Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cost of Discipleship - Part 5\n John 16:4a\n 06\/06\/2025\n\n\n 4a But I have said these things to you, that when\n their hour comes you may remember that I told them\n to you. (ESV)\n\n There is a cost of discipleship, a cost in this world as you\n hold in faith to Jesus Christ as your Redeemer from sin, death,\n and the power of the devil. The Church is at odds with the\n world, for the Church declares the sickness of sin so that the\n cure of the Gospel may be heard.\n\n Although in the United States we don't see Christians jailed\n or executed for their beliefs, we are very aware of the daily\n ridicule and scorn heaped upon people of faith. The\n constitutional freedom of religion has turned into the freedom\n from religion, to the extent that many Christian pastors are\n afraid to publicly pray in the name of Jesus.\n\n Yet, people of faith, people who hold to salvation by grace\n through faith for the sake of Christ, have hope in this sinful\n world. They remember Jesus' words: ``But I have said these\n things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I\n told them to you.'' They know that the Christian daily picks up\n his cross and follows Jesus, for Jesus is our only hope in this\n fallen and sinful life.\n\n You have the opportunity to hear that message of hope, of\n the love of the Father who sent His Son to redeem you from sin\n and death. Each Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. the redeemed\n children of God gather at Trinity Lutheran Church to receive\n God's gift of forgiveness. Please join us to hear of God's love.\n\n May our Lord grant you faith to trust in Christ Jesus who\n bore the guilt of your sin, and gives to you the gift of eternal\n life. Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 6, 2025 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}