Here’s Why Church Feels Like A Chiropractic Appointment For Your Soul

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Segment 1 • Lots of us in the south cancelled gathering last Sunday due to inclement weather - and there are spiritual consequences to skipping church. • Church isn’t something we do just to do - it’s a weekly realignment of our lives. • Even when gathering is hard, faithful churches find creative ways to feed their flocks. Segment 2 • Kevin DeYoung models how to preach a one-off sermon with clarity, structure, and gospel power. • Biblical preaching must consider the genre of the text. Historical narrative, poetry, wisdom, and gospels don’t all preach the exact same. • The aim in good preaching isn’t just increasing knowledge, but to draw sinners to Christ as we learn more about him and are conformed to His image. Segment 3 • Disturbing church protests raise questions for parents: what if your child is trapped in the chaos? • Churches must prepare now — when agitators disrupt worship, there won’t be time to get ready. • Comparing violent protests to Jesus cleansing the temple is biblical malpractice. Segment 4 • Churches are absorbing secular values — “Flamy Grant” drag shows prove it’s more than a trend. • Postmodern self-expression is replacing reverence for biblical truth in pulpits and pews. • As persecution rises globally, now’s the time to clarify our mission: be holy, not popular. ___ 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	Richard Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:08.5	Somehow God is in me, and there's a sense in which I am like God and man all at once.
0:15.8	Many religions claim that we will all eventually be God.
0:19.3	The Bible said something so much better. It says, no, God
0:22.3	will continue to be God. Man will continue to be man, but God will come upon man. No way. It's time for
0:30.5	Ritchard Radio with Todd Freel. Welcome to the Radio of Rretchedin where your breakfast was pretty good
0:39.2	today because it was
0:41.2	super duper cold in the south
0:43.3	and the, you know, the
0:45.0	pro-life thing. Are you okay?
0:48.2	Are you sure you're all right?
1:04.9	No, I'm not all right everything is out of sorts and i can't get it sorted because i didn't go to church on sunday that's right we we pulled a north point well it wasn't it wasn't that extreme It was a little chilly in the south. That's basically what the whole thing. Well, unless a little further north, Tennessee, you got some snow. Where I come from, which, of course, in my perspective, is the epicenter of the planet. It just, it got cold. There was a little bit of rain. There was a touch of ice for a minute,
1:30.0	but it was nothing compared to what the alarmist said it was going to be. Nevertheless, I did see
1:35.4	a press release where Andy Stanley shut down the church until after the 4th of July. You know,
1:41.1	just to make sure people are safe. You've sure people are safe. Got to be safe. Be safe out there.
1:51.0	Isn't it? I heard people saying that, by the way. It reminded me of COVID time. That's when the
1:57.2	word safe. If you had the trademark on the word safe, you were making
2:01.4	a caching at COVID time. Be safe out there. Be safe. Hey, stay safe. Okay. All right.
2:08.9	Not walking into a war zone. I think I'm going to be all right. We became the stay safe people.
2:14.7	And that was kind of the attitude that I experienced with our supposed ice
2:18.2	storm. Hey, stay safe out there. Well, I got here and safe. Pretty confident. I'll be safe
2:26.8	unless, of course, the Lord wills I get into an accident. But I don't think that's going to be
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