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What makes your belief more real than my belief? What is so special about what you believe that makes my belief essentially null and void? What can I say about my belief that can discount your belief? This series of questions is obviously difficult to answer because not only is it one that we have been hurting each other for ages over, but it's one that continues to change and grow as more people become old enough to form their own opinions. And to make it more complicated, people start adding their new beliefs into the system.

These beliefs do become quantifiable, and a lot of the time it is divided into two different names: this new belief is either called a religion, or a it is called a cult. Now, we have different connotations to both of those words, and some of you might think that they are one in the same, but that is what this podcast is about. Our listener submitted this question: “What is the difference between Christianity and cults?”

Hey, you wanna know a little secret? Just so you know, if you want to submit your own question for the podcast, you can submit it on our form found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. On the website, you can find the form, as well as the rest of our episodes and the streaming platforms we are on. Funny thing about this secret is that we don’t want you to keep it. If you like this podcast, go ahead share it with your friends, your family, and your church, that way they can enjoy it as well AND ask their own questions.

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How old are we? Depending on your background, or your religion, or even how practical you are as a person, that question changes a lot. You can be a bit snarky and say that you are how old you are. You can say that humans have been around for about 10 thousand years, or you can say that the earth has been around for billions of years. But no matter how the answer you give changes, or how the scope of the question changes, everything points back to the beginning, and it implies that there is a beginning to start with. And that beginning is some undetermined amount of time that is debated between people coming from different walks of life.

But why is there this question? Some people don’t want to associate religion to the beginning of the world, and some people want to connect it directly to belief, purpose, and deities. In Christianity, we have our way of thinking about the question, but even within our own discussions do we have our own theories. Our listener asks “Can the Earth be older than how old Christians say it is?”

This is a really interesting question, and we think that you might also have more interesting questions of your own. so if you want to submit your own question for the podcast, you can submit it on our form found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. On the website, you can find the form, as well as the rest of our episodes and the streaming platforms we are on. If you like this podcast, give it a like and please share it with your friends, your family, and your church, that way they can enjoy it as well AND ask their own questions.

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If you are listening to this podcast, you will be well aware and acquainted with the fact that we have lots of decisions to make throughout the span of our lifetimes. Some of those decisions will be relatively small, but a lot of these decisions can potentially be life-changing. But more often than not, these decisions aren’t “good vs bad”, they can be nuanced and difficult to decipher. The listener that submitted this week’s question is facing that sort of decision. They ask “How do I discern between what my heart wants and what God’s plan is for me?”

We are back from our new year hiatus, and we are getting right back into our listener submitted questions. If you want to submit your own question for the podcast, you can submit it on our form found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. On the website, you can find the form, as well as the rest of our episodes and the streaming platforms we are on. If you like this podcast, give it a like and please share it with your friends, your family, and your church, that way they can enjoy it as well AND ask their own questions.

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Today, we are taking some time to talk about Christmas, not only what it means for us Christians now, but also what it should mean to us Christians. Christmas has taken a lot of different forms just through these past few years due to a lot of things changing throughout the world, but we want to reflect on the holiday and talk about how it resonates through our lives.

The topics on the Deeper Roots podcast are entirely listener submitted, and if you want to submit your own question for the podcast, you can submit it on our form found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. On the website, you can find the form, as well as the rest of our episodes and the streaming platforms we are on. If you like this podcast, give it a like and please share it with your friends, your family, and your church, that way they can enjoy it as well AND ask their own questions.

This is a good opportunity to tell you all that Deeper Roots will be taking a break for the rest of the year and will be back in January. We want to thank you for your continued support, and for all the questions you’ve asked throughout 2021. We look forward to hearing more questions form you in the future, and we are praying to God to lead us to the future of Deeper Roots.

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One of the most difficult topics to talk about is the death. It gets more difficult when you talk about the death of a loved one, and even more so when they have already been suffering for a long time. That’s why the discussion on euthanasia, or medically assisted suicide, is so difficult to have, but also is so important to address, especially in a society that is constantly trying to legitimize death as a solution to our problems.

Today’s episode is about medically assisted suicide, but also about how God’s importance on life is to be addressed within the topic as well.

The topics on the Deeper Roots podcast are entirely listener submitted, and if you want to submit your own question for the podcast, you can submit your question on our form found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. On the website, you can find the form, as well as the rest of our episodes and the streaming platforms we are on. If you like this podcast, give it a like and please share it with your friends, your family, and your church, that way they can enjoy it as well AND ask their own questions.

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Hey everyone and welcome back to Deeper Roots. Today we are talking about the IFB Model, a popular model that many churches use to structure the organization of the church and the ideals the church follows. We talk about what it is, how churches got to the point of using it, and where it stands today. We also talk about these traditions that the IFB model, and many other church models, fall into — which kind of coincides with some of our previous topics, like in our idolatry episode.

If you’ve been to any number of churches, you’ll start to notice that they tend to follow a certain pattern. There is the pastor, there might be an elder board, and a membership process. But how much of that is biblical? How much of any schedule or process is biblical at all? This is where the IFB model lies.

Today’s listener not only asks “What is the IFB Model?” but also “Why do we use the IFB model? Could it be considered the best model for churches to use? And are there other Models?”

Did you know that you can submit your own question online using the form on our webpage? Well, you can, and we will read your question and we will try to answer it biblically right here on the podcast. You can submit your question on our form found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. That link will be in the description. There, you can find more than just the form! You can find the rest of our episodes and the streaming platforms we are on. If you like this podcast, give it a like and please share it with your friends, your family, and your church, that way they can enjoy it as well AND ask their own questions.

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Thanksgiving is a holiday where we all come together and both spend time with family and friends, and also be thankful for our lives and the things within our lives. But nowadays, we can often forget about the things we are thankful for. We can start being more pessimistic about even the great things in life, and that leads to suffering, worry, anxiety, depression, just a general lack of ability to appreciate our lives.

So this episode, we are taking a short pause on questions, but just this week! We will be back to questions next week. We just to take the time to be thankful and to also talk about thankfulness. It’s something we all need to take the time to remember to do, to be thankful and to appreciate each other, our circumstances, and most of all, God’s role in our lives.

If you are inclined to, leave a comment on Facebook and/or YouTube and tell us something you are thankful for! If you want to share, but in private, you can also submit your thanksgiving on our form at our webpage.

If this is your first episode with us, did you know that you can submit your own question online using the form on our webpage? Well, you can, and we will read your question and we will try to answer it biblically right here on the podcast. You can submit your question on our form found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. That link will be in the description. There, you can find more than just the form! You can find the rest of our episodes and the streaming platforms we are on. If you like this podcast, give it a like and please share it with your friends, your family, and your church, that way they can enjoy it as well AND ask their own questions.

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Last week, we talked about how Christian relationships should be different from how relationships are understood within the secular world. You can actually find that podcast by going to our podcast page and listening to last week’s episode. Of course, how someone handles their relationships vary from person to person, but one of the primary groups of people that aren’t as often as they should are the teens.

Dating while you are young is a whole lot different from when you are older, both for the actual ability to date and go out, but also on the spiritual side and the mental side. But teens and dating are often just taboo, where the answer is usually that dating shouldn’t happen, and whenever something does happen, there are consequences at home. We aim to talk more about young relationships and the risks associated with “falling in love” at such a young age.

If you’ve grown up as a Christian, or have been responsible over your kids and are trying to raise them the right way, you might have heard of the concept of courting, instead of dating. You might have heard of this book called “Say Goodbye to Dating”. You might also heard that dating is wrong and you should only find love in a specific way (perhaps by courting). But as a Christian myself, I don’t know what “courting” is, and how it is different from dating.

Today’s listener asks the question: “How is Christian dating/courting different from what the world says dating is?” This question has been on the top of our list for a while, so I’m really happy that we get to talk about relationships like this today. Sometimes it seems that the church has somewhat mixed messaging about relationships and dating, but today we will clear it up a bit.

This question was submitted online, and you can submit your own question online using the form on our webpage, which is found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There, you can find more than just the form! You can find the rest of our episodes and the streaming platforms we’re on. If you like this podcast, please share it with your friends, your family, and your church, that way they can enjoy it as well AND ask their own questions.

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So, if you are saved, that means that there was a point in your life where you were unsaved. Meaning there was a point in your life that when you got saved, you were young in your faith and uncertain of the road ahead for you. But as you grow, and you learn more about God, you come to understand more and more truths about people, about God, and about the world around you.

But it seems that so many people forget that they started from somewhere, just like you did however long ago that was. That is where I believe the listener is coming from this week when they’ve asked the question “Am I Less of a Christian For Not Growing Up As A Christian?”

This question was submitted online, and you can submit your own question online using the form on our webpage, which is found at www.ibbvn.org/deeperroots. There, you can find more than just the form! You can find the rest of our episodes and the streaming platforms we’re on. If you like this podcast, please share it with your friends, your family, and your church, that way they can enjoy it as well AND ask their own questions.