Mercy
29 conversations where the hosts get into mercy.
29 conversations
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What is the actual biblical good news?
- What is the actual biblical good news?
- Is the Sermon on the Mount the good news, or is it something else?
A host opens the show with the question of what counts as the good news: conversations where people call things like jelly beans or general niceness the good news prompted him to sort out the biblical definition.
From No. 450 · Good News of Narrow Focus
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Hosts respond: boldness, the Fust household's encouragement struggle, and powers-and-principalities prayer
- What would a week look like if you went all in with bold faith?
The hosts respond to Boova's message, musing on what a week would look like if they went 'all in' with bold faith — the same mundane week, but with the fruit of the Spirit.
From No. 426 · Confidence in the Holy Spirit
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Dear LFTP: the 83-year-old mother and the unpaid family loan
- Should an 83-year-old mother sue her daughter and son-in-law over an unpaid documented family loan, or forgive the debt?
A host reads a Dear LFTP letter from an 83-year-old mother of four: nineteen years ago her husband loaned her daughter and son-in-law a large sum, documented by a lawyer, to buy a…
From No. 400 · Ineffective Conspiracies and Monday Morning Christians
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Should Christians take people in or refer them out?
- When helping people in addiction or crisis, how much should a Christian personally take on versus referring to specialized ministries?
- Should someone build a local directory website of Christian help ministries so people know who to call?
The hosts debate where personal responsibility ends and referral begins when helping people in addiction or crisis: does mercy mean no earthly consequences, or is mercy an investment toward Jesus?
From No. 382 · And Then I Got High
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Dear LFTP: single mom in Yokohama asks about cutting ties
- Should I cut ties with my child's absent father forever, or keep messaging him about milestones?
A single mother in Yokohama, Japan writes that her son's father has refused responsibility since before the birth; he briefly said he'd try, but never calls, and they live miles apart.
From No. 217 · Seven Types Not to Marry
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Boova: your heart is supposed to break at judgment
Boova argues the discomfort is the point: we pray for God to stop real evil (the man beating his wife) and agree with his intervention there — our real problem is discomfort that the stick-collector's offense was "bad enough."
From No. 540 · Justice is Mine
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A right-sized Christian posture toward the conflict
The hosts argue against two wrong readings: that the conflict is a biblical battle of the sons of Abraham, and that the 1948 nation-state's actions are automatically blessed by God.
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Ask the pastor: the fast God chooses in Isaiah 58
Boova reads Isaiah 58 aloud in full, then asks what to make of the seemingly different fast God describes.
From No. 507 · What’s in a Name
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Exile but not destruction: God's pattern of mercy
A second host picks up the thread: God's relationship with his people is consistently exile-not-destruction as a call to repentance — Adam and Eve, Cain, Babel, Moses' petitions, the Canaanites after 400 years.
From No. 418 · Top Bible Searches of 2020
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Justice, mercy, and the weight of sin
The hosts argue you cannot under-color God's forgiveness or over-color his justice, compare today's churches to Malachi's priests who called evil good, and insist the fear of God cannot be forced into anyone; it is a recognition of reality that produces submission.
From No. 387 · Renewing Deuces and Fearing God
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Reason 5: 'am I more merciful than Jesus?' - wrapping the hell debate
The final reason claims the author's mercy instinct proves eternal torment can't be true; the hosts reject the argument as man remaking God in his own image, noting our popular picture of hell owes more to Dante's Inferno than to scripture.
From No. 263 · Hell, Closed Hands, and Prophecy
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The trickle-charger story: a confidence problem or an arrogance problem?
A guilt story launches the humility thread: one host (speaker-0) confesses he watched a man trickle-charging his car battery at a gas station, thought about offering a jump, and…
From No. 528 · First Death, Then Resurrection
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Trending: the border crisis and the church's responsibility
- How should the church respond to the needs of migrants and unaccompanied children at the border?
- Does a nation have a responsibility to protect its border?
Dan's third item covers unaccompanied children crossing the southern border, asking how the church should respond; the panel converges on option B — the church itself must go and care for people rather than outsourcing the job to the government.
From No. 198 · The Border Crisis and the Church
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News: California nanny refuses to leave
- How would you treat the elderly woman (the nanny who refuses to work or leave) if she were in your home?
The news host (speaker-1) reports on a 64-year-old woman hired through Craigslist for room and board in exchange for light housekeeping and childcare who stopped working, confined herself to her bedroom, and refused to leave, threatening to sue for wrongful termination.
From No. 196 · Legislating Morality
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Operation Restore Our Community: Alabama's 'Jesus or jail' offer
- Should an Alabama town offer misdemeanor offenders church instead of jail?
The hosts read a news item: under Bay Minette, Alabama's 'Operation Restore Our Community,' judges let misdemeanor offenders choose jail, a fine, or weekly church attendance for a…
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Reading Matthew to a two-month-old; 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice'
- What does it mean that Jesus said 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice' twice?
A host tells of reading Matthew aloud to his two-month-old daughter and stumbling over a line Jesus repeats verbatim twice: 'I desire compassion, not sacrifice' (Matthew 9:13 and 12:7).
From No. 12 · Of Moose and Men
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Jonah's faith vs. ours: sure God will show up
Mike's youth-group teaching becomes the episode's centerpiece: Jonah fled because he knew God would show mercy to the Ninevites, quoting the Exodus 34 self-description of God as full of steadfast love and mercy.
From No. 572 · Rippin’ Heaters
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Jonah's legitimate struggle and holy anger at God
The hosts sit with Jonah's hatred of Nineveh's cruelty, comparing it to modern wartime atrocities, and admit grace is easy to preach from Western comfort.
From No. 572 · Rippin’ Heaters
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The mercy plea and the immigration debate
The sermon reading continues into its hinge point: a final plea for mercy on LGBTQ children who fear for their lives and on immigrants who pick crops and work night shifts.
From No. 552 · Affirming the Nasty Part
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The Canaanites question and the complaint line
A host argues moral consistency: if you would pray for God to stop a child predator before he reaches his victim, you should not object to God judging Canaanite depravity.
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Mercy, the atoning sacrifice, and the prodigal son
Continuing the grace discussion, a host connects the Beatitudes' 'be merciful' to how God looks at the repentant: like a wronged person whose only impulse is to relieve the offender's anguish.
From No. 484 · The Idol Tannenbaums
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The church as refuge
A host notes it is too bad Dan is not here for this conversation, then returns to the core question - at what point do we say this is people taking advantage of Christianity…
From No. 469 · The Next Reformation
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Insularity, self-service, and the wrap
The hosts press the sojourner question: does church infrastructure look and feel like a place of help, or a place where people serve comfortably inside the church - a question of…
From No. 469 · The Next Reformation
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The Jesus thrift store sign
A host saw a sign at a church-run thrift store that reads as 'pay the prices or go to hell,' and the hosts brainstorm less threatening wording that still manages inventory.
From No. 425 · Love Does