Framing the episode: what shakes our sense of loving God
- What makes a believer start doubting whether they really love God?
- What does it mean to 'hear from God,' and what is normative for believers?
A host frames the night's question, picking up last week's thread about his seven-year-old daughter wondering whether she really loves God: what contributes to the thought process where a believer feels inadequate — especially when comparing their experience of 'hearing from God' to other people's?
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Is the devil after you? Oppression versus circumstance
- Is the devil after you — can evil spirits focus effort to disrupt your life and work?
Asked for context on the docket question, one host describes his and his wife's sense of being attacked from all sides — finances, vehicles, family — while stepping into what they believe is God's path, and asks whether it's the enemy or just life.
From No. 525 · Asking AI Lamech
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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.
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Sidebar: spiritual gifts you would not want
- Is there a spiritual gift you would not want to have?
- What is the difference between preaching and teaching?
The second sidebar: which spiritual gifts would you refuse? Tongues and prophecy top the list, with Ezekiel's watchman ('his blood is on you') terrifying one host; Boova says he…
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Deconstruction: Nicodemus, demolition, or examination?
- Is deconstruction like what Jesus did to the Pharisees, or is it more destructive, and why?
Mike's question: when Jesus showed up and presented a reality of following Yahweh that was completely foreign to the Pharisees, was that deconstruction, and is modern deconstruction like that or more destructive?
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