Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 0034 The good news is that we live in an age of unprecedented access to theological resources. Books that were once available only in seminary libraries are now accessible with a few clicks. Sermons from gifted teachers around the world can be downloaded to your phone. Study aids that previous generations could only dream…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 0032 It is one of the great tragedies of the modern church that the study of God—which is what the word “theology” means—has become associated with dusty books, academic jargon, and irrelevant speculation. How did we get to the point where knowing God is considered boring? How did understanding the Creator of the universe…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 0033 The question itself is encouraging. Anyone asking how to develop an appetite for doctrine already possesses something precious—the recognition that such an appetite is desirable. Not everyone reaches that point. Many Christians coast through their lives on spiritual junk food, never realising they are malnourished. The fact that you want to grow in…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 0031 The comparison between doctrine and an immune system is remarkably apt, and Scripture itself uses similar language. Just as our physical bodies possess an intricate defence system designed to recognise, resist, and destroy harmful invaders, so sound doctrine operates within the believer’s soul to identify error, resist deception, and preserve spiritual health. Paul…
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 0013 In his final letter, penned in the shadow of martyrdom, the Apostle Paul issues one of Scripture’s most memorable warnings about the future condition of the church. The vivid imagery of “itching ears” captures a spiritual pathology that would characterise not a distant apostasy but an imminent danger requiring Timothy’s immediate attention. This…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 0015 Among the most significant challenges facing the contemporary church is a movement that calls itself progressive Christianity. Unlike obvious heresies that reject Christian vocabulary entirely, progressive Christianity retains traditional Christian language while systematically redefining its meaning. It claims to represent an evolved, enlightened form of faith appropriate for modern people—a Christianity liberated from…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 0016 This is one of the most important questions any Christian can ask, and the fact that you’re asking it suggests you already have a healthy spiritual instinct. The New Testament writers were deeply concerned about false teaching infiltrating the church, and they gave us plenty of guidance on how to spot it. The…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 0017 This question gets to the very heart of how the Christian life actually works. There’s a connection between what we believe and how we live, and understanding that connection transforms how we approach both theology and ethics. Scripture never separates doctrine from practice—they’re two sides of the same coin. The Biblical Pattern: Indicative…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 0020 This might seem a strange question at first. Doctrine often gets a bad reputation—it’s seen as dry, academic, divisive, the province of theologians arguing about angels on pinheads while the real work of loving people goes neglected. But this is a terrible misunderstanding. Rightly understood, studying doctrine is one of the most loving…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 0019 This is one of those questions that’s painful to ask but necessary. Walk into many churches and you’ll find people who’ve been Christians for twenty, thirty, even forty years—and yet they couldn’t explain basic doctrine, don’t read their Bibles regularly, and are easily swept along by whatever teaching sounds appealing. The rebuke in…