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Episode 447 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. It seems there are a lot of questions or theories about what happened with the end of the gospel of Mark. How does one explain what seems to be an abrupt ending of to a non-believer or someone questioning the faith especially when reading this gospel?  2. ...

Episode 446 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Is it okay to pray in the morning instead of at night before you go to bed?  2. I am a Christian. I committed a sin that is hidden from everyone except God. This sin affected many people but they don't know it. I have asked and begged God for forgiveness....

Episode 445 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Hi can you guys please explain  Matthew 3:15 , what was the purpose of Jesus being baptized?  2. I just heard one of the other questions being asked about conspiracy theories, and it wasn't really your answer that had me concerned, it was more so the way t...

Episode 444 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I'm having some trouble understanding how to read the book of Job, or how it bears witness to Christ. Is Job actually blameless or is he a sinner that deserves God's judgment? Job seems to go back and forth between how he sees himself before God. Additiona...

Episode 443 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Based on  Isaiah 54:5 , I've heard people say, we are "married to Christ" or that Jesus is my "husband." Is this accurate to say? We, the church, are the bride of Christ, but am I also married to Christ?  2. I had a question about just how many apostles th...

Episode 442 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1.  I got saved at the age of 19 and immediately had a heart for evangelism and helping Christians grow in their faith. When I came to faith I recognized the incredible love of the Lord that He would choose me to be his child through the perfect sacrifice of...

Episode 441 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What is the best interpretation of "all will know me" in the  Jer. 31:34  prophecy of the New Covenant?  2. There are people that wear crosses, and they are convinced that they got a close walk with God. But they don't do anything that's correct. You've go...

Episode 440 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do I refute a friend who consistently refers to the God of the Old Testament as a God of wrath and the God of the New Testament as a merciful God?  2. I've gone back and forth on the doctrine of annihilationism. And I know it's controversial. But the m...

Episode 439 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1.  Should Christians circumcise their boys? My wife and I decided not to circumcise our two boys but most of our friends with boys did circumcise, mainly because their parents had, and they wanted their sons to look the same. That wasn't a good enough reason...

Episode 438 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I believe with all my heart that God is sovereign over salvation and that he alone must open the eyes of the dead. The problem is that practically I have a difficult time applying that to my children. I spend a lot of time worrying obsessively about whethe...

Episode 437 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. My question is about Paul teaching on praying in the Spirit. Near as I can figure, it's not praying in tongues. They are a gift and not everyone has the same gifts, so, can you explain what praying in the Spirit is, and, better yet, how to do it? I feel li...

Episode 436 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Pastor Adriel and Bill, I have repented of sexual immorality and drunkenness. I know without a doubt that those things are against God's law, and I am sorry for committing those sins. However, I am older (62), and I sometimes wonder if I genuinely repented...

Episode 435 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I have a question about how do the Protestants handle confession, as where Catholics do it with a priest in the confessional because they say that Jesus told Peter that "Whose sins you forgive are forgiven, the sins you retain are retained." That's it, bas...

Episode 434 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In Luke chapter 6, I would like you to expound where it is speaking about bringing judgment against somebody else, about being judgmental. 2. Why was the Sabbath changed from Saturday to Sunday? 3. My question has to do with this matter that God is not wil...

Episode 433 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I would like to know if you have to be baptized and submerged completely underwater to get to heaven? 2. Why are there so many interpretations of how to take communion and the essential meaning of communion? If God really wrote the Bible wouldn't it be ver...

Episode 432 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If salvation is by faith and our works have nothing to do with our salvation, won't this make people lazy and indifferent to their spiritual progress? 2. In  2 Peter 3:8–9  it says that God is delaying judgment in the coming of Christ. I never noticed this...

Episode 431 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. With the current virus, am I comprising my faith in God by following the earthly rules such as washing my hands, 6 foot social rule etc. Since the bible has many examples of God telling us to have faith in him and he will protect us such as  Isaiah 41:10 ....

Episode 430 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I understand God wills whatsoever comes to pass, but why did God will sin in the first place? I was reading  1 John 4:12  which says that God's love is perfected in us. And the only thing that I could come up with is that maybe God's love exhibited through...

Episode 429 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Is the idea of glorification biblical? I have heard people talk about this, but I thought that we are supposed to give all glory to God. How is it that we would somehow share in that glory or obtain glory? 2. How can I be a good witness to Christ during th...

Episode 428 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What was Moses intending to communicate to us in the account of Balaam and the talking donkey?  2. I'm a military veteran. I was baptized. I was anointed before leaving for my first tour in Iraq. I believe in Jesus but I'm trying to find that feeling that...

Episode 427 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I have been really struggling in my Christian walk. Friends have told me that it's because I have focused too much on head knowledge and not enough on the heart. I thought I would ask you guys what you thought about head knowledge getting in the way of the...

Episode 426 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Thank you for being so pastoral in your answers. Regarding the coronavirus, what are some ways that your churches have used technology to encourage one another as local gatherings are shut down? I know of video meetings, but are there any other creative wa...

Episode 425 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If I don't produce enough fruit or love people enough does that mean I won't be saved? I really do want to love others though. I know the mark of a true Christian is love but I don't feel like I have enough of it. 2. Jesus spoke about if you don't do]the l...

Episode 424 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What do you do with Jesus' call to take up our cross? It seems to me that Jesus is saying that a person should be willing to die for their faith. How would you encourage someone like me that still struggles with the same sins? I don't feel like I can hones...

Episode 423 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. According to  1 Corinthians 14  speaking in tongues is still in the church and I wanted to know your perspective of it. 2. Could you please explain  Isaiah 2:4 ?  It seems that  Isaiah 2:1-3  is about the last days which, according to  Hebrews 1:2...