Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4095. Scripture does not specify which career I should pursue, which city I should live in, or which of two apparently godly people I should marry. That silence is not an oversight, and understanding why it exists is the key to understanding Spirit’s guidance in the vast majority of ordinary decisions, where the Bible…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 4143. The spiritual man and natural man in 1 Corinthians 2 are Paul’s two categories for describing how human beings relate to the things of God, and the difference between them is not intelligence, education or moral effort but whether or not a person has the Holy Spirit. “The natural person does not accept…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4008. The guidance of the Spirit is one of the dearest privileges of the Christian life, and also one of the most misunderstood. Many believers picture it as a mysterious inner sat-nav that, if only they could tune in finely enough, would dictate every decision from which job to take to which cereal to…
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: 3 minutesQuestion 2010 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 1:7), and it is also one of the most persistently misunderstood concepts in the Bible. Two errors recur in how people handle it. The first is to sentimentalise it — to insist that fearing God simply means respecting Him or standing in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3009 The Gospels give us only glimpses into Jesus’ childhood, yet those glimpses raise fascinating questions. How did the incarnation work in practice during those early years? Did the baby Jesus know He was God while lying in the manger? Did the toddler Jesus understand the Trinity? What was going on in His mind…