Repentance
134 conversations where the hosts get into repentance.
134 conversations
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Do accountability partners actually work?
- Do accountability partners actually do anything?
Mike raises his accountability-partners question: the standard dude-circle advice to get a buddy to hold you accountable for Bible reading, porn, church attendance, and drinking.
From No. 598 · Emphasis | Accountability, Worship and Praying with Strangers
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Restitution after conversion: the Walmart shoplifter
- Do you owe restitution for sins committed before your conversion?
From Paul's unpunished past the hosts pivot to earthly consequences after repentance. Mike tells of a man converted fifteen years ago who had been shoplifting from Walmart; Mike told him to go confess to the store, and now isn't sure that was the best advice.
From No. 579 · Wanted: Paul and Hope | Paul’s Persecution of Christians and Radical Redemption
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Dear LFTP: the married man who wants her as his side piece
- Should I block the married man who lied to me and wants me as his side piece, or stick around?
- When someone is cheating, do you tell the wife?
Ben reads a Dear LFTP letter from a woman who fell for a coworker who claimed his ex was out of the picture, then learned via internet research that he is married and bought the house with his wife — and now he wants her as his side piece.
From No. 535 · Solo Contendere
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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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Saul's unauthorized sacrifice — isn't the Lord overreacting?
- Is the Lord overreacting when he judges Saul, Uzzah, and Nadab and Abihu?
- Can Jesus' approachable humanity coexist with God's prescribed, holy demands?
The hosts retell 1 Samuel 13: Samuel is late for the pre-battle sacrifice, Saul offers it himself, and Samuel declares he will lose the kingship.
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Bear Grylls' church critique, prayer, and discipleship
- Is Bear Grylls right that Jesus would struggle with 99% of churches, and would you stay if the production were stripped away?
- How do you practice real one-on-one discipleship instead of relying on church programs?
The hosts discuss Bear Grylls' Christian Post interview: he is unabashedly open about his faith but says Jesus would struggle with 99% of churches today, urging people to stay…
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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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Dear LFTP: engaged to the town "bad guy" — give it a year
- How can I have a secret wedding when my fiance is the town "bad guy"?
A listener just got engaged but her fiancé is the town's "bad guy" with a past, and she wants a secret wedding.
From No. 429 · Following the American Jesus
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Jeremiah: cursed is the man who trusts in man
- What good does it do to pronounce this the end of the world?
A host shares from Jeremiah 16-18, reading that the sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron and engraved on the tablet of their heart, and that God says, 'cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength.'
From No. 419 · Election Stuff, Reluctantly
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Confession, the temple, and public sin
- Is it okay to put up proper fences, like accountability structures, given human fallibility?
- If public confession were the road to repentance, would you do it anyway despite what others think?
The conversation turns to public confession and the hosts' discomfort with it, then to how public the temple sacrifices were: everyone watched who walked up with which animal.
From No. 387 · Renewing Deuces and Fearing God
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Forgiveness weaponized and the gospel's protection
- What does a person actually do when someone discloses sexual abuse to them?
The hosts continue with Denhollander's answers: forgiveness can be misapplied, Christian coverage focused only on her forgiveness while ignoring her pursuit of justice, and her…
From No. 340 · Rightfully Miffed
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Andy Savage allegations and whether he should stay in ministry
- Should Andy Savage remain in ministry after the twenty-year-old sexual misconduct allegation, and was the applauding church right?
The hosts cover the allegations against Andy Savage, teaching pastor at High Point Church in Memphis: that twenty years earlier, as a 22-year-old youth pastor in Texas, he coerced…
From No. 338 · Following the News
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Florida pastor scandal: forgiveness versus fitness for ministry
- A pastor was caught in adultery and refuses to resign, saying God has already forgiven him — can he stay in the pulpit?
A host sets the agenda: the presidential executive order discussion and an article about a Tallahassee pastor caught in adultery who refuses to resign, saying God has already forgiven him.
From No. 309 · Forgiveness vs. Fitness
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Dear LFTP: court settlement — tell the friends how much?
- Should I tell my friends how much money I'm receiving from a court settlement?
A Dear LFTP letter from someone about to receive a court settlement asks whether to tell five loyal friends the amount.
From No. 264 · Seven Reasons to Skip the Lottery
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Hard question: can demons repent?
- Can demons — or Satan himself — repent?
A question that came up at church: can demons — or Satan himself — repent? The hosts reason that demons are fallen angels who chose against God in full knowledge, citing Hebrews 2:16 ('it is not angels that God helps'), 2 Peter 2:4, and Jude 6.
From No. 178 · What Are Our Snakes?
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Dear LFTP: a mother's disappointment in her adult daughters
- How should a disappointed mother respond to her adult daughters' life choices?
A listener writes that her younger daughter has been dating a marijuana-smoking young man for less than a year, and her older daughter already has two children by two men; she is…
From No. 175 · Authenticity vs. Holiness
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How does a Christ follower discipline their child?
- How should a Christ follower discipline their child?
Boova (addressed on air) brings a coworker's out-of-the-woodwork question: how does a Christ follower discipline a child, especially physical discipline.
From No. 174 · Trying Atheism for a Year
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Guilt versus conviction: the core teaching
- How can you tell guilt apart from conviction?
Mike (addressed on-air) introduces the night's main teaching: how to tell guilt apart from conviction.
From No. 166 · Guilt vs. Conviction
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Dear LFTP: is an emotional affair cheating?
- At what point is a relationship with a member of the opposite sex considered cheating?
The reader reads a letter from a woman who discovered her husband's 'more than friendly' relationship with a coworker twelve years younger: a secret P.O. box, romantic letters, admitted kissing, and deep conversations he won't have with his wife.
From No. 151 · Failed Predictions
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Dear LFTP: 'book burner' and children's Bibles
- Is there a good children's Bible for a toddler that doesn't omit sin, repentance, and judgment?
A letter signed 'book burner' asks for a children's Bible for his 1.5-year-old son Judah: the two garage-sale picture Bibles omit sin, repentance, and judgment — one says only…
From No. 149 · Listening
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Hard question: is there anything about God that embarrasses you?
- Is there anything about God that embarrasses you?
A host-framed hard question: 'is there anything about God that embarrasses you?' Examples raised include the homosexuality debate (knowing what the Bible says but feeling…
From No. 140 · The Mustard-Stain Prayer
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Dear LFTP: Brokenhearted in Buffalo — an affair and a pregnancy
- How should a pregnant wife respond when her husband remains attached to his affair partner?
A pregnant listener writes that her husband of eight years had an affair with a married old girlfriend and, nine months on, still emails her, visited her house, and stalks her blocked Facebook profile.
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Troy's question: David, Bathsheba, and 'a man after God's own heart'
- How can David be called a man after God's own heart after adultery and murder?
Troy recounts reading 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel for the first time and being appalled by the Bathsheba-and-Uriah story: David sees Bathsheba bathing from the palace roof, lies with her, gets her pregnant, and has her husband Uriah killed.
From No. 114 · September 10 2012
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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?