Rick Fry in Real Time

Episode 1- Vernon’s story about becoming a Christian, being “on fire for Christ,” “sold out for ministry,” and ultimately burning out.

Episode 3:  How can we help people discover the difference between living for God’s acceptance and living from God’s acceptance?

Episode 2:  Why do Christians expend so much energy trying to determine whether every hardship is God’s will or the devil’s attack?

Episode 1: Do we expect government to do something it was never designed to do?

In this episode Rick unwraps how God’s desire is to communicate and have relationship with us, which has been His plan from Genesis to now.

Episode 2: If this present era is called “the dispensation of grace,” does that imply that people before this age experienced God differently? Was grace operating differently before the cross and resurrection?

Episode 1: When people use the word “grace,” are they always talking about the same thing? How does grace as God’s character differ from “the dispensation of grace” as a theological system?

Episode 3: Rick and Dan discuss why it’s dangerous to turn spiritual gifts into status symbols, measurements of spirituality, or proof of worth. And how the function of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers is to build up the body rather than control it.

Episode 2 : Dan talks about the significance of Jesus descending into death and then ascending “far above all heavens” and what that reveals about His authority and sufficiency.

Episode 1: Rick and Dan discuss that Paul did not present gifts as badges of spiritual achievement, but as expressions of Christ’s life flowing through people who are already accepted. We can move from pressure to participation.

For years, I had interpreted my struggles through the lens of failure, weakness, and inadequacy. But grace confronted those beliefs head-on. Lori joins Rick as he shares a personal story.

Episode 2: Steve unpacks this question: if apostles were foundational and tied to the beginning of the church, how should that shape the way we think about spiritual authority today?

Episode 1: Rick and Steve discuss Paul saying that we’re to “walk worthy” by preserving unity. Is unity already being something we have, and not something we create?

Episode 3 – Larry and Rick talk about how the Bible teaches that union with Christ comes through faith, and not something everyone automatically has. How can we understand those passages that sound like Jesus has reconciled or included all people?

Episode 2 – Larry describes the Gospel not as many different messages, but one truth expressed in many ways.

Episode 1- Rick and Larry talk about how Jesus is not only the giver of grace and peace, but He is our grace and peace.

Episode 3 – Mike talks about the difference between the old and new covenants and why it’s important. 

Episode 2 – Rick and Mike discuss the difference between righteous anger and judgementalism, or if there is any difference.

Episode 1- Rick and Mike talk about how the Grace Message can put us at odds with mainstream denominations.