Category: Pastor Miles Podcast

Episode 42 – December 1st Sermon Q&A

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Questions & Timestamps:

@ 18:10 – How does it feel to be forty?
@ 24:15 – The pastor was talking about we don’t have good perspective like a cow giving birth, does this mean he’s calling us cows?
@ 27:01 – You talked about the gifts of God, and then talked about the fruit of the spirit. What about spiritual gifts. Are we going to talk about that?
@ 28:12 – Can you please bring some light to the Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor, and Teacher in Ephesians 4? How do you define a prophet, an apostle etc. Are there still prophets and apostles today? I recently heard someone teaching that “A prophet is to preserve the standard of God’s Word. Bringing our world into divine focus is the effect of prophetic ministries.”
@ 40:07 – Isaiah 42:5-6. … “And spirit to those who walk on it.” Is this referring to the Holy Spirit?
@ 47:12 – In John 20:23 is Jesus giving His disciples the power to forgive sins? This verse seems to support Catholic’s confession?

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December 5, 2019

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Episode 41 – November 24th Sermon Q&A

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Questions & Timestamps:

@ 23:43 – Would Job not have been restored and rewarded if he didn’t pray for his friends?
@ 28:09 – What is the difference in language that makes people say Rev. 2:10 is not literal days, but Genesis is literal days?
@ 32:46 – What about Job’s wife?(curse God and die) did she bear Job 10 more children?
@ 35:10 – After we finish reading the book of Job, what’s the next book we should read through?
@ 38:14 – How can I find a way to share the gospel with family when they are at our house for the holidays?
@ 44:02 – How can I practically increase in patience? I know that frustrating things in life can be used to help grow in patience, but how can I practically grow in patience and not just grow in frustration?
@ 53:42 – How does one come out of suffering growing closer to the Lord and not bitter?

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November 27, 2019

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Episode 40 – November 17th Sermon Q&A

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Questions & Timestamps:

@ 16:55 – Where does the Bible mention other cities being destroyed, besides Sodom & Gomorrah.
@ 21:08 – Pastor Miles mentioned Karma as similar to the principle of sowing and reaping. Are they they same?
@ 26:19 – You mentioned in service that God cares and is working behind the scenes when John the Baptist and Jesus were suffering and died. How so for John the Baptist?
@ 36:43 – In the message you said that Job’s friends believed that God is just, and that the world works according to His justice. Were they wrong? Isn’t God just?
@ 41:03 – Isn’t it true that Job’s friends said some things that were true? In the passage you read in Job 11, his friend said that Job deserved worse. Isn’t it kind of true that we deserve much worse, because of our sin?

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November 20, 2019

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Episode 39 – November 10th Sermon Q&A

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Questions & Timestamps:

@ 11:01 – What is your favorite book in the Bible and why?
@ 15:26 – In chapter 3, Job is questioning why he was born. He seems to be questing God because God controls all things including birth. So it seems that righteousness is not measured by questioning Gods allowance of suffering in our lives?
@ 17:51 – You taught that Job was suicidal. I cannot see Job having suicidal thoughts. I do however see him longing to leave his situation via death. He expresses this desire through submission in prayer to the Omnipotent God, by asking God to kill him. His imagination of ‘IF’ he were never born can’t be seen as “suicidal” thoughts.” All of this seems to me to be Job submitting to God his desire to be done with life. True, he obviously has the wrong existential understanding. He is betraying his wrong understanding by asking to leave this life because of all the loss he’s experienced. I know God’s word says, “As a man thinks in his heart so is he” so Job is definitely heading down the wrong road and it may not be long before he does take action toward his own demise or even dwell on thoughts of how he might accomplish such , but in the text I do not see him having suicidal thoughts. So, why do you say you are sure that this passage is saying Job had suicidal thoughts?
@ 27:00 – What are some practical things to do to keep up hope while you’re going through a dark season like Job? How do you keep your eyes on the hope in the future when things get so overwhelming now?
@ 34:20 – What are some of the warning signs that might warrant needing to ask if someone is suicidal or self harming?
@ 38:42 – Is suicide a sin?” Do you go to hell if you commit suicide?
@ 42:53 – John 20:22 and Acts 1:4-5 in reference to being filled with the Holy Spirit. Is Jesus breathing into them the Holy Spirit different than the baptism of the Holy Spirit?

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November 14, 2019

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Episode 38 – November 3rd Sermon Q&A

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Questions & Timestamps:

@ 12:40 – Is having true compassion for others a gift from God?
@ 20:34 – Did Satan try to intervene and use Jobs friend to make him forsake God?
@ 23:38 – Listening to the service today and I didn’t totally agree with the definition of empathy. I feel the gift of empathy was put down too much. I think empathy is a wonderful gift that allows us to understand others in suffering. Empathy is a higher step to sympathy. As I understand the whole world uses sympathy, thinking that is enough to understand how people are feeling. Why do you think sympathy is better than empathy?
@ 30:18 – You talked about sympathy in the message. What if your problem is apathy?
@ 34:33 – In the message you said that it is best, when helping someone that is suffering, to “say nothing.” But what if you are asked a direct question about suffering from someone who is suffering? What if they are saying things about God that are false? How should you respond?
@ 37:59 – I heard someone say that Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship? What on earth does that mean?
@ 41:03 – What books do you recommend on the topic of suffering and pain?

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November 7, 2019

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Episode 37 – October 27th Sermon Q&A

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Questions & Timestamps:

@ 12:33 – Does Satan have the ability to inflict people with sickness, disease etc? If he does, do also his demons. And if he or they do, is permission from God necessary?
@ 15:24 – Pastor Guzik’s Bible Commentary on Job 1 said that “God’s purpose for Job’s suffering was a tool to teach angelic beings. Job made known the manifold wisdom of God to the principalities and powers in heavenly places.” Who were these “beings” and what was accomplished by doing this?
@ 27:13 – Would our Church allow a female to teach/preach a message in a Sunday service?
@ 33:08 – Why is monogamy a Christian tradition and typically the law of all “Christian” nations yet polygamy was practiced and not discouraged in the Bible. When did this fad go out of style?
@ 39:24 – What does the life of a pastor look like? Do you watch rated R movies? Listen to secular music? Utter the occasional curse-word?
@ 49:41 – Are Job’s children in Heaven?
@ 50:07 – Do you believe there are modern-day demon possessions? Along the same vein, are there modern-day prophets?
@ 57:14 – I listened to Pastor Miles discuss HEDONISM in regard to John Piper. I looked the word up and gave very general definitions. “It is the belief that pleasure or the absence of pain is the most important principle in determining the morality of a potential course of action. Various theories of conduct are the sole or chief good of life. You said Piper said obtaining joy is important.

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October 30, 2019

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Episode 36 – October 20th Sermon Q&A

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Questions & Timestamps:

@ 9:51 – What are some verses or passages that would be good to study or meditate on as I spend time with the Lord privately?
@ 18:07 – Do you practice any form of sabbath? How?
@ 25:39 – Jacob clearly lived Joseph more, Is favoritism bad in families?
@ 28:56 – Do you think Joseph was being malicious/divisive when he told on his brothers/told them his dreams?
@ 31:51 – Does God divinely allow famines to bring people/the nations back to him?
@ 36:07 – What do pastors do when they’re struggling with sin? How do they know when it’s time to step down from ministry to deal with it? Or what should they do?
@ 46:04 – Are they’re other places in the Bible where Satan is not the devil, but rather a messenger of God to test His servant’s motivations? And, how do you decipher if it is Satan or one of God’s servants while reading the Bible?
@ 52:43 – Wouldn’t God already know if Job is faithful to him because God is omniscient?
@ 56:52 – Why does God need a messenger “The Satan” to help him? Why would God call his advisor “The Satan”?
@ 57:04 – What does “Satan” mean?
@ 59:10 – Are the Believers in heaven praying for us on earth?
@ 1:01:14 – On Sunday’s message … scripture says so many “Female Donkeys.” why would that be significant to mention the gender of the donkeys?

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October 24, 2019

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Episode 35 – October 13th Sermon Q&A

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Questions & Timestamps:

@ 23:56 – Does God hide things from the Devil?
@ 26:10 – Are we supposed to judge the church by the people?
@ 28:18 – If you hit a wall and you’re stuck. How do you get unstuck?
@ 32:36 – Mark mentioned that we have traditions. What are our traditions at Cross Connection Church
@ 38:03 – What are ways I can practically be eternally minded every day?
@ 42:49 – Can you be too eternally/heavenly minded that you are of no earthly good?
@ 45:29 – There is a lot more talk recently about UFOs. Are they real? If so, are they from other planets or other dimensions? How should a Christian think about these?
@ 50:37 – Can you explain the basic flow of church history? From Jesus, to the Catholics, orthodox and the Protestants?

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October 17, 2019

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Episode 34 – September 29th Sermon Q&A

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Questions & Timestamps:

@ 18:09 – I just looked up Redemptive Suffering. Besides Catholics do any other religions believe it? It says it can repair our own soul and others.
@ 25:15– My question about the barrenness of the OT females do you think God is purposely keeping some Believing women childless today so they will get closer to Him?
@ 31:10 – I was just listening to Isaiah: God tells Israel that their name is written on the palm of his hand, but I hear Christians use that in reference to us as individuals, as the church, etc, but does it only apply to Israel?
@ 38:21 – How can you mend a bad reputation?
@ 42:31 – If animals have no soul, why are they so cruel to one another? Do animals go to heaven?

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October 2, 2019

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Episode 33 – September 22nd Sermon Q&A

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Questions & Timestamps:

@ 18:45 – What is the role of Israel after the new covenant? God makes a lot of promises and prophesies concerning them, but does Galatians 3:28 (there is neither Jew nor Gentile) mean that we are all the same now and those are promised to the church as a whole? Politically, I have also heard that America should stand with Israel because of prophesies concerning them as a nation. Is there legitimate basis for that position? And are Messianic Jews like super-Christians because they’re a part of God’s chosen people?
@ 28:14 – What is suppose to happen to Palestine? Should they be totally out of that area? Where are those people suppose to live?
@ 36:02 – Will Jehovah Witnesses go to heaven? Is belief in the trinity a requirement as long as they believe that Jesus was God’s perfect creation, that He sacrificed himself and that through His resurrection, He gave us everlasting life?
@ 38:31 – I am in an “unequally yoked” marriage. My husband is not saved nor shows any inclination to wanting to explore the church. I have a new fire for Christ in my life and am struggling with our differences. He participates in our kids’ nightly prayers (as a good sport) but discounts anything I may say privately. Do I just continue to set a good example as a loving, forgiving, Christian wife or should I nag him about it? in this intimate setting, how should I tackle this obstacle?

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September 25, 2019