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Confetti and lasers: what should God's people be known for?
- Do we want to be known as the confetti and lasers people?
- What should God's people be known for?
Ben redirects to the docket's denomination question: when someone hears Silas's church described as 'the confetti and lasers people,' should that sting?
From No. 598 · Emphasis | Accountability, Worship and Praying with Strangers
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The world as opposition, normalized sin, and identity
- Does your generation push back at the idea of sin?
A young woman observes that college ministries frame the world as the opposition rather than the mission field, giving anxious young Christians something concrete to grip.
From No. 576 · Get A Dog
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Does God affirm our struggles or call us to repent of them?
- Does God affirm our struggles or call us to repent of them?
Mike frames two camps: one that says God affirms our struggles as-is, another that says He calls us to repent of what is in our control.
From No. 534 · The Antagonistic Bison
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Fear, guilt, self-deprecation, and identity
- How should Christians handle guilt and self-deprecation without excusing sin?
The room digs into why failure over little things feels crushing: self-imposed expectations versus rightful ones, and the guilt that follows addiction relapses.
From No. 498 · The Tennessee Birdwalk
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Dear LFTP: a 16-year marriage with an affair and a new romance
- Dear LFTP: should a wife in a broken marriage wait until the kids are 18 to leave?
Mike (addressed on air) reads a letter from a woman married 16 years: after their first child her husband withdrew, went to a concert with a female friend while her brother was…
From No. 497 · Nothing More Than Feelings
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What kids face that parents misread: identity, media, truth in love
- What are kids facing today that their parents are not seeing correctly?
Asked what teenagers experience that parents do not see correctly, Jenny points to media and identity, including sexual and gender identity, which parents do not know what to do with.
From No. 480 · Youth Initiative
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Dear LFTP: forty-four and feeling like a failure
- How can I convince myself that my life hasn't been wasted?
A forty-four-year-old divorced listener, living with her disabled parents while working in her field of study and content not to date again, asks how to stop feeling like her life is wasted when she imagines telling classmates at a school reunion.
From No. 456 · Just Do It
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Dear LFTP: the homeschooled alumnus and the 'nothing burger'
- I was homeschooled and now work for my hometown district; I cringe when mislabeled as an alumnus. How should I handle it?
A homeschooled K-through-12 listener with multiple master's degrees, now working for his hometown public school district, cringes when mistakenly announced as an alumnus and asks how to handle the shocked silence when he says he was homeschooled.
From No. 453 · Whispering Diesel
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Dear LFTP: the second grader who demands to be called 'Sir'
- May I tell my son it's okay not to use this bogus title?
- Would you call the kid 'sir'?
The reader reads a letter about a second grader who insists on being addressed as 'Sir' (letter calls him 'Sir Billy McAllister'), corrects classmates harshly, and whose family claims he was knighted — a claim the writer debunked.
From No. 367 · Sir Billy McAllistair
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Dear LFTP: grandparents and a granddaughter afraid of failing
- How should grandparents encourage a perfectionist granddaughter who is afraid of failing?
A host reads a Dear LFTP letter from grandparents, nearly 80, who took their granddaughters (16 and 13) on a two-week European cruise; 16-year-old Megan, a straight-A perfectionist, confessed she is afraid of failing.
From No. 356 · Hide It Under A Bush
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Dear LFTP: mom named her stores after me
- My mom named her two successful clothing stores after me and I hate it -- what should I do?
Mike reads a listener letter: her mom owns two successful women's clothing stores named after her, and she hates it; her family says she's being ridiculous.
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Dear LFTP: both testicles removed, seeking a support group
- Do you know of any support groups for men like me — men who had both testicles removed without cancer?
Mike reads a listener letter from a man who had both testicles removed (not cancerous) and can't cope, asking for a support group for 'men like me.'
From No. 336 · Why Ladies Cheat
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Dear LFTP: comparing herself to her 'hot' sister
- What advice do you have for handling feeling unattractive and single compared to my 'hot' married sister?
The reader reads a letter from a woman with lifelong weight struggles whose younger sister 'can't gain a pound,' is married, and is the center of attention.
From No. 329 · Hippo Valley PTA
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Mike's perspective: labels, identity, and loving people you don't understand
- How can I better love people whose life experiences I don't understand?
The host addressed in the audio as Mike delivers 'Mike's perspective': reading the book I Am N about persecuted Christians and hearing TV criticism about race in America, he…
From No. 321 · Five Things to Stop in Your Twenties
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Dear LFTP: 'fake Paul' and the shared name
- How should I handle colleagues and students joking about me sharing a name with another teacher and a student?
The second Dear LFTP letter: a Pennsylvania fifth-grade teacher named Paul shares his name with another teacher and a student, and is discouraged by daily jokes like 'fake Paul' and 'Paul Junior.'
From No. 311 · Lose Your Life to Gain It
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New believer question: denominations and identity
- How important is it for a new believer to understand denominations, and which one should they choose?
Boova brings questions from a new believer about how important it is to understand denominations (Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic) and which one to choose; the hosts answer that…
From No. 303 · Live From The Path w/ Jacey
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Dear LFTP: the genetics letter — "was my dad really my dad?"
- My traits don't match my parents — was my dad really my dad, and should I ask?
A biology student writes that his recessive traits don't match his parents and fears an affair he doesn't know about.
From No. 297 · Don’t Talk Yourself Out of Praying
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Dear LFTP: am I that forgettable?
- What is the appropriate response when someone acts like meeting me is the first time, even though we've met several times?
A reader feels people act like meeting her is the first time and wonders whether it's intentional. The hosts advise distinguishing intentional cruelty from genuine forgetfulness,…
From No. 295 · The Atheist Minister
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Dear LFTP: the retired paper pusher and social snobbery
- What is an appropriate response to social snobbery toward a retiree who was 'just a paper pusher'?
A Dear LFTP letter from a retired man who is asked 'exactly what was it that you did at xyz corporation?' and watches people walk away when they learn he was 'just a paper pusher'; he asks for an appropriate response to this snobbery.
From No. 271 · Shepherds and Checkbox Christians
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Dear LFTP: the 16-year-old atheist girl who wants to belong
- I'm a 16-year-old who doesn't believe in God but wants to be a Christian; what should I do?
A 16-year-old girl writes that she doesn't believe in God but wants to be a Christian because she wants belonging, her friends are believers, her brothers mock her interest, and the boy she likes comes from a religious family.
From No. 255 · The Urban Gentleman
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Identity, judgment, and how Jesus treated sinners
- Am I what I do - does my behavior define my core identity?
The hosts work through the leaver's point 3. A host argues identity is bigger than behavior (a murderer analogy: condemning harm is naming truth), and asks when 'the real you' shows up.
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Dear LFTP: a 14-year-old girl mistaken for a boy
- I am a 14-year-old girl frequently mistaken for a boy — is there a clever or witty way to correct the mistake?
A 14-year-old with a buzz cut, slim hips, and flat chest is frequently mistaken for a boy and asks for a witty correction.
From No. 186 · The Passion Rewatched
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Dear LFTP: telling the kids about IVF with a sperm donor
- How do we explain our IVF and sperm-donor conception to our children, friends, and family without becoming the focus of gossip and whispers?
The reader reads a letter from parents of four-year-old twins conceived through IVF with a sperm donor after male-factor infertility; they want to be open with their children but fear gossip, since the husband is still uncomfortable.
From No. 151 · Failed Predictions
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Dear LFTP: loud woman after weight loss
- Why do newly thin women forget how awesome their personalities used to be?
A plus-sized, loud, boisterous woman writes that friends who lost weight became timid approval-seeking shells and asks why newly thin women forget how awesome their personalities were.