God's will, prayer, and the 24/7 prayer room
- How do you pray for specific things when you cannot know God's will in advance?
Discussion of praying for specific things without knowing God's will in advance -- the 'vicious circle' between 'ask and you will receive' and 'your will be done' -- plus the trap of over-spiritualizing small decisions and the Great Commission's 'as you go' (a Greek participle; the imperative is 'make disciples,' Matthew 28). Mid-segment a host notices Sean Engeldinger's Facebook page posted during the song -- his kids noting the one-year mark on October 22 -- and the hosts describe their church's two-week 24/7 prayer room: graffiti prayer walls, a metro map with stickers for the lost, prayer captains covering every hour, and how the wall's tone shifted from raw grief after Sean's death to praise.
More on Grief
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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