Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 13002 Martin Luther is one of the most consequential figures in the history of Christianity. His challenge to the Roman Catholic Church in the early sixteenth century ignited the Protestant Reformation, and his theological convictions about justification, Scripture, and the nature of the gospel continue to shape Protestant identity. Understanding who he was, what…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60072 Few movements in modern church history have proved more persistently influential or more theologically problematic than the Latter Rain revival of the late 1940s and the doctrine of the Manifest Sons of God that grew from it. Though the names may be unfamiliar to many Christians today, the ideas continue to circulate widely,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04122 Paul’s letter to the Romans contains one of the most extraordinary declarations in the entire New Testament: “For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2). This single verse introduces a concept that reshapes how believers understand their…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60025 The idea that nations are morally accountable to God is increasingly foreign to modern political thinking, which tends to treat nations as power structures rather than moral agents and views divine judgement as an archaic concept. The Bible takes a fundamentally different view, and the prophetic literature in particular presents the nations of…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02009 Several passages in Scripture speak of God “not remembering” the sins of those He has forgiven. For some people this is the most comforting language in the Bible. For others it raises a puzzling question: if God knows everything, how can He forget anything? Getting the answer right matters, because misunderstanding it can…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 04019 Paul writes to the Corinthian church and tells them, pointedly, that he cannot address them as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ (1 Corinthians 3:1). The church at Corinth was genuine enough that Paul wrote to it as a church and addresses them as brothers and sisters…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 04100 Salvation is the work of the triune God: the Father who planned it, the Son who accomplished it, and the Holy Spirit who applies it. The Spirit’s role in bringing everything the Father purposed and the Son secured into the actual experience of the individual is perhaps the most practically immediate dimension of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04105 Before a person can receive the gospel, something must happen to them. The good news of forgiveness is only recognisable as good news to someone who knows they need it, and that recognition, the deep, personal awareness of sin before a holy God, does not arise naturally in human beings. It is the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6021 The hardened heart is one of Scripture’s most sobering images. From Pharaoh’s repeated resistance to Moses through to the stern warnings of Hebrews, the biblical writers return again and again to the danger of a heart that has become impervious to God’s voice. Understanding what this means, and how it happens, is not…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6022 The conscience is one of God’s remarkable gifts to human beings: an internal moral faculty that registers the difference between right and wrong and alerts the person to the gravity of their choices. What happens when that faculty is persistently overridden and ultimately silenced is one of the most alarming descriptions in the…