Ask the Pastor
Boova brings a Bible or theology question he can't shake, and the pastors work through it on air.
38 conversations · 22 episodes · 2022–2026
38 conversations
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Show open: the chamoy peach-ring ambush and the docket
After the produced intro voiceover, a host opens the show live from the Pathway Studios in Johnston proper.
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Ask the Pastor: encouraging perseverance with no payoff in sight
- How do you pastorally encourage perseverance when there is no visible payoff?
Boova's Ask the Pastor comes from a man at his church: two and a half years separated with no divorce finalized, co-parenting with a spouse running the other direction while he himself has gotten sober, steady, and safer — and he is tired of being the bigger person.
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Show open, docket, and guest intro
- In Genesis 32, who is Jacob actually wrestling with — and what is Peniel?
- Do I truly understand Daniel 7 — and how do I understand God's perfect emotions?
Produced-voiceover open and the live start from the Pathway Studios in Johnston proper; the docket is set: guest Jared Horace of Sheep Gate, an Ask the Pastor question on Genesis…
From No. 569 · Up Late
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Show open: Charlie Kirk assassination and the docket
- How should Christians respond to the assassination of Charlie Kirk?
- Why is Ezekiel eating a scroll in Ezekiel 3?
Ben opens the show with the docket: the assassination of Charlie Kirk five days earlier is the big cultural event the hosts want to discuss, framed as 'how do we react to it' rather than a news diagnostic.
From No. 568 · Like Jesus
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Ask the Pastor: why Ezekiel eats the scroll
Cody McCormick's complaint-line question: why does Ezekiel snack on scrolls in Ezekiel 3? Ben reads Ezekiel 2–3 at length.
From No. 568 · Like Jesus
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Ask the Pastor: Michael the prince in Daniel 12
Boova asks his Daniel 12 question: how should he take in the named angel Michael, 'the great prince who has charge of your people,' without cartoonish Hollywood angelology?
From No. 568 · Like Jesus
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Show open and docket
- When you think you've been wronged by a church leader or your church community, what is the best way to go about it — and where do you draw the line on an unhealthy place?
Produced opening voiceover (kept anonymous), then Ben (speaker-0) runs the docket: a Facebook post calling out a church body frames the night's question — when you think you've…
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Show open, cowboy-hat comedy, and docket
The produced intro gives way to the host's live show start from the Pathway Studios in Johnston. Mike is wearing a cowboy hat brought in by in-studio visitor Connor Stone, and the hosts rib him about it while Dan arrives late from the state fair.
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Ask the Pastor: Joan of Arc and violence in God's name
- How should we think about Joan of Arc and claims of divine direction toward violence?
A complaint-line listener asks how to think about Joan of Arc, who claimed divine visions directing her to support Charles VII in war.
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Docket: Boova is back, and a hard question
- Will God provide direction for you to do or say violent things (the Joan of Arc question)?
Ben runs the docket: Boova is back in the studio after months away and will tell his story. Teased for later: an Ask the Pastor question about Joan of Arc — did God direct her…
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Ask the Pastor setup: can a prophet of the Lord lie?
- Can a prophet of the Lord lie, and how should Micaiah's false word in 1 Kings 22 be understood?
Boova poses the Ask the Pastor question from 1 Kings 22: Micaiah first tells Ahab what he wants to hear, then tells the truth, and Ahab dies anyway.
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Is there value in reading the Apocrypha?
- Is there any value in reading the Apocrypha?
A host proposes the first ask-the-pastor question: is there any value in reading the Apocrypha (ASR renders "Apolographa") given that it is not accepted as canon and is textually contested?
From No. 552 · Affirming the Nasty Part
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The lying spirit and Micaiah's prophecy at the end of 1 Kings
- How do we make sense of the Lord sending a lying spirit to Ahab's prophets, and of Micaiah lying after vowing to speak only what the Lord says?
The second ask-the-pastor question digs into the end of 1 Kings: the deceitful spirit sent from the Lord's war council to speak a lying tongue to Ahab's prophets, and Micaiah's…
From No. 552 · Affirming the Nasty Part
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Show open, 1,000 Balloons promo, docket, and guest intro
The produced opening voiceover (diarized as speaker-0) gives way to Ben's live start from the Pathway Studios in Johnston proper.
From No. 548 · Artificial Holy Spirit Intelligence
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Ask the Pastor: Boova's Acts 8 baptism question
- Do people baptized in the name of Jesus still need laying on of hands to receive the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:14-17)?
Ben introduces Ask the Pastor, jokingly sponsored by 1,000 Balloons, and Boova (after an audiobook pitch where he reads the whole novel himself: "God has a plan for this book, and…
From No. 548 · Artificial Holy Spirit Intelligence
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Show open, docket, and the Gnostics explainer
- What does 'Gnostic' mean?
- Are you mad at God?
Ben opens the show and runs the docket: guest Dirk Von Steen is in the studio, a sober soldiers event plug, Mike's wife texting him 'are you mad at God?', and Boova's Ask the Pastor on Jeremiah 26.
From No. 547 · Tales with Dirk
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Ask the Pastor: Uriah, Micah, and the canon
- Why don't I have Uriah's prophecies in my 66 books when I have Micah's?
- How do I know I have everything we're supposed to have in the Bible?
Boova's Ask the Pastor: Jeremiah 26 names both Micah and Uriah son of Shemaiah as prophesying like Jeremiah, yet only Micah's words are in the 66 books.
From No. 547 · Tales with Dirk
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Ask the Pastor: how do pastors decide what to teach
- How do you pastors decide what to teach — through books passage by passage, or topic to topic — and how do you know you are preaching what the people need rather than what you want?
Boova (speaker-2) brings his Ask-the-Pastor question: when you preach, do you go through books passage by passage or bounce around by topic, and how do you decide?
From No. 546 · For God or With God
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Ask the Pastor answered: how pastors decide what to teach
Boova's question finally gets answered. Dan (speaker-3), who began preaching forty and a half years ago, describes praying through the week and trusting God to surface the text —…
From No. 546 · For God or With God
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Boova's question: Paul's third heaven
- What is the 'third heaven' Paul mentions in 2 Corinthians 12?
Boova poses his ask-the-pastor question from 2 Corinthians 12: Paul's 'I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven.'
From No. 541 · Why Not The Second Heaven
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First Beninthians and Paul's 'not from the Lord'
A comedy bit invents 'First Beninthians' and 'Second Hesitations' for things the Lord didn't say, leading into Paul's move in 1 Corinthians 7 of distinguishing 'the thing the Lord said' from 'the thing... not from the Lord'.
From No. 538 · Weekend At Bildad’s
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Ask the pastor: was Judah saving Joseph or profiting off him?
- Was Judah trying to save Joseph's life, or was he just vicious enough to profit off selling him?
The ask-the-pastor question comes from Genesis 37: with Joseph in the pit and the brothers set on killing him, Judah proposes selling him to the Ishmaelites instead - 'what profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?'
From No. 538 · Weekend At Bildad’s
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Show rundown: Ask the Pastor tease and 'Is Boova an idiot?'
Ben (speaker-1, addressed as 'Ben' by speaker-2 at seg-00126) sets the docket: Boova has an Ask the Pastor about the Judas kiss, and the room opens a running vote on whether Boova is a schmuck for a story he wants to run by the crowd.
From No. 533 · You Can Buy Me Phalanges
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Ask the Pastor: why did the temple guards need Judas to kiss Jesus?
- Why did the temple guards need Judas to identify Jesus with a kiss?
Boova (speaker-2, handed the Ask the Pastor at seg-00011) asks why, if Jesus was a public figure with priests plotting at Caiaphas's house, anyone needed Judas to point him out.
From No. 533 · You Can Buy Me Phalanges