32 conversations
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Holy Spirit experience: healing, cessationism, and testing the spirits
- Is there a normative experience of the Holy Spirit in the world today?
The central hard question: is there a normative experience of the Holy Spirit in the world today, and what does it mean for a follower of Jesus?
From No. 593 · Do You Hear What I Hear
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Should a miracle be shown? The case for evidence
- If you witnessed a miracle and skeptics demanded proof, would you show it?
The hosts land on 'show the toes': Jesus' healings were public and verifiable — the beggar at the beautiful gate jumping, 'go show yourselves to the priests' (Luke 17:14, quoted by the site's founder) — and the resurrected Jesus said 'look at me.'
From No. 492 · Show Me The Toes
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God doesn't do back-alley bounty: public miracles and creation's pace
- Are there miracles where God stepped in but did not want people to know, after Jesus?
A host shares a painful story of faith healers who prayed over a friend with MS and then shamed him for lacking faith, and the room agrees this kind of story 'doesn't smell like God's glory.'
From No. 492 · Show Me The Toes
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Is Jesus always the example?
- Is Jesus always the example? Is there anything Jesus does that we are not meant to emulate?
Ben poses the series question: is there anything Jesus does that we are not to exemplify, whether from inability or lack of intent?
From No. 407 · Can We Always Be Like Jesus?
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Dear LFTP: divorced after a 38-year marriage
- Is it unreasonable to still have lingering pain and anger after a 38-year marriage ended in betrayal and divorce?
The reader reads a letter from a 60-year-old woman divorced after a 38-year marriage ended by her husband's affair; she asks whether lingering pain and anger are unreasonable.
From No. 213 · Atheist Billboards
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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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Prayer for healing and God's discipline
- What is the place of praying for healing if God can be glorified through sickness?
- Should we expect God's discipline in this earthly life, and how do we tell discipline apart from fallen-world suffering?
The discussion turns to the place of praying for healing, biblical precedent for petitioning God (Moses interceding after the commandments; the parable of the persistent widow), and Hebrews 12 on God's discipline as corrective rather than punitive.
From No. 190 · Is God the Author of Sickness?
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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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Faith healers, energy medicine, and chiropractors
- Is belief in faith healers, energy healing, acupuncture, or reflexology compatible with faith?
Relayed from the chat: is there a biblical issue with faith healers like Benny Hinn, energy healers, acupuncture, and reflexology?
From No. 12 · Of Moose and Men
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The thread on unanswered prayer and suffering
The thread cites 40 years with no witnessed supernatural event, people dying of cancer, 47 funerals, and prayers for healing to no avail.
From No. 371 · 40 and Out
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Is it a blank check? Sovereignty, the fig tree, and forgiveness
The room converges on 'no': the promises sit inside God's sovereignty and kingdom purposes, not as leverage over him.
From No. 210 · What Do You Say to a Dying Teenager?
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Pushback: the penicillin example is weak; unexplained healings
The hosts argue the penicillin example proves nothing (nobody was praying for a petri dish; it was an accident), point to cases doctors called medically impossible (a co-host's heart condition), and ask why the author ignores healings science cannot explain.
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I Have Peace: eclampsia testimony and song
Ali tells the story behind her single "I Have Peace": eclampsia during pregnancy, a two-minute grand mal seizure, emergency delivery of her son Lincoln at 30 weeks in January…
From No. 388 · Allie Crummy and Video Game Jesus
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Hank Hanegraaff's brush with death and the word 'supernaturally'
- Should we stop using the word 'supernaturally'?
- What would you regret — leaving this earth, or missing heaven?
Ben reads a story about 'Bible Answer Man' Hank Hanegraaff surviving a brush with death during cancer treatment.
From No. 376 · People Who Don’t Know Pat Sajack
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Testimony: pain, healing, and twenty years clean
The wife guest testifies: years of bodily suffering, a swollen brain, wrong medications, and two years of unidentified liver pain taught her she is 'filthy' and drove her to nightly prayers for mercy.
From No. 224 · Seven Lies Christians Tell
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Michael Gungor's year of atheism
- Is it a problem that Michael Gungor believes Noah was fictitious?
Ben (addressed by name) reads a long article about Christian-alternative-rock musician Michael Gungor of the musical collective Gungor: he fully embraced atheism in 2012 and no longer literally believes in creation, Adam and Eve, or the flood.
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Testimony: the shrinking aneurysm
speaker-1 tells the story of a cardiology checkup after an aneurysm shrank from 0.54 to 0.38 following prayer: the graduating medical student insists it must have been a bad reading, while the cardiologist says the only explanation is 'a miraculous happening.'
From No. 132 · Tighten Up On Your Job, Homey
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The trouble with imperceptible miracles
- Are Christians underselling God by attributing minor, unverifiable improvements to him as miracles?
The hosts wrestle with a skeptic's claim that Christian miracle reports are always vague and unverifiable (nothing as clear as a regrown limb).
From No. 275 · Under-Asking God
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Cliche 2: forgive and forget
- Is 'forgive and forget' a true biblical principle?
On 'forgive and forget,' a host illustrates with a long story about a stairwell at work smelling exactly like his great-grandma's trailer in Missouri, arguing you cannot obliterate memories.
From No. 232 · Christian Cliches
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Mark 2: the paralytic through the roof
- How bold should Christians be in bringing people to Jesus?
Mike reads Mark 2:1-5, a story he and his daughter read that night: four men carry a paralytic to Jesus, cannot get through the crowd, so they break open the roof and lower him down, and Jesus says, "son, your sins are forgiven."
From No. 158 · Checkbox Christians
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Proof 34 read: 'Examine your health insurance policy'
- If God answers medical prayers, then why do you need health insurance?
The reader recites proof 34 from the godisimaginary.com '50 proofs' series: if God answers medical prayers, why do Christians carry health insurance?
From No. 132 · Tighten Up On Your Job, Homey
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New Year, part 2: grounding, sign-seeking, and healers
- Where do you draw the line on what to pray about?
- Can you wrongfully attribute things to God?
The discussion continues: pastors who church-hop at the first friction, being grounded in biblical truth so chaos can't shake you, and the danger of sign-seeking, the…
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Article: megachurch pastor claims prayer regrew amputated toes
A host reads the Christian Post story: John Lindell of James River Church (Springfield/Joplin, Missouri) claimed a woman's amputated toes regrew during a week of prayer led with guest pastors Bill Johnson and Randy Clark.
From No. 492 · Show Me The Toes
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The slow-toe problem: instant healings versus twelve-hour regrowth
The absurdity of a gradual twelve-hour toe regrowth gets the comedy treatment — Wolverine claws, how you'd know when a toe is 'done,' whether regrown nails need trimming.
From No. 492 · Show Me The Toes