Free Indeed Radio

Why do we seek to be inclusive and tolerant? Is it human nature or a recent development? Frankly, we are a bit skeptical that anybody truly adheres to a fully coherent sense of what inclusivity means. Given that Christianity is pretty much the most inclusive thing out there because "God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son so that WHOEVER believes in Him shall never die but have everlasting life", why does our sense of inclusivity break down? Where does it break down? And why does it seem to be that the ones who proclaim the most inclusiveness actually  seem to live in an exclusive club? Where is God in all of this? Listen in and we'll go there together.

Everyone (for the most part) wants to get along. Today on Free Indeed Radio John and Brandon begin the conversation on what it means to be a Christian in this time of volatile culture war. What have we lost and what are we gaining as we choose to live with Christ as the head of our lives in this time when we're being split in half? What does it mean to live with grace at the forefront here and now?

Today we take a quick look at some personal experience of growing up with a skewed understanding of sex love and intimacy and how God is more than powerful enough to change the way we think. In our culture today and even in Christian culture we have a rough time having freedom and giving freedom to people and ourselves to be in romantic relationships and we have so many poorly formed notions on what it means to love and be loved by Jesus and each other. 

This episode we talk about the things in our minds that separate us from them, Christians from non Christians, believers from non believers, and we see that the evidence for redemption isn't always what we think. Sometimes our pictures of what separates us are actually mirrors into our own perceptions of God.

"If it's God's will" We seem to say that a lot nowadays. Why do we say this? Does it add any power to our prayers? How do we know if something is truly God's will in for our lives? Can we know God's will for our lives? Today we begin the exploration of these questions and more.

There are so many things in the world that we grow up thinking define us. This week we expose a few more that you might not have thought of before. When we understand what exactly defines us Christ shows us all the things we thought defined us before and exposes the truth. You're not who you thought you were.

John speaks with Johnny Iron of the Iron Show and Rabbi Mike on homosexuality, The Law, God's Grace and His unconditional love for us all.

The third week in our four week series at the Foundry Church in Bend OR. This week we talk about how sexuality has been morphed around and jumbled together in the mind and how love, sex, and intimacy are all truly independent of themselves and can be experienced separately as well as together and how we have been trained to see them as one big mess, and we will talk bout how sex has a much deeper profound effect on us that we realize.

The second installment of John and I speaking at The Foundry Church in Bend Oregon with the message of Free Indeed and God's grace. this week we talk about the appropriate responses to our situations and the difficulty of navigating the waters of sexual identity with someone and how we can best represent Christ and his love to those around us.

This week we will be starting to upload a four week series we did at the Foundry Church in Bend Oregon, the first of the subject matter being "What is SSA?". John and I give a little of our testimonies and get into the conversation with a bunch of loving willing people. We're excited to share with you :)

Today on Free Indeed Radio we interview Kent Hovind, a nationally renowned speaker on creation, evolution and dinosaurs. He recently served a 9 year sentence for "structuring", more on what that is later. But the interesting part is how his view of the world and his view of God has changed since being inside and seeing how the world operates. Today we listen to his point of view and talk with him about this life and experiences on Free Indeed Radio!

Today on Free Indeed Radio we explore the intricacies of, you guessed it, identity, masculinity and sexuality. More often than not we look at sexuality as part of our lives when it actually becomes part of our identity because we as humans are sexual beings. So what is sexual identity? How or should we even find our identity in our sexuality? All this and more on today's episode.

So often we look at ourselves as being broken and we're so painfully aware of what we believe we can't do. But how often are we taught that we truly can be different? That we can be changed? That we are changed in Christ? Today we explore this question and the story of Nehemiah.

God so easily gets put into a box within the confines of our human thinking. And over the years we have even gone so far as to put the Gospel in a box. Today we talk about not just the Romans Road but the idea of a Gospel checklist and we take a look at the true power of God in the Gospel. Do you have to make it through every single point of the Romans Road to ensure salvation for the person? Why do we feel like failures or assume that there wasn't a saving faith if all points aren't accepted? All this and more today, come join us!

Hello all! We're back! In this episode we will recap some things that have happened since we last met, one of them being how in life as we all know, sometimes things don't exactly go the way we planned. sometimes they look different, sometimes something God told you would happen has been delayed, its been changed from what you thought would happen, or its come about in a completely different way than you expected. In this episode we explore how we deal with when that happens and how to see God's grace in his vision and will for our life.

Sometimes we don't believe right about God. Sometimes our views of Him can get skewed. Those skewed beliefs can result in all kinds of weird, hard, sucky, painful and just plain destructive things. Today we talk about "trying to get in the building" that'll get explained but it can be applied to pretty much any situation. Ultimately its "striving to make God pleased with me" And we talk about the thoughts that cause us to start to spiral and how to get out of them and how we can truly treat God as a close friend who WILL give us clarity on what is going on and how to see things with new eyes. So come and hang with us in the upper room on a hot september day and rest.

Have you ever said "i will never be like that" or "I'm gonna be like that" or "i will do this". This kind of thinking can seem harmless. I mean who wants to be like their alcoholic father or emotionally distant mother? But today we explore the depth of what taking these kinds of oaths with ourselves and God do to us and how we can rest in His provision, His promise and his power to keep us from ourselves.

Have you ever felt like "how can God like me? I'm so unrighteous so often and I fail all the time" Today on Free Indeed Radio we explore the depth of what God means when he says "their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more" and "Those who receive the free gift of righteousness will reign" Come today and listen to God's plan for your life and how to receive the free gift of righteousness!! Most people believe that salvation from hell is the only gift the free gift applies to. The free gift and the abundance of His grace is SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT!!! When you receive, then and only then, you will bear fruit. 

Today we have the pleasure of getting to be interviewed by Basil and Gonz of Canary Cry Radio! They had amazing questions and awesome insight and we are so grateful for getting to be on their show!  They are a pair of amazing God loving guys who want to speak the Love of Jesus to those who don't know it and aren't afraid to speak about the hard things. Show them some love and show us some love and listen and like their page and website! Visit their website at http://www.canarycryradio.comor their other website at http://facelikethesun.com