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"Batter Up!"
Breaking Our Addiction to Acceptance
What I Want My Children to Know
The Prelude to the Wrath of God
The Need for Intolerant Preaching
Jesus says, "That's Not who I am."
Two Words Worthy of Life and Death
Murphy's Law and the Church in Antioch
The Perseverance of the Saints
Praying for Judgment to Fall on America
Your Kids are Not Your Kids
The Long Slide from Ephesus to Laodicea
The 144,000 Revisited
What Can You Control?
Lot and the Postmodern Train Wreck
Tom Winn is Not the Antichrist
God of the Nativity and God of the Cross
Lessons from the Death of Edna Cannon
The View from Inside the Tomb
What Happens When False Prophets Deliver?
How to Survive a Church Fight
The Creed— Doctrine vs. Deception
Seven Heads, Ten Horns and Blasphemous Names
The Night Visions
Ever Wonder Why So Many People Hate the Jews?
Future Events in Past Tense
Religious Affections, Part 2
Religious Affections, Part 1
Second Verse, Same as the First
It's Time to Kick Some Honey Bun
Satanic Attacks on the Early Church
The End of Pride
Vica Versa and Versa Vica
A Minister of Reconciliation
And We Will All Go Down Together
Remember the Disaster at Chernobyl
The Turnstile or the Super Highway
Lessons Learned from Y2K
Praying for Vengeance...with a Vengeance
Drapes, Darkness and Dead Guys
To Err is Human, to Forgive... uh, What?
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Radical Christian Living
No "Psychobabble Rap" Found Here
"Who are those guys?"
Trick or Treat
The Infinite God of Finite Numbers
The Eve of Destruction
They were all in one Accord...
The Final Checkmate of the Final Game
The Bait and Switch
Time, Times and Half-Time
John, Paul, George and Ringo... Not!
"Squeeze Me...uh, on second thought, don't!"
"Believe What I Say, Not What I Do."
"Beam me up, Scotty!"
"You know, it is what it is!"
Ivan Drago: "You're Dead!"
The Downside of Love
Living in the Shadows... like a Slug!
The Anti - Richie Rich Church
Remember, Repent and Return... or Else!
Dropped Like a Bag of Rocks!
Clothes Do Make the Man
Do You Have Ears?
Behold, He is on the Way!
Who Was, Who Is and Who is to Come
An Unveiling of Christ
The Last of a Dying Breed Patch: Spiritual Truths from the Death of a Dog
One Way or Another...
Made it, Ma! Top of the World!
The Portal Potty Preacher!
Spiritual Gifts: How Can We Tell the Difference?
Defining Moments Define... uh, Who We Are. Like, Duh!
It's a Little More than Bowing to a Stupid Stone!
Christ in Christmas? No Way!
The Truth About Persistent Prayer
 Love Feast... My Butt!!
 Stupid Is as Stupid Does!
Church in the Two Kingdoms
Life in the Two Kingdoms
The Place to Begin

 
 
 
 
 



a podcast for those who Love Jesus... uh, but aren't too sure about Church.
 

Absolute Surrender: "Batter Up!"
 Sunday, June 21, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (37.44)

  
Church offers the things women crave: safety, relationships, nurturing, and close-knit community. The rules are: be nice. Be sensitive. Be gentle. We promise a personal relationship with a man who loves you unconditionally.
On the other hand, men need adventure, challenge and risk – but these things are discouraged in church.  Any man who tries to bring risk into his local congregation will quickly find himself in the gun sights of a longtime member.
Sound familiar?  I thought it might.

Note:  This is a study on Fatherhood


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Absolute Surrender: Breaking Our Addiction to Acceptance
 Saturday, June 20, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (35.08)

  

Have you ever wondered why we strive so hard for the adulation, attention and acceptance of the world?  Did you ever ask yourself why we want so desperately to have the world love us, think highly of us, invite us to their parties, or call us their best friend?
Why would we want the world to do that?
What would be our motivation?  What do we want to achieve?

Why would we want the world to say things about us that they would never say about our Lord?  Never.  Gulp. 

Note:  This is a study on Boldness


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Absolute Surrender: What I Want My Children to Know
 Sunday, June 7, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (41.20)

  

If you received the dreaded results from your medical test and found out you only had a couple of weeks to live, what message about Christ would you want to leave to your kids?

What truths about your relationship with the Lord would you want to instill in your children while you still can?

What are the bedrock beliefs you have that cannot be shaken, that have stood the test of time?  Do you have any?
And, if you do, what are they?

Note:  This is a study on Absolute Surrender


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The Revelation: The Prelude to the Wrath of God
 Sunday, May 31, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (49.06)

  

As bad as this stuff sounds to those who survive this far in the book of the Revelation...

"And men were scorched with fierce (or great) heat...and they gnawed their tongues because of pain."

Hell will be infinitely, unbelievably worse for those we know and love.  God is full of mercy and forgiveness and does not desire any to perish but all to come to faith in Him.
But that time doesn't last forever.  And what are you prepared to do about it?

Note:  This is a study of Revelation 15:1-8


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Preparing for the End: The Need for Intolerant Preaching
 Saturday, May 30, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (50.26)

  

This is a sample of Biblical preaching that we never hear much of today:

"You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?  Therefore bring forth fruits in keeping with repentance."

And we don't see this kind of response to that kind of preaching much today either:

And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, "Then what shall we do?"

Note:  This is a study Biblical Preaching


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Absolute Surrender: Jesus says, "That's Not who I am."
 Friday, May 29, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (40.37)

  

One thought...

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse.

So choose life in order that you may live,
you and your descendants.
Deuteronomy 30:19

Oh yes, choose life!
Choose wisely!
Just choose.

Note:  This is a study on Absolute Surrender


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Absolute Surrender: Two Words Worthy of Life and Death
 Saturday, May 16, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (43.18)

   Jeremiah presents a better summary of this podcast than I ever could.  So, I'll defer to him.

Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I (what) delight in these things," declares the LORD. 
Jeremiah 9:23-24
 

Note:  This is a study on Absolute Surrender


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Preparing for the End: Murphy's Law and the Church in Antioch
 Wednesday, April 29, 2009, posted by Steve McCranie - (36.41)

   Murphy's Law states:
  1.  Nothing is as easy as it looks.
  2.  Everything takes longer than you think.
  3.  If anything can go wrong, it will!

First, there were five special guys in the church at Antioch:  Barnabas, Simeon, Lucius, Manean and Saul. 
Then, these guys spent some time fasting and praying and laying hands on some.
And what does all this have to do with Murphy's Law.  Good question.
Listen and find out...

Note:  This is a study of Acts 13:1-3


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The Joy of Believing the Lie

“I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State.
My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own,
so that both of them together is certain death.”
George Carlin (1937-2008)

     I am keenly aware of the fact that you may be wondering about a guy who would write a book entitled, Love Jesus, Hate Church. You probably have some questions, maybe many questions, about the origins of a book that makes people as uncomfortable as Love Jesus, Hate Church has proven to do.
     You may be asking yourself, "How can you be a Christian and use the words Love and Hate and Jesus and Church all in the same sentence?  It just seems so wrong."
     And, you're right. It does seem wrong.
     True.  But wrong.

     Yep, I would probably be wondering the same thing if the tables were turned and I found myself in your shoes.

     So, let me see if I can shed some light on who I am and why I do what I do by telling you a bit about myself and how I came to write Love Jesus, Hate Church.  Let me share with you, oh, how shall I put it— the joy of believing the lie. I believe this will give you a better grasp of who I am and why I wrote Love Jesus, Hate Church.

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