#12584 How Should I Sort Through Church Teachings? Faith and Angels - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How should I sort through everything the Church teaches?” This question opens a discussion on navigating the complexities of Church doctrine. Additionally, the episode addresses intriguing topics such as why St. Michael is recognized as a saint despite being an angel, and whether a Protestant can participate in Confession, providing a well-rounded exploration of faith.
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Questions Covered:
- 05:58 – How should I sort through everything the Church teaches?
- 13:20 – How come St. Michael is a saint if he is an angel?
- 20:28 – What’s the response to the claim that Mary and Joseph did not have very much faith because they were afraid and didn’t know where to look when they lost Jesus?
- 33:10 – Can a Protestant go to Confession?
- 42:50 – How is the Eucharist a propitiatory sacrifice and how is it applied?
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| 0:32.0 | We're going to be fine. |
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| 0:36.9 | But sometimes, you know, you got an hour out of the six that it's a little rough. |
| 0:41.7 | And I must be honest with you where we are. |
| 0:45.2 | Yeah, okay. |
| 0:46.1 | So we had $20,000 in match money to use up last hour. |
| 0:49.5 | We used up 5,556 of it. |
| 0:52.5 | So that was a little, we came in a little short. Came in, but it's a nice, it's an interesting number that we're short 14,44. So a lot of fours there. I'm not really a numerologist, so I can't tell you the meaning of that, but I can tell you that it's going to be fine. We just, we've got a $20,000 match this hour and we'll try to hit that match this hour. We'll let you know where we are at the end of the two hours today. Joe Heschmire is our guest. Every single line is full. People want to talk to Joe. We want to get to answer some questions. So I'm going to do that. But let me just reset and we'll go right to the phones. Joe Heschmeyer, thank you for |
| 1:28.1 | coming. First of all, I didn't even say hello to you, Joe. Thanks for coming back for another hour. I mean, it was hard after that hour. You felt like quitting? You thought you might just quit your job. Well, I'm not going to have a job after that. That career is over. On to something. It's, I mean, we've been doing this for so long. |
| 1:46.1 | You see that from time to time. |
| 1:48.2 | There's still a couple people on the line from the last hour, so maybe somebody there is about to give us $14,000. |
| 1:53.8 | But we have a $20,000 match this hour. |
| 1:56.4 | Two out of our three hours, we have exceeded our goals. |
| 1:58.8 | So we want to try to do that again this |
| 2:01.9 | hour. If we can get three out of four before the end of the day, we'll be in good shape going |
| 2:06.5 | into tomorrow. Right now, we're at 33% of the money raised. We're halfway through. We're |
| 2:14.2 | 50% of the way through and we've raise 33% of the money that we need. |
| 2:18.5 | That's actually not bad. That's actually quite good because most people are not like Joe organized together people. |
| 2:26.9 | They're like me, people who will give at the last moment tomorrow. |
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