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On Today's Show:
Scripture Reading from the Legacy Standard Bible
Prayers from the 2019 Book of Common Prayer
Reading from Daily Readings From the Life of Christ by John MacArthur
Monday Meanderings!

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Five Day Bible Reading Plan
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2019 Book of Common Prayer
Theme music: Enfield’s recording of “Crown Him With Many Crowns” © 2010 by Resolved Music. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. LSBible.org and 316publishing.com

Why is everyone so lonely — even in a room full of people?

This week on The Truth Response, Derek, Matt, and Dave dig into a Christian Today article calling churches to tackle loneliness by making friendship a priority. We're in a loneliness crisis and a "friendship recession" — surrounded by people, glued to our phones, and quietly starving for real connection.

In this episode: why the rush of modern life is fake (99% of your "emergencies" aren't), the study that found 91.4% of our worries never happen, why you need three "2 AM friends," the 5 skills that build real friendship, and why you can't maintain a friendship accidentally — it takes intentional time.

If you've been feeling lonely in a crowded world, this one's for you. You're not alone in feeling alone.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Welcome (and the great Thanksgiving nap debate)
04:29 The article: churches urged to tackle loneliness
07:56 A loneliness crisis and a friendship recession
15:15 Grace — the starting point for making friends
17:34 Lonely in a room full of people (phones in church)
20:51 From front porches to back porches to screens
31:59 The rush is all fake — 99% of "emergencies" aren't
34:21 You need three 2 AM friends
35:18 91.4% of your worries never happen
36:46 The 5 skills that build real friendship
42:43 Boredom is a gift — embrace it
55:00 Learning to be okay with silence
01:06:44 Ask genuine questions — and actually listen
01:19:18 Final thoughts: you can't maintain a friendship accidentally

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New episodes every Monday.

On Today's Show:
Scripture Reading from the Legacy Standard Bible
Prayers from the 2019 Book of Common Prayer
Reading from Daily Readings From the Life of Christ by John MacArthur
Federalist Friday! The Seventeenth Amendment

Squirrel Chatter is sponsored by Squirrelly Joe's Coffee! Share Coffee. Serve Humbly. Live Faithfully.
Email: SquirrelChatter@protonmail.com
Five Day Bible Reading Plan
The full LSB Bible, Old and New Testaments, are now available online, on the Literal Word app, and on Accordance!
2019 Book of Common Prayer
Theme music: Enfield’s recording of “Crown Him With Many Crowns” © 2010 by Resolved Music. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. LSBible.org and 316publishing.com

I sit down with Josh Lock to talk about his campaign for Bartlesville City Council. Josh Lock, Ward 3

We discuss how he and his family ended up in Bartlesville, what made him believe this was the right time to put his name in the race, and the role his faith plays in the way he approaches leadership, service, and community.

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In 2014, Justin Peters stood up at a service in Tulsa, Oklahoma and confronted Todd Bentley in front of everyone, quoting Matthew 7:21-23 to his face. Now he is pleading with Bentley again, and this time he believes the clock may be ticking fast.
The message was prompted by a recent clip in which Bentley rocks back and forth while turning Ezekiel 47 into a promise of "supernatural financial supply." Peters speaks to Bentley directly. He says Bentley looks gaunt and unwell, and he asks anyone who knows him to send him this message.
Peters doesn't soften anything. He calls Bentley one of the most dangerous false teachers out there and says he believes Bentley is demon-possessed. He points to an unbroken, unrepentant pattern of alcohol abuse and sexual immorality. He recalls the undocumented claims he heard firsthand at the 2008 Lakeland "revival," including 32 people supposedly raised from the dead. He adds that Bill Johnson, Rick Joyner and Patricia King, who restored Bentley to ministry, were never his friends.
Then Justin preaches the gospel plainly: sin against a God of infinite worth, the reality of hell, Christ as truly God and truly man, His perfect life, His death on the cross and His bodily resurrection. True repentance, he says, would mean public confession, leaving the pulpit for good and sitting under biblically qualified elders.
This episode matters because it shows what love for a false teacher really looks like. It is not silence but the truth, told urgently while there is still time to repent.
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