Mailbag Edition
This week we had a mailbag edition starring Glen Rien, Doug Salonen, Shean Smith, Robert de Vries, Wayne Leis, Brain Noyes and Barry Gustafson, who brought us topics like how many covenants were there, How to grow a megachurch, some thoughts on Noah, why people leave religion just to join another religion, how to serve the Lord and being real. Enjoy Family!
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Faith IN Christ or Faith OF Christ
What were you told to believe? That it was YOUR faith that saved you? Or that it was Christ’s faith that redeemed the world? Mike Williams and Don Bartlett put this one to bed once and for all, pointing out as well, that if you can do ANYTHING gain your redemption, then you must also be able to do something to lose it. It is Jesus all the way!
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God Corralled Us All In Unbelief
In this week’s Powercast Mike Williams and Don Bartlett discuss a question that was posted in the Gospel Revolution Private Group on Facebook. The question asked about Romans 3:22 and specifically about faith “in” Christ being required for righteousness. The discussion pointed out that Romans 3:22 says “faith of Christ” not “in Christ. The conversation led
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The Grace Imposter Addresses Part 31: The Broadest Context Can Lead To The Brightest Understanding
In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Don Bartlett discussed feedback from Gospel Revolutionaries on our Facebook groups. One post was from Michael Turi of Pennsylvania who made a bright observation about what Jesus said and did before and after the cross. Don and Mike also returned to addressing Jim Richards’ letter against the gospel and Mike Williams, and most conspicuous conclusion
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The Grace Imposter Addresses Part 30: Knowing Christ
In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Don Bartlett take on one of the most sensitive statements in Jim Richards’ letter against Mike Williams and the gospel. In this passage of the letter, Jim uses a quote from the Bible to define what knowing Christ is. It actually was a defense of applying the law and connecting it with knowing Christ , when actually Paul the Apostle said the
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The Grace Imposter Addresses Part 29: The Practice of New Testament Phraseology
In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Don Bartlett address statements from Shean Smith of Alabama and Jimmy McCollum of Illinois, which leads to an interesting conversation about what it’s like to embrace the gospel and what that means to your view of Christianity. From there, they resume reading the next accusation from Jim Richard’s letter against Mike Williams and the
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The Grace Imposter Addresses Part 28: What Does ‘Experiencing Grace’ Even Mean?
Disclaimer: The image above is a graphic representing the current Christian conventional wisdom of grace
and should not, by any stretch of the imagination, be construed with the gospel!
In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Don Bartlett resume addressing Jim Richards’ letter against Mike Williams and the gospel. Thanks to many people contacting us, we first hear from several people
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The Grace Imposter Addresses Part 27: Getting to the Root of the Fruit
In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Don Bartlett discuss the next section of Jim Richards’ letter against Mike and the gospel. In this part of the letter, Jim quotes part of what Jesus said about knowing “them” by their fruit, which leads Mike to address not only the context of the quote but also the major underlying reason why Jim wrote this diatribe against Mike
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What do the Scriptures Say?
In this week’s episode, Mike and Don begin with – “what’s in a name?!” – followed by a walk down memory lane resulting from a wonderful email sent by Darin Bell. Then Shawn Smith with questions, questions! What about using the term, “gospel”? Wayne Leis asks about LIFE!
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Predestination and Faith
This week’s Powercast recording unfortunately did not go off without a hitch. HOWEVER, we have something very special for you instead. This week’s Powercast is one of the seven recordings from Mike’s seminar this Spring in Calgary on Predestination. This particular session was on the subject of the role of faith in predestination and specifically whose faith plays that role. To
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A Present Reality Based on a Past Fact
In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Beres Bartlett respond to some great emails from Sherri Antone, Vic d’Obrenan, Shean Smith and Doug Salonen. Later in the show, Mike and Beres are joined by Barry Laney of Cullman, Alabama to hear about his time sharing the gospel in the Philippines.
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The Grace Imposter Addresses Part 26: Personal Faith is a Damning Gospel
In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Beres Bartlett continue on in Jim Richards’ manifesto letter against Mike Williams and the gospel. In this episode, Jim says in his letter that without our personal faith, there is no power in the cross. Listen to the many responses Mike has to Jim’s gospel-damning statement. We also got to hear from Vic d’Obrennan in Calgary,
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The Rich Man and Lazarus
What do we do with the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus? Is it proof of a literal Lake of Fire? Is it a parable? Is it to be taken literally? Allegorically? In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Beres Bartlett dig deep into the mailbag and answer John Cowper’s question about this divisive parable, and what it meant to the first century Jewish mind. We also heard from Jeff Burman,
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The Application of this Gospel: An Authentic Life
In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Beres Bartlett are treated to a rare appearance from Michael Blanch, who is the Vice President of Mike Williams Ministries and the Gospel Revolution. Michael talked much about his history both with Christianity and the Gospel Revolution. He shared what it was like to come to understand the gospel and had a very astute summation of the result of the
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The Grace Imposter Addresses Part 25: Jesus Never Conquered Hell
In this week’s Powercast, Mike and Beres take another email from Wayne Leis in Ontario, Canada. Then the boys get back to addressing Jim Richards’ letter against Mike Williams and the gospel. A number of things are addressed in Jim’s letter, and Beres and Mike each make some statements that really shut the door on Jim’s attack but the lead-up to these statements can’t
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The Grace Imposter Addresses Part 24: Let’s Talk About Love… Conviction and Confession
In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Beres Bartlett pick up from last week’s cliffhanger episode in which they reached a topic from Shean Smith’s letter. The final part of Shean’s letter is addressed to answer what was left of last week’s Powercast, and then they went on to address Jim Richards’ letter against Mike Williams and the gospel. The entire episode
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Paul’s Little Helpers
In this week’s Powercast, Mike and Beres take quite a bit of feedback and have a lively discussion and answer session to these Gospel Revolutionaries. This week we heard from Wayne Leis in Ontario, Canada, Paul Havard in England, Vic d’Obrenan in Alberta, Canada and Shean Smith in Alabama, USA. The Gospel Revolution is truly a global movement.
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The Grace Imposter Addresses Part 23: Five Important Words
In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Beres Bartlett continue addressing Jim Richards’ lengthy letter against Mike and the gospel line by line and point by point. In reading the letter, it is apparent that Jim uses five words regularly used in Christian doctrine yet Jim’s own definitions of those words seem to change throughout the letter to serve his purpose in making his
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The Grace Imposter Addresses Part 22: The New Testament Debate
In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams talks with Beres Bartlett about seeing the movie “The Shack.” We also heard from Shean Smith in Alabama who asked about being rejected by Christians when leaving church. Finally, Mike and Beres address yet another accusation from Jim Richards in his letter against Mike and the gospel. Jim accuses Mike and the Gospel Revolution of rejecting
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Predestination: ‘It had Nothing to do with You, and It had Everything to do with You’
This week’s Powercast is a special excerpt from the recent conference in Calgary on the subject of predestination. This is the first session that Mike taught at the conference. As Beres says in the introduction to this episode, “It had Nothing to do with You, and It had Everything to do with You.
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The Grace Imposter Addresses Part 21: We Don’t Go With The Flow
In this week’s Powercast, Mike Williams and Beres Bartlett take questions from Vic d’Obrenan in Alberta, Canada, Wayne Leis in Ontario, Canada and Ted James Winsett in Alabama. Mike and Beres also address another accusation from Jim Richards’ article against Mike and the gospel.
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