Episode 233 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Should we worship and pray to the Holy Spirit? 2. Does God love us less if we struggle to love others? 3. 1 Corinthians 5:11 gives a list of people of whom it says we should not even eat with. Today, we have so many young people that fit this that I would like to reach out to but don’t know how to if I can’t even eat with them. Can you explain how this passage applies today? 4. What’s the best way to motivate a person to lead a holy life? 5. Matthew 7:22 says, “not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven,” were they not saved because they didn’t trust in Christ alone?​

Episode 232 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Should we as Christians concern ourselves with whats going on in American culture? 2. How do you know if a church is biblical? Should I look mainly at the preaching? How important is the worship? 3. How do you understand John 6:44 where Jesus says, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.”? Do you think God draws everyone? And if so, why doesn’t everyone come to faith? 4. Should Christians be sending their kids to public schools when it seems like the foundation and worldview they operate from is secular humanism? 5. In Ephesians 4, Paul speaks again about Christ being the head of his body, the church. Is this just a metaphor?

Episode 231 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. I beg to differ with you in reference to the Spirit of God speaking to us personally. The Lord deals with me like this all the time. The more intimate we are with God the more we will hear his voice. 2. If God already knows everything we need, why pray? 3. Jesus said that it would be better for him to leave so that the Holy Spirit would come. From your understanding, how is this better?​

Episode 230 | 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 is most important for parents in preparing kids for future work? How should our faith influence this? 2. What have you found most challenging about raising kids to be faithful Christians in the world? 3. I’m a truck driver from Ohio. As the tangible rewards of work such as buying a home, vacation, and retirement plans become more difficult with each passing generation what can we as parents do to foster an appreciation for hard work and diligence in our children? 4. How have you helped your kids discover what gifts and talents they’ve been given to serve others?​

Episode 229 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. I recently received a couple of job offers and am struggling to decide between them. How do I know which one is God’s will for my life? 2. Have you ever been fired from a job? If so, how did you handle that? 3. Sometimes when Christians think about callings they tend to focus on work. But what about rest and leisure?

Episode 228 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Mark, you’ve had an amazing career, spending decades in the corporate world, and spending the last six years leading a faith-based organization. You’ve lived all over the world. What was it like to work overseas? 2. What are the unique challenges Christians in business face and what advice do you have for them? What are some challenges you’ve dealt with? 3. Mark, sometimes when I talk people as their pastor, they assume if they really want to serve God they have to be a pastor or a missionary. What encouragement would you have for Christians in the business world who may struggle with whether their work is meaningful before God? 4. I recently received a promotion at work, I’m glad for the raise but sometimes I feel guilty trying to move up or being ambitious as a Christian. Is okay for Christians to strive to be successful in their work?

Episode 227 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. James tells us to resist the devil and he will flee from you. I am a new Christian and I still sin. How can I learn how to resist the devil’s attacks? 2. Should every Christian evangelize or street preach? How can I begin to share my faith with others? 3. It seems like social media can be a great tool for getting the gospel out and sharing Christian content with friends and family but there are also dangers of people being argumentative. What do you think Christians should know to properly use social media?

Episode 226 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. How does the Father in the parable of the prodigal son compare to God? 2. I have a gay daughter who shuns me because of my beliefs that homosexuality is a sin. I feel horrible because. I know what the Bible teaches but I also want to have a relationship with my daughter and I’m not sure how to rebuild what we used to have. 3. How does cremation affect Christians in the resurrection? 4.  I have heard you talk in the past that regeneration proceeds faith, but Galatians 3:14 says that we receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Doesn’t Galatians 3 show that people have faith before receiving the Holy Spirit and regeneration? 5. When Jesus put the demons into the pigs and the pigs ran off and drowned in the lake, were the demons destroyed? 6. I grew up hearing that the kingdom of God was something off in the future, but there are passages in the gospels that make it seems like the kingdom of God is present at the time of Jesus’ ministry. Yet, in other passages, Jesus puts the kingdom in the future. Are these the same kingdom?

Episode 225 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. How should we understand Psalm 88 in relationship to Paul’s call for us to always rejoice? Is psalm 88 even the prayer of a believer? 2. How do you understand James 5 on taking oaths? It seems really random in the context of chapter 5. I really don’t understand how this fits with either his warning to the rich or his call to be patient through trials. What are your thoughts on this? 3. What is our duty or liberty as Christians to concede to laws about fire arms? 4. Does spiritual maturity mean that I should no longer struggle with sin? 5. What does Paul mean by working out our salvation with fear and trembling? Does this imply that not everyone who is currently saved will be in fact saved if they don’t do enough good works?

Episode 224 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Do you believe God’s will is usually something we want to do or something we are usually afraid of doing, like Abraham, Jonah, and the disciples? 2. When the Bible speaks about uniting all things in heaven and earth and every knee bowing to confess that Jesus is Lord, does this mean that in the end everyone will be saved? 3. My wife and I are having a difficult time with our faith right now.  I want to be able to tell her that God is faithful, but I don’t know what to say. Do you have any advice in this area? 4. I love the way you describe the distinction between law and gospel. Is there another kind of instruction we find in the wisdom books? Is wisdom another category? If so, how would you describe this in relation to law and gospel?