It’s Mailbag Friday! What do I do about a married coworker who has developed feelings for me?

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Segment 1

Todd, our teenage son is pushing back hard against Christianity, calling it forced upon him. Despite this, we keep him in church and youth group hoping he’ll encounter Christ. But his disdain is growing. Should we keep pushing these activities, because his level of disrespect towards us and others who are believers is growing? -Anonymous

How do we appropriately share our burdens? Sometimes I don’t share because I think that it’s too much or because I can’t express it without being tempted to sin. I don’t want to put too much on someone else and at the same time it’s incredibly lonely. -Susan

I have a new coworker who I think may have some romantic feelings for me. She is married and going through a hard time. I have been partially tasked with training her. She texts me outside of work. I’m not sure what to do because I can’t stop the work relationship, but don’t want to feed into the potential romantic feelings either. -Anonymous

Segment 2

My pastor has gotten into the habit of using what I would consider to be an over-abundance of quips, quotes, illustrations, personal stories, and observations that he has pulled from commentaries. Some days he may utilize as few as five to seven, but it’s far more common for his sermons to contain as many as ten, twelve, fifteen, even seventeen such devices. When does this kind of thing become too much? -Kimberly

Todd, the idea of sinning without realizing it terrifies me. How can we repent for sins we’re unaware of? This concern makes me feel like my repentance is never enough. -Anonymous

Segment 3

There are instances throughout Israel’s history of kings being rebuked for affiliating themselves with pagan nations. We are also commanded to not be yoked with unbelievers, yet we can do commerce with them. To what extent can we be yoked with unbelievers in the political sphere or the marketplace? -David

I am a man and I have been asked to help serve at a women’s conference. My job would be to help set up equipment and run the projector during service time. Keep in mind, this is a conference where only women will be attending and only women will be teaching. The only men that will be there are the ones on the praise team, the sound guy, and myself. Should I and the other men attend this event? Would it be a violation of 1 Timothy? -Kyle

In regards to your previous statements, that all aborted babies go to Heaven; what do you say to a pastor who says we should not combat the abortion industrial complex, but we should let the pagans abort their babies, because that is most likely the best way for those babies to go to heaven? Some folks consider this a good thing, rather than the abomination that child sacrifice is.

Hey Todd, my church really pushes having a daily quiet time, almost saying it’s a sin to skip it. But I listen to sermons and Christian podcasts daily, feeding my faith without always reading the Bible. Historically, many believers didn’t have daily scripture access, so is missing quiet time really sinful? -Cole

Segment 4

In Matthew, after Jesus’s death, there’s an account of tombs opening and many saints being raised. Were they resurrected like Lazarus, to die again later? What’s the meaning of this event? -Nate

Why did the melons go through all the stress of wedding planning? Because they cantaloupe. -Josh

I’ve been saved for about 8 months now but I have a problem, almost every day I think about death not like suicidal but just death and I don’t really care about living a normal worldly life with a job and marriage and retirement because I know what happens, it’s all going away in the end. I know Ecclesiastes talks about this but I want to know is this Biblical thinking if not what can be done? -Wesley

How do I break the habit of turning to sermons to understand a text rather than studying it on my own? -Zach

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