Christian Living

Question 11117. Fasting in secret is the standard Jesus sets for His disciples, and it is one of those instructions that sounds simple until you actually try to live it ...

Question 11116. Fasting and health are not competing concerns, whatever the intensity of some fasting teaching can suggest. Your body was made by God and belongs to Him, and caring ...

Question 11115. The length of fasting is nowhere fixed by Scripture as a single required duration, which frustrates believers looking for a straightforward rule but also frees the practice from ...

Question 11114. Scripture describes several genuinely distinct types of fasting, and knowing the differences between them will help you approach the discipline with realistic expectations rather than simply assuming every ...

Question 11113. lectio divina, Latin for divine reading, is an old monastic practice of slow, meditative Scripture reading that has found its way back into evangelical conversation in recent years, ...

Question 11112. Biblical meditation is one of those phrases that makes some Christians nervous, because the word "meditation" calls to mind crossed legs, emptied minds and Eastern religion. Yet meditation ...

Question 11111. Christian journalling is the practice of writing down what God is teaching us, what we are praying, and how we are responding to His Word, and it raises ...

Question 11110 The discipline of solitude is the deliberate practice of withdrawing from the company of others and the noise of daily life in order to be alone with God ...

The discipline of silence is the deliberate practice of quieting both our surroundings and our own restless talking so that we can attend to God and to His Word without ...

Question 11108 The spiritual disciplines are the ordinary, repeated practices through which believers place themselves in the way of God’s grace so that they may grow to know and love ...

Question 11107 Parenting is one of the most important things any human being will ever do, and yet it is one of the areas where Christians most often rely on ...

Question 11105 Few biblical concepts generate more heat and less light than headship and submission. The words themselves have become so culturally charged that many Christians either avoid them entirely ...

Question 11104 The question of roles within marriage is one of the most contested topics in the contemporary church. Secular culture insists that any differentiation of roles between men and ...

Question 11005 This is one of the most common questions Christians ask. Should I take this job? Should I marry this person? Should I move to this city? We want ...

Question 11007 Few pastoral questions are more painful than those involving divorce. When a marriage is in crisis, people want to know: Does God ever permit divorce? What are the ...

Question 11006 For single Christians, few questions are more pressing than how to approach relationships. The Bible was written in cultures where arranged marriages were the norm, so it does ...

Question 11002 Fasting is one of those spiritual disciplines that many Christians know about but few practice. It sounds old-fashioned, perhaps even unhealthy. Yet fasting appears throughout Scripture, both in ...

Question 11001 The Bible is not like any other book. It is the very Word of God, living and active. But many Christians find it difficult to read consistently or ...

Question 11000 Prayer is one of the most fundamental aspects of the Christian life, yet many believers struggle with it. We know we should pray, but how exactly should we ...

Question 11088 For many things in Christian life, this question has a straightforward answer: Scripture names them, and that settles it. But there is a genuine and growing category of ...

Question 06059 The statement in Matthew 5:29–30 has unsettled readers since it was first spoken, which is probably part of the point. "If your right eye causes you to sin, ...

Question 11009 Work is not a consequence of the fall. It is one of the most frequently misunderstood aspects of the biblical story, because many people assume that labour is ...

Question 11017 Evangelism is the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ to those who have not yet believed. It is not a programme, a technique, or a personality type ...

Question 11008 Few pastoral questions carry more emotional weight than the question of remarriage after divorce. Churches have sometimes handled this issue with a harshness that compounds the pain of ...

Question 4185. I want to write about the Spirit in depression with great care, because this is a subject where careless words from a pulpit have wounded many sincere believers ...

Question 12031 The Bible does not mention gambling by name. There is no verse that says, "You shall not place a bet." This absence has led some to argue that ...

Question 12057 In a culture that treats sexual expression as a fundamental right and virginity as an embarrassment, the question of sex before marriage can feel almost quaint. Yet Scripture ...

Question 12056 Few parenting topics generate as much debate among Christians as physical discipline. The wider culture has moved decisively against it, and in many countries legislation now prohibits any ...

Question 12054 Few subjects provoke as much tension among Christians as family planning and reproductive choices. The silence of many churches on this topic has left believers to navigate deeply ...

Question 11102 The relationship between secular counselling and Christian faith has been contested territory for decades. Some believers regard therapy as a purely secular enterprise that has no place in ...

Question 11100 Mental illness is one of the areas where the church has often failed its own people. Whether through ignorance, fear, or a misguided belief that all psychological suffering ...

Question 11099 In much of the Western church, persecution is something that happens to other people, to Christians in restricted nations, to believers in hostile cultures, to the early church ...

Question 11098 Few questions cut closer to the heart of lived Christian experience than this one. If God loves His children, if Christ has secured their eternal future, and if ...

Question 11103 Gender dysphoria is the clinical term for the persistent distress a person experiences when their internal sense of gender does not align with their biological sex. The condition ...

Question 12026 The question of preferred pronouns has become one of the most immediate, practical pressure points for Christians in the workplace, in education, and in daily life. The request ...

Question 12024 Sexual purity is a concept that the surrounding culture regards as outdated, repressive, and unnecessary. The assumption in much of Western society is that sexual expression is a ...

Question 12023 Pornography is one of the most pervasive and destructive forces operating in contemporary culture, and the church is not immune. The scale of the problem is staggering: internet ...

Question 12002 Situational ethics is one of those frameworks that sounds reasonable on the surface but unravels when examined carefully. The basic claim is that moral decisions should be made ...

Question 11060 This is one of the most practically pressing questions in pastoral ministry. A Christian is in love with someone who does not share their faith, or a non-Christian ...

Question 11043 The question of whether Christians should pray for the dead touches on deep assumptions about what happens after death and whether human prayer can influence a person's eternal ...

Question 11016 The practice of memorising Scripture has declined significantly in the modern church, partly because of the availability of Bible apps and digital search tools, and partly because memorisation ...

Question 12004 Tattoos were once associated almost exclusively with sailors, soldiers, and subcultures. Today they are mainstream, and increasing numbers of Christians either have tattoos or are considering getting one ...

Question 12036 The Bible does not contain a list of approved films, television programmes, or music genres. This frustrates some Christians who would prefer a clear set of rules, and ...

Question 12003 Few subjects generate more heat and less light in Christian circles than the question of alcohol. Some traditions teach total abstinence as a biblical command; others treat drinking ...

Question 12059 This is a question that provokes strong reactions on all sides, and it is one that more and more Christians are facing as gay weddings becomes legally and ...

Question 12058 Cohabitation has become so normalised in Western culture that many people, including many professing Christians, no longer see it as a moral issue at all. The reasoning typically ...

Question 12064 Few phrases have generated as much heat in contemporary Christian conversation as "love the sinner, hate the sin." It is often attributed to Augustine, though the precise formulation ...

Question 11097 The question of alternative medicine is more complex than it might initially appear, because the category itself covers an enormous range of practices — from herbal remedies with ...

Question 11096 This question arises more often than it should need to, and the fact that it does reflects the influence of certain streams of Christian teaching that have set ...

Question 11101 This question generates more anxiety in Christian circles than it should. Some believers feel guilty for taking medication, as though reliance on a prescription is a failure of ...

Question 11106 In a culture that often treats marriage as the expected norm and singleness as a problem to be solved, the Bible offers a surprisingly different perspective. Singleness is ...

Question 12009 The concept of a "white lie" is so deeply embedded in everyday life that most people never stop to examine it. The assumption is simple: some lies are ...

Question 12008 The question of lying seems simple enough on the surface. The Bible says not to lie, and that should settle it. But as soon as the question is ...

Question 12007 The question of whether a Christian may use force to defend themselves or others is closely related to the broader questions of war and capital punishment, but it ...

Question 12001 Every day, often without thinking about it, we make decisions that carry moral weight. Some are small and others are life-altering, but all of them reveal something about ...

Question 12000 Ethics is one of those words that gets used constantly but rarely defined carefully. In secular culture it tends to mean something like "the general sense of right ...

Question 11024 The word "Christian" appears only three times in the New Testament. The word "disciple" appears over 260 times. That difference in frequency tells us something important about how ...

Question 11019 The word "disciple" appears far more often in the New Testament than the word "Christian." That alone should tell us something about what the early church understood the ...

Question 11018 Every Christian has been entrusted with the most important message in the history of the world. The gospel is not the exclusive property of pastors or evangelists. It ...

Question 11020 Jesus did not command His followers to make converts. He commanded them to make disciples. The distinction matters enormously, because it shapes how we understand the church's mission ...

Question 11062 Singleness in the church can be a profoundly isolating experience. Much of church culture is oriented around couples and families, and single Christians often feel marginalised, pitied, or ...

Question 11061 If Christians should not marry non-Christians, the natural follow-up question is whether they should date them. After all, dating is not marriage. It carries no covenant commitment and ...

Question 11055 The idea of "soul ties" has gained significant traction in certain Christian circles, particularly within charismatic and deliverance ministry contexts. The claim is that intimate relationships, whether sexual, ...

Question 11049 Few questions cause more distress to sincere believers than the experience of unanswered prayer. A child prays for a sick parent who dies. A couple prays for years ...

Question 11073 When suffering comes—and it will come—what we believe about God, about His purposes, and about His promises becomes either an anchor or an afterthought. Doctrine is not abstract ...

Question 11074 It is one of the most difficult balancing acts in the Christian life. On the one hand, we are called to contend for the faith, to hold fast ...

Question 11075 Walk into almost any Christian bookshop or open a church website and you will find no shortage of Bible reading plans on offer. Chronological plans, canonical plans, thematic ...

Question 11076 It sounds like a simple question, but it carries a pastoral complication: depending on how it is answered, it is very likely to produce more guilt than growth ...

Question 7064 In 1937, the German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer published Nachfolge, translated into English as The Cost of Discipleship. Writing against a German church that had largely surrendered its integrity ...

Question 7061 At Christian camps, conferences, and evangelistic meetings, the call to re-dedication is a familiar one. A believer who has drifted steps forward to renew their commitment, making promises ...

Question 7060 The word "backslider" carries more weight in older Christian usage than it does in most modern translations, but the reality it describes is woven through the entire New ...

Question 60086 Genesis 19:8 records one of the most disturbing episodes in Scripture. The men of Sodom have surrounded Lot's house demanding that he hand over his two angelic visitors ...

Question 11077 The promise appears several times in John's Gospel and has been both a source of genuine encouragement and, in certain contexts, a source of real confusion and disappointment ...

Question 11078 Few sayings of Jesus have generated more theological confusion, or more outright misuse, than His statement about speaking to mountains. Prosperity preachers have turned it into a spiritual ...

Question 11079 It is a question that rewards careful attention precisely because it is unexpected. The prayer Jesus gave His disciples as a model for how they ought to pray ...

Question 7085 The question arises naturally for anyone who takes the New Testament seriously. Paul can write to the Corinthians and call them "those sanctified in Christ Jesus" (1 Corinthians ...

Question 11092 The question of whether Christians should worship on Saturday (the Sabbath) or Sunday is one that generates considerable debate, particularly with the influence of Seventh-day Adventism and certain ...

Question 11044 The question of whether Christians should keep the Jewish festivals is one that surfaces regularly, particularly among believers who have developed a deep appreciation for the Old Testament ...

Question 11089 The question of what role the Mosaic law plays in the life of a Christian is not a new one. Paul spent considerable effort addressing it in his ...

Question 07073 One of the most liberating and yet most misunderstood aspects of the Christian life involves the relationship between who the believer already is in Christ and who they ...

Question 07074 The question of whether a Christian can reach a state of sinless perfection in this life has been debated with considerable energy across church history, and it continues ...

Question 12055 Immigration is one of the most politically charged issues in the modern West, and Christians often find themselves caught between competing loyalties. On one side, Scripture's consistent call ...

Question 60028 This question moves from the theological framework of Q60027 to the practical: should individual Christians be actively involved in the political process? Should they vote, campaign, stand for ...

Question 60047 The question of whether a person can be both pro-choice and a faithful Christian arises with increasing frequency, particularly in cultures where reproductive rights have become a defining ...

Question 08111 Hypnosis occupies an unusual space in both medical practice and popular perception. It is used by some healthcare professionals for pain management, phobia treatment, and habit change, while ...

Question 08108 The question of whether meditation can open doors to demons is one that requires careful definition, because the word "meditation" covers an enormous range of practices, and the ...

Question 08110 Martial arts encompass a vast range of disciplines with very different histories, philosophies, and purposes. The question of whether they are spiritually dangerous cannot be answered with a ...

Question 08107 Few things stir parental concern more deeply than the thought that their children might be vulnerable to spiritual attack. The instinct to protect is God-given, and Scripture does ...

Question 08101 This question comes up frequently in pastoral conversations, and it deserves a careful answer that avoids both the extremes of dismissive indifference and superstitious overreaction. The Bible does ...

Question 08102 The question of whether Christians should read books about demons and the occult requires a distinction that is often overlooked: there is a significant difference between reading about ...

Question 08100 If marriage and family are high-value targets for the enemy, the local church is the highest-value target of all. The church is the body of Christ on earth ...

Question 08099 The family, like marriage, is a creation ordinance established before the Fall and central to God's purposes in the world. God chose to structure human life around families, ...

Question 08098 Marriage is one of the most significant institutions God has established, and it should come as no surprise that it is also one of the enemy's primary targets ...

Question 08097 This is one of the most pastorally sensitive questions in the entire area of spiritual warfare, and getting it wrong in either direction causes real harm. The person ...

Question 08096 The question of whether one is under spiritual attack is one that many Christians ask with genuine anxiety, and it deserves a thoughtful answer rather than either a ...

Question 08109 Yoga has become so thoroughly embedded in Western culture that the question of whether it is spiritually dangerous can seem alarmist to many people, including many Christians. It ...

Question 08088 James 4:7 is one of the best-known verses on spiritual conflict: "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." The promise in ...

Question 11080 The prosperity gospel is one of the most widespread and most destructive distortions in contemporary Christianity. Its core claim, that financial wealth and physical health are God's will ...

Question 11091 The question of whether dancing belongs in Christian worship stirs strong feelings in both directions. Some believers associate dance with worldliness and regard its introduction into worship as ...

Question 11094 Music has been part of the worship of God's people from the earliest pages of Scripture, and its role in the life of the church is so deeply ...

Question 11014 The short answer is yes, emphatically. Worship is not confined to a building, a service, or a Sunday morning time slot. The longer answer requires understanding what worship ...

Question 11015 Private worship is the believer's personal, individual engagement with God, carried out apart from the gathered church. It is the devotional life that sustains a Christian between Sundays, ...

Question 11095 The question of whether musical instruments should be used in Christian worship has a long and sometimes surprisingly heated history. For most contemporary evangelicals, the question seems settled ...

Question 11029 Few topics have caused more friction in local churches over the past fifty years than the question of worship styles. The so-called "worship wars" have divided congregations, exhausted ...

Question 11027 Few words in the Christian vocabulary are more frequently used and more poorly understood than "worship." In contemporary church culture, worship has become almost synonymous with singing. A ...

Question 11028 If worship is the response of the whole person to the worth of God, the question of how we worship is not a matter of personal taste but ...

Question 11030 Few topics in corporate worship generate quite as much variety of opinion as whether Christians should raise their hands during prayer and praise. Some congregations see lifted hands ...

Question 11031 The word "liturgy" produces strong reactions in evangelical circles. For some, it conjures images of dead formalism, robes, and scripted religion that leaves no room for the Spirit ...

Question 11053 Should prayer be spoken aloud or offered silently? Some Christians feel that prayer spoken out loud carries more weight or demonstrates greater faith. Others prefer the privacy and ...

Question 11054 The connection between fasting and prayer appears throughout Scripture, and many Christians sense intuitively that combining the two should make prayer more powerful. But does fasting actually increase ...

Question 11052 Intercessory prayer is one of the most significant dimensions of the Christian prayer life, yet it is often poorly understood. Many believers engage in it instinctively without grasping ...

Question 11048 The use of written prayers, whether from a prayer book, a liturgical order of service, or a personal journal, has divided Christians for centuries. Some traditions rely on ...

Question 11051 How long should a prayer be? It is a question that many Christians feel but few ask, partly because it sounds slightly embarrassing to admit uncertainty about something ...

Question 11046 Every Christian has heard it thousands of times. Prayers end with it, hymns close with it, and congregations say it together as naturally as breathing. But what does ...

Question 11047 The phrase "in Jesus' name" at the close of a prayer is so familiar that it can become an unthinking formula, a verbal punctuation mark before "Amen." But ...

Question 12061 Christians live and work within economic systems, and the question of whether Scripture endorses, condemns, or is indifferent to particular models of economic organisation has generated enormous debate ...

Question 12060 Money is one of the subjects Jesus addressed most frequently, and debt is woven into the fabric of modern Western life in ways that would have been unimaginable ...

Question 11039 Wills and estate planning may seem like purely legal and administrative matters with little connection to theology. In reality, they are among the most practical expressions of stewardship ...

Question 11038 The question of whether Christians should leave an inheritance is one that touches on stewardship, family responsibility, generosity, and the purpose of wealth. Scripture has direct things to ...

Question 12012 The question of whether Christians can be landlords has become increasingly sharp in a culture where housing costs are a source of genuine hardship for many. Some voices ...

Question 11034 Student debt has become a defining financial reality for millions of people, and Christians entering higher education face the same practical calculations as everyone else. The question is ...

Question 11035 Cryptocurrency has moved from the fringes of financial life into mainstream awareness, and Christians are asking whether investing in digital currencies raises any particular biblical concerns. The question ...

Question 11032 This is a question that most Christians think about more often than they admit. It sits at the intersection of faith and daily life in a way that ...

Question 11033 The idea of saving for retirement is so embedded in modern financial culture that most people never question whether it raises any issues of faith. Yet some Christians ...

Question 11063 The idea that Christians should be poor, or that poverty is somehow more spiritual than financial comfort, has deep roots in church history and continues to shape how ...

Question 11003 The question of tithing generates strong opinions among Christians. Some insist that giving ten percent of income is a binding obligation. Others argue that tithing was an Old ...

Question 11004 Beyond the question of tithing lies the broader question of Christian giving. How should we think about our money and possessions? What does Scripture teach about generosity, stewardship, ...

Question 11093 The question of how Christians should give to the church touches on stewardship, worship, gratitude, and the practical reality that local churches need financial resources to carry out ...

Question 06035 The word "backsliding" has an old-fashioned ring to it in some quarters, but the reality it describes is anything but historical. It names something that believers in every ...

Question 11087 The phrase "forgive yourself" is frequently offered as pastoral advice to people struggling with guilt, shame, or regret. Its absence from Scripture is not a trivial observation. The ...

Question 07082 If legalism is the error of adding to what God requires, antinomianism is the error of subtracting from it. The word comes from the Greek anti (against) and ...

Question 07071 The word legalism gets used in at least two quite different ways in contemporary Christianity. Sometimes it means what it should mean: the error of trying to earn ...

Question 4019. What is the difference between carnal and spiritual Christians? The contrast between carnal and spiritual believers comes straight out of Paul's letter to a church that was behaving ...

Question 11083 Gluttony is perhaps the most consistently ignored sin in contemporary evangelical culture. Behaviours that would draw immediate pastoral concern in relation to other appetites are routinely overlooked when ...

Question 11082 This question is framed as though it must be one or the other, and most of the energy in contemporary discourse goes into arguing for the disease model ...

Question 6029 Pride occupies a unique place in the catalogue of human sin. The Christian tradition has long regarded it not merely as one sin among others but as the ...

Question 11084 This question carries significant pastoral weight, because many conscientious believers are tormented by thoughts that arrive without invitation, thoughts that horrify them precisely because of how out of ...

Question 06031 Anger is one of the most contested emotional territories in Christian life. Some believers are taught that any expression of anger is sinful and unspiritual, a failure of ...

Question 11085 Many believers wake troubled by the contents of a dream, carrying a sense of guilt or shame about what their sleeping mind produced. The question of whether dreams ...

Question 6049 This question troubles new Christians and experienced ones alike. If Christ has truly dealt with sin, if we are new creations, if the Spirit now lives within us, ...

Question 06060 John Owen's seventeenth-century treatise on mortification of sin remains one of the most searching pieces of practical theology in the English language. But the concept did not originate ...

Question 06061 Every honest believer knows what it is to return to the same sin again and again. Not the single stumble but the repeated pattern, the familiar failure that ...

Question 06062 The category of secret sin is as old as the fall itself. Adam and Eve, having disobeyed God, hid themselves among the trees of the garden (Genesis 3:8) ...

Question 11090 Few pastoral questions produce more confusion, guilt, and genuine suffering than this one. The Christian who has wrestled with an addictive or compulsive pattern of sin — whether ...

Question 06072 This is one of those pastoral questions where a great deal of unnecessary guilt and confusion has accumulated because the distinction between two very different things has been ...

Question 06067 The practice of confession sits at the intersection of theology and daily Christian experience. Most believers know they should confess sin to God, but questions arise about whether ...

Question 6018 Paul's second letter to the Corinthians contains one of the most practically searching distinctions in the New Testament. Writing about the response of the Corinthian church to a ...

Question 6015 The word "world" appears hundreds of times across the New Testament, and it does not always mean the same thing. Reading it as if it did produces significant ...

Question 6013 The phrase "besetting sin" is part of the common vocabulary of Christian conversation, yet it comes from a single verse in Hebrews and carries a meaning that is ...

Question 6014 Temptation is one of the universal experiences of the Christian life, and it raises a genuine question about God's purposes. If He is perfectly good and desires our ...

Question 1057. public Scripture reading is commanded in the New Testament, not simply permitted as an optional liturgical flourish, and I think many churches, my own included at various points, ...

Question 1058. family Bible reading fails in most homes not because parents lack good intentions but because it is attempted with the wrong expectations, either too ambitious a plan collapsing ...

Question 1128 Passing faith to the next generation is one of the most important things Christian parents do. And central to that task is helping our children love God's Word ...

Question 1126 When it comes to reading the Bible, people often wonder about the best approach. Should you start at Genesis and read straight through to Revelation? Should you jump ...

Question 1127 You started January with good intentions. A Bible reading plan. This would be the year you finally read through the whole thing. February came, and you missed a ...

Question 1123 Every Christian goes through seasons when Bible reading feels like a duty rather than a delight. The pages seem flat. The words don't come alive. We know we ...

Question 12049 The question of whether smoking is sinful troubles many believers. Scripture never mentions tobacco—unsurprising given that it was unknown in the biblical world—so we must apply broader biblical ...

Question 11065 Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12 that "we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present ...

Question 11066 There is a kind of spiritual fatigue that is not produced by overwork but by accumulation — the weight of sin that has been noticed but not confessed, ...

Question 11067 Paul's command to "walk by the Spirit" (Galatians 5:16) and his instruction to "keep in step with the Spirit" (Galatians 5:25) assume a kind of moment-by-moment awareness of ...

Question 11070 Depression is one of the most misunderstood experiences within the Christian community. Well-meaning believers have told sufferers that their depression is evidence of weak faith, unconfessed sin, or ...

Question 11069 The Bible contains more than three hundred commands not to fear, which might suggest that every experience of fear or anxiety is a failure of faith. That reading, ...

Question 11071 This question cuts right to the heart of Christian living and witness. We live in an age where people often pit truth against love, as though you must ...

Question 4087. Distinguishing spirit prompting from your own reasoning is one of the most practically pressing skills a Christian needs to develop, because the stakes of getting it wrong run ...

Question 4083. Spiritual dryness is one of the most disorienting experiences a Christian can go through, the sense that yesterday's warmth in prayer has gone cold overnight and nothing you ...

Question 11056 Acts 1:8 is the last thing the risen Jesus said before His ascension, and it was not a farewell encouragement. It was a structured programme. "But you will ...

Question 11081 The Samaritan mission in Acts 8 is one of the most theologically charged events in the book of Acts, though Luke narrates it with characteristic restraint. Philip crossed ...

Question 04022. When Paul tells us to walk by the Spirit in Galatians 5:16, he is not handing us a slogan or a mood. "Walk by the Spirit, and you ...

Question 04023. Almost every honest believer eventually asks whether they are walking in the Spirit or the flesh, and means it as a real question and not a rhetorical one ...

Question 04020. The difference between the fruit and gifts of the Spirit is one of those quiet distinctions that keeps a church honest about itself. Both the fruit and gifts ...

Question 04045. To call your body the Spirit's temple is one of the most startling things the New Testament says about you, and Paul says it without flinching in 1 ...

Question 09114 "Touch not my anointed" is quoted with surprising frequency in certain church circles as a warning against criticising or questioning Christian leaders, pastors, or prominent figures. The appeal ...

Question 11068 Few questions in Christian living carry more confusion than the one about anger. Some believers conclude that any experience of anger is a failure of sanctification, and they ...

Question 05038 No question matters more than this one. Every person, at some point, has looked at their own existence and wondered what it is for. Philosophy, religion, popular culture, ...

Question 4063. Spirit filled living is commanded, not simply commended as an optional extra, in Ephesians 5:18, and Paul does not leave the command floating vaguely in the abstract for ...

Question 4066. A prophetic word is never simply accepted on the strength of someone's confidence in delivering it. Paul is explicit about this: when someone speaks a word of prophecy ...

Question 4065. Spiritual gifts are not an aspiration to work towards but a settled fact about every believer in Christ. That is a statement of what has already happened, grounded ...

Question 1091. Claiming verses is something I have watched sincere believers do in genuine faith, and something I have also watched leave people confused and hurt when the outcome they ...

Question 1087. Scripture in worship is not decoration set around the edges of a service. It is the very substance of what we say, sing and pray when a church ...

Question 1090. Scripture and prayer belong together so closely that I have never known a season of neglecting one that did not, sooner or later, weaken the other. I say ...

Question 1092. Meditating on Scripture is one of the oldest disciplines in the Christian life, and one of the most misunderstood, because the word "meditation" now carries associations that have ...

Question 1093. AI Bible study is something I get asked about often now, usually by people who are not sure whether using a tool like this on their Bible reading ...

Question 1053.Study Bibles are everywhere you look. Walk into any Christian bookshop and you will find shelves of them, leather-bound, colour-coded, themed for men, women, teenagers and almost every niche ...

Question 01150 The claim that personal experience overrides biblical teaching is one of the most pastoral challenges the church faces today, precisely because it is often made by sincere believers ...

Question 0029. Sooner or later every believer who takes both truth and relationships seriously has to ask whether a disagreement is worth breaking fellowship over. You find yourself genuinely at ...

Question 00049.It is entirely possible to be doctrinally correct and spiritually dead at the very same time, and the Bible says so without flinching for a moment. A person can ...

Question 17. Why does right belief lead to right behaviour? I am convinced that right belief is the hidden engine behind a holy life, and that most of our failures ...

Question 18. What does spiritual maturity look like according to Hebrews 5 and 6? I love this passage because the writer to the Hebrews refuses to let spiritual maturity stay ...

Question 4010. The fruit of the Spirit is one of those phrases I hear quoted so easily that we rarely stop and ask what it actually promises about the Christian ...

Question 4008. The guidance of the Spirit is one of the dearest privileges of the Christian life, and also one of the most misunderstood. Many believers picture it as a ...

Question 4007. The still small voice is one of those phrases that has wandered a long way from its home, and I want to walk it back. People use it ...

Question 4009. The fruit of the Spirit is Paul's lovely picture of the character that God grows in a believer's life, and it is found in Galatians 5 where he ...

Question 11040 The idea that Christians can "activate" healing by speaking God's Word has become popular particularly through Word of Faith teaching. Believers are encouraged to "speak healing into existence" ...

Question 11041 When a scribe asked Jesus which commandment was the greatest, our Lord responded with words that have echoed through the centuries: "And you shall love the Lord your ...