Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 7. Learning to tell primary truths from secondary doctrines is one of the most useful skills a Christian can develop, and the lack of it has wrecked more friendships and split more churches than I care to count. Some believers treat every conviction they hold as a hill to die on. Others treat nothing…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 3. What does it mean that Scripture is breathed out by God? Few verses carry more weight for understanding the Bible than 2 Timothy 3:16, where Paul writes, ‘All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.’ At the centre of that sentence…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 0. Why do I keep going to the Bible for answers when the world is full of other voices? It is a fair question, and it sits right at the heart of everything we do here. Why not simply reach for common sense, or science, or philosophy, or the accumulated wisdom of clever people,…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 4002. When do we receive the Holy Spirit? I want to answer that we receive the Holy Spirit at the moment of saving faith, fully and permanently, and not at some later crisis that divides Christians into the haves and the have-nots. That is the short answer, and I am convinced it is the…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 04036. The phrase second blessing describes the belief that there is a definite work of grace beyond conversion, a later crisis experience in which the believer is lifted onto a higher plane of the Christian life, often identified with a baptism in the Spirit understood as separate from and after salvation. The idea has…
Reading Time: 17 minutesQuestion 7199. If Jesus fulfilled the law, why did Paul still offer temple sacrifices in Acts 21, why will sacrifices return in the millennial temple, and why do certain things carry on from one age to the next? The question of temple sacrifices after the cross is one of the genuinely hard knots in Scripture,…
Reading Time: 16 minutesQuestion 10203. Let me tell you plainly why dispensationalism matters so much to me, because it is not a dry label that I wear but a way of reading the whole Bible that has shaped how I see God, how I read history, and where I rest my hope. Dispensationalism is, at its simplest, the…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 60202 To ask whether it is antisemitic to say the Jews killed Jesus is to raise a question that is both historical and moral, and the two have to be kept apart to answer it honestly. As a sweeping accusation that blames the Jewish people as a whole, across all generations, for having killed…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 03047 To say that Jesus is our High Priest is to say that He is the one who represents us before God and brings God to us, the mediator who deals with our sin and keeps us in fellowship with the Father. The title High Priest runs all through the letter to the Hebrews,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 07001 Few questions trouble sincere believers more than the question of assurance. How can I know I am truly saved? What if I am deceived about my own spiritual condition? Is it even possible to have certainty about something as weighty as eternal life? These questions, painful as they sometimes are, usually reflect a…