Episode 495 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Key questions answered in today’s show:
1. The COVD-19 crisis has touched every aspect of our society, including those in the church. Our church has kept its eyes on the Word and promises of God through this, but there is an attitude with some members that perplexes me. Some people have been openly ribbed for not wanting to shake hands by those who don’t think the virus is very dangerous. Others seem to mock members’ caution and cooperation with civil authorities by staying home and wearing masks, even though we all agree that the Lord is in control. Where is the balance of following our civil authorities’ orders with faith in the Lord? It seems like some Christians think that, since we are people of faith, we should not fear the reality of the danger of the virus at all.
2. How should modern-day Christians respond to those events in the past where people were killed in God’s name, or leaders have used the Word of God to crimes or take advantage of others? Things like the slave trade, the crusades, the Spanish conquistadors in South and Central America. Is murder not the greatest sin? Is this a stain on the image of the church?
3. Why do I find myself constantly asking for the Lord to save me? It is very important to me. I do believe. I believe I’m a sinner, and that Jesus paid for my payment on the cross, a debt I couldn’t pay. I’m just wondering, why am I always looking for that assurance?
Resources
Why Is the World A Mess (Student’s Edition) by Core Christianity
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How Did We Get So Many Different Cultures from Adam and Eve?
Episode 452 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. What is the difference between God’s will and providence? 2. Does it matter what Bible translation you read? 3. Everyday I wake up wondering if I am saved. It doesn’t matter how much I have prayed, how much I try not to do the things that I’ve asked forgiveness for. I just wake up with this monkey on my back, that I’m not saved. Everyday for 8 years I’ve gone through this, and I don’t want to go through it no more. It has left me wanting it to be over, to be done with life. I’m just wondering what it is that I should do? If I’m making the same mistake again and again, then maybe I’m not truly repenting. It has left me very impatient with people around me, with myself. I feel like all day long I am constantly begging for forgiveness and just feeling extremely depressed. 4. How did so many cultures and people come from Adam and Eve? 5. I have been using the psalms more to inspire my own prayers, but I keep running into these moments in the psalms where the psalmist will claim his own innocence, that he’ll appeal his own innocence so that God will listen to him. For instance, in Psalm 17:1–5 we hear David do this. Is the psalmist actually innocent, as he is claiming to be? And if so, I kind of find it hard to echo this prayer because other passages describe how deep sin goes in the heart. Am I supposed to have the same confidence in my own innocence that David had? Am I supposed to see this as a prayer of Christ, who actually is innocent? And if so, how does this inform my own prayers. Resources Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing The Heart Of The Gospel by Michael Horton The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World by Michael Horton Request our latest special offers here or call 1-833-THE-CORE (833-843-2673) to request them by phone.
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How Do We Explain Death to Our Kids?
Episode 788 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com
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Understanding the Transfiguration of Jesus
Episode 380 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. How do you discover the best place you can serve in a church? And how do I know if I am gifted to serve in a particular church ministry? 2. In regards the transfiguration, when the glow came onto Jesus and Moses and Elijah appeared, I was wondering how did they know that it was Moses and Elijah? 3. Do Old Testament judgments about God’s people not upholding justice still apply to us today or was it specific to the people of Israel? 4. What is the most important thing we need to know about the end times? 5. Is there anything we as Christians can learn from our Jewish brothers & sisters? 6. What does it mean to be baptized by the Holy Spirit and fire? 7. What is the most important thing non-Christians need to know about the Gospel?
