Thankful Leper update: the roundup, the locker room, Monday-night pizza
Boova (speaker-0) updates the Thankful Leper ministry's downtown Des Moines work: the 'roundup' every other Sunday at the Pappajohn Sculpture Park (next one October 26 at 2pm), needed donations (camping gear, hygiene items, and gift cards for Subway, Walmart, McDonald's, Wendy's, Taco John's, Jimmy John's, and QuickTrip), a planned 'locker room' where homeless campers can safely store belongings during the day, and Monday-night hot meals at Chef D's Rock Power Pizza. He gives thankfulleper.squarespace.com, names Bobby Depper and April Babcock as contacts, and jokingly gives his own Facebook name as 'Troy Engeldinger' (also searchable as 'John Buva'). The main host offers the show's inbox as a relay.
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Complaint-line follow-up: tithing, blessing, and the prosperity gospel
- Does faithfulness in giving guarantee material blessing, and does suffering imply unfaithfulness?
Ben reads his own complaint-line text challenging the prior show's tithe conversation: if giving brings blessing (Malachi's 'test me in this'), how should blessing be understood when faithful givers still lack basic needs, and does suffering imply unfaithfulness?
From No. 530 · Know Self Control
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Dear LFTP: the $8 spaghetti sauce in the grocery line
- Should I feel guilty for not covering the stranger's grocery bill when I could barely afford my own?
Boova (speaker-2, who reads the letter on-air) reads a Dear LFTP letter: at a grocery store, a young woman with an $8 jar of spaghetti sauce used the last of her food-stamp card,…
From No. 522 · Biking with Billy Shatner
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Only thirteen percent of evangelicals tithe
- What percentage of evangelicals actually tithe?
- Does a day set apart as holy still matter beyond legalism?
A giving study ("The Generosity Factor" finds only 13% of evangelicals tithe, half give less than 1% of income, and the median church giver gives about $800 a year.
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Practical kingdom actions: check-ins, restraint, and giving
- Should churches keep meeting in person during the pandemic?
Asked what the kingdom of Christ should be doing, a host gives three recommendations: make phone calls to isolated and immunocompromised people (even just dropping things on the…
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