Pope-style advice: greeting-card love vs obedience
Called on to give pope-style advice (addressed on-air as 'Bubba'/'Buva', seg-00310), a host preaches against watered-down 'greeting card love': biblically, love is obedience — 'if you obey my commandments, it is he who loves me' (John 14), Deuteronomy 28, delighting in God's commands (Psalms). He extends the point to lordship: the American church never lived under a king, elected its authority instead, and treats God as a genie to rub for three wishes. A family member's 'I just pray a lot' faith becomes the illustration of a weak god vs the strong King. Advice: survey whether your 'love' for God is met with obedience and works.
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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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Dear LFTP: saying "I love you" too soon
- Is there a recommended timeframe for saying "I love you" in a new relationship?
Mike reads a letter from a man who reconnected with a woman he dated in the 1980s and told her he loved her too soon, then tried to walk it back to "caring and affection."
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Putting orthodoxy over love
- Does holding orthodox doctrine conflict with loving people?
The hosts take up the list's 'putting orthodoxy over love' item. One host argues orthodoxy IS love — communicating doctrine God intended people to know is itself an act of love — but warns against wielding doctrine as a tool of manipulation without the heart of God.
From No. 458 · 12 to 13 Mistakes From Wildin
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Church charity and the discernment line
- Is it wrong for a church to ask help-seekers to attend a service before giving aid?
Mike reads 2 Thessalonians 3:9-11 — "if anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat" — and the hosts revisit the Canadian church that offers a grocery gift card to help-seekers…
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