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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...

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...