About Radical Grace for Real People with Ben Bergren
This is the podcast page for Ben Bergren. He is the Senior Pastor of Community Lutheran Church of Las Vegas, NV. Ben teaches with relevance and passion. Listen in each week as he teaches from the Bible.
Most of us think welcome means saying hello and moving on. But how to make someone feel welcome is a harder question, and it matters more than we admit, especially for the person who walked into a room full of strangers carrying something heavy and wondering if anyone will notice. In this message, we look at a fifteen-year-old who knelt in an airplane aisle and spelled "How are you?" into the hand of a lonely stranger, and at a dinner party Jesus described, where the excuses for staying away didn't feel like sin. They just felt like Tuesday. Welcome isn't about fixing anyone or finding the right words. It's about refusing to let someone be alone and unnoticed. This is week one of our five-week Core Values series.
28 Sept 2026
The End of the Beginning: Is it too Late for Me?
If you've ever wondered is it too late for me, this message is for you. Using a parable Jesus told about workers hired at every hour of the day — some from sunrise, some with barely an hour left before quitting time — this episode makes the case that grace doesn't run on a stopwatch. Whether you've followed Jesus your whole life or you're only now wondering if there's room for you, the timing was never the point. God's generosity was.
14 Sept 2026
The End of the Beginning: Am I Good Enough?
"Am I good enough?" Most of us ask it and already assume the answer is no — short tempers, old grudges, the gap between who we want to be and who we actually are on a bad day. Even Martin Luther asked it, obsessively, until a mentor told him something that flipped the question entirely. This isn't a pep talk about trying harder. It's about where the goodness actually comes from — and it's not from you.
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