Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10111. Scripture names five heavenly crowns promised to believers: the imperishable crown, the crown of rejoicing, the crown of righteousness, the crown of life and the crown of glory. They are given at the judgement seat of Christ, they are rewards for service rather than payment for salvation, and they end up back at…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10110. The Bema seat is the judgement seat of Christ, where believers will stand to have their service assessed and rewarded. It is not a trial to determine whether we are saved. That question was settled at the cross and received by faith, and no Christian will ever face it again. What happens at…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10092. Wars and rumours of wars have marked every generation since Jesus spoke the phrase, and every generation has been tempted to read its own headlines as the final act. I have lost count of the conversations that begin with a news alert and end with the question, is this it? The question is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10081. The doctrine of imminence is one of those phrases that sounds like seminary furniture until you notice how much of your life it touches. Put simply, it means that the Lord’s coming for His Church could happen at any moment, that nothing in prophecy has to occur first, and that no believer is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10063. Are there degrees of reward in heaven? Scripture answers yes, and it does so often enough that I am always a little surprised how rarely the subject is preached. We are so anxious to protect grace from any hint of earning that we quietly drop a whole strand of New Testament teaching about…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 01166 To ask in what sense the Mosaic law still speaks to Christians today is to ask one of the most practical questions in the whole of biblical theology, because the answer shapes how we read more than half of our Bibles. The short reply is that the believer is not under the Mosaic…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 6013. A besetting sin is the sin that knows your address: the particular temptation that returns again and again long after other struggles have faded, the one you have confessed more times than you can count. The phrase itself comes from the Authorised Version of a single verse in Hebrews, and understanding what the…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 6007. Sinless perfection has been promised by more than one movement in church history: the claim that a Christian can reach a point in this life where sinning stops altogether. Others swing to the opposite corner and treat ongoing sin so casually that holiness hardly seems worth pursuing. Can Christians live without sinning or…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5038. The purpose of life is the question every human being carries, whether they ever say it aloud or not. It surfaces at three in the morning, at gravesides, at milestone birthdays, and sometimes in the middle of success, which is often when it bites hardest. What is it all for? The modern world…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5033. The human conscience is the courtroom God built into every human heart. Long before a missionary arrives or a Bible is opened, something inside a person prosecutes and defends, applauds and condemns. Paul describes it precisely: the Gentiles “show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience…