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Full Question: If the Bible says to follow the rules of the land, what if they outlaw the Bible or force you to bow down to other gods? To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Question: Did God create all the planets? And if so, what all is out there if there is an infinite number of galaxies and planets? To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Question: If God hates religion, what should I do as a religious man? What does religion actually mean? To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Question: Does it take anything besides belief that Jesus is Lord to get into heaven and can I do anything to get out of that? To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Question: Does prayer change the providence of God? Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to make a case against prayer. I just wonder if we pray in the right way or for the right things? To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Question: I was recently in a conversation with a group of guys about answered prayers. One guy shared how years ago a group of them traveled to a foreign country on a mission trip and when they got there, they discovered that there was a need to build a house for orphan children. He said that night they all prayed about it and the next morning they got news that someone had offered to match...

Full Question: Does the “more Christian” a person is affect if prayers are answered? Why do some receive healing and others don’t? Links Mentioned: ADE Episode 168 To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Question: It is always nice to know that people are praying for you. But does the number of people praying affect if God answers the prayer? Does the more popular you are, increase the likelihood to see answered prayer? Links Mentioned: Handbook to Prayer by Kenneth Boa Arthur G. Bennett- The Valley of Vision Joy and Strength by Mary Tileston To read the show notes, click here. Call or text u...

Full Question: I’m currently a student at Truett Seminary, and am taking a Scriptures class over the Gospels. That has prompted this question: When preaching and teaching from the Gospels, particularly the synoptics, how do we approach passages that have differing or additional material in the other accounts? Should we harmonize, preach/ teach each account, preach it purely expository, or somethin...

Full Question: Did the disciples leave their families to follow Jesus? Were they married with children? It seems that Jesus wouldn’t have them abandon wives and children, right? To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Question: We’ve been following a chronological bible study plan together since the new year, and we’re really struggling to get through portions of the Old Testament, namely places where God’s wrath is in the foreground. After reading about the Rebellion of Korah, we were hit with a very troubling question about God’s ‘rightness’ to not only punish those who rebelled, but their children as we...

Full Q: Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. And as far as I understand, Satan was (is) an angel. Were the angels made as beasts of the field? Links Mentioned: Angels Elect and Evil by C. Fred Dickason To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Q: I’d like to visit a denominational church such as a PCA church or an Anglican Church - both Protestant churches. We go to a bible teaching church right now but for some reason I’m concerned about non-denominational churches not having oversight or connected to a larger church body for direction. I understand having elders but just feel having a mothership if you will church with layers may...

Full Question: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” What is the will of God?? Links Mentioned: Decision Making and The Will of God by Garry Friesen To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Q: Hi Dr. E, you recently described reformed theology and I found that incredibly helpful! Can you talk about a biblical hermeneutic and some ways it might be at odds with dispensational theology? To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Q: If Someone Goes to Hell, Are They Still Made in The Image of God? Dr. Michael Easley explains the image of God. To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Question: What did Ananias and his wife Sapphira do in Acts 5:3-4 that would cause God to take their lives so quickly? I have always considered this to be blaspheming. Am I wrong? It couldn't be because they lied; I know we would all be dead. The Holy Spirit had led them to sell their property so that it could be shared by all and out of greed (representative of the acts of sin through Satan)...

Full Question: I follow most of your podcasts and have listened to almost all of your "Michael Easley Sermons". Somewhere along the way I heard you say you were more of a "5 Point Spurgeon than a Calvinist". Can you please possibly explain further on this statement? I believe I am a "5 pointer" but I am unsure exactly if Spurgeon believed along those lines as well or if he had a slightly different...

Full Q: I just learned that my little velty has a tumor in his bladder and I think I know what that means. I call him a velcro doggie. He's been my constant companion for 10 years and helped me through some really rough times including when my husband passed away 4 years ago. He's very bright and he follows me everywhere. Sometimes I look at him and I wonder if I could be as devoted as my doggy is...

Full Q: A good friend of mine is wrestling with whether to close his business or not. He wants clarity from the Lord on what direction he should go but feels like he is getting silence. The topic came up in our discussion of "laying out a fleece" before the Lord as Gideon did in the book of Judges. We were both stumped, though, and also feeling like that was putting God to the test which we are wa...

Full Question: Do you think there is anything more to the passage, Joshua 10:12-15? The NASB says “the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, Until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies… the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.” I’ve heard everything from this being a solar eclipse to scientists at NASA discovering a “lost day”.  Apprec...

Full Q: What does it mean to “take up your cross” as a person in Franklin, TN? In other words, a person who is relatively speaking “well off”, doesn’t experience persecution, etc? Perhaps a seemingly unrelated follow up– does this life somehow prepare us or allow us to practice for the next? To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@mich...

Full Q: What are your thoughts on aliens (like the extraterrestrial ufo ones) being brought up as a real thing in Congress? What does this mean for the Bible? If aliens are real are they the ones that bring on the end of the world? To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Q: What do you think about Jephthah’s vow to sacrifice whatever came out of his house in return for his victory in battle that resulted in the sacrificing of his daughter? To read the show notes, click here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Full Question: What was Christ’s purpose in going and proclaiming to the saints in prison? What are 1 Peter 3:18 and 1 Peter 4:4 all about? Links Mentioned: Constable’s Notes Did Jesus Spend Saturday in Hell?  Read the show notes here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.