Do you own a Bible? Do you know where it is? When did you last see it — when did you last open it? In this program Greg offers five reasons to study the Bible.

Grace is getting something we don’t deserve, mercy is not getting something we do deserve, and when you put those two together you have great news! Grace and mercy are two sides of the coin of God’s love for us.

We love stories about criminals caught in their crimes. “He got what he deserved,” we say. As humans we cheer when justice is done. On the other hand, when we do good things we feel we deserve rewards, but are we sure that we want what we deserve?

Is God a slave driver — a never-satisfied, cranky old man who can’t wait to beat up on us when we make a mistake? And are you like many people who live fearing and trying to appease God in order to make him happy?

When we appear before the judgment seat of God and he asks us why he should let us into his kingdom of heaven, what can we say? Do we cringe in fear, knowing our imperfections, or is there a basis for confidence before God?

If someone doesn’t want to be a Christian, that’s their choice. But many non-Christians — thinking to be logical and rational — base their choice not to be a Christian on one or the other of two really bad reasons.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer performed surgeries when he was 89. Grandma Moses did well over 300 paintings after she was 100. The experience of aging is not the same for everyone, but we all get older, and our gap with death narrows.

Forgiveness is one of the most important issues we can ever deal with as we understand the gospel of grace, the gospel of Jesus Christ. This second program on forgiveness explores what forgiveness is not.

Forgiveness is one of the most difficult things a human can ever do. Its monetary equivalent is the cancellation of a debt. Listen to this first program of a two program series exploring forgiveness. Today’s program deals with what forgiveness is all about.

Jesus taught us to pray, “Our Father…” For some this is difficult because of negative experiences with their physical fathers, but God is a loving and faithful God with a positive objective in mind for us. Join Greg for today’s program as he talks about what God is doing with us.

In this 8th program of our 8 part series called Victory in Suffering, Greg will summarize the previous programs and discuss Biblical insights about gaining life through suffering.

There are two kinds of suffering: the kind you deserve and the kind you don’t. Yet undeserved suffering is very much a part of everyone’s life. Greg gives us the Biblical perspective on undeserved suffering in today’s program.

The storms of life with their suffering, pain and heartache are never pleasant — they make us afraid and they cause us a great deal of worry. In today’s program hear what we can learn about suffering from the story of the disciples on the stormy sea.

The real life we live as humans often has some degree of suffering in it. With Jesus Christ in our lives we can have rest in that suffering.

Don’t miss this program where Greg explores how in the midst of suffering we can be God’s tools — that in Jesus we have the victory, even in suffering.

Many people assume that suffering is the result of a person doing something wrong or sinful in their lives, but is that true? In this third program of an 8 program series on suffering Greg tells the truth about suffering.

This is a painful but very real part of life. We all go through suffering to one degree or another, and we ask the question, “Why did God allow. . .?” But let’s also ask “Why does God allow so much good to happen?” Listen to this new perspective as Greg explores the purpose of suffering.

Some of the most compelling, most difficult questions about God and about Christianity, center on the topic of suffering: Should Christians suffer? Why do Christians suffer? Why does anyone suffer? Stay with us in this 8 program series, “Victory in Suffering”

A caller to a talk-radio show suggested that the poor and homeless should be taken out and shot. Greg contrasts that attitude toward the needy with the early Christian church’s example.

We humans tend to run from God — exactly in the opposite direction from where we think he is and what he wants us to do — and in a way similar to the way Jonah ran from God.

When you are looking for God where do you look? Better said, when God is looking for you, where will he find you? And is meeting God according to our drumbeat or His?

Today an increasing number of parents are running away from their children. Thankfully our heavenly Father is not like us. He does not do that. In today’s program Greg takes a look at God, as our heavenly Father, and the pattern God gives us for parenting.

Can we as Christians do anything about the pain and heartache in this world? Should we even try? After all, Jesus said his kingdom is not part of this world and promises to wipe away every tear — but can we just sit in the grandstands watching all the suffering now?

Jesus asked a man crippled for 38 years if he wanted to be healed. That healing changed everything about his life. Similarly, spiritual healing will change everything about our lives. Jesus asks you and me if we want to be healed. It’s up to us.

Will Rogers once said that history will record the passing of the American Indian, the passing of the buffalo and the passing of the buck. “Who me, I’m not responsible,” is a popular human response for bad behavior. What is the biblical perspective about this?

Have we become angrier, more confrontational, more in-your-face? Are intolerance, disrespect, criticism, castigation and put-downs on a Christian “to do” list?

Oskar Schindler saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during WWII but agonized over the thought that he could have done more. Similarly we can never do enough to rid ourselves of sin. The central message of Christianity is, “Look to the Lamb of God! Only he can remove the burden of our sins.”

Has a normal, likeable friend of yours ever suddenly “got religion” and become an unreasonable, fire-breathing, hypercritical, placard-carrying, end-times-predicting kook? Why does religion do that? Is that what God wants? Greg discusses the dangers of religious fundamentalism.

People are afraid of change, the future, getting older, death, pain, loneliness, failure and others who are different from us. Fear leads to distrust, alienation, bitterness and hatred. Greg talks about the antidote to fear in today’s program.

Science tells us we are blobs of protoplasm. Psychology likens us to rats running through a maze. But who are we, and what does God expect of us? Greg discusses both what God does not expect and what he does expect from us.

There’s a line in the musical “Cats” from T.S. Elliot which says, “We had the experience but we missed the meaning.” Does that describe your life? Greg talks about spiritual maturity and how to avoid missing the meaning of our experiences.

Greg uses the pale horse in this last program of our four part series, The Four Horsemen of Legalism, to show that legalism produces people who seem to have life but are dead-men-walking. In contrast he talks about the life giving grace God offers us.

This is the third program in our four part series, The Four Horsemen of Legalism, Greg shows how legalism has no life to give — that it only gives bondage and leads to death. He explains that religious and legalistic teachings often become the “gospel” that is proclaimed rather than Jesus.

In this second program of our four part series called The Four Horsemen of Legalism, Greg shows how legalism destroys peace, makes people miserable and distances us from God. If you think you may be involved in legalistic religion, you need to hear this program.

In this first program of a four part series called The Four Horsemen of Legalism, Greg takes a look at the spirit of Anti-Christ — at counterfeit Christianity — at groups and people who fleece the flock rather than feed the flock and use God-talk to deceive and to conquer.

In this last program of our 10-program series on the book of Revelation, Greg talks about Jesus’ conclusion in his Revelation to us, as well as the heritage Jesus offers us in it.

Included in Revelation’s greatest hits is the song in chapter 5, “Worthy Is The Lamb,” and a new song in chapter 15, “The Song of the Lamb,” based on the song of Moses. What is the message of Revelation’s music, and what is this thing called “the Millennium” all about?

Jesus Christ is the divine author, central character and hero of the Book of Revelation, but who are the bad guys? To whom was Revelation originally written and why was it written?

Who are the woman, the dragon, the Antichrist and the beast? Religion has perverted the message of Revelation for almost 2,000 years, but Greg shows how God’s grace cuts through the religious fog and mystery promulgated by misinformed or misdirected teachers.

Who are the 144,000, and who are the “great multitude”? What are the woes and the trumpets all about? The book of Revelation — a message from Christ to us of understanding and hope.