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Episode 666 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. What do you say to someone who is dealing with spiritual warfare? 2. What does Hebrews 10 mean when it speaks of sinning "willfully" and "presumptuously"? 3. Do I have to agree with my church on everything? 4. I heard on a different Christian radio program a pastor who is well-known say that w...

Episode 665 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. What is the correct mode of baptism? 2. What does putting my trust in Jesus look like? How can I know if I am truly a Christian? 3. Were the saints in the Old Testament saved by works of the law? 4. How do we pray for non-believing friends? 5. How should the church respond when church members...

Episode 664 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. I desperately want to go back to church, but my wife has multiple sclerosis and the medication that she is on makes her immune-compromised. I don't want to force her to go back to church, so what do I do? 2. Can we change God's mind through prayer? In Genesis 18 it seems to suggest that we can...

Episode 663 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. Was Jesus really in the tomb for three full days? 2. Does  John 3:36  teach that we are partly saved by obedience? 3. In Luke 4, how did Jesus walk through a crowd who wanted to kill him? 4. Can a pastor be restored to ministry after adultery? 5. Do you believe it's a sin to continually ask fo...

Episode 662 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. Is there a difference between the Old Covenant law and the Law of Christ? 2. Did Jesus literally go to hell after he was crucified? 3. How do I talk to a loved one who is marrying someone who is not a Christian? 4. Can Christians experience demon possession? 5. I recently have heard a lot of C...

Episode 661 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. Are Christians required to tithe? 2. What is the significance of Jesus being "at the right hand of God"? 3. What happens to those who have never heard about Jesus? 4.  Romans 14:12  says that, " So then each of us will give an account of himself to God." If we are already saved and forgiven, w...

Episode 660 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. Who are the "spirits imprisoned" in 1 Peter 3? 2. A lot of my friends express that they feel the presence of God in their life. However, I do not necessarily feel this, which makes me doubt if I am truly "elect." What are your thoughts? 3. How do pastors decide what they preach on each week? 4...

Episode 659 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. Does the gospel impact my life in any practical way, or is it just about me getting to heaven? 2. When God was giving Cain his punishment after he murdered his brother Abel, who were the people he was afraid would kill him? 3. What is the origin of demons? 4. My husband died a year ago and I h...

Episode 658 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. Why is it that traditional Christians seem to disparage women from holding a professional career? 2. If God ordains all things, how is he not also the author of sin? 3. I know that the bible says that we should love God and love neighbor. I am wondering how I can love my homsexual neighbors? I...

Episode 657 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. If Jesus had not been crucified, would he have died naturally? 2. Does Romans 8:19-20 say that the current world will be reborn and restored, or destroyed and then remade? 3. How do we encourage friends who have left the faith to come back to Christ? 4. What do you think about the NLT translat...

Episode 656 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. How do I encourage a believer who has not been going to church because they were deeply hurt by the church? 2. Is it ok to ever get remarried? 3. Can a true Christian ever apostacize? 4. Why are there so many protestant denominations? Today's Offer Inner Core Request our latest special offers ...

Episode 655 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. What does it mean to "walk in sin," and how is this different from sinning occasionally as Christians? 2. Can you elaborate on a biblical view of justice and social justice and how it relates to those who are marginalized? 3. Are the miraculous gifts of the spirit for today? 4. Is Replacement...

Episode 654 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. Where in the bible does it say the Sabbath changed from Saturday to Sunday? 2. Can I split my tithe between two churches? 3. My friend is in a so-called "open marriage," how do I tell them that this is wrong without destroying our relationship? 4. Can Christians commit the unforgivable sin and...

Episode 653 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. Is there a problem with Christians being cremated? 2. How should Christians think through climate change and things like Earth Day? 3. In  1 Timothy 1:20 , Paul tells Timothy that he has handed certain people over to Satan for blasphemy. What does that mean? If he loved them why would he hand...

Episode 652 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. Why do pastors and people today avoid talking about end times prophecies? 2. It seems as if God forsook Saul in the bible. If a king like Saul can be forsaken by God, what is stopping that from happening to us? How can we avoid being forsaken by God? 3. What should a church member do if their...

Episode 651 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. How do you grow in the spiritually and keep from falling into sin? 2. I normally talk to God like I am in a normal conversation. Is this prayer, or is prayer something that is more technical? 3. How does repentance play into salvation, it seems integral, but it also seems like a work that we d...

Episode 650 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. I am discipling someone who says they have a prayer language and speak in tongues. How should I work through this with them? 2. What is the difference between the synagogue and the temple? Do they have different regulations? Did the religious leaders break the law in order to try to trap Jesus a...

Episode 649 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. It seems to me that this vaccine could be a gift from God to help us defeat a disease. Why are so many Christians speaking so ill of it and of those who are working on it, claiming that it is the Mark of the Beast? 2. Can God be disappointed? 3. Can Christians read Romance Novels that include ex...

Episode 648 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. What does Revelation teach about heaven? 2. Are there any scientific proofs for the resurrection of Jesus Christ? 3. My daughter and husband died, why would God allow this to happen and not give me a sense of urgency to make much of the time I had with them? 4. I feel as though I receive signs f...

Episode 647 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. What do you think about the Azusa St. Revivals and how those events impacted the modern church today? 2. I was formerly brought up in the Prosperity Gospel and the Word of Faith movement. In these movements they claimed that God never wants us to be sick and that we have the power to rebuke sick...

Episode 646 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. With how long the Coronavirus pandemic has gone on, is it time now for all churches to open up in defiance of the government orders? 2. In 1 John 4, John says that we should "test the spirits." What does this mean and look like? 3. How was David a "man after God's own heart" when he was also a m...

Episode 645 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. How would you explain the doctrine of the Trinity to a young child? 2. I know that the Lord forgives us but I often feel regret and have memories of my past life and previous sins. When I think of these past sins and feel condemned, does that count as spiritual warfare? 3. What do you think of t...

Episode 644 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. How do you leave a legalistic church? 2. My husband is struggling with sexual addictions, including pornography. How do I show grace to him without enabling his sin? 3. As a former Roman Catholic, how do other Protestant denominations observe or practice Lent? 4. Why are Christians so quick to t...

Episode 643 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. Jesus proclaimed that he was the Son of God, and yet in Mark 1:25, Jesus rebuked the demons and told them not to say who he was. Why did he do that? 2. What does it mean to be saved and what does that look like? 3. Doesn't God require us to obey him rather than man? I know Romans 13 says we shou...

Episode 642 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. I have heard that Paul's guidelines for taking communion in 1 Corinthians 11 is about the need for brothers and sisters to get-along with each other in the church. After studying the passage, it seems that it is addressing people in Corinth who took all of the communion before everyone was able...