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Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

HOW TO BRING GRACE AND TRUTH TO A CULTURE THAT LAUGHS AT DEPRAVITY

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1:



• Kirk’s assassination sparked memes and laughter—proof of hollowed-out consciences.



• “Demons among us” isn’t metaphorical—darkness rules when life is mocked.



• Redemption through Christ, not politics, is the only cure for such depravity.



Segment 2:



• Culture sets standards low—and behavior sinks even lower.



• Mandates, laws, and culture shifts can’t fix broken hearts.



• Only heart transformation raises behavior and restores dignity.



Segment 3:



• Attacks on penal substitution are assaults on forgiveness itself.



• PSA: Christ bore our punishment as our substitute—without it, no salvation.



• Critics dismiss it as “cosmic child abuse,” but Scripture repeatedly affirms it.



Segment 4:



• Denying PSA guts the meaning of the cross.



• Alternative atonement models may explain effects, but not the cause.



• With PSA, the cross is God’s greatest act of love AND justice—without it, just sentiment.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Wretched 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.

0:24.2

It's a joy. I come alive. This is what I was made for. It's time for Rretched Radio with Todd Friel.

0:30.3

It is time to be very, kelful.

0:40.9

The way was the guy who would shoot at Bugs Bunny.

0:42.6

What was his name?

0:43.1

Elmer Foote.

0:44.1

Elmer Fudd.

0:46.2

Be be bowie, bowie, careful.

0:47.6

It is that time.

0:50.3

Indeed, this is Wretched Radio.

0:55.0

No doubt you're still feeling the sting of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

1:01.7

Most likely, you've heard pretty much every angle of it expressed six or seven hundred different times. So I'm hoping that this approach will be unique and helpful. As we answer the question, how now do we respond to a world that

1:16.1

rejoiced at the assassination of a young man, a husband, and a father for simply practicing

1:22.1

free speech on a sunny day on a university campus in Utah? If we do not think this through wisely and well,

1:31.0

we will likely have the wrong response,

1:33.3

the least effective response,

1:35.1

and potentially a sinful response.

1:38.8

What is the response?

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