Freemasonry Exposed, Preaching Examined, Genesis Rejected

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Segment 1 • Why do so many Christians sit through sermons without ever expecting God to personally confront or comfort them? • Todd explains why “good preaching” has less to do with charisma and more to do with whether God’s Word was faithfully prepared for the church. • Can expository preaching become so obsessed with Greek details that it completely misses the point of the passage? Segment 2 • Todd breaks down why verse-by-verse preaching protects churches from hobby-horse theology and culture-driven sermons. • A shocking Mother’s Day church illustration raises the question: has entertainment hijacked the pulpit? • Andy Stanley’s critique of expository preaching sparks a bigger discussion about creativity, burnout, and whether pastors are feeding people God’s ideas or their own. Segment 3 • Freemason rituals exposed: secret ceremonies, violent oaths, and why Todd says Christianity and Masonry cannot coexist. • Vienna is stunned by what Muslim youth now openly believe about Sharia law, faith, and Western culture. • Minnesota politicians and racial identity politics collide in a segment that asks: has the cultural script completely flipped upside down? Segment 4 • Todd announces a brand-new podcast from Dr. Jason Lisle connecting Genesis, evolution, morality, and the collapse of Western culture. • What happens to marriage, truth, morality, and human dignity if Genesis is rejected as real history? • Dr. Jason Lisle argues that the battle over origins isn’t ultimately scientific — it’s about whether people will trust God’s Word or man’s opinions. ___ Thanks for listening! Wretched Radio would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Wretched Radio we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0	Ritchin Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:07.0	Your first mission is to keep yourself happy.
0:11.0	It's living for self that is so exhausting and frustrating
0:14.0	because you were made to live for him.
0:18.0	So when you begin to please him, you begin to thrive. It's not a burden. It's not a duty.
0:24.1	It's a joy. I come alive. This is what I was made for.
0:26.8	It's time for Rretched Radio with Todd Friel.
0:30.1	Why do you love preaching? You do love preaching, don't you? This is Rretched Radio. It is my suspicion that for the majority of people,
0:41.8	I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about majority of people, most people don't have an attitude toward preaching at all.
0:48.6	They don't love it. They don't hate it. They probably just don't think about it. They go to church. If it's a good one, then it was a good Sunday. If it wasn't, well, then they did their part. They went to church, as they are commanded to do. But the preaching was a little off this week, or it wasn't very good. But very little consideration is put in to one's attitude
1:12.8	toward preaching. You and I should love preaching. We should go to church expecting to hear
1:21.5	great things from God, you say, but my preacher ain't so good. Not a really spectacular orator. Doesn't matter.
1:30.3	If that man has labored over the word, if that man has dedicated himself to determine this is
1:37.7	what God would say to his people this Sunday, then you are hearing an excellent sermon. Why? Because it was prepared just pour vu.
1:47.8	That's Italian, if you didn't know. This preacher who prepares a sermon with the flock in mind
1:54.5	is bringing a present for you every single Sunday. Do you open it with expectation? Do you receive it and look for the
2:04.8	things that apply just to you because you know that God is alive and active in the proclamation
2:11.3	of His Word? Most people, I don't think about preaching in those terms terms or they judge it based on how good it was
2:21.4	that week or how clear it was or the illustrations but they don't have a general attitude toward
2:29.0	preaching I would suggest to you preaching will become better even if the pastor doesn't.
2:36.4	If you and I go to church looking for a treasure every single Sunday, there's another reason
2:44.0	that we should love the preaching of God's word. It's because we actually get to know the mind
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