Episode 263 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. In Matthew 12:28 where Jesus says, “If I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom has come”? I’m confused because I thought the kingdom hasn’t come yet. 2. I know there isn’t a biblical prescription on how much married Christians should reproduce, so I would love to have some biblical principles that might guide us in this decision. Is it wrong to stop at the five kids we have? Is it wrong to do something to prevent having more children? What scriptural wisdom can I tap to help me in this decision? 3. In regards to women in teaching in Titus 2. What role do men have when their wives is being discipled? Should men attend Bible studies that their wives attend that is led by another woman? 4. Can you explain Abraham’s bosom in Luke 16?

Episode 262 | 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 Jesus Luke 4 where he says that he came to liberate the captives, preach good news to the poor, and perform miracles?  2. What is the real Sabbath day? Is it Saturday or Sunday? 3. Can you explain Psalm 88? This seems so contrary to the New Testaments call to rejoice. Should Christians pray like it shows in psalm 88? 4. I work in food service. For years I wasn’t reporting my tips. Now I do and pay taxes on them. But what about all those years I didn’t. Do I owe? I need to know because it was a lot of money and I need to be right with God. 5. In Genesis 12 and 15 God promised that he would bless the nations through Abraham’s seed and then in Galatians 3 Paul says that Abraham’s seed referred to Jesus. But how could have Abraham understood that? It seems like he thought that God was promising him a people not Jesus. Can you explain this?

Episode 261 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. If Jesus came to bring the kingdom of God, why did he allow himself to be crucified? Why didn’t Jesus just bring the kingdom? 2. Am I always called to submit to my pastor’s decision? 3. Do you think a church that sings mostly Hymns in worship can still reach out to the younger generation?  4. How do you understand the parable of the 10 virgins?

Episode 260 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. How does striving in the Christian life fit with relying on the Spirit? It seems like the more I struggle against sin the less progress I make. 2. Why did God allow Satan in the Garden of Eden and why was he allowed to tempt Eve the way he did? Why didn’t God just smite Satan, before the Fall, when he rebelled in Heaven?  3. You speak of Romans and Hebrews, but what about Acts, where God’s people are filled with the Holy Spirit and as a sign, they spoke in tongues? To me that is a reason to be assured of salvation. What do you think?  4. Does Revelation 22:17 teach that anyone can be saved? If this is so, then why doesn’t God save everyone? 5. What does the Bible say about suicide?

Episode 259 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. How does Jesus dying save people? I’m struggling to understand why Jesus needed to die on the cross for our sins. 2. What did Jesus do for three days immediately after the cross?  3. In Ephesians 2:10 it says, “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” I have a hard time discerning God’s will. How do you know what good works God would want us to commit to? 4. Is the first encounter of Gentiles being saved the episode with Cornelius or Phillip, where the Ethiopian was reading Isaiah? 5. What do you wish more people understood about worship?

Episode 258 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. What do you think can really make the difference between continual failure and gaining victory over sin? 2. What is your view on people who are narcissistic? How do you deal with them, especially if they are a family member or your husband?  3.  I’m struggling with my prayer life. I don’t really pray on any sort of regular basis and I’m thinking maybe it would be good to start writing out my prayers in a prayer journal. I have a friend who does this, and even though I’m worried about formalism, I think that this might at least help me to start praying. What do you think? 4. We have a church that is really into choruses. My family and I are more into hymns and classical songs. We do not feel worshipful when we have to sing the same phrase over and over. How do we approach people to try to get through what you are talking about, the meat of the music, the core of the doctrine, what psalms and hymns profess?​

Episode 257 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. What do you think about the ideas that the church has been taken captive to outrage culture? It seems like maybe there is a place for righteous anger. What do you think? 2. What’s the difference between a Major Prophet and a Minor Prophet? 3. In Jude it says, “And have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.” Is the authorial intent limited to the victims of the false teachers? 4. Mark 14 says that Jesus’ soul was sorrowful even to the point of death while he was in the garden of Gethsemane and then later on the cross it seems like Jesus really did experience suffering and pain.  And I know that Isaiah 53 describes Jesus as the suffering servant, but what I’m struggling to understand is how this fits with Jesus being God?

Episode 256 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. When Paul speaks to the Thessalonians about the great falling away, what is he speaking of there? 2. I have a friend who used to be a Christian but now claims she is part of the Krishna Consciousness. When I try to talk to her about it, she is convinced that it’s actually the same thing. That ultimately, we are all called to love God. I later met some other members of the Krishna Consciousness and they insisted that it and Christianity had differences but were essentially the same. What do I say to my friend? 3. I still say Jesus is Lord, Savior, and God, but I would rather be in hell than in heaven. I am at that point in my life. 4. If God is sovereign, why do we pray for his will to be done? And that being said, if he is sovereign, where does our personal choice come in? Can we make choices outside of the will of God?

Episode 255 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Should we be skeptical of messages of prosperity?

Episode 254 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. How can you tell the difference between a faithful pastor and an unfaithful pastor?