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20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 90)

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference:0:00 - Intro 0:14 {Bookshelf Tour!} When can we get a bookshelf tour? 11:48 {Should Churches Keep Records of Giving?} My church requires all employees to give to the church (in general; any amount is fine). They pulled me aside to ask why I haven’t been giving, and when I told them I was, but that I felt better giving anonymously in the offering plate rather than having a record attached to my name, they told me it needed to be tracked. Am I wrong for feeling weird about this, or are they? 17:49 {Is Absolution or Absolving of Sins Biblical?} Does John 20:23 and Matthew 6:14 indicate that absolution (the act of forgiving someone for having done something wrong or sinful) is biblical? 23:52 {New Names in Heaven?} Do you have any insight about Revelation 2:17, specifically about the implication of new names in Heaven? 29:07 {Is Changing our Appearance Sinful?} Would changing our appearance in any way be a sin since God has created us in His image? For example, if we wear makeup, is that covering our natural beauty? And if we shave our body, is that destroying the beauty God has given us? 33:53 {Am I Obedient Enough? Repentant Enough?} I have recently been worrying a lot about whether I am obedient enough, repentant enough, or believing enough to be a real Christian. How can I biblically deal with this struggle? 39:55 {Why Does Jesus Conceal the Meaning of Things?} In Luke 9:44-45, why would Jesus tell His disciples this, only to have the meaning concealed? Why tell them if it wasn’t meant for them to understand? 43:52 {Raising Dead & Healing for Today?} Raising the Dead: Should we practice Matthew 10:8 today, or has the command to heal, cast out demons, and raise the dead ceased? 47:53 {Why is Abraham Commended for being with Hagar?} Why is Abraham commended for his faith when he tries to conceive a son through his slave, Hagar? Isn't that an indication that he had a moment where he lacked faith? 50:24 {Can the Deceased Hear/See Us?} Do you think that dead people can hear us and see what’s happening in our world? 55:40 {Discerning God’s Voice} How can I tell when the Holy Spirit is talking to me? Ever since hearing a sermon about a pastor's conviction to spend more time with God, I think I’m hearing God ask for more time when I close my Bible. 59:56 {Encouragement amid Infertility} My husband and I have struggled to have a baby, and I have had Psalm 127:3 on my mind. It makes me feel like there is something I need to do, and a lack of faith. What is the context of the “reward”? 1:04:18 {Why Can I Be Saved, But Not Judas?} Heartbreakingly, I have betrayed Christ for things worth far less than 30 pieces of silver. What is fundamentally different between Judas and me? Why can I still be saved, but he couldn’t? 1:06:36 {Who are the Called According to His Purpose?} Given the way Romans 8:28 is worded, I am wondering: are all people called according to His purpose, or only those of us who love Him? 1:09:27 {Hot? Cold? Lukewarm?} What does Jesus mean in Revelation 3:16 when He says it’s better to be hot or cold than lukewarm? 1:13:50 {Could Cain Still Be Alive?} How do you feel about the Bible conspiracy that Cain is still alive somehow and is wandering the Earth to this day? 1:15:20 {Witnessing to Stubborn Family Members} Does “shaking the dust off your feet” (Matthew 10: 14) ever apply to family? Or are we to always endure in witnessing to family, despite continual rejection? 1:18:15 {Was Jesus’ Analogy Flawed?} Someone's response to Matthew 5:13 was “How can salt lose its saltiness? If it wasn’t salty, it wouldn't be salt.” I understand what Jesus is saying here, but does this mean Je

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, looks like it's working. We were dealing with some YouTube glitches, but here we are.

0:09.9

This is the 20 questions with Pastor Mike. I'm here to try to answer your questions about

0:13.4

the Bible, Christianity, and I know the first question is a little out of the box for us

0:17.2

typically. This is from Matthew Benavides who says, when can we get a bookshelf tour?

0:23.2

Well, difficult to give you a bookshelf tour in their normal conditions because well,

0:26.9

I can't just pick that camera up and this mic up and move it around. It doesn't work that way.

0:31.0

So I recorded a video of a bookshelf tour. I'm only doing this because I get so many questions

0:35.9

about this throughout the years that we want to resource. We can just say, hey, here you go.

0:40.1

And it will give you a partial tour of my mini bookshelves, well, several bookshelves. And

0:46.4

answer some myths, some myths about my bookshelves that I've seen in the comments and that you might

0:51.2

be believing yourself. So you might want to know about this. Anyway, here's the bookshelf tour. This

0:55.6

will think about nine minutes, 40 seconds for anybody who wants to just skip ahead to question

0:59.1

number two. You're welcome to do that. So I've been asking many times over the years to provide

1:04.0

something of a bookshelf tour. And I'm going to be doing that today sort of a quick, very short

1:09.2

partial tour and answering four myths about this bookshelf of mine. The first myth is, believe it or not,

1:15.4

there are many people out there who think that my books are actually blue because that's how they

1:19.9

appear on screen. They're not blue. The books are just, it's just led strips that I've put into

1:26.9

my bookshelf, glue them in real cheap ones actually. And don't ask you which kind because they no

1:32.4

longer sell them on Amazon. And anyway, let me start with these two bookshelves and then I'll get to

1:37.2

the next little myth. I will not be able to cover every book in here, obviously, or talk about them.

1:43.1

And there's a lot of stuff that's pretty random with the bookshelves. For instance, this book on

1:47.3

hallucinations is just for resurrection of Jesus studies. It's just a textbook basically on the

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