Mailbag Friday: Patriotic Worship + Canceling Parents + Counting Kids

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s Mailbag Friday! You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.

Segment 1

• Trevor asks: “What are practical ways I can serve my pastor?”

Segment 2

• Bob asks a foundational question: What must be present for a baptism to be biblically valid?

• Anonymous wrestles with a painful issue: When, if ever, is "going no contact" with abusive parents a biblical option?

Segment 3

• Gordon asks whether our death date is predetermined — and how Christians should think about illness without fear or fatalism.

• Jon wonders if patriotic displays and songs belong in a worship service, or if they can distract from Christ.

• Anonymous asks how to lovingly evangelize a devoted cultural Christian who talks like a believer but may not understand the gospel at all.

Segment 4

• Anonymous asks whether getting a vasectomy is a wise stewardship decision or a sinful attempt to limit God's blessing.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Ritchin Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:08.7	To convince a child to keep walking, try switching roles with them.
0:12.8	Let the child play the role of the parent.
0:14.9	They'll immediately do what you want them to do.
0:17.2	You are raising in your home, people that the Bible is very clear about their status.
0:20.8	They need to be converted. Not just a conformity of their behavior. They need a transforming
0:25.2	encounter with the gospel of Jesus Christ. That is the ultimate priority. It's time for Rretched
0:31.6	Radio with Todd Freel.
0:34.1	It's the Ritchard Radio mail-call delivery bag, Q&A Infat infatement, nationwide extravagance. Featuring your voicemails, correspondences, communicates, dispatches, memorandums, and misses. Any special message for all the kids watching at home? What we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country. You have 1,200 messages.
0:55.3	It is a bit above average.
0:58.9	Now here's your host, Todd, freakishly tall, Freel.
0:59.7	Deval is here!
1:02.9	Ooh, this is Wretched Radio.
1:14.6	How would I have discovered this without you sending it to Idea at wretched.org? The answer is I wouldn't have found something like this because this is a story that is going to help you for the rest of your life. Should you happen to,
1:22.2	I don't know, go into a mosque or into a Jewish synagogue and just start screaming at everybody.
1:31.1	Oh, and they take you out in handcuffs, all you need to do is inform them, hey, this was just a protest.
1:38.9	Why do I say that?
1:40.3	This just in from St. Paul, Minnesota.
1:43.3	I'm sorry, I get emotional. St. Paul, Minnesota, my hometown.
1:49.7	There was an episode. Do you watch The House Hunters, Jimmy, on the HG TV?
1:53.6	I do not.
1:54.5	I caught an episode. It was from St. Paul, Minnesota. They were debating about moving to Woodbury or to St. Paul.
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