Reading Time: 10 minutesQuestion 4146. The names and titles of the Holy Spirit in Scripture are far more numerous, and far more theologically loaded, than most believers realise, and working through them carefully is one of the best correctives I know to the modern tendency to treat the Spirit as a vague spiritual influence rather than the fully…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4016. Can we pray to the Holy Spirit, or should we only ever pray to the Father or the Son? I get asked this more than you might think, often by thoughtful believers who have noticed that the Bible’s prayers are nearly always addressed to the Father, and who wonder whether the Spirit has…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 4015. When someone asks me what the procession of the Spirit means, I usually start by admitting that it is one of those phrases the church has used for centuries while ordinary believers were left wondering whether it mattered at all. It does matter, and I want to show you why. The procession of…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4005. Giving glory to the Spirit is something many believers feel oddly uncertain about, and the question deserves a straight answer. We sing freely to the Father and to the Son, yet when it comes to the third Person of the Trinity a strange shyness sets in, as though praising Him might somehow be…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4001. The person of the Spirit is the first thing I want settled when anyone asks me who the Holy Spirit really is, because almost every mistake people make in this area flows from getting that one point wrong. Is the Spirit a Person, or is He a force? Is He someone I relate…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11105 Few biblical concepts generate more heat and less light than headship and submission. The words themselves have become so culturally charged that many Christians either avoid them entirely or reduce them to caricatures. But Scripture uses them deliberately and with care, and the church does not have the option of ignoring what God…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3001 This is perhaps the most important question any person can ask. It is the question Jesus Himself put to His disciples at Caesarea Philippi: “Who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15). Your answer to this question determines your eternal destiny. It is not enough to know about Jesus; you must know…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60016 The claim that Christians and Muslims worship the same God is one of the most commonly repeated statements in interfaith dialogue. It sounds generous, inclusive, and peaceable. It is also, on careful examination, theologically incoherent. The question is not whether Christians and Muslims both claim to worship one God. They do. The question…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60012 Islam is the world’s second-largest religion, with nearly two billion adherents. It is also the religion that most frequently presents itself as compatible with, or even the fulfilment of, biblical faith. For this reason, Christians need to understand what Islam actually teaches, where it genuinely overlaps with Christianity, and where it fundamentally diverges….
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 2029 The answer is yes — though it requires careful qualification. The full, explicitly articulated doctrine of the Trinity belongs to the New Testament, where the personal identities of Father, Son, and Spirit are disclosed with a clarity that was not available in the earlier revelation. What the Old Testament contains is not the…