Highlights:
– It is wise to plan for the future. Prov 6:6-8
– Be careful to keep earthly and heavenly pursuits in their proper order. Matt 6:25-33
– Be as generous as possible. 2 Cor 8; Prov 3:9-10
Episode 96: How can I help a high maintenance person?
Highlights:
– Pray for patience, grace, and energy
– Bring in other more knowledgable Christians to help
– Offer some good apologetic and theological resources
– Pray that the Lord will use this to sharpen you
Episode 95: Does it really mean that? Does 1 Corinthians 14 Mean Women are to Keep Silent in Church?
Episode Highlights:
– Don’t violate your conscience. Rom 14:23
– Educate your conscience according to the Scriptures.
– Paul allows for women to pray and prophesy in 1 Cor 11.
– The prohibition against women speaking in 1 Cor 14:34-35 seems to refer to the judging prophecies (1 Cor 14:29-33).
– Judging prophecies would fall under the category of exercising authority over men, which is forbidden. 1 Tim 2:12
Episode 94: How should I relate to my nudist father?
Episode Highlights:
1. The nudist lifestyle is a sexual perversion according to the Bible. Gen 3, 9:21-25; Lev 18
2. We should not subject our children to such sexual perversions. Eph 6:4
3. Sometimes the most loving thing is to allow someone to feel how their sin cuts them off from others.
Episode 93: UNSCRIPTED: My step-brother just left his wife – what should I do?
Comment: My step-brother recently left his wife and two kids for another woman.
It came unexpectedly, and has devastated both sides of the family. He hasn’t seen or spoken to my parents, or his siblings, since he left them.
We’ve been supporting our sister and daughter in-law, and the children through this, as much as we can.
I want to reach out to my brother, but I’m angry and disgusted by his actions, and I don’t want to say things that will only serve to tear him down.
What’s worse, he says he’s a Christian, or at least claimed to be one for years, but his behavior throughout has seriously made me doubt his salvation.
As an angry and concerned sister, how should I biblically handle the situation?
NOT SAFE FOR CHILDREN – Episode 92: [Unscripted] Follow-up: My spouse wants me to do something sexually that I’m uncomfortable with…
Highlights:
– No matter which side of the question you’re on, your disposition should be to serve your spouse.
– Open communication and patience are highly important in this area.
– We must differentiate between wants and needs. We need Christ all the time. Certain sexual acts belong in the realm of wants.
– The spouse desiring a particular act should consider the motive. Is it to fulfill a sexual fantasy associated with a sinful past? Or is it to cultivate a more meaningful and mutually pleasurable experience?
Episode 91: How can I help my spouse in the battle against lust?
Episode Highlights:
– Be encouraged by what your husband’s confession says about you and what it says about him.
– Keep your spouse’s sin in perspective: it is not unique; God affords all the resources to fight; your identity is in Him.
– Be available to your spouse sexually.
– Insist that your husband get help from brothers in Christ.
