Core Christianity

Episode 362 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I would like one of the gentlemen to explain  Hebrews 6:4-6 . 2. If there is no marriage in heaven, why is it, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh"? Why did God even crea...

Episode 361 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. "Christ our righteousness," I read this in the Bible many times. What does "Christ our righteousness" mean and how does it apply to us? 2. Many years ago a preacher said the devil cannot hear your thoughts only God can hear your thoughts. So, for m...

Episode 360 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I am really struggling with lust and feel that I might be one of the people that the Bible says will not inherit the kingdom of God. I have tried to remain celibate and bury my feelings and hope they go away, but they haven't. 2. In the first chapt...

Episode 359 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I have a brother in law who is a preacher and he heads up a ministry of healing. He is really into healing words and Scripture. He has gone through a major operation for his heart and he is a little depressed and wonders why he wasn't healed. I kno...

Episode 358 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What did Jesus mean in the sermon on the mount when he made statements, "you have heard it said, but I say to you..." Is Jesus doing away with the law? 2. As believers in this day in age when you die, do you go directly to heaven; or do you sleep u...

Episode 357 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In  Matthew 7:21–23 , where Jesus says to people "I never knew you" does this apply to lukewarm Christians? How do you know if this passage applies to you or not? 2. In  Psalm 51  David says, "Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spi...

Episode 356 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What's the difference between Christianity and other religions? Why can you say we don't worship the same God? 2. Would it be a bad idea to date this guy who has a past? He mentioned that before he became a Christian, he was having sex with other g...

Episode 355 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. This seems like a little thing but in the Lord's prayer it seems that some translations say, "they will be done in earth as it is in heaven," but the most services use the word "on." It seems like a big difference in meaning.  2. Is it hypocritical...

Episode 354 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Can you be a Christian if you have made Jesus your savior and you don't know if you repented or not? Is being saved just asking Jesus to save you? 2. I like apologetics, but sometimes I worry that it gives the impression that if a person doesn't ha...

Episode 353 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Can I take the sacrament only once or twice? How many times in one day? 2. Is it wrong to pray to Jesus? I know what He taught us in the Lord's Prayer, yet I admit that I feel closer to Jesus (because of His suffering and death on the cross, etc.)...

Episode 352 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If you are saved why does the person that is saved have to go through a judgment? I thought being saved by the Lord's grace and blood you would be saved and live with him. 2. In the New Jerusalem, as described in Revelation, walls and gates are sur...

Episode 351 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. God told Moses that he hardened Pharaoh's heart to demonstrate his own power but it seemed pretty cold. It seems kind of cruel. 2.  1 Corinthians 10:31  says, "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God," My questi...

Episode 350 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Is it true that Jesus when saying that the temple would be raised in three days was referring to his resurrection? If so, what does it mean that Jesus is a temple? 2. When he revealed the veil to Peter (in the book of Acts), did the Lord make all t...

Episode 349 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Do Muslims and Christians serve the same God? 2. It seems like the Son that Jesus was born because the plan of salvation? Why did Jesus need to exist as the Trinity? Did God always exist as the Trinity? 3. How best can I serve Christ as a single wo...

Episode 348 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If God predestined everything as it teaches in  Romans 9  and  Ephesians 1  doesn't this mean that God also predestines sin and that God is the author of sin? How does this not turn God into something that resembles the devil rather than what we fi...

Episode 347 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In the parable of the wheat and the tares are the tares the same as the seed of the serpent? 2. Throughout the Bible, we are told to fear God. I'm thinking of  Ecclesiastes 12:13 , "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of...

Episode 346 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do you know if you are called to ministry? 2. Do you believe that Christians can be filled with the Spirit? If so, what does that look like? 3. What are the signs of a person who is demon possessed? If we come across a person who is demon posse...

Episode 345 | 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 4...

Episode 344 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In your first chapter you begin with creation and cover the themes of the garden and the wilderness in the Bible. Can you give us a structure of your book? 2. What is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil all about and what's its significance...

Episode 343 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How should our understanding of the culture in which the Bible was written influence the way we interpret the Bible? Or should we not worry about that and focus only on the Bible is actually saying? 2. In the book of Matthew it says, "The virgin wi...

Episode 342 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If Christ wasn't born on December 25, why do Christians celebrate Christmas? Jesus never told us to celebrate Christmas. Since these are things that are lies, are Christians promoting lies? 2. I know Christmas is extremely commercialized and focuse...

Episode 341 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. My mom was raised Catholic but became a Christian but still prays to the saints. I would like to know what you think about that. 2. Who were the three wisemen that came to see baby Jesus? 3. Can Christians become holy by simply only focusing on the...

Episode 340 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I have a question about the creation story. When we look at  Colossians 1:16  it says, "for in him all things were created," referring to Jesus the Son. How do we as Christian come to understand that because when we look at the Genesis story its un...

Episode 339 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. My question is concerning Mary. When Jesus was hanging on the cross was Mary was a virgin forever? Why did Jesus not give Mary to a brother of his if Mary had sons and daughters? 2. I'm confused about the prophesy of Hosea quoted in  Matthew 2:15  ...

Episode 338 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What is a soul mate and what's wrong with that idea? 2. Talk to a marriage counselor and they will tell you that worse than anger or guilt is marriage is weariness. That's when a relationship is really on the rocks, when you're too tired to fight,...