Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11005 This is one of the most common questions Christians ask. Should I take this job? Should I marry this person? Should I move to this city? We want to know God’s will, and we are afraid of getting it wrong. How do we discern what God wants us to do? God’s Revealed Will…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11001 The Bible is not like any other book. It is the very Word of God, living and active. But many Christians find it difficult to read consistently or to understand what they are reading. How should we approach this book so that it accomplishes its purpose in our lives? With a Heart Ready…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11000 Prayer is one of the most fundamental aspects of the Christian life, yet many believers struggle with it. We know we should pray, but how exactly should we go about it? Is there a right way and a wrong way? What did Jesus teach His disciples when they asked Him this very question?…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11088 For many things in Christian life, this question has a straightforward answer: Scripture names them, and that settles it. But there is a genuine and growing category of situations, particularly in contemporary life, where the specific action is not mentioned in the Bible and where Christians may hold quite different views. How do…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12023 Pornography is one of the most pervasive and destructive forces operating in contemporary culture, and the church is not immune. The scale of the problem is staggering: internet pornography has made what was once difficult to access freely available on every smartphone, and its consumption cuts across every demographic, including professing Christians. This…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12064 Few phrases have generated as much heat in contemporary Christian conversation as “love the sinner, hate the sin.” It is often attributed to Augustine, though the precise formulation is closer to a paraphrase than a direct quotation. It has become a shorthand for the Christian attempt to navigate between two extremes: unconditional approval…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11049 Few questions cause more distress to sincere believers than the experience of unanswered prayer. A child prays for a sick parent who dies. A couple prays for years for a child who never comes. A believer cries out for deliverance from a situation that only worsens. The pain is real, and it deserves…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10121 Of all the terms the New Testament uses for the place of final punishment, Gehenna is the most vivid and the most disturbing. It is the word Jesus used most frequently when warning about the ultimate fate of the wicked, and its background in both geography and history gives it a force that…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 09088 Few situations in church life are more painful or more consequential than the moral failure of a pastor. The person entrusted with the spiritual oversight of the congregation, with the teaching of God’s Word, and with the modelling of Christian character has fallen into serious sin. The shock, grief, anger, and confusion that…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60110 Few questions in pastoral ministry provoke more anguish than this one. A believer prays earnestly for healing, trusts God sincerely, and yet the healing does not come. The result is often confusion, guilt, or a quiet crisis of faith. The question deserves a careful, honest, and compassionate answer, because the stakes are not…