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Taboo Questions With Pastor Mike Novotny — 271 episodes

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Can Christians Believe in Aliens?

2

Is It a Sin to Be an Addict?

3

Could AI Replace Your Pastor?

4

Is Assisted Suicide Okay?

5

Is the Death Penalty an Option?

6

Does God Care if I Use AI?

7

Is Social Media Making Us Worse?

8

What About AI Deception?

9

Is Birth Control Bad?

10

How Do I Know if I Should End a Romantic Relationship?

11

Why Do I Keep on Sinning?

12

Why Isn't Salvation Obvious for Everyone?

13

Is Everyone Created in God's Image?

14

Does "Forever" Freak You Out?

15

Do I Need to Be Good Before Going to Church?

16

Do Some Churches not Welcome "All"?

17

What Bible Translation Can I Trust?

18

Can We Live Together Before Marriage?

19

Should I Go to Church to Make My Boyfriend Happy?

20

What if I Want to Hide from God?

21

Do Good People Go to Hell?

22

Can Church Be like a Concert?

23

How Do I Make Friends as an Adult?

24

Is It Possible to Coexist?

25

Is the Bible Proslavery?

26

Why Am I Like This?

27

Is It Wrong for Christians to Care About Appearance?

28

Why Are Christians Judgmental?

29

How Do I Find My Purpose?

30

Can Sex Between Spouses Be Sinful?

31

Why Pray?

32

Why So Much Scandal in the Church?

33

Which Bible Interpretation Is Best?

34

What if Church Is Boring?

35

Is Everyone an Addict?

36

Is Murder OK in the Bible?

37

Why Take Books Out of the Bible?

38

Is God Punishing Me?

39

Does God Want All People to Be Saved?

40

Can a Christian Donate Their Body to Science?

41

If You Are Forgiven for Every Sin, Then Why Would You Even Try to Be Good?

42

Is Spanking Your Children a Sin?

43

How Do You Navigate Faith in Marriage?

44

How Is It Fair That Some Suffer Terribly and Others Suffer Minimally?

45

What Does the Bible Say About the Female Empowerment Movement?

46

What Does Biblical Leadership for Husbands and Biblical Submission for Wives Look Like Today?

47

If You're Depressed, How Do You Know God Loves You?

48

Why Do Christians Flip Out About Smoking Marijuana?

49

What Do You Do When a Transgender Family Member Is Pulling Your Family Apart?

50

How Should a Christian Vote?

51

Can Divorced People Remarry?

52

How Do We Know Christianity Is the One Right Religion?

53

How Do You Really Know You're Good Enough to Make It to Heaven?

54

Do You Have to Keep All Ten Commandments?

55

Would the Church Really Want a Person Like You?

56

What Does the Bible Say About Public School vs. Christian School vs. Homeschool?

57

Where Do I Start with Confession?

58

How Can I Be a More Patient Parent?

59

Can Christians Be Too Intense About Their Faith?

60

What Is the Biggest Mistake Christian Parents Make?

61

Is There an Easy Way to Share My Faith with Others?

62

Why Are There So Many Kinds of Churches and Denominations?

63

What Is a Christian Supposed to Do with the Mess of Politics?

64

What if I Feel Awkward When I Pray?

65

How Can I Pray "Our Father" if My Father Was a Bad Father?

66

How Can the Bible Be a Guide During a Divorce?

67

Is Christianity Too Narrow and Exclusive?

68

Can Churches Be Too Modern and Casual?

69

Does Jesus Cringe When People Get Kicked Out of Church?

70

Spiritual Disciplines

71

When Someone Says, "Scripture Is 'Just Your Interpretation'"

72

How Can You Break the "Christians Are Judgmental" Stereotype?

73

What's the Single Thing Christian Parents Can Do to Raise Christian Kids?

74

Got Any Advice to Avoid Divorce?

75

How Do You Make Bible Reading a Habit?

76

How Do You Take Care of Yourself While Putting Others Above You?

77

What Happened Between the Old Testament and the New Testament?

78

Is It OK for Christians to Live Together Before Marriage?

79

If I Go to a Different Church Because I Prefer a Different Worship Style, Am I Sinning?

80

How Do I Pray Without Disctractions?

81

How Do I Know God Is Speaking to Me?

82

Are Dogs God's Way of Showing Us Unconditional Love?

83

Is the Way We Talk About Sex Actually Good for Us?

84

How Do You Know You're Idolizing Your Kids?

85

Dads, Does Your Faith Involvement Matter?

86

Are There Things in the Bible That Don't Make Sense to Pastors?

87

Is It OK to Swear?

88

Taboo Talk: When Scandal Shakes the Church

89

Did God Create the World in Six Actual Days?

90

Is It Good That Athletes Praise God After Winning?

91

"Church People Are Hypocrites"

92

What Should Christian Parents Do About Santa, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny?

93

Have Pets Replaced Kids?

94

A Homeless Person Asks for Money. Must You Give?

95

How Can I Be a Less Angry, More Patient Parent?

96

How Can Christian Churches Have Such Different Teachings?

97

Are Men the New Victims of Our Modern Age?

98

Can a Husband and Wife Have Different Political Views?

99

Why Does God Do Miracles for Others but Not for Me?

100

Taboo Talk: Is Worship Supposed to Move You?

101

Do Christians Need to Worry About the Environment?

102

What if You Love Your Spouse but Are No Longer in Love With Your Spouse?

103

Do You Have to Respect Parents Who Aren't Very Respectable?

104

Do Guardian Angels Really Exist?

105

Can Your Marriage Make It After an Affair?

106

Should Christians Boycott Companies With Non-Christian Messages?

107

How Do I Not Conform to Our Busy Culture?

108

How Can a Husband Handle His Frustration With His Stay-at-Home Wife?

109

Can Christians Celebrate Halloween?

110

Do I Have to Believe Everything in the Old Testament?

111

How Do You Raise Kids Who Aren't Entitled?

112

Taboo Talk: Demons and the Devil

113

Why Is It So Hard to Make Friends?

114

How Do I Know I Have Really Forgiven?

115

How Do I Handle the Shame of Past Sins?

116

How Am I Supposed to Pray? Boldly or Humbly?

117

What Does the Rainbow Really Mean?

118

Is God OK With Your Doubts?

119

What to Do After a Pastor Sins?

120

Do I Need to Do Good Works to Go to Heaven?

121

Did I Actually Forgive?

122

Did Jesus Really Claim to Be God?

123

Is It Wrong to Have Kids and Bring Them Into Our Evil World?

124

Why Does God Say No Sex Before Marriage?

125

Would Jesus Weep About Christians Who Are More About Rules Than Love?

126

Is the God of the Old Testament Angrier?

127

Taboo Talk: Why Prayer Feels So Hard

128

How Do I Approach God Boldly if I Feel Shame?

129

Is It Wrong to Spend Tons of Money for a Fancy New Church?

130

God Struck Two People Dead for Lying? What?!?!

131

Are Parents "Toxic" or Are They Just Parenting?

132

Is There a Spiritual Aspect to Sexual Immorality?

133

Is Pornography Adultery?

134

What if I Don't Want to Submit to My Husband?

135

Why Battle Sins if You Will Never Be Sinless?

136

Do You Go to Heaven Right After Death or on Judgment Day?

137

Can Christians Gamble?

138

How Do I Forgive Myself?

139

Taboo Talk: Honest Confession and Vulnerability

140

Is God's Truth Intolerant?

141

What Should I Do After Cheating on My Wife?

142

If We Won't Be Married in Heaven, Can We Still Choose to Be Together?

143

Isn't Marriage Just a Piece of Paper?

144

Do You Have to Confess Your Sins to Another Person?

145

My Friend Is Transitioning Genders. What Do I Say?

146

How Do You Hold Onto Your Faith When You Want What Unbelievers Have?

147

How Do You Escape the Cycle of Guilt?

148

What Should You Do if You Are in a Sexless Marriage?

149

How Can You Trust Christians if You've Been Abused by Them?

150

Does the Bible Contradict Itself When It Comes to Being Saved?

151

How Are God and Jesus the Same Person?

152

If God Is All-Knowing, Does That Invalidate the Idea of Free Will?

153

I Struggle With Perfectionism. Help!

154

Taboo Talk: Toxic People and Boundaries

155

What Would Jesus Say About Megachurches vs. Small Churches?

156

Is It a Sin to Eat Unhealthy Foods?

157

What Are the Dangers of a Good Pastor?

158

Is It OK for Christians to Watch Horror Movies?

159

I Keep Repeating the Same Sin. Did I Actually Repent?

160

What if I Don't Like Going to Church?

161

How Do You Heal and Forgive After a Suicide?

162

How Do I Help Someone Struggling With Porn?

163

Giants and Angels? Just What Were the Nephilim?

164

Is It Bad for Christians to Distance Themselves From Non-Christians?

165

Is Purgatory Real?

166

Taboo Talk: Gambling and Video Games

167

How Can You Claim There's a God When You're Sitting Next to a Dying Child?

168

Is Cosmetic Surgery OK?

169

My Sister Is Thinking About an Abortion. What Do I Do?

170

How Do I Handle Not Caring About My Absent Parent?

171

Is It Sinful to Get a Tattoo?

172

What Does the Bible Say About the Death Penalty?

173

Does God Approve of Divorce?

174

Does God Judge Sexual Sins More Than Other Sins?

175

Can't the Bible Get Twisted Over Time?

176

Is It a Sin to Read Smutty Books?

177

How Can I Trust the Church if I Have So Much Church Hurt?

178

Taboo Talk: Rethinking Self-Esteem

179

Do Christians Need to Go to Church?

180

Are Club Sports Sinful?

181

What Should I Do if My Child Claims to Be Christian But Openly Sins and Doesn't Care?

182

Aren't Old Hymns Better Than Today's Praise Songs?

183

Why Does God Allow Narcissists Into Our Lives?

184

Does God Get Mad at Me When I Relapse?

185

Does God Answer Prayer Better if More People Pray?

186

What if You Don't Agree With Everything Your Church Teaches?

187

How Is Christianity Different From Islam?

188

Does the Old Testament Promote Genocide?

189

How Do I Rebuild Trust With My Spouse After They Sinned Against Me?

190

If God Is "Perfect," Why Did He Create an Imperfect World With Suffering?

191

Is It Ever Okay to Lie?

192

If You're Gay, Are You Meant to Be Entirely Alone?

193

Taboo Talk: The Digital Dilemma of Tech and Screens

194

Are All Sins Equal in the Sight of God?

195

What Does God Say About Women Working Outside the Home?

196

How Can You Protect Your Marriage From an Affair?

197

What if I Commit a Sin but It Doesn't Feel Wrong?

198

Cultural Truths vs. Biblical Truths. What Would God Think?

199

Why Is There More of an Emphasis on Women Submitting to Their Husbands?

200

Why Would God Allow the Devil to Tempt Adam and Eve if God Knew They Would Sin?

201

How Do You Forgive Someone Who Abused You?

202

Are Children Cursed From the Sins of Their Parents?

203

Can a Pastor Be Gay?

204

How Do You Deal With the Guilt of Sex Before Marriage?

205

Taboo Talk: The Tension Between Christianity and the World

206

Why Did God Create Men and Women to Think So Differently From One Another?

207

What Physical or Scientific Evidence Proves Jesus Was Here?

208

When Is Video Gaming a Sin?

209

What Does the Bible Say About Sports Betting?

210

Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen to Good People?

211

Are There Different Levels in Heaven?

212

Are You Allowed to Be Cremated?

213

What Is the Unforgivable Sin, and How Do I Know if I've Committed It?

214

Does God Care About How Many Sexual Partners You Have Had?

215

Is Wearing Makeup a Sin?

216

Am I Allowed to Work on Sundays?

217

Taboo Talk: Politics and Religion

218

What Does the Bible Say About Racism?

219

Is Dancing Bad?

220

When Does Love for Your Child Become the Worship of Your Child?

221

Why Do We Need to Fear God if He Is a God of Love?

222

My Friend Died Without Faith in Jesus. Is He in Hell?

223

Transgenderism: How Do You Navigate This When It's Being Normalized?

224

Can Christians Smoke Weed?

225

Why Does God Allow Kids to Have Special Needs?

226

What Should I Do if I Already Had an Abortion?

227

How Do We Love Same-Sex Couples Who Adopt?

228

Is It OK for Christians to Have a Do Not Resuscitate?

229

Taboo Talk: Alcohol and Christianity

230

What if a Baby Is Born With Both Male and Female Parts?

231

Why Does God Call Himself a Jealous God?

232

Can Satan Read Our Minds?

233

What Does God Say About Asexuality?

234

Is It OK for Christians to Watch "Wicked"?

235

What Does God and the Bible Say About Masturbation?

236

How Should We Feel About the Conflict in Israel?

237

Can You Have a Healthy Marriage if You Don’t Share the Same Faith?

238

Is the Bible Reliable?

239

Why Do We Celebrate Christmas in December if Jesus Wasn't Born in December?

240

Are My Loved Ones Watching Over Me From Heaven

241

Anxiety and Depression: Where Is the Bible's Comfort?

242

Taboo Talk: When Your Marriage Gets Stuck

243

Why Wait Until Marriage to Have Sex?

244

Can Someone Be Good Without Believing in God?

245

What's the Difference Between Apostles Dying for Christ vs. Religious Extremists Dying Today?

246

Is It Sinful to Use Preferred Pronouns?

247

Anxiety, Suicide, and Going to Heaven

248

Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?

249

What Does God Say About "Coexist"?

250

What Are Valid Reasons for Divorce?

251

Why Didn't God Stop Slavery in the Bible?

252

Is It a Sin to Wear Leggings?

253

Taboo Talk: Porn Affects More People Than You Think

254

Can We Live Together Before Marriage?

255

Are LGBTQ+ People Born That Way?

256

Do Babies Who Die in the Womb Go to Heaven?

257

Is Anger a Sin?

258

Do We Need to Follow Laws We Disagree With?

259

How Do We Approach the Country's Political Divide?

260

Do Demons Still Haunt People Today?

261

Do Different Religions All Worship the Same God?

262

Is Mental Illness a Sin?

263

How Do We Know the Devil Is a Fallen Angel?

264

Is Believing in God Just a Safe Bet?

265

Why Do Churches Cover up Pastors' Sins?

266

Does the Bible Promote the Patriarchy?

267

Does Someone Who's Never Heard of Jesus Go to Hell?

268

Is It a Sin to Kill Someone if You’re a Soldier in War?

269

Is IVF an Option for Christian Couples?

270

Is Porn OK for Married Couples?

271

What if I Don't Want to Vote for Any of the Candidates?