Core Christianity

Episode 347 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In the parable of the wheat and the tares are the tares the same as the seed of the serpent? 2. Throughout the Bible, we are told to fear God. I'm thinking of  Ecclesiastes 12:13 , "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of...

Episode 346 | 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 you are called to ministry? 2. Do you believe that Christians can be filled with the Spirit? If so, what does that look like? 3. What are the signs of a person who is demon possessed? If we come across a person who is demon posse...

Episode 345 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If God is loving, why doesn't he save everyone? It seems reasonable that a God who loves everyone and has the power to save everyone would save everyone. 2. I have been a Christian for over 40 years.  I have been an ineffectual Christian for over 4...

Episode 344 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In your first chapter you begin with creation and cover the themes of the garden and the wilderness in the Bible. Can you give us a structure of your book? 2. What is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil all about and what's its significance...

Episode 343 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How should our understanding of the culture in which the Bible was written influence the way we interpret the Bible? Or should we not worry about that and focus only on the Bible is actually saying? 2. In the book of Matthew it says, "The virgin wi...

Episode 342 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If Christ wasn't born on December 25, why do Christians celebrate Christmas? Jesus never told us to celebrate Christmas. Since these are things that are lies, are Christians promoting lies? 2. I know Christmas is extremely commercialized and focuse...

Episode 341 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. My mom was raised Catholic but became a Christian but still prays to the saints. I would like to know what you think about that. 2. Who were the three wisemen that came to see baby Jesus? 3. Can Christians become holy by simply only focusing on the...

Episode 340 | 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 the creation story. When we look at  Colossians 1:16  it says, "for in him all things were created," referring to Jesus the Son. How do we as Christian come to understand that because when we look at the Genesis story its un...

Episode 339 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. My question is concerning Mary. When Jesus was hanging on the cross was Mary was a virgin forever? Why did Jesus not give Mary to a brother of his if Mary had sons and daughters? 2. I'm confused about the prophesy of Hosea quoted in  Matthew 2:15  ...

Episode 338 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What is a soul mate and what's wrong with that idea? 2. Talk to a marriage counselor and they will tell you that worse than anger or guilt is marriage is weariness. That's when a relationship is really on the rocks, when you're too tired to fight,...

Episode 337 | 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  1 Corinthians 5:9 . Paul says he wrote to the Corinthians an earlier letter, before the letter of 1 Corinthians. There are other places in Paul's letters where he seems to allude to other correspondence that has now been lo...

Episode 336 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Hello Dr. Horton and Pastor Adriel, my question is: before God called Abram out of Ur of the Chaldeans, was he a pagan? 2. What are the signs of an unhealthy Church? 3. Are the positions of James and Paul on "works" in contradiction with each other...

Episode 335 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I have heard you make the point that churches that are too concerned with being relevant to the culture can lose focus on what matters, salvation and heaven. But at the same time, you have said that this world matters to God and that loving our nei...

Episode 334 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What is your stance on lordship salvation? 2. I have a friend whose grandfather is dying. He's not a Christian, and every time we speak with him about Christ and the afterlife, he says he's too logical to believe things like that. We have been pray...

Episode 333 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How is God's justice grounded in his character? 2. I have never understood the Bible when it refers to God as jealous. When I think of jealousy, it sounds sinful and inconsistent with God. 3. Sometimes people's biggest problem with hell is that the...

Episode 332 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do I find best how to use my spiritual gift? 2. Can you explain the "Mark of the Beast"? 3. Should every Christian try to be baptized in the Holy Spirit? 4. How can I gain victory over my sin? 5. How should we understand the book of Matthew whe...

Episode 331 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What do we say about Christians who tend to focus on the cross more than the resurrection? Shouldn't Christians emphasize the resurrection over the cross? 2. What is a good place to start in the study of theology. I don't have a background in it bu...

Episode 330 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. The statistics tell us that it seems like the younger you go in our culture, the less people want to identify with any particular religion, much less Christianity. Yet, you have written seculosity arguing that actually we're very religious. What le...

Episode 329 | 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 Jesus sits at the right hand of God? 2. I have been listening to the show for a while. You guys have made some comments about being the star of your own life movie instead of finding yourself in God's story and that people ar...

Episode 328 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I'm curious about  Leviticus 20  and its application for the present day as far as punishment for sin. 2. What do you find edifying about the book of judges? It seems like this is a really dark book and I'm wondering what you take away from it afte...

Episode 327 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Jesus wants you to turn your cheek. Jesus was historically a zealot who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. How does that come in line with the words in Scripture to turn the other cheek? 2. Please discuss spiritual disciplines. Why are these...

Episode 326 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In another episode you have encouraged Christians struggling with sin to look to Christ. What does it mean to look to Christ? I'm struggling with a certain sin in my life and would really like to understand you better. 2. It seems like my family is...

Episode 325 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. There are a lot of objections to Christianity concerning the doctrine of hell. Is hell eternal like heaven and why would people who don't want to accept Christ go to eternal hell? I know what the Bible says, but how would you address this if someon...

Episode 324 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Does God let the devil do bad things to us? 2. Do we need to first receive grace to believe the gospel? 3. What does it mean when the Bible says, "confess your sins to one another so that you may be healed"? 4. What does it mean when believers say...

Episode 323 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Jesus said take my yoke upon me and that it's easy. How do we do that? How can we do that? 2. All my co-workers are going to Las Vegas for the weekend and invited me. I want to go to get to know them better but am not sure if gambling just for fun...