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You are in control. Maybe, you aren’t in control. You don’t know if you’re in control or if you are not in control at any given point. This is… confusing. But it's a popular conversation today, asking if we people have “free will”. Free will is the freedom to choose whatever we want to do. But a lot of people question our free will, like if we even have any, or if it even matters whether or not we have free will. We talk about all these are things on today’s episode.

No matter what you think on the topic, there is always options, like the option to submit your own anonymous questions to Deeper Roots. You can submit your own questions online on our form and then your question will get answered right here on the podcast. Just go to www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There, you will find the form, as well as the rest of our episodes and what platforms you can find us on.

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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Due to scheduling conflicts and health concerns, we were not able to record episodes of Deeper Roots for a little while, but now we are back and we are ready to talk about more listener submitted questions.

The world is changing, and its changing very quickly, especially in the home. Parents are being presented with issues that have been dealt with in a certain way for a very long time, but are now being presented the option to change the way they solve those issues. Every generation has this opportunity to either keep the cycle going or to break the cycle, but this generation’s parents are now facing the subject of their kid’s sexuality, and are being scrutinized on how they handle it in today’s highly polarized society.

Today’s anonymous listener asks: What should I do if my kid comes out as homosexual?

Before we get started, I do want to note that there may be some sensitive topics in this episode, like abandonment, abuse, and suicide. If you are dealing with something at the moment, do know you are not alone and that God loves you. If you don’t have trusted counsel available to help you, we strongly encourage you to call one of these hotlines:

The New Hope Telephone Counseling Center has a hotline that is ready to connect you with a trained counsellor either for biblical counseling or suicide prevention. You can give them a call at 714-NEW-HOPE or 714-639-4673.

Covenant House provides housing and supportive services to youth facing homelessness. You can give them a call at 1-800-999-9999

Are you struggling with feelings of depression or suicide? Or do you know someone who is? The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24/7 at 1-800-273-TALK or 1-800-273-8255

Please give one of those numbers a call if you are struggling with anything, like depression, abuse, homelessness, suicide, or anything that can put you or anyone else in harms way. God created you with a purpose, and you have a reason to be here. Remember that God loves you and you are important, no matter who you are. 

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This upcoming weekend is Easter, and we want to take an episode to talk about the blessings of Easter and what it means to us. We also want to give thanks for the Christ’s sacrifice and for his resurrection, which ultimately paves the way for the salvation He gave us from our sin.

We usually answer questions from our audience, so if you want to submit your own questions, there is a free, open, and anonymous form on our webpage, which is found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There, you’ll not only find the form to submit your questions, but also the places where we have our podcast and the rest of our episodes. Once you submit your question, we’ll get it and you’ll be able to hear your question answered right here on the podcast!

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So here on the podcast, we’ve talked about the different versions of the Bible, but something we haven’t talked much about is the books within the Bible. What makes this collection of books so special that we call these books God’s inspired scripture, and not any of the other books that have been written, found, or uncovered? What makes some books canon, and some not canon?

We have had so many of our listeners become part of Deeper Roots through their questions. If you want to submit your own questions, there is a free, open, and anonymous form on our webpage, which is found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There, you’ll not only find the form to submit your questions, but also the places where we have our podcast and the rest of our episodes. Once you submit your question, we’ll get it and you’ll be able to hear your question answered right here on the podcast!

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One of the things that Christians are called to do is to reach other people with God’s word. Share the gospel, evangelize, expose them to God’s love. But not everyone accepts God’s word, and sometimes, that rejection comes from the people we care about most, like our friends, our significant other, or our families. We just want to make them listen, or we want to help them agree, but we can’t. The listener who asked today’s question asks “Have you ever not been able to save somebody”?

We have had so many of our listeners become part of Deeper Roots through their questions. If you want to submit your own questions, there is a free, open, and anonymous form on our webpage, which is found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There, you’ll not only find the form to submit your questions, but also the places where we have our podcast and the rest of our episodes. Once you submit your question, we’ll get it and you’ll be able to hear your question answered right here on the podcast!

Thank you for joining us today. Let’s get to the conversation!

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Are you in control of the things you do? There is philosophical idea that puts our freedom, free will, and sovereignty into question, and it has been widely debated, now more than ever. As Christians, we understand that God created us with free will, so for us, that argument is an open and shut case, but it still presents us with a lingering question. If Satan introduced sin into the world through Eve, how responsible is the Devil for our sin? Can the devil be responsible for the sins we commit from day to day?

We have had so many of our listeners become part of Deeper Roots through their questions. If you want to submit your own questions, there is a free, open, and anonymous form on our webpage, which is found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There, you’ll not only find the form to submit your questions, but also the places where we have our podcast and the rest of our episodes. Once you submit your question, we’ll get it and you’ll be able to hear your question answered right here on the podcast!

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This is our 50th episode! We wanted to take some time to reflect on the past episodes and celebrate the progress Deeper Roots has made. We would like to thank you, our listeners, for supporting us through your encouragement, through your feedback, and through the questions you have submitted. You have supplied over a year’s worth of questions so far and we are so happy to see them come in. Again, we thank you.

Through the past year, we have had so many of our listeners become part of the podcast through their questions. If you want to submit your own questions, there is a free, open, and anonymous form on our webpage, which is found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There, you’ll not only find the form to submit your questions, but also the places where we have our podcast and the rest of our episodes. Once you submit your question, we’ll get it and you’ll be able to hear your question answered right here on the podcast!

One of the most interesting concepts and parts of the Bible for me, personally, has to be the rapture and the tribulation. The whole book of The Revelation and what the Bible says about the end times has its own area of study that so many biblical scholars study and debate about. But there are people who fundamentally disagree with the whole concept of the rapture, and that is where our question lies in today. “How Biblical is the Rapture as we now it?”

Did you know that you can submit your own questions so we can answer them on the podcast? You can go ahead and submit your own anonymous question at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There, you’ll not only find the form to submit your questions, but also the places where we have our podcast and the rest of our episodes. Its anonymous, and you’ll be able to hear your question answered right here on the podcast!

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When this episode comes out, it will be a couple days after Valentines day, but we still wanted to talk about love and friendship and what the Bible says about those things on today’s podcast. We will return to the regular schedule of listener submitted questions next week. We talk about what the Bible says about love, and how love is used in today’s society versus how God defines love. We delve into that and more topics, and I hope you will join us in our conversation.

Even though today’s podcast wasn’t based on a listener’s question, you can submit your own questions so we can answer them on the podcast! You can go ahead and submit your own anonymous question at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There, you’ll not only find the form to submit your questions, but also the places where we have our podcast and the rest of our episodes. Its anonymous, and you’ll be able to hear your question answered right here on the podcast!

Thank you for joining us today. Let’s get to the conversation!

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As an artist, one of the things you want to do the most is put your heart into your work. Otherwise, it will be super obvious that you aren’t doing a good job. You know that people like Shakespeare and Michael Angelo had a passion for their crafts because the work was so hard to do and they pioneered their respective arts. You can say the same thing about every other artistic medium, be it photography, digital art, cinema and video art. People put their greatest desires into their art.

So does that mean that everything a Christian artist or even business-person does have to be directly related to God? Can Christian artists still make secular art? Because if God is supposed to be “number one” in their lives, shouldn’t Christians exclusively make Christian art or run Christian businesses. This is the core of our listener’s question this week, and it is a great topic to talk about this week on Deeper Roots.

Did you know that a listener submitted this question? That means that you are able to as well! You can go ahead and submit your own anonymous question at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There, you’ll not only find the form to submit your questions, but also the places where we have our podcast and the rest of our episodes. Its anonymous, and you’ll be able to hear your question answered right here on the podcast!

Thank you for joining us today. Let’s get to the conversation!