Episode 323 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Jesus said take my yoke upon me and that it’s easy. How do we do that? How can we do that? 2. All my co-workers are going to Las Vegas for the weekend and invited me. I want to go to get to know them better but am not sure if gambling just for fun is a sin? Is it still sinful if I’m not addicted to it? 3. What does it mean that Jesus is “the Word made flesh”? 4. What does it look like for the older women to disciple the younger women in the church? 5. What is the most important part of sharing your testimony? 6. Is Jeremiah 23:5 a prophesy about Jesus Christ?

Episode 322 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. How do we know that the 66 books in the Old and New Testaments are the only books that God wanted us to have? Can the Christian be sure that he has the right canon? 2. How should we practice the Sabbath? What do you think is most important about the Sabbath? 3. When Jesus calls us to pray for our enemies, what does that look like? What exactly should we be praying for? 4. What does it mean when Paul says that we will be raised with spiritual bodies? 5. How can we go about living in the power of the Holy Spirit on a daily basis?

Episode 321 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. I’m confused about how works relate to being forgiven. After God forgives us, do we need to do anything else to secure our place in heaven? What about people who continue to sin after being forgiven? 2. Why is Sunday now the day of worship? Why do we honor the Catholic System? 3. Is death a necessity because it’s the only way our souls can get to Heaven? 4. What is the Christian approach to overcoming anxiety? 5. Is it important for believers to take time to pray alone? If so, what’s the best way to go about doing so?

Episode 320 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. If God is loving, why doesn’t he save everyone? It seems reasonable that a God who loves everyone and has the power to save everyone would save everyone. 2. I have been a Christian for over 40 years.  I have been an ineffectual Christian for over 40 years. I don’t know how to go back and start over. 3. Can doubting our salvation ultimately motivate us to become more holy? 4. Will the new heaven and earth be a physical or a spiritual place? 5. What does it mean that “God will right his law on our hearts”? Does this mean that believers will gain victory of their sin?

Episode 319 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. There are a few places in the Bible that says we ought to fear God. My question is how does this fit with trusting that God is our loving Father? 2. What should we be thinking about when we take the Lord’s Supper? Should we be meditating on his death or should we focus more on our forgiveness? 3. What does Jesus mean when he prays that we will be one with him the way he is one with the Father in the Book of John? 4. Why did God choose Israel out of all the possible nations he could have chosen from to be his people?

Episode 318 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. I have been listening to the show for a while and I have heard you talk about sanctification a few times. Can you explain what you mean by that? 2. I started doing the rosary a lot later in life. But my wife is a Christian and she didn’t like it. So, I stopped saying it but now I feel like I betrayed my faith. How can I fight this? 3. How does God use the Church to be a blessing in people’s lives? 4. What does it mean that Jesus is our mediator? 

Episode 317 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. How do you understand the Baptism of the Holy Spirit? How is this different from being in the Spirit, which Paul seems to think every Christian experiences? 2. I have been getting into Church history. I have been reading about the council of Nicaea and I was struck by these church Fathers that as they were trying to hammer out all the theology about Christ they were also debating about the proper day of Easter. Is that important? Is this a matter left for local churches? 3. Were believers in the Old Testament indwelt with the Holy Spirit?  4. Does the Bible have anything to say about “abusive husbands” in the ancient world?

Episode 316 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Is there a point as a Christian where I should no longer struggle with sin? 2. If God requires us to act after we pray for something then how do we know it really was God answering that prayer when we get it and not the actions we took ourselves? 3. I was talking to someone who said that I need to pray for and claim salvation for my family. How can I claim something that is against their free will? Can I really claim salvation for someone?  4. What does Paul mean by working out our salvation with fear and trembling? Does this mean we will only be finally saved if we live a holy life?

Episode 315 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. I know as Christians we are supposed to distinguish between primary and secondary doctrine, matters to salvation and other areas. Talking to my friends One of those areas is homosexuality. While I don’t want to make that it’s not a primary issue it definitely has connecting tissue to primary issues. My question is how do we speak to this? When do I make the distinction on how to speak to someone who is wrong about something like homosexuality? 2. At what point do we consider someone a heretic as opposed to identifying their teachings as heresy? If one teaches a salvation that requires works? 3. I know you value worship on Sunday but what do you think about youth groups who miss church because of weekend retreats or recreational activities? Should we expect the youth to worship with the adults? 4. In Genesis 44, Joseph tells his servant to put the cup in Benjamin’s sack. What’s the meaning of Joseph using the cup for divination? How should we look at Joseph given what Scripture says about divination elsewhere? 5. Should Christians share their faith even when they don’t know a lot, or should they wait until they first are taught in like a Sunday School class? 6. In John 14:15–17 it talks about the Holy Spirit as our helper. What does it look like for the Holy Spirit to be our helper?

Episode 314 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. There are so many challenges facing the church. How do you guys continue to have hope?  Do you see the future of the church as better than its current state? 2. I have several friends who are homosexual. Leviticus 18.22 calls it an abomination. But does that mean the church should reject them? This is a common practice in the south to the point that they can’t serve on any church board or whole any office in the church. But Matthew 7 says “don’t judge others lest you be judged.” I know judgment is for the Lord, but I care deeply about my friends who are homosexuals. I’m not sure how we are supposed to handle that? 3. What does it mean for God to be one in essence and three in person? Does God’s covenant name, “Yahweh,” belong to the entirety of the Godhead or does it belong more to God the Father? 4. Should Christians live like Jesus could return in any minute even when the church has been waiting over 2000 years for him to return?