Mailbag Friday: Visiting a Women-Pastor Church for Family + Why the End Times Still Confuse Us

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s Mailbag Friday! You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.

Segment 1

• How should believers cope with the deaths of unsaved family and friends? — Isaac

• Visiting our nephew’s church that permits women pastors (though the current pastor is male)—should we go? — Theresa

• My church never preaches on sin—how do I raise this with my pastor? — Anonymous

Segment 2

• Church discipline boundaries: hospital visits, counseling, and officiating weddings—what should a pastor do? — Anonymous

Segment 3

• My parents feel unseen at a solid church—how do they build real connection? — Anonymous

• Should I step back from opposite-sex friendships to prevent jealousy and avoid temptation? — AJ

Segment 4

• Is forgiveness only granted when the offender repents? Responding to “squishy Christianity” claims. — Josh

• If God isn’t the author of confusion, why is eschatology so hotly debated? — Anna

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Transcript

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0:05.9	White privilege.
0:06.9	It's just an acknowledgement that our world is uneven.
0:10.1	We live in a country that's unequal.
0:12.3	All human beings share solidarity.
0:14.1	All of us are made in God's image equally and therefore worthy of dignity.
0:18.4	We're all ruined and rebellious against God and therefore calls calls us solidarity and sin, and we all need the same savior. It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Freel. When you look at the time. It's the Rretched Radio, mail-called delivery bag, Q&A, infatement, nationwide extravaganza, featuring your voicemails correspondences communicates dispatches
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0:43.8	right now is a clear message to the people of this country you have 1200 messages it is a bit
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0:54.4	The mail is here.
0:55.6	Ooh, this is Wretched Radio. This feels better, doesn't it? This is the right day for mail
1:01.4	bag. All week long, we've been opening up the mail courtesy of you. Today is the day we
1:07.4	traditionally do it, So this feels right.
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1:15.4	Oh boy.
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1:18.5	Jimmy?
1:19.1	Yes.
1:20.2	In case you didn't know this, here's a word to the wise.
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