Ten years later: the 'can you call God bro' debate revisited
- Is it okay to call God casual names like 'bro' or 'big dog'?
Nathaniel retells the story from a decade earlier: a 19-year-old, fresh off a Walgreens shift and jazzed on Arizona tea, argued at length with Boova about whether it is okay to call God 'bro'. Mike and Ben took the reverent side. The room re-litigates it: 'bro' and 'big dog' are out, 'dad' is fine, 'daddy God' is creepy, and the real question is intimacy-with-reverence (Aslan is both safe and not tame). A cafeteria worker calling a host 'big daddy' sparks a riff on unwanted terms of address. They close the names discussion with Yahweh vs. Jehovah vs. Yeshua/Yehoshua: Yahweh is the revealed personal name, and praying it is an honor, not showing off.
More on Prayer
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'When God is silent': what counts as hearing from the Lord?
- What does it mean to 'hear from the Lord,' and how often should we expect it?
Mike brings a question from his Bible study, whose paragraph heading was 'when God is silent': the author wrote that he experienced God's silence for a couple of weeks and freaked out, and Ben expected a relatable years-long drought story — 'Oh, two weeks.
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'What would I fight God on?': buildings, pews, and the zero-fruit youth group
- What would I fight God on — and would my heart go along with following him?
Ben shares what he ran into in the last couple weeks: 'what would I fight God on even if I knew it was him?'
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Is modern Christianity biased toward a personality type?
- Is modern Christianity (its sermons and worship music) biased toward a certain personality type?
A host asks whether what churches teach, focus on, and sing is biased toward a certain personality type — prompted by emotive worship lyrics (the 'sloppy wet kiss' line in a…
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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.