Radical Grace/the Lutheran Difference

In this edition of Radical Grace Radio;  since we noticed there's a bit of a dust up of confusion about what the uses of the law are (from some rather surprising places I might add) it seemed good also to us to lay down the law on third use of the Law.    Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

Ever wonder what Jesus means when he says, "This is a wicked generation. It asks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.  For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation."?  Today is the day to learn.  We go through the entire book of Jonah in a half an hour!  Ok, so it's a short one, but it's loaded with some really good stuff. Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

On this week's edtion of Radical Grace Radio, we talk about...  Of all things...  Pentecost.  But first we talk about 70 elders and prophesying, and other God's spirit stuff.  Why?  Because there's so much confusion out there about Pentecost, the Holy Spirit, and being filled with the Holy Spirit, that it has to be done.  It has to be.   Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

This week on Radical Grace Radio we continue to teach on the topic "Distinctly Jesus".  Last week it was how Jesus handles forgiveness, how he talks about it, how dispenses it liberally.  This week it's about hypocrisy.  Yep, that dreaded H word.  But there's something cool to think about in this leg of study.  Jesus seems to talk about hypocrisy in a specific way.  And of course there's reboot central.  Christianity has encountered a fatal error.  Help us Reboot!   Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

Of all the people in the scriptures, both Old Testament and New, no one talks about forgiveness the way Jesus Christ, or Lord, does.  He goes around forgiving sins with impunity.  He forgives the sins of a paralytic before he heals him, allows a sinful woman to touch him, quite smartly prevent the stoning death of a woman caught in adultry, and like no one else he does this in such a one sided way.  The Lamb of God, going around forgiving, event though HE is to be the one put to death for the sins of each person he personally forgave face to face. Is there an Important message in Jesus' way of doing things?  Listen to this week's Radical Grace Radio to find out.   Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

 The apocolype is nigh!  Harold Camping tells us that this Saturday, May 21st, is Rapture day.  That's it.  Get this podcast now to find out what to do!! Ok, so we don't believe it's coming.  But still, you need this podcast to help you through to the other side.  Also, we talk about the Non story in the Muslim world of the death of Bin Ladin, and what might be the death of Jihad. Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website http://www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

 On this Edition of Radical Grace Radio we talk about Harold Camping's prediction that the Rapture is going to happen on May 21st.  We also talk about others who have made such predictions, and about the book "the late great planet earth" by Hal Lindsey.  This and more... Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website http://www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

Second half of the hour, the Gloves come off concerning the Beatification of the Pope John Paul II.  AntiChristic language compared to what you get in Protestant circles.  Tridentine Catholicism compared with the Bible...  Good stuff, but in the first half, we steal back for you 1 Peter 1:3-8 from those who would steal it from you. 1Pe 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 1Pe 1:4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, 1Pe 1:5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 1Pe 1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 1Pe 1:7 These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result i

Lots of cool stuff on this special "He is Risen" episode.  We're early with this edition because it's Easter and we're taking a break from live radio for the day.  He IS Risen! Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website Radical Grace Radio    

The significance of Holy Week, and is it ever right for a Christian to stand up for their rights if they are being mistreated? An email from Matt in Colorado: The question I've been pondering and wonder if you would take up is this: Is it ever appropriate for a Christian to make the claim for themselves that they are treated unjustly? Of course, we look out for those treated unjustly, but Christ didn't defend himself as being treated unjustly even though he was, and if we are serious about loving our enemies and trusting in God's justice, do we ever get to make the claim that we, personally, are being treated unjustly? What would be the basis for me to make that claim about myself if I believe in God's love, discipline and justice? Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website Radical Grace Radio    

  Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website Radical Grace Radio    

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

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.   Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website http://www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

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. Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website http://www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

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.   Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website http://www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

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.   Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website http://www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

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. Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website http://www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

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. Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website http://www.RadicalGraceRadio.com    

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. Visit Matthew Pancake's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/matthew.pancake Visit Pastor Gary Held's Facebook http://www.facebook.com/garyheld Visit our Website http://www.RadicalGraceRadio.com