Statement #5: 'God won't give you more than you can handle'
- Does God really never give you more than you can handle?
A host reads the article's reversal: everything is more than we can handle; faith is surrender (2 Corinthians 1:8, Matthew 11:28). One host says the phrase is weaponized as cheap comfort in tragedies ('what am I doing wrong?'). A host addressed as Dan ties it to self-reliance; the group discusses American comfort versus surrender, Laodicea (Revelation 3), and how the saying misrepresents God's character - 'an umbrella when it's not raining.' They land on the rephrase: 'God will never give you more than he can handle.'
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Holy Spirit experience: healing, cessationism, and testing the spirits
- Is there a normative experience of the Holy Spirit in the world today?
The central hard question: is there a normative experience of the Holy Spirit in the world today, and what does it mean for a follower of Jesus?
From No. 593 · Do You Hear What I Hear
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Dear LFTP 3: Mom's false teeth
- What should the family do with their late mother's false teeth?
Mike reads the letter: the family found their late mother's false teeth — creepy to keep, wrong to discard?
From No. 590 · Theodore Franco
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Dear LFTP: should I attend my murdered niece's funeral?
- Should I attend my murdered niece's funeral after thirty years of family estrangement?
Mike reads a letter from a woman estranged from her brother's family for thirty years whose niece was murdered by her husband in a murder-suicide.
From No. 587 · Coffee After Sunday
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Dear LFTP: AA member who witnessed a life-support withdrawal
- How do I come to terms with accidentally witnessing a fellow AA member's life-support withdrawal?
An AA member writes that while visiting a hospitalized fellow member with cookies, he arrived at the exact moment doctors withdrew life support and witnessed the family's raw grief; he now fears he intruded and caused harm.
From No. 568 · Like Jesus