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We have talk on this podcast before that as Christians, we are to be aligned with Christ, not to this world. That means we are to think differently from the rest of the world, and we need to keep Christ as the priority in our decision making. So, does that mean we have a duty to serve as Christians, inherent from our salvation? Do we have to serve and perform these duties just on the basis that we are saved?

We had the wonderful opportunity to talk about this topic, so if you want to follow up on this, or you have a new question altogether, we would love to talk about it. You can submit your questions at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. While you’re there, you can also see the rest of our episodes and see where else we are streaming.

We look forward to hearing from you! Thank you for joining us here on Deeper Roots. Let’s get to the conversation!

If you’ve been in church for pretty much any amount of time, you will know that there are some behaviors that the church would expect from you in your own personal life. Like, don’t put yourself in situations where you can find yourself tempted to sin. You can follow those rules, but sometimes people falter and turn back to sin. But since people will often fail in their own walk in their faith, what can the church do to prevent these failings from happening? Can the church enforce or police its members to prevent them from sinning?

We had the wonderful opportunity to talk about this topic, so if you want to follow up on this, or you have a new question altogether, we would love to talk about it. You can submit your questions at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. While you’re there, you can also see the rest of our episodes and see where else we are streaming.

So one of the things that we know about heaven is that it is perfect. No sadness, no strife, nothing to divide us because we will be unified in our eternal life with God. Something we also believe about heaven that as we get to heaven, we will still maintain our personalities. Those things that make you “you” will still be there, but in their perfect form. But what does that “perfect” form look like? Will we just be the same as the next person in heaven, or the next? Is there any “leeway” in perfection?

We had the wonderful opportunity to talk about this topic, so if you want to follow up on this, or you have a new question altogether, we would love to talk about it. You can submit your questions at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. While you’re there, you can also see the rest of our episodes and see where else we are streaming.

We know that God built us to have emotions, because God has emotions and God built us in his image. So, we should probably express those emotions. But one of the ways that people choose to express themselves has become somewhat “controversial”, that medium being dance. So with today’s questions, we talk about this listener-submitted topic. “Is it bad to Dance?”

We had the wonderful opportunity to talk about this topic, so if you want to follow up on this, or you have a new question altogether, we would love to talk about it. You can submit your questions at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. While you’re there, you can also see the rest of our episodes and see where else we are streaming.

Right now, if you were going to ask anyone the question “what do you identify as”, some people would probably automatically say something about their sexuality, some others may wonder but then answer what their favorite things to do are, or their occupation. Most people would be able to give you an answer because we believe that we know who we are, but everyone is still struggling to really find out who they are meant to be.

There is this confusion, almost a fog, that covers who we are supposed to become, and you have so many people trying to find that answer. There’s gurus, there’s movies, but it never points back to God. So today we are going to talk about identity, what it is, and why it's so important.

We had the wonderful opportunity to talk about this topic, so if you want to follow up on this, or you have a new question altogether, we would love to talk about it. You can submit your questions at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. While you’re there, you can also see the rest of our episodes and see where else we are streaming.

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In the United States, we have this document called the Constitution, where we have been adding several of these amendments to help develop the reach of the law, one of them being the second amendment. You know, the one about having the right to bear arms. Now if you take a look at the news today, you will see that there are a lot of people in the conservative camps saying that the US shouldn’t enact more gun control. And typically you will also see that most of the people in those conservative camps are Evangelicals. So, if you put two and two together, does that mean that Evangelicals are against gun control?

These are two clearly separate attributes, but it hasn’t stopped the world from connecting Evangelicals to guns. So, today’s listener asks the question: How should Christians think about gun control?

If you have a question like this one, if you want to follow up on another question, or you have a new question altogether, we would love to hear and talk about it. You can submit your questions at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. While you’re there, you can also see the rest of our episodes and see where else we are streaming.

We look forward to hearing from you! Thank you for joining us here on Deeper Roots. Let’s get to the conversation!

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When we read through the ministry of Jesus Christ, we see that Jesus was loving and compassionate. We also see that he spoke truth and rebuked those who twisted or ignored the truth. Both aspects of Jesus’s ministry can apply to many topics found in today’s world, but this week’s listener asks “Can a Christian be an LGBTQ ally?”

If you have a question like this one, if you want to follow up on another question, or you have a new question altogether, we would love to hear and talk about it. You can submit your questions at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. While you’re there, you can also see the rest of our episodes and see where else we are streaming.

We look forward to hearing from you! Thank you for joining us here on Deeper Roots. Let’s get to the conversation!

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One of the fundamental things we learn about within Christianity is the fact that there will be a rapture, taking up all the saints to heaven before the tribulation, at which point there will be 7 years of suffering on Earth. This prophecy comes from the book of The Revelation and many people use it as something to be hopeful toward. I mean, don’t we all just hope that we will be in paradise, never having to worry about pain again? But that creates a whole set of concerns, including the one asked by today’s listener: “Why Do We Look Forward to the Rapture?”

If you have a question like this one, or about anything that has to do with the Bible or the Christian faith, we would love to hear and talk about it. If you’d like to ask that question, you can submit your questions at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There you can submit your anonymous questions and also see the rest of our episodes, and you can see where else we are streaming.

We look forward to hearing from you! Thank you for joining us here on Deeper Roots. Let’s get to the conversation!

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When I was a kid, I always thought that the Bible was written in order, and in a sequence, and though there might be different authors, that they all probably knew each other. Over time, I did learn that because of the way that time and age works, most of the biblical authors did not know each other, and that parts were written at different times. This can explain different languages and different historical periods. But what that doesn’t explain when a book like Mark gets “updated” over a hundred years after its original writing. So that is what the listener this week is asking, specifically, how was Mark 16:9-20 added after hundreds of years.

If you have a question like this one, or really about anything that has to do with the Bible or the Christian faith, we would love to hear and talk about it. If you’d like to ask that question, you can submit your questions at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There you can submit your anonymous questions and also see the rest of our episodes. Don’t be afraid of asking something that you want a refresher on either! Sometimes it is good to revisit a topic so we can go deeper into the subject, especially if your own question wasn’t answered.

We look forward to hearing from you! Thank you for joining us here on Deeper Roots. Let’s get to the conversation!

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If we take a look around the world today, we can see a lot of things happening in terrible ways. We see people are dying, people are suffering. We see people taking advantage of others, hating each other, rejecting each other. Everyone thinks that they are right, but in a world with this many problems, that can’t possibly be the case. So what is the source of this pain? How did we get to where we are now? Today’s question is “Where does evil come from?”

This is our first question that was not from a listener, because we had gotten through our full list of questions submitted. But since the last episode aired, we got a few more questions, so we thank you for submitting them. This also means that there is a lot of availability for your own questions to get answered, so please submit your questions at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There you can submit your anonymous questions and also see the rest of our episodes. Don’t be afraid of asking something that you want a refresher on either! Sometimes it is good to revisit a topic so we can go deeper into the subject, especially if your own question wasn’t answered.

We look forward to hearing from you! Thank you for joining us here on Deeper Roots. Let’s get to the conversation!