Core Christianity

Episode 172 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do you maintain hope that the church will survive when there is so much false teaching today? 2. It seems like everyone who studies theology gets caught up in what seem like frivolous debates about nothing. Do you think it's better if we just f...

Episode 171 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What are your favorite top resources for pointing unbelievers for the trustworthiness and truth of the Bible? 2. I have heard you guys talk about the Lord's Supper and sometimes you call it the Eucharist. Is that a Catholic thing? 3. With there bei...

Episode 170 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. If we are forgiven does that mean that the law no longer applies to us? 2. Is it sinful to have homosexual desires or is it sinful only if you act on that desire? 3. How do you relate to  1 Peter 3:21  to salvation by faith where it says baptism sa...

Episode 169 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How should Christians resolve conflicts in the church?  2. Recently I have heard apostle and apostleship used to describe leaders in the current church particularly around church planting and church leadership. Can you clear up my confusion? 3. Why...

Episode 168 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Is there a balance between making the gospel relevant and being Bible-based? 2. Are there different levels in Heaven based on your actions and deeds?  3. In the Bible Jesus calls a  Canaanite woman a "Dog". Was Jesus being racist? 4. How do we reco...

Episode 167 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What encouragement would you have for people suffering for the gospel in places where the church isn't allowed to gather without persecution?  2. In another episode, you talked about doubts as not being sinful. This is completely different from wha...

Episode 166 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Every time I attempt to serve, something happens to inhibit it. Is it possible that God could be saying "hey, just sit there and warm that bench"? 2. The incident with Rehab lying is wrong even with her saving the spies, but what would have been th...

Episode 165 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show:     1. What are the main things of worship and how do we keep those the main focus? 2. How do I stop sinning and completely devote myself to God? 3. In  John 4 , when Jesus says we will "worship in spirit and truth" mean we do not have to go to church...

Episode 164 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How should the gospel influence the way parents disciple their children? 2. If there is one God, one Jesus, and word, why are there so many religions, so many churches, and so many hypocrites? Why don't we just have church in our home? 3. I have a...

Episode 163 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What does the Old Testament Law have to do with our lives and sanctification today? 2. Should we really love the church more than our own families? 3. How is it that Christians are supposed to be blessed and loved by God and at the same time suffer...

Episode 162 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. With the amount of false teaching and abuse in the church, how do you continue to have hope in the church? 2. How does God Guide us in our lives, if he does at all? 3.  Romans 8  says that we should kill sin. If we are saved and still struggle what...

Episode 161 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Are people both good and evil?   2. Is it okay for a Christian to talk to a therapist?   3. Did God create sin?   4. What to Do When Ministry Leaders Fall 5. What is the first book of the Bible would you suggest for someone new to the faith?

Episode 160 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Should we expect to see signs & wonders today? 2. Is it really possible to be restored to faith after falling away?  3. In the book of Philippians Paul says that he came to consider everything as a loss for the sake of Christ. How can we come to th...

Episode 159 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What is your favorite Christian book? 2. What does Jesus mean in  John 6:44 , "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him"? 3. What do you think is really important for someone to know about being an elder? 4. Can you explain why...

Episode 158 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Does God honor my faith in Jesus even if I'm trusting mainly because I don't want to go to hell?   2. Does Philippians 2:12–13 teach that salvation is through works?   3. I have been in willful sexual sin for a while. Has God given me over to my si...

Episode 157 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Does Matthew 10:38 mean that lots of people who think they are Christians won't be saved because they aren't really following Jesus? 2. What does it mean to be born into the world "dead in trespasses and sins"?  3. Should Paul's Lost Letters Be Acc...

Episode 156 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Do My Struggles With Sin Mean I'm Not Really a Christian?

Episode 155 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Why does God only save some if he has the desire and the power to save all?   2. How much victory do we need to have in our walk to be considered conquerors?    3. How do you explain why God commanded the slaughter of people in the Old Testament? ...

Episode 154 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I often feel "lukewarm." How can I be more on fire for God? 2. I know salvation is by grace through faith, but after a person is saved, what is their situation? 3. If God loves me, why can't I feel it with the five love languages or the five senses...

Episode 153 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do addiction struggles figure into regeneration and being a "new creation" for the Christian? 2. What would you say makes for a meaningful life? How should Christian pursue living with purpose? 3. I have been to churches that are Jesus only chu...

Episode 152 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How do you lovingly correct someone who is older than you without being disrespectful? 2. How should we self-censor our intake of media? 3. How do we explain why God commanded the slaughter of people in the Old Testament? 4. Why didn't God give com...

Episode 151 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Does the Bible tell us where Jesus went during the two days he was dead? 2. In union with Christ does our Spirit join with God's spirit?  3. Why do Christians use the example that if the resurrection did not happen, then we are without hope? 4.  Lu...

Episode 150 | 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 about transhumanism, the idea that somehow technology can help humanity ascend beyond what we currently are?   2. In Philippians 3:12, what does Paul mean when he says he pressed on to make it his own? It sounds like he is working...

Episode 149 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Do We Need Our Parent's Approval to Marry?   2 . I struggle with depression. Do you have any advice?    3 . Does Romans 11 teach that true Christians can lose their salvation by being cut off?   4 . How can the church be more relevant to the strugg...

Episode 148 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1.How was Jesus tempted?   2. How should I understand faith? Is faith a work?   3. Were old testament believers 'born again?'