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1. Interesting question. I just don’t have an hour to listen, but would love to see this question addressed in a Heidelblog post. I’ll bet there are lots of other topics that we lay-folks wonder if we should be praying about as well. I stopped praying for my sports team to win a long time ago under the premise that (right or wrong) God would not intervein to cause the team with the most fervent prayers to win….maybe God likes fair competition too. I try hard to align my prayers with what I know to be God’s will and therefore find the best guidance in His Word, but there does seem to be gray areas where God’s will takes much discernment….in those cases I find myself praying for wisdom. For what’s it’s worth, I do pray for our and other’s pets…..as much for our them as for their pets. It’s hard to not pray for living things we love.

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   • I haven’t heard that part of the podcast, either. (There’s WAY too much extraneous stuff in these podcases before getting to the “meat.” Not to mention that the opening music is horrific.)

     God created the animaIs — in fact he created them to be Adam’s friends (before the Fall). And God loves all that he has made (Scripture tells us). God also controls all things in his providence. And he cares when sparrows fall to the ground (to use one example from Scripture). So he surely cares for and about the animals that we take into our homes and love and take good care of. (Proverbs also tells us that the righteous person takes good care of his/her animals. That is surely something God smiles upon.) So I believe that you (and I and my husband) are absolutely right to pray for our or other’s pets. We have long done that when one of our cats was seriously ill or having behavior problems. I should add, importantly, that we’ve had our “pet prayers” answered, sometimes in amazing ways.

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     • Marian,

       Thanks for listening.

       FWIW, I do “meaty” podcasts 4 days a week. On three of those days, there’s almost nothing to the intro or the close.

       Once a week we have a little in the intro and close but there’s a lot of meat in the middle.

       Our Saturday podcast is designed to be a little more relaxed. It is actually our most popular podcast and we do have some fairly serious discussions, but we try to have some fun along the way too.

       I do think Reformed people need to learn to have a little fun. I’ve always been impressed with Bob Godfrey’s maxim, we take the Faith seriously but we don’t take ourselves seriously.

       Ps. We had a ton of fun recording this. It’s probably my favorite episode of the superfriends series so far.

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