Armed Lutheran Radio
Exploring the intersection of faith in Christ with our Second Amendment rights. Offering commentary, news, and reviews. Featuring weekly tips from trainers, master class shooters, and outdoorsmen (and women) plus interviews with Lutheran clergy and other pro-gun voices.
Episodes
Since 2019 we have traditionally aired a telling of the Biblical Christmas story. But this week, in our final episode of 2025, we're doing something a little different. Efforts by ICE and Border Patrol to crack down on illegal immigration have led some — like the police chief of Minneapolis — to opine that Joseph and Mary and baby Jesus were refugees. Therefore, we should, as Christians, be opposed to immigration enforcement. Lloyd...
Traditionally, since 2019, we share the account of Henry Williamson of his experience of the Christmas Truce in the First World War. It concludes with a prayer that, we, divided and broken politically, can come together as the combatants did on the western front in 1914. Today, Lloyd reflects on that story and how we no longer see that same star rising.
In our final online hangout of 2025, Lloyd and Stu, Tim, Donny, David and Marc share Christmas traditions, favorite meals, and memories of Christmases past.
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Prayer of th...
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! This week Lloyd is reviewing a recent post by the gun-grabbers at Everytown for Gun Safety that encourages readers to go out and ruin their family get-togethers with anti-gun talking points. Lloyd reviews 18 so-called "Myths" that the group wants you to foist upon your Thanksgiving guests to see how many, if any, are valid and just how misleading their so-called "facts" can be.
This week Lloyd sits down with our AI Overlords — ChatGPT, Venice.ai, Google Co-Pilot and Perplexity.ai — to answer questions about Christianity and gun rights. I expected more biased questions, but what I got were surprisingly non-partisan and some were really insightful.
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This week Lloyd reacts to an article that came across his morning news feed which asks what the Bible says about gun ownership and self-defense for Christians.
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Links of ...
Lloyd is sick and tired of being sick and tired and embarks on an epic rant about the 8th Commandment and the dispiriting rise of anti-Israel conspiracy theories on the Right, especially among Christians.
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Lloyd reacts to disgraced former CNN anchor Don Lemon who went on a pro-Second Amendment rant last week … calling for brown people to exercise their rights so they can shoot ICE. Plus a shout out to the "No Kings" protestors.
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This week we are hanging out with members of the Reformation Gun Club to discuss the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the direction of the country. Lloyd is joined by Pastor Bennett, Stuart Burt, contributor Steven Clifford, David, William Swenson, Donny Ross from the airport in St. Louis, David Scott, Curtis Heidel and Darrel Ambro.
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This week Lloyd and Pastor Bennett share their thoughts on the tragedy of Charlie Kirk's death and the state of our broken nation.
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Links of Interest
Lloyd shares his thoughts on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the ideology behind it, and where the country is heading.
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Links of Interest
Lloyd comments on the shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis by a trans man, the Left's predictable reactions, and the danger posed by the anti-Christian, death cult that is the trans movement.
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This week Lloyd reviews another article from his book "Duty to Defend," this one by Rev. Paul J. Cain, Jr. In Hebrews 12:14 we are told that we should "strive for peace with everyone." Does that mean we must give up our Second Amendment rights in order to fulfill this command?
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At long last, Lloyd and Pastor Bennett are back together and there are no guardrails. Their conversation includes the crisis of the shortage of pastors, the idiocy of the Democrat party and their messaging, the anti-credential movement on the political right, redistricting in Texas, the rise of Left-wing violence, the Epstein files, and more.
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Lloyd is joined by Reformation Gun Club members Donny Ross, Stuart Burt, William Swenson, Steven Cifford, Michael Soost, Tim Johnsrude, Curtis Heidel, and Darrell Ambro. The guys catch up, talk shooting, adult beverages, the NFA tax stamp changes in the "Big Beautiful Bill" and fun shooting stories.
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This week we are covering another chapter from the book "Duty to Defend," and a chapter on gun free zones which is based on an interview with Rev. Ralph A. Abernethy III. We are going back to the grooveyard of forgotten favorites, with the original audio from that interview, originally released in 2016 in episode 43. Lloyd and Rev. Abernethy discuss what should the Christian gun-owner's attitude be toward gun free zones.
This week Lloyd waffles on for a bit about the dangers of AI and how to use it safely. Like the gun, he argues, AI is a tool that can be used for good or for ill, but its constant improvement–combined with ill intent–poses a grave threat to the truth.
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This week we are looking at another article from the book "Duty to Defend", this one by the Rev. Jason Reed. When Jesus speaks of the "strong man, fully armed" guarding his possessions, is he speaking in support of using weapons to protect yourself and your home? Or does He have something much bigger in mind?
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This week we are looking at another article written by the Rev. Paul J. Cain, Jr. from the book "Duty to Defend". Does loving your neighbor mean supporting gun control? Can you love your neighbor as yourself if you support gun ownership?
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Lloyd discusses a shocking murder of a pastor in Arizona, plus a few hot takes on gun rights and mental illness.
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