Demons, which got good when we talked about the Angel of the Lord... Jesus Christ!

There are people who lose thier minds over our message of Radical Grace. Here's one.

"Lots of unbiblical stuff & personally I think your missing the mark in regards to how God said He would write the law on our hearts vs them being written on tablets of stone OT vs NT."

Confused... St. Paul says the law is written on the hearts of all men, not just believers. Oh well.

So today, we decided to tackle a scripture that makes people crazy by itself. The parable of the sheep and goats. And then we talked about Ezekiel and being a watchman. And we're going to keep going till we've tackled every confused notion regarding Law and Gospel.