Question 7069 The question of salvation divided Western Christianity in the sixteenth century and has not been formally resolved since. The Protestant Reformation turned fundamentally on the question of how ...
Question 2074 The question sounds simple but carries significant pastoral weight. Someone outside of faith is in crisis, or in genuine searching, or simply curious whether God pays any attention ...
Question 60082 The Word of Faith movement is one of the most widely diffused streams of popular Christianity in the world today, with roots in mid-twentieth century America and branches ...
Question 7086 The term "scapegoat" has passed so thoroughly into ordinary language, used to describe anyone blamed for things they did not do, that its biblical origins can become obscured ...
Question 3013 1 John 2:1 is one of those verses that manages to be both deeply pastoral and precisely theological in the same breath: "My little children, I am writing ...
Question 2018 Few theological questions carry more emotional weight. Behind the abstract formulation often lies something very personal: a parent who died without faith, a sibling who walked away from ...
Question 05008 The doctrine of total depravity is one of the most misunderstood in the whole of Christian theology. The popular caricature holds that it means every unregenerate person is ...
Question 7006 Few passages in Scripture have caused more anxiety among believers than Jesus' solemn warning about blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. People have come to me over the years, ...
Question 7063 Not all grace operates in the same way. Scripture describes God's grace extending to every human being who has ever lived, and yet it also describes a grace ...
Question 01166 The New Testament is unambiguous that Christians are not under the Mosaic covenant. Galatians 3:24-25 states plainly that the law was a guardian until Christ came, "but now ...
Question 3076 Few words in all of Scripture carry the weight of those spoken by Jesus from the cross in John 19:30: "It is finished." In the original Greek, this ...
Question 7080 This question has caused considerable debate throughout church history so how we answer it affects everything; from how we read the Old Testament to how we live our ...
Question 7079 Isaiah 53:5 declares, "But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his ...
Question 9000 See also YouTube video at the end explaining why we should be baptised. Believer's baptism is the baptism by immersion in water of those who have personally trusted ...
Question 0008 This is a question that cuts right to the heart of the matter. If theology matters, and it does, then surely some of it matters more than others ...
Question 7053 When someone comes to faith in Jesus, what should they be taught first? The writer to the Hebrews gives us the answer in chapter 6, verses 1-3, where ...
Question 7011 Soteriology. It sounds like a complicated word, and in some ways it is, but really it just refers to the study of salvation. The term comes from the ...
Question 7999 This is the most important question anyone can ever ask. It's the question the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas in Acts 16:30, and thankfully, Scripture gives us ...