Thinking with the Mind of Christ
He has a mind, just like you do, and he thinks with that mind and brain using synapses and neural pathways just like you do.
John MacArthur: A Sermon Review
Does John MacArthur teach Lordship Salvation? We go to the horse's mouth to find out in this sermon review. A special edition of Radical Grace Radio
The Doomsday Clock
Will there be a Seven Year Tribulation? Will the church escape the wrath that is to be poured out on the ungodly? Listen to this edition of Radical Grace Radio.
Showing posts with label Baptism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baptism. Show all posts
Lutherans, Catholics and Ecumentical Enemas
12:00 PM
Matthew
Arrogance and Adoption
12:00 PM
Matthew
.Fears of Spiders in Gas Tanks Spark Mazda 6 Recall.
More Christians are Now Sharing Health Care Costs and signing up for "Faith Based Alternatives".
Adoptions to Americans in Crimea Have been Blocked by Russia.
New York City Can Block Religious Services in Public Schools
People reading the sixth chapter of Genesis online has risen about 300 percent in the US and 245 percent globally.
Bill Marallo joins us to talk about why people want to adopt children, and why someone would want to adopt an older child over a baby.
Jesus Never Lies
12:00 PM
Matthew
.Christian News Roll
Carroll County, Md. commissioner Robin Bartlett Frazier opened Thursday's budget meeting with a prayer referring to Jesus Christ, a defiance of a federal judge's order.
An American couple living in Qatar has been convicted of the death of the girl they adopted from Ghana. The couple are accused of starving the girl to death in order to harvest her organs.
According to Variety, it's Smooth Sailing for the Noah movie, which looks to be poised to take in well over 40 million dollars this opening weekend.
In the case of Hobby Lobby Vs. Sebelius, a divided Supreme Court seemed sympathetic Tuesday to the Religious views of business owners, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Christianity today reports that Only two days after announcing it would hire Christians in same-sex marriages, World Vision U.S. has reversed its ground-breaking decision after weathering intense criticism from evangelical leaders.
Jesus IS Muslim Billboards
Why Luther is Not Quite Protestant
Why Do Teens Abandon the Church?
6:11 AM
Matthew
How do you get filled with the Spirit?
On this week's Radical Grace Radio we talked about an article by Brian Housman on the Christian Messenger website titled "Reasons why teenagers abandon Christianity!" It was an insightful article with some rather damning conclusions, and since nearly all the church everywhere is deeply concerned about this issue, we thought it was important.
Click here to read the article.
Pastor also has a few things to say to everyone about "getting filled with the Spirit"... Another topic that in the last one hundred has never left the minds of Christians. After all, if we could all just get filled up, we could fix a lot of problems, right?
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The Kingdom of God Gospel
7:18 AM
Matthew
He is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!
The most common way of evangelizing these days is to ask this question of people: If you were to die tonight, where would spend eternity. In this show we submit to you that this is categorically the wrong method of persuasion. In fact, I personally think that the approach of asking "where will you spend eternity" does nothing but appeal to our narcisim. But this is exactly the problem. We've been trained by the world to think of things in terms of how it benefits us, how it impacts our lives, so much so that any other way of thinking is deemed as backwards and irrelevant. But how do you begin to offer a corrective to this viewpoint?
How about proclaiming "the kingdom" like Jesus did?
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The Spirit of Adoption
7:55 AM
Matthew
The Importance of Christian Doctrine.
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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Justification and Propitiation
8:54 AM
Matthew
Where Can We Find Forgiveness?
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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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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Of Baptism, Wartberg Headquarters and Witness Protection
12:51 AM
Matthew
Episode 63: Baptismal Regeneration and how we can get confused.
In this edition of Radical Grace we talk about Baptism and Baptismal regeneration. What is the difference between the common view of Baptism in American Evangelicalism and the Biblical view of Baptism and why is it so important to understand the difference?
To listen to the show you can click on the play button, click on "Windows Media" to open in a new tab, or right click on "get mp3" and choose "save target as" to save to your computer.
In this edition of Radical Grace we talk about Baptism and Baptismal regeneration. What is the difference between the common view of Baptism in American Evangelicalism and the Biblical view of Baptism and why is it so important to understand the difference?
To listen to the show you can click on the play button, click on "Windows Media" to open in a new tab, or right click on "get mp3" and choose "save target as" to save to your computer.
