Episode 85: The Doomsday Clock

Daniel 9: Days of Weeks of Years


This week on Radical Grace Pastor Greg LeSeiur joins us again to talk about end times. This time we struggle to find Biblical reference to a 7 year tribulation... Aaaaaand we think we found it. Plus the doomsday clock! Time is running out!

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Episode 84: Wrong or Right on Left Behind?

Darby: The beginning of the end.


The beginning of a series on popular eschatology, Hal Lindsey, Left Behind, and Darby and his dispensationalistic end times dance. In this edition we talk about being left behind and how Jesus seems to think about this differently than popular teachers of today.

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The Late Great Planet Church

Congratulations, Jerry Johnson, on producing a new DVD, “The Late Great Planet Church: The Rise of Dispensationalism”, Volume One.

This DVD, which is going like pancakes, can be ordered from NiceneCouncil.com.

According to this DVD, Dispensationalism:

--Has broken continuity with church history
--Wrongly interprets the Word of God with a flawed hermeneutic
--Has been a willing participant in the church’s trend toward anti-intellectualism and even Arminianism
--Embraces Greek philosophical dualism that comes dangerously close to the ancient heresy of Gnosticism
--Has embraced an unbiblical view of the Church and Israel with one method of Salvation for the Church and one for Israel
--Is not an eschatology build on theology, but a theology built on eschatology
--Inevitably leads to cultural withdrawal and surrender
--Often holds that the Sermon on the Mount is law not grace and that the doctrine of grace is in the Epistles and not the Gospels

Problems of Dispensationalism have been addressed by "Progressive Dispensationalists". Christians tend to leave Dispensationalism for Covenantal theology rather than vice versa.

Although the DVD is two hours, it can be accessed through scenes for study in adult classes. I recommend!

Episode 83: Making Payments on the Free Gift?

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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Episode 82: Rick Warren's Folly

Putting God in a Box


On the one hand people want us to stop putting God in a Box, but on the other hand they put God in a box by trying to hold some doctrine over God's head as though God can be held accountable to a doctrine. Also Rick Warren and his own words about hos Jesus makes up the difference between my good works and the perfection I need to stand before God's judgment.

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The Most Important Christian Event So Far

Imagine sitting at the table after Jesus Christ was crucified. Suddenly you realize that it is the risen Jesus Christ breaking bread with you!

Luke 24:30,31

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OEqavkJGCE&feature=channel_page

There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood

from the hymn

There is a fountain filled with blood

Drawn from Immanuel's veins;

And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,

Lose all their guilty stains. . .

The dying thief rejoiced to see

That fountain in his day;

And there have I, as vile as he,

Washed all my sins away. . .

E'er since by faith I saw the stream

Thy flowing wounds supply,

Redeeming love has been my theme,

And shall be till I die. . .

Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood

Shall never lose its power,

Till all the ransomed church of God

Be saved, to sin no more. . . .

Palm Sunday

penned by Fanny Crosby

Praise Him! praise him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!
Heav’nly portals loud with hosannas ring!
Jesus, Savior, reigneth forever and ever;
Crown him! crown him! Prophet, and Priest and King!
Christ is coming! Over the world victorious,
Pow’r and glory unto the Lord belong.
Praise him! praise him! tell of his excellent greatness,
Praise him! praise him! ever in joyful song. AMEN.

Turning a TULIP into a Tare

Episode 81: A Calvinist corrective


Believe or not sometimes Christians want to be persecuted. They do. Seriously.

Also Pastor Gary tells us what he thinks is the real problem with the culture today.

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Persecuted Christians

Episode 80: Who's persecuting who?


Believe or not sometimes Christians want to be persecuted. They do. Seriously.

Also Pastor Gary tells us what he thinks is the real problem with the culture today.

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Put on your Happy Faith!

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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