'What did Jesus mean?' — your faith has healed you
- What did Jesus mean by 'your faith has healed you' (Greek sozo), and how should Christ followers live those passages out today?
Dave Herrick, named on-air, leads the hard-question segment: Jesus repeatedly said 'your faith has healed you' (Greek sozo, also rendered 'saved you') — to the sinful woman who anointed his feet, the woman healed of bleeding who touched his garment, one of ten lepers who returned, and a blind man — so why is faith healing treated as fringe in mainstream churches? The hosts discuss self-styled healers who blamed a child with cerebral palsy for lacking faith, the apostles' violent deaths, the pool of Bethesda where not everyone was healed, and whether praying in absolute faith is honest when God may say no. A shared video of a Syrian Christian family preparing their children to die for their faith reframes faith as seeking God's perspective rather than demanding his compliance.
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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.
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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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