Dear Fellow Believers, 

This show is a doozie. Listening to this program after twenty years impresses on my mind how important this work is, and how the message of Christ's victory never gets old.

While last week's show was a hard-hitting Scripture-based exposition, this show is a personal, heartfelt inquiry as to why no one seems to care about the truth. Here is the sad reality of Christianity: like the Pharisees of old, this religion loves tradition more than truth. At times, we at Grace Cafe felt like we were broadcasting into a great void. Was anyone listening? Did anyone care? And yet as I have always taught, it is not the reception of the truth that determines the worth of our work, but the work itself. And boy did we ever work.

Denise Telep opens this edition of Grace Cafe with an inspired monologue as to the state of the tradition-bound religious mindset, then shares her own encounter with the truth and how it changed her life.

Rodney Paris, who puts these presentations together from 23-year-old cassette tapes, just told me how privileged he feels to get "first dibs" on these messages that have not seen the light of day in over twenty years. Indeed, this is like unearthing a great cache of jewels. We sink our hands into the treasure and we thank God for the rare (apparently) privilege of basking in the warmth of God's unstinted, unstoppable, and undeserved favor. May many more people come to the realization of the truth of what Jesus Christ fully accomplished without our cooperation.

Remaining yours from the Floridian peninsula,

Martin