Boova's testimony: keeping faith after losing both parents
- How can you still have faith when God killed your parents?
John Boova tells how someone angrily asked him, 'How can you still have faith after God killed your parents?' His father died 10/22/2009 when Boova was 18, his mother about a year later. He ran from God for nearly a year, then realized his faith had been built on his dad (Sean) rather than on Christ: 'I had to cling to my heavenly father, not my earthly father.' He now calls his dad's death 'the best day of my life' — the loss that gave him an honest, personal faith — and plans to follow up with the angry man, who he suspects is really angry at God and wants validation.
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Midlife-crisis faith questions: when suffering gets close to home
- Which of God's promises can I count on as mine when people are free to refuse them?
The hosts name the first cluster of midlife-crisis faith questions: when the broken world's weight lands close to home, believers ask whether God is really good even when they cannot see it.
From No. 556 · A Christian Mid-Life Crisis
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Why people ditch God
- Why do people ditch God?
Reading a Christian Post article by Robin P. Shoemaker, the hosts work through three reasons people leave faith: bad events that wreck a life, bad representatives of the faith, and bad morals that collide with sexual freedom.
From No. 505 · Because of Fussy and Fuzzy
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Don't take macro action based on micro analysis
- Am I taking macro action based on micro analysis?
A host introduces his principle — 'don't take macro action based upon micro analysis,' or 'don't take broad action based upon narrow analysis' — and the room tests it across examples.
From No. 450 · Good News of Narrow Focus
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What would it take for you to stop believing Christianity?
- What would it take for you to think that Christianity wasn't true?
A host poses the question directly: 'Dan, what would it take for you to think that Christianity wasn't true?'