Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11108 The spiritual disciplines are the ordinary, repeated practices through which believers place themselves in the way of God’s grace so that they may grow to know and love Him more. They are not a ladder we climb to earn God’s favour, and they are not religious performances that impress Him. They are the…
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: 4 minutesQuestion 11002 Fasting is one of those spiritual disciplines that many Christians know about but few practice. It sounds old-fashioned, perhaps even unhealthy. Yet fasting appears throughout Scripture, both in the Old Testament and the New. Jesus Himself fasted and expected His followers to do likewise. What exactly is fasting, and what place should it…
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 11043 The question of whether Christians should pray for the dead touches on deep assumptions about what happens after death and whether human prayer can influence a person’s eternal state. It is a practice embedded in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition, but it raises a straightforward question for anyone committed to the authority…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11096 This question arises more often than it should need to, and the fact that it does reflects the influence of certain streams of Christian teaching that have set faith and medicine in opposition to one another. Some believers genuinely wonder whether consulting a doctor represents a failure of trust in God. The biblical…
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: 5 minutesQuestion 09037 The word “revival” stirs strong feelings in the church. For some, it conjures images of historic movements that transformed entire communities. For others, it evokes the manufactured emotionalism of modern conference culture, where hype is mistaken for the Holy Spirit’s work. The question deserves careful biblical examination, because what Scripture describes and what…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60111 Chronic illness presents one of the most sustained tests of faith a believer can face. Unlike an acute crisis that resolves one way or another, chronic conditions persist — day after day, month after month, sometimes for decades. The sufferer is not facing a moment of trial but a way of life, and…
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…