Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 08127. Whether Satan required permission to attack Job’s children is not a puzzle for the study, because anybody who has buried someone they love and then read Job 1 knows exactly how sharp it is. The text plainly shows Satan seeking and receiving permission to attack, and ten young people die within a few…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08109. Whether yoga practice is spiritually dangerous is a question that divides thoughtful Christians, and I want to handle it in a way that respects both sides rather than declaring one of them unspiritual. I have friends who would not set foot in a class and friends who go every Tuesday, and both can…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08108. The question of whether Eastern meditation can open doors to demons needs a definition before it needs an answer, because the word meditation is now doing duty for at least three unrelated activities and people talking about it are frequently talking past each other. There is biblical meditation, which Scripture commands. There is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08126. Whether angels rebel again is one of those questions that sounds like idle speculation until you notice what is sitting underneath it, because the person asking is rarely curious about angelic politics. They are asking whether heaven is safe. If a vast company of angelic beings could fall once, what stops the same…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08107. Protecting children from spiritual attack is one of those parental concerns that can either drive you to prayer or drive you slightly mad, and I have watched it do both. The instinct behind the question is right and God given. A parent who did not want to shield their child from spiritual attack…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08106. Being afraid of Satan is more common among Christians than most of us admit in public. It shows up at two in the morning, or after a film we should not have watched, or when a house feels wrong, and it can settle into something that quietly governs a person’s spiritual life. So…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08105. When deliverance ministry does not seem to work, the person left standing there afterwards carries a weight that is hard to describe. They came forward believing, they were prayed over at length, they were told something had left, and within a fortnight the same anger or the same craving or the same darkness…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08104. Whether one believer should try to cast out demons from another believer is a question I have been asked in tears more than once, usually by a Christian who has been told that their depression, their temper or their besetting sin has a name and needs expelling. The pastoral damage done by that…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08103 If you are carrying past occult involvement and wondering what to do about it, I want to say the most important thing at the very start. Jesus is enough. Whatever you did, however deeply you went in, the blood of Jesus cleanses from all sin, and there is no category of sin marked…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 08102 The question of whether Christians should read occult books needs one distinction made before anything useful can be said. There is an enormous difference between a Christian book about the occult and an actual manual of occult practice, and a great deal of confusion disappears once we separate the two. Nobody sensible thinks…