Improving your Christian Hate Life Part 3

The Unrecognizable Church

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.

Click here to witness the Hate.

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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Standing on the 30 Foot Pole of Good works.

No matter which direction you fall, it's a long way down.

The other day I heard on a Christian radio broadcast the folling statement. "I has been said that when you don't pray to God, it's like you slapped him in the face". Why it is that people think this is a helpful statement escapes me, but apparently "fundidgelicals" just love this sort of thing. So now I not only have a problems with my prayer life, but I'm slapping God around each time I don't pray to him...

So Pastor and I talk a bit about "the impassability of God", meaning that he doesn't need anything from us to get his work done. And how the Christian life can be compared to standing on top of the 30 foot pole while worrying your going to fall off.

"God says of Jesus, "this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased"... So if the Father is pleased with Jesus, and we're in Christ, doesn't that mean that the Father is pleased with us?"




Standing on the 30 Foot Pole of Good works.

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Preacher, where is thy fruit?

Can we borrow a cup of seed?

In this edition of Radical Grace we talk about the question "Preacher, where is thy fruit?" in context the parable of the sower and the seed. it's a law and Gospel distinction you don't want to miss.

Also, the jurors weren't morons. We talk a bit about the outcome of the Casey Anthony trial and the vitriol and death threats that have made against here and the rest of her family.




Preacher, where is thy fruit?

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