Dear LFTP: scared about starting high school
- How should a scared almost-14-year-old approach starting high school?
A host reads a Dear LFTP letter from an almost-14-year-old scared about entering high school, whose plan is to attend class, study hard, get good grades, and leave. The hosts affirm the plan is essentially that simple: take it a day at a time and refuse complications when they appear, finding joy in simple obedience rather than piling on gray complications. The reader then reads the 'Secular' answer — be nice, join activities, study hard, avoid wrongdoing, see the counselor — which the hosts call solid but so generic it feels inapplicable, like advice on a bookmark.
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Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
- Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
A host asks whether following Jesus should feel more comfortable as time goes on — noting the low-level tension many feel around am-I-doing-enough and the stigma that contentment equals laziness.
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Confetti and lasers: what should God's people be known for?
- Do we want to be known as the confetti and lasers people?
- What should God's people be known for?
Ben redirects to the docket's denomination question: when someone hears Silas's church described as 'the confetti and lasers people,' should that sting?
From No. 598 · Emphasis | Accountability, Worship and Praying with Strangers
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Recovery ministries, charismatic experience, and sustainable faith
- Can recovery ministries replace a chemical high with a spiritual high, and is that sustainable?
A long pastoral discussion starting from recovery ministries, which tend to come from charismatic backgrounds: the risk of trading a chemical high for event-driven spiritual highs.
From No. 555 · The Aslan Wears Prada
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What does it mean to make disciples
- What does it mean to make disciples — is it just giving information, or does it involve accountability and structure?
The hosts take up the third topic: two extremes of disciple-making. On one side, being only an information provider and leaving everything to the Spirit; on the other, running…
From No. 545 · By Invitation Only