Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60079. Fulfilled prophecy is the one line of evidence that Scripture itself puts forward as a test, which makes it different from every other argument in the apologist’s bag. God does not say prove me by philosophy or by archaeology. He says look at what I said would happen and see whether it happened….
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 60071. Christian Zionism has become a term of abuse in a good deal of Christian writing, used to describe a caricature that almost nobody actually holds. Before I defend anything I want to say clearly what I do and do not mean by it. What I hold is that God made unconditional promises to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60066. British Israelism is the claim that the Anglo-Saxon and related peoples of north-western Europe are the physical descendants of the ten northern tribes of Israel, lost after the Assyrian deportation and rediscovered, as it happens, in ourselves. It sounds harmless enough at first, a piece of Victorian eccentricity. It is not harmless, and…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60027. Bethel Church in Redding, California has been under sustained public scrutiny for several years now, and the questions have grown sharper rather than quieter. In January 2026 the apologist Mike Winger published a lengthy investigation setting out evidence that Shawn Bolz, a prominent figure closely associated with the movement, had fabricated prophetic words,…
Reading Time: 10 minutesQuestion 60042. The Western Wall stands in Jerusalem today, some fifty courses of ancient stone, and every year millions of people place prayers into its cracks. Sceptics point at it and ask a reasonable question. Jesus said that not one stone would be left upon another, so how is that wall still there? Either the…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 9102. The relationship between prophecy and teaching is one of those questions that looks like a technicality until it lands in the middle of a church meeting. Someone stands up in a service and says the Lord has laid something on their heart, and immediately the congregation is asking whether that was a word…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 09022. We tend to treat guidance as a private transaction, which is why the role of the gathered church in discerning the Spirit’s leading strikes many believers as an odd idea. The modern pattern is that I pray, I sense a leading, I act, and the church finds out afterwards. The New Testament pattern…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 09013. Whether there are prophets today is a question I answer yes to, with a great many qualifications attached, and the qualifications are not small print. They are the difference between a healthy church and a wrecked one. I am a continuationist. I do not believe the gifts were withdrawn when the last apostle…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 08090 The prince of Persia in Daniel 10 is one of those figures who lifts the curtain for a moment and then lets it drop again. For three verses we are allowed to see something happening behind the visible world, and then the vision moves on and we are left with more questions than…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10202. The last trumpet of 1 Corinthians 15:52 is regularly identified with the seventh trumpet of Revelation 11, and that identification is the single strongest argument the posttribulational position has. If Paul’s trumpet is John’s seventh, the church goes through the Tribulation and the pretribulational rapture collapses. So it deserves a careful answer rather…