Core Christianity

Episode 422 | 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 of the idea that the sons of God in  Genesis 6  are angels in light of Hebrews? Isn't it more coherent to think of them as descendants of Seth? 2. You guys recently answered a question of mine so I don't know if I'm hogging the ai...

Episode 421 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If I repent for a sin and do it again later, does that mean I have never really repented? I have asked the Lord for forgiveness, but I still fall into the same sin over and over again. What am I doing wrong? 2. How literally should we take the vers...

Episode 420 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. The dead in Christ will raise but the thief in the cross was in paradise? Which is it? When we die are we in the presence of God or do we wait for the resurrection? 2. You guys talk a lot about grace but what about works. The Bible also teaches tha...

Episode 419 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I have a question about cremation. I know that the body will be restored but I don't know if cremation will cause a problem. 2. Hey guys, could a true Christian fall into a period of substance abuse, or is addiction a sign that they're not a Christ...

Episode 418 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If you believe in Jesus and you are justified, how can you lose your salvation? This seems like it would be saying that Jesus doesn't have the power to finish the salvation he started. 2. How can Christians go through life with the joy of salvation...

Episode 417 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Can studying theology ever be bad for your spiritual well-being?  2. Can believers lose our salvation? Among my congregation I hear that people are saved and then lose their salvation and then are saved again. I don't think God plays games with our...

Episode 416 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Starting at  Acts 21:10  Agabus prophesies about Paul's arrest. I've heard it claimed that Agabus got some of the arrest's details wrong. And therefore it's ok if we prophesy and get some details wrong. Was Agabus wrong on some of his details about...

Episode 415 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In the Bible it says we need to give an account for every thought, word, and deed? If there is no condemnation in Christ, why do we need to give an account for that? And what kind of account do we have to give? 2. At the institution of the Lord's s...

Episode 414 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I was not aware that any Psalms were written during or after the exile to Babylon, but that appears to be the case with  Psalm 137 . Can you shed any light on this Psalm—who wrote it, when, and how are we to grapple with the last, brutal verse ( Ps...

Episode 413 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Why do you guys encourage people to remember their baptism as a response to doubting their salvation, if we are not saved by baptism but through faith in Christ? 2. Hey guys, is  Hebrews 12:14  talking about imputed righteousness, or something else...

Episode 412 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How does Paul use the terms flesh and spirit in the book of Romans? Is he talking about material and ontology or is he talking about something else? And if it's not something that is material, do we still have a sin nature after we have been regene...

Episode 411 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How does a Christian mortify sin? Because Scripture says that if we put to death the deeds of the Body than we shall live. So, can you give some practical steps on how to mortify sin. For example, how to mortify profanity. If someone keeps using fo...

Episode 410 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What does it mean that we should examine ourselves before communion? If I have unconfessed sin in my life should I not participate? 2. What would you tell someone who is homosexual in relation to their Christianity? 3. "The next day an evil spirit...

Episode 409 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If a church doesn't practice baptism or communion how will this eternally affect a believer attending that church since baptism and communion are commands. 2. Can believers lose our salvation?  Hebrews 10:24–29 , Can you help me understand this? Is...

Episode 408 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. When you become a believer, are we to pursue a separate baptism of the Holy Spirit? Is tongues for today and how do you understand Paul having an entire chapter on how to use tongues properly if it's not for today? 2. I've never understood  1 John...

Episode 407 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I confessed Jesus Christ as Lord and asked him to come into my heart and try to believe the gospel and tried to live out the life with his grace but then I fell away. I have been slowly and slowly hardening my heart and living in sin to the point o...

Episode 406 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Why do so many churches teach that hell is a place of eternal torment when it says in the New Testament that only believers will put on immortality and in the Old Testament it teaches that the wicked will be destroyed and the New testament it teach...

Episode 405 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I'm a new believer. Jesus came from heaven to come down to be on earth did he know he was going to be resurrected and go back to heaven or did he come down only thinking he was going to die? 2. What should I do when my joy and passion to read the B...

Episode 404 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do we look forward to the coming of Christ without falling into extremes like predicting his coming or looking at every current event as a fulfilled prophecy and worrying about how bad things are in the world? 2. It's popular to say that God's...

Episode 403 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In  Genesis 1:26  says that Adam was to "have dominion over creation." How does this relate to stewardship of creation? Does this verse give us reason to be concerned about things like pollution and the possibility of climate change? 2. My dad beca...

Episode 402 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do you know if God loves you? I believe that God loves people, but I really struggle with a sense that God loves me and I'm not sure what to do. 2. Hi Mike and Adriel. I have been loving the show and a while back you talked about doing family d...

Episode 401 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What does  1 Peter 4  mean when it describes Christians as suffering in the flesh? 2.  Hebrews 6:4–6  seems to say that anyone who backslides from the faith has no hope of returning to it. Can you clarify these verses and if there is any, can you g...

Episode 400 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How can I be more intentional with sharing my faith? Do you also know of any good resources that can help me better share my faith? 2. How do I trust God and not my feelings or false thoughts? 3. I have a question about speaking in tongues. I have...

Episode 399 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do you understand  Ecclesiastes 5:19–20 ? "For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart"?  2. I have a friend and he is convinced that religion is just a tool to control people, and I h...

Episode 398 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If Jesus is the only way to salvation, how should we understand other religions? Are they just distortions of the truth in your view? Do they worship an entirely different God; or do they worship the true God in the wrong way with false ideas? 2. I...