Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11007 Few pastoral questions are more painful than those involving divorce. When a marriage is in crisis, people want to know: Does God ever permit divorce? What are the biblical grounds? What about remarriage? These questions deserve careful, compassionate answers from Scripture. God’s Design: Marriage is Permanent We must begin with God’s ideal. When…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12010 Marriage is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary culture, and almost everyone has an opinion about what it is, what it should look like, and who gets to define it. The Christian answer to that question is straightforward: God defines marriage, because God created it. Before there was a state, a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10030 Revelation 11 introduces two unnamed figures who prophesy for 1,260 days during the Tribulation, are killed by the Beast, lie unburied in the streets of Jerusalem, and are then raised and taken to heaven in the sight of their enemies. Their identity has been debated since the earliest centuries of the church, and…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11003 The question of tithing generates strong opinions among Christians. Some insist that giving ten percent of income is a binding obligation. Others argue that tithing was an Old Testament law that does not apply to New Testament believers. What does Scripture actually teach, and how should we think about this today? Tithing in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11093 The question of how Christians should give to the church touches on stewardship, worship, gratitude, and the practical reality that local churches need financial resources to carry out their mission. It is also a question where popular teaching has often imported assumptions, whether from the Old Testament tithing system or from the prosperity…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11080 The prosperity gospel is one of the most widespread and most destructive distortions in contemporary Christianity. Its core claim, that financial wealth and physical health are God’s will for every believer and the guaranteed result of sufficient faith and giving, has spread across television, the internet, and large sections of global Christianity, promising…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02050 God does not change. That assertion, carried through consistently, shapes how we read every promise in Scripture, how we approach prayer, and what God’s love for us actually means across the long expanse of a lifetime. Divine immutability is the doctrine that God’s character, purposes, and promises remain absolutely constant. He was not…