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 Faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Faith. Show all posts
Filled with the Fullness of God
11:00 AM
Matthew
On a Wing and a Prayer Rug
10:00 AM
Matthew
Also, I got another Jesus Prayer Rug in the Mail. It's a "Holy Spirit Letter", it says. Find out more inside.
.Christian Teens who have dropped out may actually be returning to the fold
Suntrust Banks Delisted the Benham Brothers as Real Estate Brokers.
Trail Life troop charters up since BOA decision
Megachurch Pastor admits to covering up child abuse allegations in court
Sudanese Christian woman, Pregnant, sentenced to Death for Apostasy from Islam
Atheist Pastors... No really, they exist.
12:00 PM
Matthew
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"Where Did I Go Wrong With My Witness?"
7:07 AM
Matthew
On Christian Evangelism and Perserverance.
So the person you're witnessing to doesn't believe in God or Hell. What do you do? You could try to make him feel guilty under the law, but he doesn't believe in any of that. Now what? On Radical Grace Radio we talk about what you could do besides just give up.
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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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God doesn't love you in slices
8:43 PM
Matthew Pancake
In this edition of Radical Grace Radio Pastor Greg does a mean Sean Connery impersonation as he makes a great point about the love of God, and we answer an emailer who wanted to know...
There's something which confuses me about Sola Fide. If we're saved by
grace alone through faith alone by Christ alone on the authority of
scripture alone, why are sacraments necessary? I'm not necessarily
doubting the necessity of sacraments, I just don't understand that if
access to salvation comes down to faith alone (sola), then how is it
alone if a sacrament must be coupled with it? Thank you in advance for
your answer.
-Chris
Danville, Indiana
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Episode 83: Making Payments on the Free Gift?
6:42 PM
Matthew Pancake
Compound interest on Salvation
How much do we pay God for our Salvation? Seriously, the church is in the same kind of state that our economy is in right now. Think about it. God offers His gifts to us for free, but then we try to create an economy of salvation and sanctification here on earth by parsing out the gifts and making our people pay for the privilege of being partakers in the kingdom of God. We do this over and over again, whether is was Rome with indulgences or today's Pentecostal movement asking it's people to buy their way into spiritual gifts. It's all the same. Even during the second temple era forgiveness came at the cost the temple laid on so called "blemish free" sacrifices they sold for those whose sacrifices were not good enough.
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How much do we pay God for our Salvation? Seriously, the church is in the same kind of state that our economy is in right now. Think about it. God offers His gifts to us for free, but then we try to create an economy of salvation and sanctification here on earth by parsing out the gifts and making our people pay for the privilege of being partakers in the kingdom of God. We do this over and over again, whether is was Rome with indulgences or today's Pentecostal movement asking it's people to buy their way into spiritual gifts. It's all the same. Even during the second temple era forgiveness came at the cost the temple laid on so called "blemish free" sacrifices they sold for those whose sacrifices were not good enough.
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Put on your Happy Faith!
7:48 PM
Matthew Pancake
Episode 79: Listener emails
In this Edition of Radical Grace we read some listener emails and we talk about that age old method Christians use to shut down talk of discernment. “Judge Not Lest Ye be Judged”. We will be getting to more of your emails in the future.
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In this Edition of Radical Grace we read some listener emails and we talk about that age old method Christians use to shut down talk of discernment. “Judge Not Lest Ye be Judged”. We will be getting to more of your emails in the future.
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May the Force of Faith be with you
8:03 PM
Matthew Pancake
Episode 77: Thank you Obi Wan Kenobi
This week on Radical Grace Pastor Greg LeSieur of Christ Lutheran in Cape Canaveral joins us as we talk about "the Force of Faith" as the Word of Faith preachers have called it. It's amazing to think that people will play so fast and loose with Holy Scripture that they can actively re write the particulars of our faith and create what amounts to a Folk Religion.
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This week on Radical Grace Pastor Greg LeSieur of Christ Lutheran in Cape Canaveral joins us as we talk about "the Force of Faith" as the Word of Faith preachers have called it. It's amazing to think that people will play so fast and loose with Holy Scripture that they can actively re write the particulars of our faith and create what amounts to a Folk Religion.
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The Prosperity Gospel and Word Faith Movement.
8:16 AM
Matthew Pancake
This week on Radical Grace Radio, we talk about the Prosperity Gospel and the word faith movement. Here is a link to a 25 page document on the subject.
The Prosperity Gospel in Modern Christianity.
The Prosperity Gospel in Modern Christianity.
Barack Obama wins the Election
6:23 PM
Matthew
Episode 60: For this Purpose I have raised you up.
Senator Barack Obama has won the Presidential Election. But there are those out
there who believe that this is the work of Satan. In this edition of Radical Grace we talk about God putting people in positions of authority and how He has done this sort of thing in the past.
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Senator Barack Obama has won the Presidential Election. But there are those out
there who believe that this is the work of Satan. In this edition of Radical Grace we talk about God putting people in positions of authority and how He has done this sort of thing in the past.
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Reformation Sunday 2008
7:10 PM
Matthew
Episode 58: Reformation Day Special
In this edition of Radical Grace we talk about Reformation Day... And Elsie’s cabbage rolls and German beer. And about some guy named Martin Luther.
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In this edition of Radical Grace we talk about Reformation Day... And Elsie’s cabbage rolls and German beer. And about some guy named Martin Luther.
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Cheap Grace
4:27 AM
Matthew
Episode 53: Can Christians truly abuse God's Grace?
Is there really a problem with Cheap Grace these days? Pastor Greg Leseur of Christ Lutheran Church in Cape Canaveral joins us again as we look at the idea of Cheap Grace and talk about how this might be possible for Christians… if it’s possible at all.
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Is there really a problem with Cheap Grace these days? Pastor Greg Leseur of Christ Lutheran Church in Cape Canaveral joins us again as we look at the idea of Cheap Grace and talk about how this might be possible for Christians… if it’s possible at all.
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Trust God and Hang on Tight!
7:54 PM
Matthew
Episode 51: Sanctified: Set apart by God?
I heard something that said a lot to me this week. "Those who have learned to do good will do what they've learned to do. Those who have learned to do evil will do what they've learned to do. Those who have learned to obey will obey. Those who have learned to disobey will disobey. All of them need forgiveness".
One of the most difficult things I had to learn after coming understand the Gospel and how it's important in my life was to learn that no matter how good I get at obeying God's law, I am still as much a sinner as I ever was. In fact, I read in the Bible that knowing the law actually makes the sin worse, and a lot of the time I see how much more sinful I really am just by trying to follow God's law. It took a long time for me, in fact... it's still taking a long time because I still don't feel like I get this right. Sanctification would be easy if it really were only about changing the way I act or changing the way I behave. But it's not easy at all, because it involves a problem I have in my heart. There's something broken in me that's just not responding to treatment. People around might say, "oh Matthew, your acting so much better this year than you did last year", but to me I'm only going through the motions. It was hard to learn that this is how it is for a Christian.
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I heard something that said a lot to me this week. "Those who have learned to do good will do what they've learned to do. Those who have learned to do evil will do what they've learned to do. Those who have learned to obey will obey. Those who have learned to disobey will disobey. All of them need forgiveness".
One of the most difficult things I had to learn after coming understand the Gospel and how it's important in my life was to learn that no matter how good I get at obeying God's law, I am still as much a sinner as I ever was. In fact, I read in the Bible that knowing the law actually makes the sin worse, and a lot of the time I see how much more sinful I really am just by trying to follow God's law. It took a long time for me, in fact... it's still taking a long time because I still don't feel like I get this right. Sanctification would be easy if it really were only about changing the way I act or changing the way I behave. But it's not easy at all, because it involves a problem I have in my heart. There's something broken in me that's just not responding to treatment. People around might say, "oh Matthew, your acting so much better this year than you did last year", but to me I'm only going through the motions. It was hard to learn that this is how it is for a Christian.
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What does it mean to be sanctified?
7:25 PM
Matthew
Episode 49: Faint Praise? How do I make it better?
Last night I had a dream, and in the dream I said a prayer. Now, I have to say, I can’t remember ever dreaming about praying, but leaving that aside for the time being, the prayer went like this.
“Lord forgive me because this is going to sound like I’m offering you faint praise”
This made me realize something. One of the things that has been going on in my life for a long time now is that I’m realizing, more and more, how much of my prayer and praise life just doesn’t measure up to what it should be. For instance, I could get 100 people to plan the most fantastic worship service, write the finest music, find the finest pastors to preach the most enlightening sermons and organize and practice the service for weeks on end… and in the end, it still wouldn’t be what it should be or even enough to achieve the type of praise and worship that God truly deserves.
I think, too often in our own lives, that we find ourselves in a similar situation. We feel as though we aren’t what we ought to be. We definitely don’t feel like we’re children of God, nor do we feel like we have attained any kind of sanctified life or any level of holiness. But what I’ve found is good to do is to ask this question: What does it mean to be sanctified?
In the last few week’s we’ve been setting the table, so to speak, by taking a few of the parables of Jesus and other difficult passages and interpreting them in the light of the Gospel. We’re not leaving that behind by no means, but since the question has been asked, what does it mean to be sanctified, we believe we are now in a good position to talk about one of the most daunting and most perplexing problems Christians face daily.
What does it mean to be sanctified?
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Last night I had a dream, and in the dream I said a prayer. Now, I have to say, I can’t remember ever dreaming about praying, but leaving that aside for the time being, the prayer went like this.
“Lord forgive me because this is going to sound like I’m offering you faint praise”
This made me realize something. One of the things that has been going on in my life for a long time now is that I’m realizing, more and more, how much of my prayer and praise life just doesn’t measure up to what it should be. For instance, I could get 100 people to plan the most fantastic worship service, write the finest music, find the finest pastors to preach the most enlightening sermons and organize and practice the service for weeks on end… and in the end, it still wouldn’t be what it should be or even enough to achieve the type of praise and worship that God truly deserves.
I think, too often in our own lives, that we find ourselves in a similar situation. We feel as though we aren’t what we ought to be. We definitely don’t feel like we’re children of God, nor do we feel like we have attained any kind of sanctified life or any level of holiness. But what I’ve found is good to do is to ask this question: What does it mean to be sanctified?
In the last few week’s we’ve been setting the table, so to speak, by taking a few of the parables of Jesus and other difficult passages and interpreting them in the light of the Gospel. We’re not leaving that behind by no means, but since the question has been asked, what does it mean to be sanctified, we believe we are now in a good position to talk about one of the most daunting and most perplexing problems Christians face daily.
What does it mean to be sanctified?
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