Is the gift of tongues still around today?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

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Well, Adriel, yesterday you responded to a question about prayer, and we discussed whether

it's appropriate to ask God to provide a hedge of protection around us or to ask angels to guard

us. And one of our listeners named Roy emailed us.

He was concerned that you were saying that we can actually pray to angels.

I'm wondering if you could clarify that for him.

Yeah, I love when we get feedback about the broadcast.

And in your right, Bill, yesterday we were talking.

Someone had asked, you know, is it okay to plead the blood of Jesus when we pray? You know, you hear some Christian traditions doing this. I think this is probably more something that you'll find in more charismatic Pentecostal traditions. You know, we're pleading the blood of Jesus in prayer. And I said, well, I mean, it depends on how we think about this. I talked about the Lord's

supper and how in one sense when we partake of the Lord's supper together as the body

of Christ, we're pleading the blood of Jesus. We're receiving the benefits of his once-for-all

sacrifice for us. And so there is, I think, a way of thinking about this biblically. But additionally,

Bill, you brought up, well, what about praying for a hedge of protection?

That's another thing that you hear people.

We're praying for a hedge of protection.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Not praying to angels.

And so we wanna be sure that when we're praying,

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