Aug 28, 2023

Ted asks about the idea that the Christian life should be relatively smooth after the gift of the Holy Spirit. Rod talks about what the New Testament tells us about Christianity, what saves sinners, and using some imagery from C.S. Lewis, what we learn from Jesus about how much God loves us so that He would save us even...

Aug 21, 2023

Ted asks about Christians struggling with doubt about the faith and walking away from it. Rod talks about learning from the New Testament that such struggles are ‘not weird’, how people are not trained to know why Christianity is true, what we should expect and what ‘normal’ Christianity looks like, and how myth...

Aug 14, 2023

Ted asks about feeling like being a Christian is difficult when it seems like others aren’t struggling. Rod talks about what diet I’m getting that can cause such a struggle to occur, or make an existing struggle worse, and asks why St. Paul had hope while writing Philippians from jail, how the law is ubiquitous but...

Aug 7, 2023

Ted asks about the idea of ‘knowing that you know’ regarding your salvation. Rod talks about how a Lutheran answers, “How do you know [you are saved]?”, that different churches (denominations) should be able to tell you what they confess with regard to the question of assurance, and what the pastor’s job is to...