ARE YOU SPRINTING TOWARD ETERNITY OR CRAWLING TOWARD COMFORT?
Wretched Radio with Todd Friel
Fortis Institute
4.9 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
• Dr. John MacArthur may not have attended the Shepherd’s Conference, but his legacy and commitment to serving the Lord remain paramount.
• Are you sprinting toward eternity with the same intensity as Dr. MacArthur? It's about doing all things with purpose, regardless of whether they seem "religious."
• Time is running out—how will you finish the race? Living for Christ in everything we do matters for eternity.
Segment 2: • Tim Challies' webinar on comforting those who mourn is coming up this Thursday. Don't miss this crucial opportunity to learn about biblical grief.
• Exciting events ahead: Jason Lisle's upcoming event and a 30% off coupon for G3! Plus, get your hands on Greg Gifford’s new book, Lies My Therapist Told Me.
• ADHD in kids—what if it’s more about personality than a disorder? Dive into this crucial conversation.
Segment 3:
• The narrative blaming Christians for the high suicide rates in the transgender community is misguided. The truth: rates of depression and suicide are significantly higher among those who undergo gender surgeries.
• The numbers speak for themselves—gender transition surgery doesn’t solve underlying issues; it exacerbates them.
• UK’s “first man” pregnant naturally—how much longer will society deny reality? We’re blurring the lines on truth.
Segment 4:
• America is back—but at what cost? Melania Trump announces the return of the White House Easter Egg Roll; what does this mean for cultural values today?
• Evangelical churches on Easter: Could there be a divine groan over how we’re celebrating and engaging with the world’s distractions?
• College students are speaking out—are we truly listening to their struggles, or just focusing on the wrong things?
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| 0:00.0 | Richard Radio begins in three, two, one. |
| 0:06.9 | Welcome to virtual reality church. |
| 0:09.4 | Welcome to our virtual church. |
| 0:11.1 | Is there some type of way for a virtual congregation? |
| 0:14.6 | You're not a congregation if you don't congregate. |
| 0:16.6 | When you combine this access with the loss of the local, I become my own confession and I go around the World Wide Web |
| 0:25.8 | listening for echoes that say back to me |
| 0:29.6 | what I've already decided to believe. |
| 0:31.9 | It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Freel. |
| 0:35.5 | I wanna say grace to you, all of you who are at the Shepherds Conference. |
| 0:41.3 | For me, it's the highlight of the year. |
| 0:44.1 | So you have to know my disappointment in coming to you through video. |
| 0:49.0 | This is Wretched Radio. |
| 0:51.0 | That, of course, is the all-familiar voice of one Dr. John MacArthur, who is out of the hospital. |
| 0:56.2 | He's sitting in his study at home, delivering a video to last week's Shepard's conference because he was not able to attend his own pastor's conference for the first time in four decades. |
| 1:08.4 | Hard to imagine. There was a dry eye in the house. |
| 1:12.4 | Dr. John MacArthur's ministry, I think by almost any measurement, |
| 1:18.7 | has been perhaps the most substantial ministry in the last hundred years. |
| 1:27.1 | Certainly in America. It's hard to imagine somebody who has done |
| 1:31.4 | more. The seminary, Masters University, which we love, Masters Academy International, which we love, |
| 1:39.5 | we love all of those things. Grace to you, Grace Community Church, the commentaries. We look at his life and rightly |
| 1:48.4 | we see God's work, not John MacArthur's work, God's work through a man named John |
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