Politics
89 conversations where the hosts get into politics.
89 conversations
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Maintaining hope for people who won't choose Jesus
- How do you maintain hope for someone who keeps rejecting Jesus when God won't override their free will?
The episode's centerpiece: Mike's pre-show question about how to maintain hope for people who reject Christ when God won't override their free will.
From No. 579 · Wanted: Paul and Hope | Paul’s Persecution of Christians and Radical Redemption
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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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Article one: does the Bible teach us to obey authority?
- Does the Bible teach us to obey authority?
- Is it worse for Christians now than it has ever been?
Framed by 2 Timothy 4:3-4 ('people will not put up with sound doctrine'), the hosts push back on nostalgia: persecution is real in some places but not worse than ever (Nero's garden torches; the sack-with-animals martyrdom).
From No. 561 · The Answer is Liverpool
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Dear LFTP: the political sister who won't stop debasing my candidate
- Is there a polite, non-confrontational way to make my sister stop debasing my political choice during her visits?
A host reads a Dear LFTP letter from a quiet listener whose sister visits weekly for cards but constantly debases the listener's political candidate, nearly bringing her to tears.
From No. 490 · QuickTrip Johnson
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Church image problem, point one: politics
- Does the church have an image problem, and are the article's six fixes good?
- Should Christians and churches stay out of partisan politics to witness better?
The Carey Nieuwhof article walkthrough begins: 'The church has an image problem — six ways to fix it.'
From No. 477 · Shofar, Shogood
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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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Dear LFTP: must I support my brother's campaign?
- Must I publicly support my brother's run for state office when his behavior is immoral?
A listener writes that her oldest brother is running for state office despite a record of animal cruelty, refusing to help their elderly parents, and infidelity; family members insist 'blood is thicker than water' and demand she donate and show up.
From No. 409 · Super Sign of the End Times
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Dear LFTP: a friendship lost over political social-media posts
- Should I keep trying to reconcile with a friend who cut me off over my political social-media posts?
The reader reads a letter from a listener whose twenty-year friendship ended after the friend took the writer's political social-media posts as a personal attack and cut contact; apologies and reconciliation attempts have gone unanswered.
From No. 367 · Sir Billy McAllistair
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News spin, buckets, and advertising culture
- To what extent are you responsible for other people's perception of what you say?
The hosts work the question: news is delivered as fact-plus-spin and audiences only read their own spin; people sort each other into buckets ('compassionate liberal,' 'heartless wingnut') to avoid complicated middle-of-the-road conversations.
From No. 360 · Divided We Thrive
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Dear LFTP: the political friend and the grieving widow
- How should a grieving widow handle a one-sided friendship with a politics-obsessed, anxious friend?
A listener from Iowa writes that her friend talks about negative politics constantly and won't discuss the listener's own grief over her husband's sudden death two years ago.
From No. 358 · Paul The Intern
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Dear LFTP: a politically divided marriage and the one-year respite
- My husband and I are divided over politics and I considered divorce; we agreed to wait a year with separate therapy before deciding. Have I made a mistake, and does the proposed one-year respite have any chance of working?
Fourth letter: a wife whose marriage fractured along political lines - her husband says she looks like Hillary; both are now in separate therapy; she proposed waiting a year before deciding on divorce.
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Dear LFTP: political donations as a birthday gift
- A grandson's fifth birthday invitation requests donations to politically affiliated charities in lieu of gifts, which I cannot in good conscience support; must I give a gift anyway or stay away from the party?
The hosts read a second Dear LFTP letter: a friend's grandson's fifth birthday invitation requests donations to politically affiliated charities in lieu of gifts, which the listener cannot in good conscience support.
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Dear LFTP: the dentist who talks politics
- My dentist talks politics while working on my teeth and I disagree with him — how should I handle it?
A listener writes that her longtime dentist has started talking politics during procedures; she disagrees with him but cannot respond with his hands in her mouth and fears spite if she speaks up.
From No. 275 · Under-Asking God
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Healthcare, charity, and the 'let him die' debate
- Should a man with no money to pay for medical care just be left to die?
Reacting to a Republican debate crowd cheering 'let him die' when asked whether an uninsured man should be left to die, the hosts call it unpatriotic and un-Christian, praise Ron…
From No. 69 · September 19 2011
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Caller David Booker: judges, marriage law, and pulpit politics
- Can pastors preach political agendas from the pulpit without losing tax-exempt status, and how should Christians respond to courts striking down marriage laws?
A caller who introduces himself as David Booker joins the show and the conversation turns to a Sioux City pastor and Iowa's judges striking down the man-woman marriage statute.
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The Sioux City pastor and the 1954 church-endorsement law
- Should the Sioux City pastor defy the 1954 church-endorsement law to oppose the gay-marriage ruling?
The hosts summarize a Des Moines Register article: a Sioux City pastor sent flyers to around a thousand churches urging Christians to vote out the Iowa justices who legalized gay marriage, running against the 1954 law barring churches from endorsing candidates.
From No. 30 · Tyson vs. Holyfield
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Can the church legislate morality? Judges, marriage, and vendors
- What should the church do when same-sex married families come to Christ?
What if the pastor had invited the judges to dinner instead of calling them out? The hosts debate whether change comes through government or through the church, note Scripture…
From No. 30 · Tyson vs. Holyfield
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Colossians, comfort, and fealty to King Jesus
Dan shares a Colossians commentary take: people turn to Jesus because what they are used to left them wanting, so offering a half-baked version of the world is disingenuous — what the show has on offer is an 8,000-to-10,000-year-old story and a 2,000-year-old Jesus.
From No. 588 · hypokritēs
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Pastor or politician: which conversation is harder?
- Is it easier or harder to talk politics than to talk about Jesus after a lifetime of ministry?
Asked whether talking politics or talking Jesus is harder after a lifetime of ministry conversations, Eddie tells of a voter who recognized him in a church parking lot by house and street and reminded him they had discussed favorite Bible verses at the door.
From No. 412 · Interview with Eddie Andrews
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Politics continued: known for Scripture, not issues
The politics thread continues: a host says he wants to be known for his view of Scripture rather than firing out of the gate on issues, and to point people to the Creator so the Bible illuminates them.
From No. 477 · Shofar, Shogood
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Don't hashtag Jesus onto worldly opinions
A host recounts a Christian band's Facebook plea tying masks and vaccinations to biblical language and warns against 'hashtag Jesus' — moral-loading a worldly debate presumes a…
From No. 440 · Redeem or Reject
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Jon Wagner: Romans 1 and the purpose of giving God glory
Jon Wagner, a pastor who came into church life through music, shares what struck him reading Romans 1-3 in the parking lot before the show: God gave people over to depravities because they stopped worshiping and honoring him.
From No. 421 · What Christians Do in a Divided Country
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You didn't, so I won't: letting the enemy dictate behavior
The hosts argue that since Bush versus Gore, each side has refused unity because the other side refused it first — 'I hate this guy, I hate people that support this guy, and you're telling me I should be the more gracious character, and I refuse.'
From No. 419 · Election Stuff, Reluctantly
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Bible Gateway's 2020 search trends: pandemic, politics, end times
Continuing the article, the hosts read Bible Gateway's four key themes people turned to the Bible for: pandemic (disease, pestilence, plague), politics (praying for government, obeying government), and end times.
From No. 418 · Top Bible Searches of 2020