144 conversations
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Is the devil after you? Oppression versus circumstance
- Is the devil after you — can evil spirits focus effort to disrupt your life and work?
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.
From No. 525 · Asking AI Lamech
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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.
From No. 505 · Because of Fussy and Fuzzy
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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…
From No. 494 · 500-ish
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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?
From No. 460 · 14 to 25 Mistakes From Wildin’
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Don't take macro action based on micro analysis
- Am I taking macro action based on micro analysis?
A host introduces his principle — 'don't take macro action based upon micro analysis,' or 'don't take broad action based upon narrow analysis' — and the room tests it across examples.
From No. 450 · Good News of Narrow Focus
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Grace for deconstruction: separating church culture from the faith
- Has anyone ever approached you about deconstruction and asked for help?
A host admits the word 'deconstruction' irritates him but offers a grace-filled reading: many who use the term come from large celebrity-pastor church cultures where the culture…
From No. 450 · Good News of Narrow Focus
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Dear LFTP: teen chafes under mom's church insistence — don't bring gas to the fire
- How should a teen handle mom's insistence on church attendance?
A 15-year-old resents mom insisting on church attendance. The hosts side mostly with going — "you're 15, shut up, put on your mask and go" — but warn the teen not to hinge faith…
From No. 429 · Following the American Jesus
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The persecuted church and Western comfort
- What does biblical faith (pistis) mean: belief without proof, or belief because you saw?
The hosts work through a 2021 list of the 50 countries where it is most dangerous to follow Jesus, noting that 13 Christians are killed for their faith every day, with North Korea…
From No. 422 · Jesus, Technology and Persecution
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What would it take for you to stop believing Christianity?
- What would it take for you to think that Christianity wasn't true?
A host poses the question directly: 'Dan, what would it take for you to think that Christianity wasn't true?'
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Would you follow Christ alone?
- Would you follow Christ on your own if your church community were taken away?
Mike asks whether listeners would follow Christ on their own if community were stripped away, no Zoom church, no classes, picturing Moses herding sheep alone in the desert and a shepherd living three months in a distant field.
From No. 402 · It’s OK to Stay Home
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Obedience over emotional weight; the 'emotional tattoo'
- Is there something wrong with my faith if I don't emotionally feel the weight of the gospel?
The hosts conclude that the proper reaction to the gospel is obedience, which goes further than feeling an emotional weight.
From No. 355 · The Weight of Grace
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What 'evangelical' means, and faith versus works
- Can someone call themselves a Christian without their life showing it?
The hosts debate the hollowness of self-identified 'evangelical' as a label when voting patterns don't reflect it, arguing that followers of Jesus are recognizable by fruit, not labels.
From No. 270 · The Evangelical Label
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Pope-style advice: obedience before confirmation
- How do I know whether I've heard God correctly or just manufactured the prompting myself?
- Are Christians — or people generally — too risk-averse to take steps of obedience?
Dave Herrick — whom a crowd of followers has decided is the pope, and who was trapped by them in a cave over the weekend — delivers pope-style advice on the order of faith: we…
From No. 234 · The Messiah Complex
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'What did Jesus mean?' — your faith has healed you
- What did Jesus mean by 'your faith has healed you' (Greek sozo), and how should Christ followers live those passages out today?
Dave Herrick, named on-air, leads the hard-question segment: Jesus repeatedly said 'your faith has healed you' (Greek sozo, also rendered 'saved you') — to the sinful woman who…
From No. 212 · 50 Things the Holy Spirit Does
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'What are our snakes?' — self-imposed tests of faith
- What are 'our snakes' — the actions by which we measure the strength of faith in ourselves and others?
A host, addressed on-air as 'Ben', poses the reflective question: what are 'our snakes' — the actions by which people measure the strength of faith in themselves and others, such as how someone disciplines their kids or how fast they can quote scripture.
From No. 178 · What Are Our Snakes?
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Would the hosts swap faith practices with an atheist?
- Would you trade 30 days of your faith rituals to get an atheist buddy to try church?
The hosts debate whether they would trade thirty days of prayer and church rituals for an atheist buddy's immersion in their ways.
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Dear LFTP: a 13-year-old crushing on two boys
- A 13-year-old is crushing on two boys -- which one should she pursue?
A 13-year-old asks whether to pursue Jake (good for everything, may not like her back) or Corey (looks and popularity, definitely interested).
From No. 161 · Persecution and Millennials
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Proof #51: Think about God and Baal
- Does the Elijah-and-Baal story in 1 Kings 18 prove that God is imaginary?
The hosts walk through proof #51 from godisimaginary.com: think about God and Baal. A host reads the 1 Kings 18 account of Elijah confronting Baal's prophets on Mount Carmel, then reads the site's argument that God's failure to show himself today proves he is imaginary.
From No. 148 · Now Serving Seven
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Verdict: the proof admits it is not a proof
- How should Christians respond when their faith is questioned?
The hosts note the proof's own conclusion asks 'is this a direct proof that God is imaginary? No,' and argue the site's strong incentives do not explain answered prayer.
From No. 138 · 30 Below
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Saved by grace but it should look like something: faith and works
- Why are people so afraid of works if faith without works is dead?
From a chat comment ('no one goes to heaven by works; it is grace'), the hosts discuss the full counsel of God's word: grace is everything, but Scripture's moral guidance is a thermometer — faith without works is dead, 'one oar in the boat'.
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Mark 11:24 and how prayer actually works
- Does God have a will for every decision, like eggs vs toast for breakfast?
A host presses the 'whatever you ask in prayer, believe you have received it' promise as a chocolate-milk-in-the-front-yard test case; the group works through context: Jesus was…
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Dear LFTP: 50-year-old single man and the coworker
- Would a 50-year-old Christian man's very different background from a coworker impede a healthy relationship?
Dear LFTP letter: a single, never-married 50-year-old man raised with conservative Christian values is drawn to a coworker twice married with two children, and asks whether their different backgrounds would impede a healthy relationship.
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Dear LFTP: atheist dating a Christian
- I am an atheist dating a Christian ('Randy') who wants an ideal Christian family; how do we handle raising children with opposing beliefs?
A listener writing under a pseudonym asks how she and 'Randy,' a Christian, can reconcile raising children when she is an atheist and he wants an 'ideal Christian family.'
From No. 67 · September 5 2011
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Chat questions: what must one do to be saved?
- What must one do to be saved?
- At what point is someone saved?
Reading listener questions from the chat — one host tosses the first to Dan by name — the hosts answer that faith is always the baseline: belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of the living God who died physically and rose physically, since 'demons believe and shudder' too.
From No. 34 · Where Do I Start?