Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4089. I get asked about this more than almost anything else in pastoral conversation, so let me say plainly that guidance through dreams is something Scripture treats with real seriousness, without ever making it the normal channel for hearing from God. Dreams sit in an odd place in the Christian imagination. Some believers dismiss…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1008. The question of dreams and visions and prophecy today stirs up real confusion and no small amount of division in the church. Does God still speak through such means? Should I expect them, seek them, or be suspicious of them? I want to think this through carefully, because the two easy answers, an…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11085 Many believers wake troubled by the contents of a dream, carrying a sense of guilt or shame about what their sleeping mind produced. The question of whether dreams can constitute sin requires both theological clarity and pastoral honesty, because anxious people deserve real answers rather than reassurance that skirts the issue. The Nature…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8047 Dreams appear throughout Scripture as one of the channels through which God communicated with His people, from Joseph’s dreams in Genesis to the angel’s appearances to Joseph in Matthew’s Gospel. The question of whether Satan can use dreams in the same way requires both honest engagement with what Scripture says and appropriate restraint…