Core Christianity

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...

Episode 397 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I have been listening to the show for several months and I have heard you guys talk about  Romans 8 , where Paul says that God works everything together for good. From your understanding does this mean that God uses suffering and trials to make us...

Episode 396 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What is implied by calling the church the body of Christ given that Christ's physical body has ascended into heaven? 2. Thank you so much for his show. I have a question about Paul's comments in  1 Corinthians 11:29 . When Paul tells his readers th...

Episode 395 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In 1 Corinthians 15 it speaks of a spiritual body that we will receive in heaven. I'm confused about this because the Bible doesn't seem to say much about it. Can you shed some light on what our spiritual bodies will be like and how that will be di...

Episode 394 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In Mark 8:34-38, when Jesus calls his disciples to take up their cross, is this about our discipleship? Can you explain what Jesus means by this? 2. How was it that the Bible was written 75 years after Christ died? How exactly is that explained?  ...

Episode 393 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How should Christians think about money, their money, other people's money? Sometimes I hear people speak as if they are free to do whatever they please with their money (so long as it's legal). Is this a Biblical view? 2. The Bible talks a lot abo...

Episode 392 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1 . I'm confused by what Jesus meant when he said came before John the Baptist for baptism. He said it was to fulfill all righteousness. What did that mean if Jesus was sinless? 2. I just heard episode 282 where you talked about the three levels of fo...

Episode 391 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I really love your guy's show and have been learning a lot and would love you to answer this question: How can I become a great man of God? What should I really focus on in my walk with God? 2. I attend a church that preaches contrary to the Prospe...

Episode 390 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In  Matthew 5:11–12  when Jesus says that we are blessed when we are persecuted, does he mean this literally?   2. My husband and I are looking for good resources to help teach our kids about Jesus. Do you know any authors that write for small kids...

Episode 389 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If Christians are supposed to follow Christ and do as he did, why is it that so many Christians stop short of the full demands of love? Why don't more people commit to live humble lives for Christ? We are so materialistic and worldly and we have so...

Episode 388 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Does  Romans 4  teach that we are saved by faith? I'm struggling to make sense of this. I have a friend who is convinced that we need to do good works not to earn salvation exactly but that in some way is necessary to receive salvation and enter he...