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…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 0018 The letter to the Hebrews contains one of the New Testament’s most direct discussions of spiritual maturity, and it comes with a sharp rebuke that still stings today. The author isn’t gentle about it—he tells his readers they ought to be teachers by now but instead need someone to teach them the basics…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 0025 The book of Acts gives us a snapshot of the earliest Christian community in Jerusalem, immediately after the Day of Pentecost. Three thousand people had just been baptised. The church had suddenly grown from a small band of disciples to a substantial movement. And Luke tells us how they lived: “And they devoted…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 0023 Anyone who has spent time reading Paul’s letters will notice a consistent pattern. Take Romans: the first eleven chapters are dense theological exposition—the righteousness of God, justification by faith, the place of Israel, the sovereignty of God in salvation. Then chapter 12 begins: “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3052 You may have heard the phrase ‘the historical Jesus’ and wondered what it means. Is it different from the Jesus we read about in the Gospels? The term comes from academic scholarship and refers to attempts to reconstruct who Jesus was using historical-critical methods. For Bible-believing Christians, there is only one Jesus, the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3055 When you read Matthew’s Gospel and Luke’s Gospel, you encounter something puzzling. Both give genealogies of Jesus, but they are different. Matthew traces the line from Abraham through David to Joseph. Luke traces the line from Jesus back through David to Adam. But the differences go beyond direction. Even within the section from…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3044 When we read the Gospels, we encounter the title ‘Son of David’ applied to Jesus with striking frequency. The blind call out to Him using this name. The crowds shout it during His triumphal entry. Matthew opens his entire Gospel by declaring Jesus to be “the son of David, the son of Abraham”…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3046 When John the Baptist saw Jesus approaching, he made one of the most profound declarations in all of Scripture: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29). This title, ‘Lamb of God,’ reaches back through centuries of sacrificial imagery and forward to the eternal worship of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3048 Some claim that Jesus never actually said He was God – that this was a later invention by the Church. They point out that Jesus often called Himself the “Son of Man” and referred to God as His Father, suggesting distinction rather than identity. Is this accurate? Did Jesus actually claim to be…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3037 The question of who killed Jesus has been debated, weaponised, and misunderstood for two thousand years. It has been used to justify horrific persecution of the Jewish people. It has been the subject of theological controversy and historical investigation. Yet Scripture gives us a multifaceted answer that is both historically grounded and theologically…