Episode 203 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Can you pray to Jesus and God? Or just God in Jesus’ name? What about praying to Mary? I thought you could only pray to the Lord. 2. How can you tell if someone is preaching a false gospel? What is the main thing to pay attention to? 3. What pastoral advice would you have for a wife who is suffering at the hands of an abusive husband? Is it wrong for us who know about it to intervene? If so, do you have any advice for how we should intervene? 4. How do you articulate salvation? Often we want to be responsible for our salvation, saying we choose God. Is it us that chooses God first or does God choose us first? With that, do we then put the responsibility of choice and free will on God? Can you explain this a little clearer?

Episode 202 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. In the Bible Jesus often hung out with sinner yet the Bible tells us in other places that we shouldn’t associate with the sexually immoral or drunkards.  Is Jesus an exception to this because he is God? 2. How does someone become saved? 3. Is there are such a thing as guardian angels? Is it Scriptural? 4. How do you understand Ephesians 4:9?  This passage really stumps me. What is the descending that is being talked about here? 5. What does it look like to be filled with the Spirit? How do you know if you have received the Spirit or are quenching the Spirit? 6. In Revelation 7:13-14, are the white Robes literal or are they symbols revealing a deeper meaning? I heard a pastor talk about the robes being symbols for righteousness. What do you think?

Episode 201 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Philippians 4 says that we should always rejoice in the Lord. How do we do this? What advice do you have for believers who struggle to rejoice? 2. What exactly did Paul mean, or what exactly happened in 1st Corinthians 5:5, when he sent the sinful brother to Satan for the destruction of his flesh? 3. My question is one that perhaps a number of us that were born-again later in life have. Because we walked according to the ways of the world (Eph 2) for a long period of time, many of us have suffered the consequences of our own disobedience. We know that His promises are for us, so in Romans 8:28 we may see through that promise how He used our disobedience to humble us, and call us out of the world, and yet we may question why God did not call us out sooner as those who were raised in Christian homes and converted at a young age. We know that being raised in a Christian home is a great privilege. Not that it converts anyone necessarily but still a privilege. So I struggle with the question…. does God love me less, that He left me so long in unbelief? 4. I have heard you say that Satan can’t place thoughts in our minds and that when we are confronted with Satan or attacked we should use God’s word. What does it really mean to come in contact with Satan?

Episode 200 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Can Christians be demon possessed? How do you know if someone is demon possessed and if they are what should we do about it? 2. Is it okay for a Christian to celebrate the Jewish Feasts of the Old Testament? 3. The letters to the 7 churches in Revelation sound really works based. How does this fit with grace? 4. In Matthew 5, Jesus says that the law will not pass away until it’s fulfilled. What does he mean by this? 5. I had a friend who died as a Mormon. I want to know if he will be in heaven.

Episode 199 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Some believe that if you worship on any other day than Saturday that we will not be holding true to God’s commandments. How are we supposed to interpret the Sabbath? 2. I have been asked to consider being an elder in my church. Titus 1:6 lists the qualifications of elders. We have 4 children who all made profession of faith, were baptized and partook of communion, but they are in their early 20s now and sadly only one is following Jesus. Am I disqualified to be an elder? 3. Do all infants who die or aborted babies go to heaven? 4. I was baptized as a child and was an atheist for many years and I was wondering if I need to be baptized again?

Episode 198 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. I grew up hearing that God’s church is supposed to be holy, but in our culture today, the church doesn’t look holy and it seems to have fallen for much of the same controversies that I see in the world. What does the Bible have to say about this? 2. What do you think about listening to non-Christian music? 3. Is the baptism of the Holy Spirit something that happens sometime after becoming a believer? 4. How do we know that the 66 books in the Old and New Testament are the right books? Weren’t the choice of those books politically motivated? 5. How can I discern the difference between a good choice and God’s perfect will for my life?

Episode 197 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Is it okay for Christians to use anti-depressants? When should we trust God for healing and when should we trust doctors? 2. Does God use challenges and trials to make us holy? 3. Did Jesus really descend into hell? Did Jesus need to suffer in hell to pay for our sins? 4. I love your slogan, “to know what we believe and why I believe it.” I’m struggling with how to convey that. Any help? 5. Are we sinners saved by grace, or are we saints who sin?

Episode 196 | 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 James 5, where it says, “confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed”? 2. In Ezekiel 28:13, who is the King of Tyre? In the past, it was explained to me that it is Satan but now that is not making sense. 3. What does it mean in 1st Peter 3, where it says that wives should be subject to their husbands? 4. If Hitler accepted Christ on his last day would he be accepted into heaven? 5. I know that the Bible says that Jesus conquered sin and death, what I struggle with is why God still allows suffering and even death to happen to faithful Christians. How does this work? 6. Can we ask God to give us a sign that he is going to answer our prayers either as a yes or a no?

Episode 195 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Is focusing on the gospel really enough to lead a godly life or do you think that Christians also need the law? 2. In the Gospel of Luke, why is the genealogy of any historical relevance when Joseph was not the father of Jesus Christ? 3. I have come across a lot of articles and blogs saying that I am not in a true church with valid sacraments because protestant churches don’t have apostolic succession. What are your thoughts on this, and do you recommend any resources for thinking this through? 4. I’m a mom and I really struggle with raising our two small children right now. There is a part of me that loves what I’m doing but the hard part is that I feel like most of my day is given over to my kids and get very little time to pray or read Scripture anymore. How can I be faithful to Jesus in this time? 5. What is the difference between the kingdom being inaugurated and consummated? I have heard you talk about this before but I’m not sure how to understand this.

Episode 194 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. How are people saved who died before Christ came? 2. The Bible teaches that Jesus was the son of God but the Gospel’s also seems to present Jesus as a prophet? How should I understand this? 3. Are hell and the lake of fire the same thing? Or does the lake of fire teach that there will be a point in which people in hell will be annihilated? 4.  I’m new to Christianity and honestly, I don’t know where to go from here. How should I go forward? 5. There is something I’m a little confused about. Sometimes Christians speak as if everyone who is not a Christian is just evil or immoral. And other times it seems like Christian believe that unbelievers can be basically good? Is this a difference between liberals and conservatives? 6. I know that God forgives my sins when I repent and it’s like they never happened, but I often worry about the coming judgement as a believer. When God goes through the good and bad deeds during this time, how are the sins that have been forgiven viewed?