Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60027 Bethel Church in Redding, California has been the subject of sustained and serious scrutiny in recent years. In January 2026, Christian apologist Mike Winger published an extensive investigation documenting evidence that Shawn Bolz, a prominent minister closely associated with Bethel, had fabricated prophetic words by mining attendees’ social media accounts, and that multiple…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60024 The New Testament assumes that false teachers will come. Jesus warned of them. Paul warned of them. Peter, John, and Jude all warned of them. The question is not whether false teachers exist but how ordinary believers can identify them before the damage is done. This is not a call to suspicion or…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07015 Sanctification is what God does in the believer after conversion. If justification answers the question of the believer’s standing before God, sanctification answers the question of their state, the actual moral and spiritual condition of their inner life. The two must be carefully distinguished; confusing them is the source of considerable theological muddle…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10111 The New Testament speaks of crowns that believers will receive as rewards for faithful service. These are not merely symbols but represent genuine recognition from Jesus for how we have lived for Him. Understanding these crowns helps us grasp what really matters in the Christian life and motivates us toward godly living while…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 4081 Two commands in the New Testament describe ways believers can disrupt their relationship with the Holy Spirit: “do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God” (Ephesians 4:30) and “do not quench the Spirit” (1 Thessalonians 5:19). These are distinct warnings, and collapsing them into a single idea loses something important from each. Understanding…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04010 Galatians 5:22-23 lists what many Christians have memorised as the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The question of whether every believer possesses all of these, or whether they are distributed differently among different people, touches on the nature of spiritual growth and the relationship…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02045 Of all God’s attributes, wrath is the one modern Christianity finds most uncomfortable. There is a widespread preference for a God defined entirely by love and generosity, with wrath quietly relocated to the margins or reframed as something merely metaphorical. The biblical picture is more demanding than this. God’s wrath is real, it…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion Q04012 The question may seem almost impertinent. Can a divine person be suppressed? Can a member of the Godhead be hindered? Yet Scripture addresses this directly, and the answer it gives has significant implications for how we understand both the Spirit’s work and our responsibility towards it. What the Text Actually Says Paul’s instruction…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5026 Few questions excite and perplex people in equal measure as this one. What exactly will the resurrection body be? Will it be physical? Will it look the same? Will it be subject to the same limitations as the present body? Paul addresses the question head-on in 1 Corinthians 15, and his answer is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 05045 Few theological questions about human nature have generated more sustained discussion than how many genuinely distinct elements make up a human person. The debate between dichotomy and trichotomy — between the view that human beings consist of two elements (body and soul/spirit) and the view that they consist of three (body, soul, and…