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ALR112 – Holy Week, Heretics, and Jesus in Your Head

It’s Holy week and Lloyd and Pastor Bennett are tackling a mean-spirited heretic who compares Scripture to the Jesus in his head and all he can see is evil, conservative, white, male, privilege and power. Plus tips from Aaron, Mia, and Sgt. Bill.


ALR111 – Not Enough God? Not Enough Guns?

In this week’s episode, Lloyd and Pastor Bennett take on a pro-gun article that tries to make the case that God doesn’t prevent school shootings because we don’t have prayer or guns in our schools. Plus some listener emails, and tips from Sgt. Bill, Mia, and Aaron.


ALR110 – In the World But Not Of the World

Back from a week of medical convalescence, Lloyd and Pastor Bennett are perplexed by an article from Patheos.com that tries to explain the Parkland shooting by delving into the idea of “mediated violence” and how as Christians we should be “in the world, but not of the world.” Plus tips…


ALR109 – Thoughts on the Parkland School Shooting

Lloyd shares two thoughts on how Psalm 146 and Ash Wednesday relate to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Sgt. Bill shares lessons learned from a disqualification at his first sanctioned USPSA match. Mia shares a story of the dangers of being a good Samaritan. Aaron Israel shares some lessons…


ALR107 – We’re Just a Bunch of Antinomians!

Catholic author and speaker Mark Shea hates Trump and totally thinks you’re a member of the “Gun Cult” because you won’t accept meaningless gun control legislation. According to him, those who say “you can’t outlaw evil” are a bunch of Antinomian heretics.


ALR100 – 100thSpecial

For the first time, Lloyd is joined by all four contributors to look back at the first 100 episodes of the show. We get a behind the scenes look at the contributors’ segments, discuss current events, and have a little fun.


ALR94 – Child Sacrifice and the American Gun Cult

Whenever a mass killing happens in America we do nothing. If you define “nothing” as not passing meaningless gun control laws. So says a loopy leftist theology professor who says that because we won’t give up our guns, we’re no better than the ancient Canaanites who sacrificed their children to…


ALR92 – The Gospel for Gun-Loving Christians

What happens when the pastor of a progressive, social justice obsessed church buys a modern sporting rifle? Freakouts and hand-wringing, of course. To try to explain how this could have happened, author and musician David Gungor says gun-loving Christians love violence more than the Gospel and he aims to prove…


ALR089 – Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood

At age 15 Hesham Shehab was handed a sniper rifle and joined the Muslim Brotherhood during the Lebanese Civil War. He later was part of a mortar team, shelling civilians in Christian neighborhoods. Through the intervention of the Holy Spirit and a chance meeting with a Lutheran Pastor in Beirut,…


ALR088 – The Worst Sermon in the World

In this special episode, Lloyd and Pr. Bennett stumble upon what may be the most reprehensible thing they have ever analyzed in the 88-week history of the show. With all the technical glitches we endured to put this show together, we thought jokingly that Jesus didn’t want us listening to…


ALR085 – A Christian View of Home-Defense

There’s a difference between what’s legal and what’s moral when it comes to defense of your home and family. Shoot first, ask questions later or defending property with lethal force are bad ideas both legally and morally. Lloyd and Pastor Bennett discuss the moral issues surrounding home defense in Clinging…


ALR084 – I Always Wanted to Be a Cult Leader

This week we are talking about gun control, confiscation, and Biblical prophesy. Lloyd and Pastor Bennett review a video by Doug at Fellowship of the Martyrs (not a cult) who says confiscation is inevitable so the government can fulfill the events foretold in the Book of Revelation. He says God…


ALR083 – Talking Wheel Guns with Grant Cunningham

Instructor, author, and revolver expert Grant Cunningham joins us to talk about revolvers and his latest book. Sgt. Bill is talking about pre-stage rituals, Aaron Israel cautions us to avoid protests, and Pastor Bennett talks about weighing the call to help our neighbors and our responsibility to protect ourselves and…


ALR082 – God Wants You to Have a Weapon

In this week’s episode, Lloyd and Pastor Bennett dissect a sermon from independent Baptist preacher Stephen Anderson who falsely uses passages like Luke 22 to suggest that God wants you to have a weapon and then proceeds to give his flock really bad advice on guns and self defense. Mia…


ALR078 – The Armor of Light

In this special episode of Armed Lutheran Radio, Lloyd and Pastor Bennett take on a sermon by Rev. Rob Schenck. The sermon is part of a series of presentations in support of Rev. Schenck’s collaborative documentary film “The Armor of Light” which follows Schenck’s road from conservative Evangelical Christian, to…


ALR076 – The Cocky Swagger Returns

This week on Armed Lutheran Radio, Lloyd and Pastor Bennett take on another audio interview with Reverend John Piper (whose “cocky swagger” we first met back in Episode 55) who again suggests that we don’t need guns because he could not kill a home invader who would probably go to…