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Taboo Questions With Pastor Mike Novotny — 236 episodes
Is Murder OK in the Bible?
Why Take Books Out of the Bible?
Is God Punishing Me?
Does God Want All People to Be Saved?
Can a Christian Donate Their Body to Science?
If You Are Forgiven for Every Sin, Then Why Would You Even Try to Be Good?
Is Spanking Your Children a Sin?
How Do You Navigate Faith in Marriage?
How Is It Fair That Some Suffer Terribly and Others Suffer Minimally?
What Does the Bible Say About the Female Empowerment Movement?
What Does Biblical Leadership for Husbands and Biblical Submission for Wives Look Like Today?
If You're Depressed, How Do You Know God Loves You?
Why Do Christians Flip Out About Smoking Marijuana?
What Do You Do When a Transgender Family Member Is Pulling Your Family Apart?
How Should a Christian Vote?
Can Divorced People Remarry?
How Do We Know Christianity Is the One Right Religion?
How Do You Really Know You're Good Enough to Make It to Heaven?
Do You Have to Keep All Ten Commandments?
Would the Church Really Want a Person Like You?
What Does the Bible Say About Public School vs. Christian School vs. Homeschool?
Where Do I Start with Confession?
How Can I Be a More Patient Parent?
Can Christians Be Too Intense About Their Faith?
What Is the Biggest Mistake Christian Parents Make?
Is There an Easy Way to Share My Faith with Others?
Why Are There So Many Kinds of Churches and Denominations?
What Is a Christian Supposed to Do with the Mess of Politics?
What if I Feel Awkward When I Pray?
How Can I Pray "Our Father" if My Father Was a Bad Father?
How Can the Bible Be a Guide During a Divorce?
Is Christianity Too Narrow and Exclusive?
Can Churches Be Too Modern and Casual?
Does Jesus Cringe When People Get Kicked Out of Church?
Spiritual Disciplines
When Someone Says, "Scripture Is 'Just Your Interpretation'"
How Can You Break the "Christians Are Judgmental" Stereotype?
What's the Single Thing Christian Parents Can Do to Raise Christian Kids?
Got Any Advice to Avoid Divorce?
How Do You Make Bible Reading a Habit?
How Do You Take Care of Yourself While Putting Others Above You?
What Happened Between the Old Testament and the New Testament?
Is It OK for Christians to Live Together Before Marriage?
If I Go to a Different Church Because I Prefer a Different Worship Style, Am I Sinning?
How Do I Pray Without Disctractions?
How Do I Know God Is Speaking to Me?
Are Dogs God's Way of Showing Us Unconditional Love?
Is the Way We Talk About Sex Actually Good for Us?
How Do You Know You're Idolizing Your Kids?
Dads, Does Your Faith Involvement Matter?
Are There Things in the Bible That Don't Make Sense to Pastors?
Is It OK to Swear?
Taboo Talk: When Scandal Shakes the Church
Did God Create the World in Six Actual Days?
Is It Good That Athletes Praise God After Winning?
"Church People Are Hypocrites"
What Should Christian Parents Do About Santa, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny?
Have Pets Replaced Kids?
A Homeless Person Asks for Money. Must You Give?
How Can I Be a Less Angry, More Patient Parent?
How Can Christian Churches Have Such Different Teachings?
Are Men the New Victims of Our Modern Age?
Can a Husband and Wife Have Different Political Views?
Why Does God Do Miracles for Others but Not for Me?
Taboo Talk: Is Worship Supposed to Move You?
Do Christians Need to Worry About the Environment?
What if You Love Your Spouse but Are No Longer in Love With Your Spouse?
Do You Have to Respect Parents Who Aren't Very Respectable?
Do Guardian Angels Really Exist?
Can Your Marriage Make It After an Affair?
Should Christians Boycott Companies With Non-Christian Messages?
How Do I Not Conform to Our Busy Culture?
How Can a Husband Handle His Frustration With His Stay-at-Home Wife?
Can Christians Celebrate Halloween?
Do I Have to Believe Everything in the Old Testament?
How Do You Raise Kids Who Aren't Entitled?
Taboo Talk: Demons and the Devil
Why Is It So Hard to Make Friends?
How Do I Know I Have Really Forgiven?
How Do I Handle the Shame of Past Sins?
How Am I Supposed to Pray? Boldly or Humbly?
What Does the Rainbow Really Mean?
Is God OK With Your Doubts?
What to Do After a Pastor Sins?
Do I Need to Do Good Works to Go to Heaven?
Did I Actually Forgive?
Did Jesus Really Claim to Be God?
Is It Wrong to Have Kids and Bring Them Into Our Evil World?
Why Does God Say No Sex Before Marriage?
Would Jesus Weep About Christians Who Are More About Rules Than Love?
Is the God of the Old Testament Angrier?
Taboo Talk: Why Prayer Feels So Hard
How Do I Approach God Boldly if I Feel Shame?
Is It Wrong to Spend Tons of Money for a Fancy New Church?
God Struck Two People Dead for Lying? What?!?!
Are Parents "Toxic" or Are They Just Parenting?
Is There a Spiritual Aspect to Sexual Immorality?
Is Pornography Adultery?
What if I Don't Want to Submit to My Husband?
Why Battle Sins if You Will Never Be Sinless?
Do You Go to Heaven Right After Death or on Judgment Day?
Can Christians Gamble?
How Do I Forgive Myself?
Taboo Talk: Honest Confession and Vulnerability
Is God's Truth Intolerant?
What Should I Do After Cheating on My Wife?
If We Won't Be Married in Heaven, Can We Still Choose to Be Together?
Isn't Marriage Just a Piece of Paper?
Do You Have to Confess Your Sins to Another Person?
My Friend Is Transitioning Genders. What Do I Say?
How Do You Hold Onto Your Faith When You Want What Unbelievers Have?
How Do You Escape the Cycle of Guilt?
What Should You Do if You Are in a Sexless Marriage?
How Can You Trust Christians if You've Been Abused by Them?
Does the Bible Contradict Itself When It Comes to Being Saved?
How Are God and Jesus the Same Person?
If God Is All-Knowing, Does That Invalidate the Idea of Free Will?
I Struggle With Perfectionism. Help!
Taboo Talk: Toxic People and Boundaries
What Would Jesus Say About Megachurches vs. Small Churches?
Is It a Sin to Eat Unhealthy Foods?
What Are the Dangers of a Good Pastor?
Is It OK for Christians to Watch Horror Movies?
I Keep Repeating the Same Sin. Did I Actually Repent?
What if I Don't Like Going to Church?
How Do You Heal and Forgive After a Suicide?
How Do I Help Someone Struggling With Porn?
Giants and Angels? Just What Were the Nephilim?
Is It Bad for Christians to Distance Themselves From Non-Christians?
Is Purgatory Real?
Taboo Talk: Gambling and Video Games
How Can You Claim There's a God When You're Sitting Next to a Dying Child?
Is Cosmetic Surgery OK?
My Sister Is Thinking About an Abortion. What Do I Do?
How Do I Handle Not Caring About My Absent Parent?
Is It Sinful to Get a Tattoo?
What Does the Bible Say About the Death Penalty?
Does God Approve of Divorce?
Does God Judge Sexual Sins More Than Other Sins?
Can't the Bible Get Twisted Over Time?
Is It a Sin to Read Smutty Books?
How Can I Trust the Church if I Have So Much Church Hurt?
Taboo Talk: Rethinking Self-Esteem
Do Christians Need to Go to Church?
Are Club Sports Sinful?
What Should I Do if My Child Claims to Be Christian But Openly Sins and Doesn't Care?
Aren't Old Hymns Better Than Today's Praise Songs?
Why Does God Allow Narcissists Into Our Lives?
Does God Get Mad at Me When I Relapse?
Does God Answer Prayer Better if More People Pray?
What if You Don't Agree With Everything Your Church Teaches?
How Is Christianity Different From Islam?
Does the Old Testament Promote Genocide?
How Do I Rebuild Trust With My Spouse After They Sinned Against Me?
If God Is "Perfect," Why Did He Create an Imperfect World With Suffering?
Is It Ever Okay to Lie?
If You're Gay, Are You Meant to Be Entirely Alone?
Taboo Talk: The Digital Dilemma of Tech and Screens
Are All Sins Equal in the Sight of God?
What Does God Say About Women Working Outside the Home?
How Can You Protect Your Marriage From an Affair?
What if I Commit a Sin but It Doesn't Feel Wrong?
Cultural Truths vs. Biblical Truths. What Would God Think?
Why Is There More of an Emphasis on Women Submitting to Their Husbands?
Why Would God Allow the Devil to Tempt Adam and Eve if God Knew They Would Sin?
How Do You Forgive Someone Who Abused You?
Are Children Cursed From the Sins of Their Parents?
Can a Pastor Be Gay?
How Do You Deal With the Guilt of Sex Before Marriage?
Taboo Talk: The Tension Between Christianity and the World
Why Did God Create Men and Women to Think So Differently From One Another?
What Physical or Scientific Evidence Proves Jesus Was Here?
When Is Video Gaming a Sin?
What Does the Bible Say About Sports Betting?
Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen to Good People?
Are There Different Levels in Heaven?
Are You Allowed to Be Cremated?
What Is the Unforgivable Sin, and How Do I Know if I've Committed It?
Does God Care About How Many Sexual Partners You Have Had?
Is Wearing Makeup a Sin?
Am I Allowed to Work on Sundays?
Taboo Talk: Politics and Religion
What Does the Bible Say About Racism?
Is Dancing Bad?
When Does Love for Your Child Become the Worship of Your Child?
Why Do We Need to Fear God if He Is a God of Love?
My Friend Died Without Faith in Jesus. Is He in Hell?
Transgenderism: How Do You Navigate This When It's Being Normalized?
Can Christians Smoke Weed?
Why Does God Allow Kids to Have Special Needs?
What Should I Do if I Already Had an Abortion?
How Do We Love Same-Sex Couples Who Adopt?
Is It OK for Christians to Have a Do Not Resuscitate?
Taboo Talk: Alcohol and Christianity
What if a Baby Is Born With Both Male and Female Parts?
Why Does God Call Himself a Jealous God?
Can Satan Read Our Minds?
What Does God Say About Asexuality?
Is It OK for Christians to Watch "Wicked"?
What Does God and the Bible Say About Masturbation?
How Should We Feel About the Conflict in Israel?
Can You Have a Healthy Marriage if You Don’t Share the Same Faith?
Is the Bible Reliable?
Why Do We Celebrate Christmas in December if Jesus Wasn't Born in December?
Are My Loved Ones Watching Over Me From Heaven
Anxiety and Depression: Where Is the Bible's Comfort?
Taboo Talk: When Your Marriage Gets Stuck
Why Wait Until Marriage to Have Sex?
Can Someone Be Good Without Believing in God?
What's the Difference Between Apostles Dying for Christ vs. Religious Extremists Dying Today?
Is It Sinful to Use Preferred Pronouns?
Anxiety, Suicide, and Going to Heaven
Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?
What Does God Say About "Coexist"?
What Are Valid Reasons for Divorce?
Why Didn't God Stop Slavery in the Bible?
Is It a Sin to Wear Leggings?
Taboo Talk: Porn Affects More People Than You Think
Can We Live Together Before Marriage?
Are LGBTQ+ People Born That Way?
Do Babies Who Die in the Womb Go to Heaven?
Is Anger a Sin?
Do We Need to Follow Laws We Disagree With?
How Do We Approach the Country's Political Divide?
Do Demons Still Haunt People Today?
Do Different Religions All Worship the Same God?
Is Mental Illness a Sin?
How Do We Know the Devil Is a Fallen Angel?
Is Believing in God Just a Safe Bet?
Why Do Churches Cover up Pastors' Sins?
Does the Bible Promote the Patriarchy?
Does Someone Who's Never Heard of Jesus Go to Hell?
Is It a Sin to Kill Someone if You’re a Soldier in War?
Is IVF an Option for Christian Couples?
Is Porn OK for Married Couples?
What if I Don't Want to Vote for Any of the Candidates?