Pope-style advice, barrel one: live out your testimony
- If the store refuses to take the money, must you still insist on paying for their pricing mistake?
The host addressed on-air as Boova delivers the first of two 'Pope-style' advice bits: living out Christ's work is a stronger testimony than quoting Scripture, illustrated by his story of discovering a grocery cashier charged him $1.50 for two steaks and insisting his brother return to pay the full price — 'if I can't be honest in something as stupid as $9, how can I be trusted with anything else?' The room then spars over an earlier incident where he crushed an alarm clock at Walmart and whether he must insist on paying when the store refuses.
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Dear LFTP: explaining an invisible disability
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Dear LFTP: ending a friendship or ghosting the young couple
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- How do I tell my boyfriend his expensive bed and couch are too uncomfortable to sleep on?
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Dear LFTP: the aggressively negative colleague
- Should I make excuses or be honest with a negative, aggressive friend?
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