Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11051. The length of prayer is one of those questions that makes people squirm before they even ask it. Somewhere in the back of most Christian minds sits a suspicion that real believers pray for an hour before breakfast and we are all quietly failing an exam nobody set. I want to take the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11039. Estate planning feels like a subject for solicitors rather than sermons, and that assumption is precisely why so many Christians die intestate and leave their families a mess. Scripture does not contain a chapter on probate. It does contain a great deal about provision, about planning, about honesty and about the numbering of…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11038. Leaving an inheritance is commended in Proverbs and complicated by almost everything else Scripture says about money, which is why sincere Christians land in very different places on it. Some are determined to pass on everything they have. Others intend to give it all away and let their children make their own way….
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11049. Few things wound a believer more quietly than unanswered prayer. You have prayed for the marriage, the diagnosis, the wayward son, the job, and heaven has felt like a ceiling rather than an open door. I have sat with people in that place, and I have been in that place myself, and I…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11024. Being a disciple is not a rank within Christianity; it is what a Christian is. The New Testament uses the word for the whole company of believers, and it carries a meaning our English ‘follower’ has largely lost. So what does it actually mean, day by day, in a life with a job,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11035. Cryptocurrency investing is one of those subjects where Christians want a verse and there is not one, which means the answer has to be built from principles rather than proof texts. Bitcoin did not exist when the New Testament was written, and neither did index funds, mortgages or pensions. What Scripture does address…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11023. The Great Commission is the standing order Jesus gave His followers between the resurrection and the ascension, recorded most fully at the end of Matthew’s Gospel. It is quoted constantly and examined rather less often. So let me take it apart slowly. What is actually commanded, to whom was it given, what authority…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11034. Student loans raise a genuine question of conscience for believers, because Scripture has strong things to say about debt and yet many young Christians cannot train for the work God has given them without borrowing. This question comes to me most often from American readers, where the sums involved are frankly alarming, but…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11022. Ask about unreached peoples and you are really asking two questions at once. There is the practical one about the millions who live where no church exists, and there is the harder one underneath it: what happens to those who die without ever hearing of Jesus? I want to answer both, and to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11033. Saving for retirement troubles some Christians because it looks suspiciously like the rich fool in Luke 12, who built bigger barns and heard God call him a fool that same night. Others never think about it at all, and then arrive at seventy dependent on adult children who cannot afford it. Both responses…