Core Christianity

Episode 337 | 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  1 Corinthians 5:9 . Paul says he wrote to the Corinthians an earlier letter, before the letter of 1 Corinthians. There are other places in Paul's letters where he seems to allude to other correspondence that has now been lo...

Episode 336 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Hello Dr. Horton and Pastor Adriel, my question is: before God called Abram out of Ur of the Chaldeans, was he a pagan? 2. What are the signs of an unhealthy Church? 3. Are the positions of James and Paul on "works" in contradiction with each other...

Episode 335 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I have heard you make the point that churches that are too concerned with being relevant to the culture can lose focus on what matters, salvation and heaven. But at the same time, you have said that this world matters to God and that loving our nei...

Episode 334 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What is your stance on lordship salvation? 2. I have a friend whose grandfather is dying. He's not a Christian, and every time we speak with him about Christ and the afterlife, he says he's too logical to believe things like that. We have been pray...

Episode 333 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How is God's justice grounded in his character? 2. I have never understood the Bible when it refers to God as jealous. When I think of jealousy, it sounds sinful and inconsistent with God. 3. Sometimes people's biggest problem with hell is that the...

Episode 332 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do I find best how to use my spiritual gift? 2. Can you explain the "Mark of the Beast"? 3. Should every Christian try to be baptized in the Holy Spirit? 4. How can I gain victory over my sin? 5. How should we understand the book of Matthew whe...

Episode 331 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What do we say about Christians who tend to focus on the cross more than the resurrection? Shouldn't Christians emphasize the resurrection over the cross? 2. What is a good place to start in the study of theology. I don't have a background in it bu...

Episode 330 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. The statistics tell us that it seems like the younger you go in our culture, the less people want to identify with any particular religion, much less Christianity. Yet, you have written seculosity arguing that actually we're very religious. What le...

Episode 329 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What does it mean that Jesus sits at the right hand of God? 2. I have been listening to the show for a while. You guys have made some comments about being the star of your own life movie instead of finding yourself in God's story and that people ar...

Episode 328 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I'm curious about  Leviticus 20  and its application for the present day as far as punishment for sin. 2. What do you find edifying about the book of judges? It seems like this is a really dark book and I'm wondering what you take away from it afte...

Episode 327 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Jesus wants you to turn your cheek. Jesus was historically a zealot who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. How does that come in line with the words in Scripture to turn the other cheek? 2. Please discuss spiritual disciplines. Why are these...

Episode 326 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In another episode you have encouraged Christians struggling with sin to look to Christ. What does it mean to look to Christ? I'm struggling with a certain sin in my life and would really like to understand you better. 2. It seems like my family is...

Episode 325 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. There are a lot of objections to Christianity concerning the doctrine of hell. Is hell eternal like heaven and why would people who don't want to accept Christ go to eternal hell? I know what the Bible says, but how would you address this if someon...

Episode 324 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Does God let the devil do bad things to us? 2. Do we need to first receive grace to believe the gospel? 3. What does it mean when the Bible says, "confess your sins to one another so that you may be healed"? 4. What does it mean when believers say...

Episode 323 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Jesus said take my yoke upon me and that it's easy. How do we do that? How can we do that? 2. All my co-workers are going to Las Vegas for the weekend and invited me. I want to go to get to know them better but am not sure if gambling just for fun...

Episode 322 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do we know that the 66 books in the Old and New Testaments are the only books that God wanted us to have? Can the Christian be sure that he has the right canon? 2. How should we practice the Sabbath? What do you think is most important about th...

Episode 321 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I'm confused about how works relate to being forgiven. After God forgives us, do we need to do anything else to secure our place in heaven? What about people who continue to sin after being forgiven? 2. Why is Sunday now the day of worship? Why do...

Episode 320 | 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 319 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. There are a few places in the Bible that says we ought to fear God. My question is how does this fit with trusting that God is our loving Father? 2. What should we be thinking about when we take the Lord's Supper? Should we be meditating on his dea...

Episode 318 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I have been listening to the show for a while and I have heard you talk about sanctification a few times. Can you explain what you mean by that? 2. I started doing the rosary a lot later in life. But my wife is a Christian and she didn't like it. S...

Episode 317 | 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 the Baptism of the Holy Spirit? How is this different from being in the Spirit, which Paul seems to think every Christian experiences? 2. I have been getting into Church history. I have been reading about the council of Nicaea...

Episode 316 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Is there a point as a Christian where I should no longer struggle with sin? 2. If God requires us to act after we pray for something then how do we know it really was God answering that prayer when we get it and not the actions we took ourselves? 3...

Episode 315 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I know as Christians we are supposed to distinguish between primary and secondary doctrine, matters to salvation and other areas. Talking to my friends One of those areas is homosexuality. While I don't want to make that it's not a primary issue it...

Episode 314 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. There are so many challenges facing the church. How do you guys continue to have hope?  Do you see the future of the church as better than its current state? 2. I have several friends who are homosexual.  Leviticus 18.22  calls it an abomination. B...

Episode 313 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Our son is two and he is our first child. How do we start teaching him about Jesus at this age? What should be the thing we focus on? 2. How can we know that the Jehovah's witness interpretation of  John 1  isn't a valid possibility? Can we really...