Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07026 Imputation is a theological term that may sound abstract but describes one of the most personally significant realities in the whole of Scripture. It answers the question of how a guilty person can stand before a holy God without condemnation, and it does so by pointing to a transaction that took place at…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60008 In a marketplace of competing worldviews and religions, what sets Christianity apart? Is it simply one option among many, differing from others only in cultural expressions and historical accidents? Or is there something fundamentally distinctive about the Christian faith? As we shall see, Christianity is unique in ways that no other religion can…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1133 The word “deconstruction” has become unavoidable in Christian conversations. Social media is filled with stories of people, often raised in evangelical churches, who are dismantling their faith, questioning everything they were taught, and sometimes walking away from Christianity altogether. What does Scripture have to say about this phenomenon? How should we understand and…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11071 This question cuts right to the heart of Christian living and witness. We live in an age where people often pit truth against love, as though you must choose one or the other. “Speaking the truth is unloving,” some say. Others counter, “Love without truth is meaningless.” But Scripture never presents us with…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 11072 This question goes to the heart of faithful Christian parenting. Moses commanded Israel: “You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:7). The instruction of…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 7104 This is perhaps the most important question anyone can ask. Christianity is not primarily about following a set of rules or joining an institution. It is about knowing a person, Jesus Christ, and being known by Him. The good news is that a personal relationship with Jesus is available to everyone who wants…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 7105 Some people wonder whether they can be a Christian whilst having doubts about the resurrection. Perhaps they are attracted to Jesus’ teachings and moral example but struggle to believe that He literally rose from the dead. Is the resurrection really essential, or is it an optional extra that we can affirm or not…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07075 The word “gospel” appears so frequently in Christian conversation that it can begin to lose its force through familiarity. But the gospel is not a general category of good religious news or a vague sense of divine goodwill toward humanity. It has a specific content, and that content can be stated with considerable…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 4069 The Holy Spirit did not arrive at Pentecost as though He had been absent from the universe until that point. He is the eternal third Person of the Trinity, and His activity runs through the Old Testament from the opening verses of Genesis to the closing pages of Malachi. What changed at Pentecost…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 04116 The question of whether the gifts of the Holy Spirit described in the New Testament remain available to the church today is among the most practically consequential theological debates of the modern era. For much of evangelical Christianity in the West, the answer has been shaped not primarily by careful biblical exegesis but…