Core Christianity

Episode 312 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Why did Jesus teach in parables? 2. I have heard people say that the Bible is really clear but after dealing with it for years, the Bible seems less and less clear to me. Do you think we protestants are right to insist that the Bible is clear even...

Episode 311 | 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  Romans 11 . In whom are what are the gentiles and Israel grafted into? And what is the nature of this engrafting since it seems Paul says that parts of Israel have been broken off and he warns the gentiles that they can be...

Episode 310 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Do you know anything about holy laughter? I don't think it's Biblical, but we just need some information. 2. What does it mean in  Romans 1:28  when Paul says that God gave them over to a reprobate mind? 3. What can women do to be fellow workers in...

Episode 309 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I'm confused you said Sunday is the Sabbath? I was taught that Saturday was the sabbath can you explain that? 2. What does it mean to be created in the image of God? 3. How can we make church more welcoming? 4. How do you feel about Christians read...

Episode 308 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I go to a church where people can serve themselves communion. I'm new to this church and I have never been to a church that does this. I did talk to one of the pastors about it and he assured me that it was Biblical, because what mattered was that...

Episode 307 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I'm struggling in my prayer life. I just find it to be really difficult to pray. Do you have any advice on how I can improve my prayer life? 2. Is Jesus ever coming to take us home? 3. How do we balance God's love for sinners with God's hatred of s...

Episode 306 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I'm wondering how I should understand  Genesis 1-3 . I heard that some people think that it is just a myth, and that Adam and Even didn't really exist but instead the fall was just a symbol of how we all sometimes fail to do good when presented wit...

Episode 305 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Will good people who practice other religions also be saved? 2. I have a question about Melchizedek. Can you elaborate his significance and relation to Jesus? 3. Will there be a future mass salvation of Abraham's descendants? 4. In  John 16:25  Jes...

Episode 304 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. There are churches here that celebrate Halloween, and they are having the kids dress up and everything. I don't believe in Halloween because I'm a Christian and I think it's a pagan holiday and it's like giving the children to Satan. 2. In the King...

Episode 303 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com  

Episode 302 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Can a saved person walk away from their salvation? Can they be unsaved? 2. My question is for Pastor Adriel. I often hear you mention the book of Hebrews and I'm wondering what it is about that book specifically that makes you seem to be so drawn t...

Episode 301 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Were Old Testament believers indwelt by the Spirit or regenerated? 2. How would you deal with an adult child who is eighteen and had an abortion? 3. Does the Bible really teach that everyone is a sinner? Is this only true for unbelievers are is it...

Episode 300 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1.  1 Corinthians 5:11  confuses me. I don't understand the part about there being certain people we are not even supposed to eat with. 2. Which version of the Bible is the best to read and use for verse memory? Most people at my church insist on the...

Episode 299 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Why do Christians still die if we have eternal life? I don't understand how the promise of  John 3:16  fits with Christians dying? If we have eternal life shouldn't that mean that we live forever, and if we live forever why do we have to first die?...

Episode 298 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1.  Colossians 3:16  says: "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God." How do we do this? 2. How have the Psal...

Episode 297 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. As a Christian and person called to ministry, after you have backslidden, how do you get right with God? I feel like the prodigal who has come home but isn't completely right with God and, I worry about this on a daily basis. 2. I was wondering, wh...

Episode 296 | 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 who is an atheist. He saw this pastor on television that Adam being 6,000 years old. But there is archeological evidence that some Stonehenge in Turkey is something is over 10,000 years old. I don't know how to answer this. 2. I'm...

Episode 295 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. It seems like the Bible has a progressive revelation about the afterlife. It seems like there is more in the New Testament. At what point did people of God begin to give a fuller picture of heaven, hell, intermediate state, and resurrection? 2. Wha...

Episode 294 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How are you understanding the new spirituality where people may identify as atheists or agnostics but below the surface, they are interested in astrology and crystals? 2. How do you reach the younger generations when their habits have changed, when...

Episode 293 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What does Paul mean in  Romans 8:19–21  it sounds like he is saying that all creation will be saved but that can't be right, can it? 2. We've recently had a handful of people show up to church that have recently been released from prison. I want to...

Episode 292 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How important is it that when we read Isaiah that we think in terms of double fulfillment? 2. Who was Isaiah, and what is a prophet? 3. How does Jesus apply the servant passages in Isaiah to himself?

Episode 291 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Is there wisdom in reading other theologians who are outside of the Biblical view just for the sake of learning from them or should we be really hesitant or cautions to read people who are outside of the biblical view of the faith in certain things...

Episode 290 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I heard you talk about grace and about laws too. I'm wondering why you both didn't talk about them in the same way. One of you landed more on grace. One of you landed on, "it's the law too." 2. My best friend has been one of the strongest Christian...

Episode 289 | 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 the way the gospel should guide parenting. I know that I'm supposed to show grace, but I also worry about how to go about teaching my kids discipline. We have two boys, 6 and 8. My Dad was really firm, and I don't think I want to...

Episode 288 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. My question is we often sing songs like great is thy faithfulness, praising God for never failing. But how do people know that God hasn't failed. If people experience difficulties they say, "well Jesus said we would have to endure trials. Shall we...