Core Christianity

Episode 187 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Does learning too much theology or being too intellectual get in the way of the heart and a personal relationship with God? 2.  Do you think  Joel 2:12 , "'Even now,' declares the Lord, 'return to me with all your heart with fasting and weeping and...

Episode 186 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How should Christians respond to Old Testament laws that call us to stone people in the Old Testament? 2. Do you think it is helpful for Christians to take personality tests? And do you think that our Spiritual gifts are in any way tied to our pers...

Episode 185 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What do you think we lost or gained by this practice when we switched from using hymnals in church? 2. I have been celibate for 7 years and am praying for a wife. I have a problem with sexual frustration and pornography. What should I do? 3. I have...

Episode 184 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What is the difference between being obedient to earn salvation and being obedient as a Christian? For some reason I don't understand what the real difference is? 2. How often should we evangelize? Can we take part in anything and not evangelize? 3...

Episode 183 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. On an episode you said that prayer is just talking to God, but I know that you also think written prayers are a good thing. Can you explain how you hold these together? 2. Is it okay for Christians to date non-Christians? What about a person who is...

Episode 182 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1.  1 John 5:3  says that God's commandments are not burdensome, but most days it doesn't really feel that way. Why is pursuing holiness so hard? 2. How is the history of redemption related to actual history? Are they the same thing? 3. Are tattoos co...

Episode 181 | 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 that he was the way the truth and the life? And how should we think of other religions? 2. Is every false teacher an anti-Christ in a sense? 3. How can I utilize God's word to overcome my worry about the materialism, and sexuali...

Episode 180 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Why would Jesus tell us to be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect when we struggle daily with sin? Isn't this an impossible command? 2. What do people mean when they say that the Kingdom of God is already and not yet? Isn't this a contradic...

Episode 179 | 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 talk about how you think kids should come to the adult worship service. What do you think is the practical way to deal with kids who will lose attention and likely act out during worship?   2. How do you talk to people? I have a fe...

Episode 178 | 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 talk about how you think kids should come to the adult worship service. What do you think is the practical way to deal with kids who will lose attention and likely act out during worship? 2. How do I talk to my atheist co-workers?...

Episode 177 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Is it Biblical to have communion every Sunday? Does the Bible teach that we should have communion every Sunday that we get together? 2. I have heard you talk about disagreeing with people while being respectful. But what if someone is coming from a...

Episode 176 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Why are certain groups like Mormons better at evangelism than certain protestant groups? 2. I recently read an article from the BBC about a 14 year old girl who committed suicide because of her fear that her church wouldn't accept her as a Gay Chri...

Episode 175 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In an article you wrote called What every Christian needs to Know about suffering you said, "There is no promise in Scripture that believers will be protected from the common evils that go with living in a fallen, sinful world." I was taught that a...

Episode 174 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What does the Bible mean when it talks about the gospel as a mystery? 2. What is the difference between being gracious and just letting people get away with sin? 3. When sharing the gospel, what do you think people most need to hear? 4. What does t...

Episode 173 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do you maintain hope that the church will survive when there is so much false teaching today? 2. Why exactly is the Trinity important? There are others like Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses' who say they're Christians but do not believe in the T...

Episode 172 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do you maintain hope that the church will survive when there is so much false teaching today? 2. It seems like everyone who studies theology gets caught up in what seem like frivolous debates about nothing. Do you think it's better if we just f...

Episode 171 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What are your favorite top resources for pointing unbelievers for the trustworthiness and truth of the Bible? 2. I have heard you guys talk about the Lord's Supper and sometimes you call it the Eucharist. Is that a Catholic thing? 3. With there bei...

Episode 170 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If we are forgiven does that mean that the law no longer applies to us? 2. Is it sinful to have homosexual desires or is it sinful only if you act on that desire? 3. How do you relate to  1 Peter 3:21  to salvation by faith where it says baptism sa...

Episode 169 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How should Christians resolve conflicts in the church?  2. Recently I have heard apostle and apostleship used to describe leaders in the current church particularly around church planting and church leadership. Can you clear up my confusion? 3. Why...

Episode 168 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Is there a balance between making the gospel relevant and being Bible-based? 2. Are there different levels in Heaven based on your actions and deeds?  3. In the Bible Jesus calls a  Canaanite woman a "Dog". Was Jesus being racist? 4. How do we reco...

Episode 167 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What encouragement would you have for people suffering for the gospel in places where the church isn't allowed to gather without persecution?  2. In another episode, you talked about doubts as not being sinful. This is completely different from wha...

Episode 166 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Every time I attempt to serve, something happens to inhibit it. Is it possible that God could be saying "hey, just sit there and warm that bench"? 2. The incident with Rehab lying is wrong even with her saving the spies, but what would have been th...

Episode 165 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show:     1. What are the main things of worship and how do we keep those the main focus? 2. How do I stop sinning and completely devote myself to God? 3. In  John 4 , when Jesus says we will "worship in spirit and truth" mean we do not have to go to church...

Episode 164 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How should the gospel influence the way parents disciple their children? 2. If there is one God, one Jesus, and word, why are there so many religions, so many churches, and so many hypocrites? Why don't we just have church in our home? 3. I have a...

Episode 163 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What does the Old Testament Law have to do with our lives and sanctification today? 2. Should we really love the church more than our own families? 3. How is it that Christians are supposed to be blessed and loved by God and at the same time suffer...