Spiritual warfare
32 conversations where the hosts get into spiritual warfare.
32 conversations
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Is the devil after you? Oppression versus circumstance
- Is the devil after you — can evil spirits focus effort to disrupt your life and work?
Asked for context on the docket question, one host describes his and his wife's sense of being attacked from all sides — finances, vehicles, family — while stepping into what they believe is God's path, and asks whether it's the enemy or just life.
From No. 525 · Asking AI Lamech
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Has anyone been demonically misled? Framing the discernment question
- Have you ever been demonically misled or spoken to by Satan?
- How can you distinguish God's voice from Satan's voice?
Before reading the list, the hosts ask whether anyone has felt demonically misled: one argues Satan is subtle, taking things God would use and putting a small twist on them;…
From No. 492 · Show Me The Toes
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Is yoga spiritually dangerous for Christians?
- Is yoga spiritually dangerous for Christians?
A host notes that self-help books borrow the Sparta elements and that he prays during yoga, which raises the old objection that yoga is an eastern spiritual danger.
From No. 453 · Whispering Diesel
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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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When you've been sinned against; can a Christian live a depressed life?
- Is it possible to live a depressed life if you know Jesus is your Savior?
- Can you articulate the reason for your hope? (1 Peter 3:15, raised via chat)
Flipping the question, the hosts ask what to do when someone else's sin lands on you: you can either live joyfully in the garbage or be swallowed by it.
From No. 78 · November 28 2011
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The right-song question, the complaint line, and Ben's New Orleans heaviness
- When the right song comes on at the right moment, is that the Holy Spirit or just a feeling?
A host asks: when the right song hits at the right moment, is that the Holy Spirit or just a feeling?
From No. 597 · Maybe A Word From God
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The Blind and Deaf Foundation visitors
- Do ghosts exist, or are reported hauntings really demonic?
- Is it dangerous for Christians to buy a building reported to be haunted?
Mike recounts strangers in a sedan pulling into his driveway asking if he knows any blind or deaf people, claiming to be volunteers from a 'Blind and Deaf Foundation'.
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Spiritual warfare, the demonic, and discernment
The room wants more teaching on spiritual warfare, and the hosts give a measured take: Jesus barely mentions Satan in the New Testament, most 'spiritual attacks' are consequences…
From No. 576 · Get A Dog
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The football-game metaphor for spiritual warfare
speaker-1 works out a football metaphor on the fly — the believer as running back, layered demonic opposition as the defense, Satan as a head coach who doesn't need to personally…
From No. 525 · Asking AI Lamech
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Six Things, Part 5: Satan Is Testing Me
The article's item on 'Satan is testing me.' A window-washer anecdote opens a longer debate: a host dislikes claiming Satan personally targets him because it feels arrogant and…
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Hauntings, ghosts, and the demonic
A listener comment about haunted houses opens a discussion of ghosts, spoon-movers, and serious demonic activity.
From No. 505 · Because of Fussy and Fuzzy
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Healing prayer, God's will, and Daniel's 21 days
Playing the site's side, the hosts acknowledge the hardest case: praying for a sick wife who still dies, and the standard Christian answer that God does what he wants.
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Bauckham's legal-claim theory; the accuser and the comfort
- Is there a spiritual tussle over your body or soul like the one over Moses?
Ben covers Richard Bauckham's theory that the devil laid legal claim to Moses' body because Moses was a sinner — a murderer — with the claim aimed at his soul, paralleling…
From No. 535 · Solo Contendere
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Going on the offensive in prayer
Instead of praying for comfort, Boova called his fiancee at 1 a.m. and prayed thirty minutes straight for his attacker's redemption — 'what does this life look like transformed in Christ?' — rebuking the evil 'in the name of Jesus, you're gone.'
From No. 406 · A COVID Debrief
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2019 in review: prisons, festivals, and a power outage
Arendelle recaps a big 2019: playing the Newton prison through Rick Amaril's ministry, a micro-tour to a Sheldon, Missouri festival and a Brookfield, Missouri church where a storm…
From No. 394 · Tunes with Jeff Arrandale, Prodigal Junk, and Drifting Families
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'Put Satan in his place in three easy steps': rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks
- Is 'rejoice always' (1 Thessalonians 5:16) an imperative in the Greek?
The hosts dissect a second Christian Post article framing 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 as a 'spiritual triple threat' (after basketball's dribble/shoot/pass triple threat taught by Adrian Dantley).
From No. 437 · Rejuvenating Prayer
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Angels, demons, and what they are actually doing
- If haunting activity is demonic, what is its purpose?
Returning to the opening topic, the hosts wonder about the purpose of haunting-style activity if it accomplishes nothing.
From No. 413 · Ghosts, Humility and Bad Memories
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Prayer: what it is and how to do it
- How do I start a prayer life?
The hosts describe prayer as talking to the living God with both awe and relaxation — like talking to your father, 'daddy,' as Romans puts it.
From No. 34 · Where Do I Start?
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Abraham, Lot, and the complaint-line invitation
- How do you tell the difference between spiritual attack and ordinary circumstances or human frailty?
Revisiting the Abraham and Lot story, a host wonders aloud whether Lot tagging along — with Lot's descendants becoming Israel's enemies — was an indirect spiritual attack when the direct one failed: 'my second book.'
From No. 525 · Asking AI Lamech
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Was Driscoll right? The Jezebel-spirit critique examined
The hosts grant Driscoll's core point while critiquing his metaphors: he was not issuing a targeted personal rebuke but speaking from a broken heart about hypersexualization at a men's event, yet the Asherah-pole and ascended-the-poll connections are overcooked.
From No. 526 · Secrets and Topless Dudes
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The unlocked cellar door
- How much weight should a Christian give to spiritual explanations for strange events?
One host tells a story about moving into his house and finding the basement cellar door unlocked when he was certain he had locked it.
From No. 413 · Ghosts, Humility and Bad Memories
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How hard the fight is, and the parking-lot phone call
A host reflects at length that recovery is a war: environment, relationships, and a body fighting against you all at once, comparable to a divorce where the thing you leaned on is gone.
From No. 328 · Discover Hope 5:17
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Word and Spirit: blow up, dry up, grow up — and Satan's counterfeits
A host quotes the article's balance line — 'when you have a balance of the word of god and the spirit of god, people will blow up and people will dry up, but the people will also grow up' — and challenges Dan (speaker-0) to make a sermon of it.
From No. 522 · Biking with Billy Shatner
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From reverse offering to Many Hands for Haiti
Tim describes what he saw in Haiti (extreme poverty, darkness), Haiti as a 'thin place' of spiritual battle, the silo problem among Iowa churches doing mission work, the 2004…
From No. 302 · Live From The Path w/ Jacey