Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 06061 Every honest believer knows what it is to return to the same sin again and again. Not the single stumble but the repeated pattern, the familiar failure that reasserts itself regardless of how many times it has been confessed and resolved against. Scripture is remarkably honest about this reality, and understanding what habitual…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11090 Few pastoral questions produce more confusion, guilt, and genuine suffering than this one. The Christian who has wrestled with an addictive or compulsive pattern of sin — whether that involves alcohol, pornography, drugs, food, gambling, or any other form — frequently encounters competing frameworks. Some Christian traditions treat it as purely spiritual: a…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 06071 This question is one of the more practically pressing ones in Christian sexual ethics, and it is one Scripture does not answer directly. The word masturbation does not appear in the Bible. Any honest answer has to begin there, because the temptation — in both directions — is to pretend more certainty than…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 09024 Few pastoral situations are more delicate or more important than the question of what the church should do when a member sins publicly. Get it wrong in one direction — moving too quickly, too harshly, or with the wrong spirit — and the church becomes a place of fear rather than grace. Get…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6013 The phrase “besetting sin” is part of the common vocabulary of Christian conversation, yet it comes from a single verse in Hebrews and carries a meaning that is both precise and practically urgent. Understanding what the writer actually means helps to address a pattern of struggle that every believer knows something about, even…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6012 Most people have heard of the seven deadly sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. They have been woven into Western culture for centuries, appearing in Dante’s Inferno, medieval art, and countless theological discussions. But where do they actually come from, and do they carry genuine biblical authority? Where They Come…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60098 The claim that Peter and Paul preached fundamentally different gospels is associated with a strand of dispensational teaching sometimes called ultra-dispensationalism or hyper-dispensationalism. In its more extreme forms, this teaching argues that only Paul’s letters, sometimes only his prison epistles, constitute the relevant Scripture for the church today, since Peter was preaching a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10019 The law God gave to Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai has puzzled Christians for centuries. If we’re saved by grace through faith, why did God give the law? Was it a failed experiment? A temporary measure until something better came along? Or did it serve specific divine purposes that remain relevant for…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7081 This question goes right to the heart of how we understand God’s dealings with humanity throughout history. The relationship between law and grace is not one of contradiction but of progression and purpose. To understand this properly, we need to let Scripture speak for itself and trace how God has revealed His plan…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11065 Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12 that “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness.” The Christian life is not a gentle stroll toward improvement — it is described in the New Testament with the language of warfare, struggle,…