Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07070 Apostasy is a word that Christian communities use with varying degrees of precision. Sometimes it is applied loosely to any serious moral failure or extended period of spiritual decline. Used with its proper biblical meaning, it describes something far more specific and, theologically speaking, far more grave. The Meaning of the Word The…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1057 In many churches today, the public reading of Scripture has been reduced to a brief prelude before the sermon—a quick reading of the text about to be preached, and nothing more. Some churches have dropped it almost entirely, filling services with songs, videos, and announcements whilst giving minimal time to the actual Word…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8126 If angels rebelled once, what stops it from happening again? When Satan and his demons are finally thrown into the lake of fire, will the remaining holy angels be safe from falling? It is a fair question, and one that touches on the security of eternity itself. If the new heavens and new…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 1135 Few questions generate more heat in contemporary Christianity than the role of women in teaching and preaching. Positions range from complete egalitarianism, where no distinctions exist between men and women in church ministry, to strict complementarianism that limits women’s participation significantly. What does Scripture actually say? We must approach this topic with both…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8038 Deception is not a tactic the enemy employs occasionally or in extreme situations; it is the foundation of his entire operation. Understanding the category of lying and deceiving spirits requires beginning where Jesus Himself begins, with the character of the adversary as the father of lies, and then following the thread through both…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8023 Prayer is one of the defining marks of the Christian life, and questions about its proper object are of the highest importance. The idea of praying to angels surfaces in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox devotional practice, in certain streams of charismatic Christianity, and in the wider spirituality market that borrows freely from…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 7102 Jesus said He came “to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). Paul wrote that Jesus “gave himself as a ransom for all” (1 Timothy 2:6). But what does “ransom” actually mean? The word conjures images of kidnapping and hostage negotiations. Is that what the Bible is teaching? Were we…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7084 The question is designed to be uncomfortable, and that discomfort is itself theologically informative. By naming the most notorious mass murderer of the modern era, it is really asking something else entirely: is there a limit to grace? Is there a category of human evil so profound that the gospel cannot reach it?…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 01141 Popular culture has a habit of borrowing from Scripture without particularly caring about accuracy. The result is a collection of widely repeated phrases that bear some resemblance to biblical language but carry meanings quite different from, or sometimes entirely absent from, the texts from which they are supposedly drawn. This matters not as…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 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 for every believer and the guaranteed result of sufficient faith and giving, has spread across television, the internet, and large sections of global Christianity, promising…