Romans, propitiation, and learning to live in the peace
- How do you get from being stuck at grace's door to living in the peace?
Dan, teaching through Romans, walks through chapters 4 and 5: Abraham, justification, and the peace that comes from wrath turned away — propitiation — which drinkers and strivers alike fail to grasp. Boova confesses he's fluent at the shame side of the cross but can't receive the garden-with-the-Father side. Mike describes being stuck at "grace's door," unable to pray freely or trust the Spirit's voice, and frames refusing the peace as its own pride. Cody asks, "I'm asking for a friend — how do you get there?" The answer: be in the Word, be in God's presence, practice prayer past the awkwardness. Boova closes the arc with the gospel sweep — Adam, Babel, Abraham, David all failed to clean themselves; Yeshua, "Yahweh brings salvation," already did it — and Mike ties it to Dan's point about wasted anxious striving.
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Is the devil after you? Oppression versus circumstance
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Asked for context on the docket question, one host describes his and his wife's sense of being attacked from all sides — finances, vehicles, family — while stepping into what they believe is God's path, and asks whether it's the enemy or just life.
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Why people ditch God
- Why do people ditch God?
Reading a Christian Post article by Robin P. Shoemaker, the hosts work through three reasons people leave faith: bad events that wreck a life, bad representatives of the faith, and bad morals that collide with sexual freedom.
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Sidebar: spiritual gifts you would not want
- Is there a spiritual gift you would not want to have?
- What is the difference between preaching and teaching?
The second sidebar: which spiritual gifts would you refuse? Tongues and prophecy top the list, with Ezekiel's watchman ('his blood is on you') terrifying one host; Boova says he…
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Deconstruction: Nicodemus, demolition, or examination?
- Is deconstruction like what Jesus did to the Pharisees, or is it more destructive, and why?
Mike's question: when Jesus showed up and presented a reality of following Yahweh that was completely foreign to the Pharisees, was that deconstruction, and is modern deconstruction like that or more destructive?
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