Core Christianity

Episode 162 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. With the amount of false teaching and abuse in the church, how do you continue to have hope in the church? 2. How does God Guide us in our lives, if he does at all? 3.  Romans 8  says that we should kill sin. If we are saved and still struggle what...

Episode 161 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Are people both good and evil?   2. Is it okay for a Christian to talk to a therapist?   3. Did God create sin?   4. What to Do When Ministry Leaders Fall 5. What is the first book of the Bible would you suggest for someone new to the faith?

Episode 160 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Should we expect to see signs & wonders today? 2. Is it really possible to be restored to faith after falling away?  3. In the book of Philippians Paul says that he came to consider everything as a loss for the sake of Christ. How can we come to th...

Episode 159 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What is your favorite Christian book? 2. What does Jesus mean in  John 6:44 , "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him"? 3. What do you think is really important for someone to know about being an elder? 4. Can you explain why...

Episode 158 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Does God honor my faith in Jesus even if I'm trusting mainly because I don't want to go to hell?   2. Does Philippians 2:12–13 teach that salvation is through works?   3. I have been in willful sexual sin for a while. Has God given me over to my si...

Episode 157 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Does Matthew 10:38 mean that lots of people who think they are Christians won't be saved because they aren't really following Jesus? 2. What does it mean to be born into the world "dead in trespasses and sins"?  3. Should Paul's Lost Letters Be Acc...

Episode 156 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Do My Struggles With Sin Mean I'm Not Really a Christian?

Episode 155 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Why does God only save some if he has the desire and the power to save all?   2. How much victory do we need to have in our walk to be considered conquerors?    3. How do you explain why God commanded the slaughter of people in the Old Testament? ...

Episode 154 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I often feel "lukewarm." How can I be more on fire for God? 2. I know salvation is by grace through faith, but after a person is saved, what is their situation? 3. If God loves me, why can't I feel it with the five love languages or the five senses...

Episode 153 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do addiction struggles figure into regeneration and being a "new creation" for the Christian? 2. What would you say makes for a meaningful life? How should Christian pursue living with purpose? 3. I have been to churches that are Jesus only chu...

Episode 152 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do you lovingly correct someone who is older than you without being disrespectful? 2. How should we self-censor our intake of media? 3. How do we explain why God commanded the slaughter of people in the Old Testament? 4. Why didn't God give com...

Episode 151 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Does the Bible tell us where Jesus went during the two days he was dead? 2. In union with Christ does our Spirit join with God's spirit?  3. Why do Christians use the example that if the resurrection did not happen, then we are without hope? 4.  Lu...

Episode 150 | 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 about transhumanism, the idea that somehow technology can help humanity ascend beyond what we currently are?   2. In Philippians 3:12, what does Paul mean when he says he pressed on to make it his own? It sounds like he is working...

Episode 149 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Do We Need Our Parent's Approval to Marry?   2 . I struggle with depression. Do you have any advice?    3 . Does Romans 11 teach that true Christians can lose their salvation by being cut off?   4 . How can the church be more relevant to the strugg...

Episode 148 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1.How was Jesus tempted?   2. How should I understand faith? Is faith a work?   3. Were old testament believers 'born again?'

Episode 147 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. When Christ was crucified on the cross, he said, "My God, why have You forsaken Me?" How could Jesus who is God be separated from the Father who is also God? 2. How can we call God 'Abba' or 'Daddy' and not profane God's holiness or righteousness?...

Episode 146 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Should Cain have known that his sacrifice would not be accepted? 2. How do we go about fighting repetitive sins? 3. What does John mean when he talks about a "sin leading to death" in 1 John? Is this the same thing as the Blasphemy of the Holy Spir...

Episode 145 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What is the fear of the Lord? 2. How should I understand the Trinity? Are the three persons really just different ways of talking about the same God? 3. As believers should we practice celebration of life services? 4. Should we pray imprecatory psa...

Episode 144 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How should we understand Jesus' temptation if he was incapable of sin? 2. When a Christian dies, does he go to heaven or paradise? 3. What is the extent of a Christians involvement in Politics? Are there lines that should not be crossed? 4. How do...

Episode 143 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In  Luke 9 , Jesus warns that those who put their hand to the plow are not fit for the kingdom of God. How do you understand this warning? 2. How do you best explain the process of redemption to new believers? 3. How is God going to keep the church...

Episode 142 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Why does the Bible seem to have so little written record of the 40 days between Jesus' resurrection and ascension? 2. What does Paul mean when he says that we should seek to live quiet lives? Does this mean that we shouldn't get involved in public...

Episode 141 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Do you have any practical suggestions to get in the word daily? 2. The Lord stopped technological advances in the past, why isn't he stopping it now? 3. I was recently part of an accountability group that turned out to be a time where people just t...

Episode 140 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. With so much concern about politics in the church today. It seems easy for our Bible reading to be caught up with concerns in one party or another, potentially blinding us to what god sees as most important. How can we avoid this?   2. Is Christ's...

Episode 139 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Can the devil read my mind? 2. What does the Bible means in John 12:32–33 where it says, "And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die"? 3. What does it m...

Episode 138 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I talked with a Jehovah's Witness recently who said that God created Jesus in heaven as the very first creation. Is this true?   2. In Ephesians 1:10 promises that God will "unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth." How does t...