Hey everyone and welcome back to Deeper Roots. 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!

Hey everyone and welcome back to Deeper Roots. 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! Thank you for joining us today. Let’s get to the conversation!

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!

Hey everyone and welcome back to Deeper Roots. 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!

Hey everyone and welcome back to Deeper Roots. 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!

Hey everyone and welcome back to Deeper Roots. 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. Thank you for joining us today. Let’s get to the conversation!

Hey everyone and welcome back to Deeper Roots. 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. Thank you for joining us today. Let’s get to the conversation!

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.

Hey everyone and welcome back to Deeper Roots. 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. Thank you for joining us today. Let’s get to the conversation!