Core Christianity

Episode 137 | 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 when Jesus wept? 2. I know that the Bible teaches that God is loving, but how can I have a better sense that God actually loves me? 3. Do you have any advice to help me deal with my guilt? 4. What should friendships and community...

Episode 136 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. When we pray, are we supposed to pray to Jesus, or to God? 2. How should I expect God to reveal to me whom I should marry? 3. How do we deal with crying babies in the worship service or kids who can't sit still? 4. The Bible says, "You shall be hol...

Episode 135 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How should we understand Jesus when he says that a person's faith has made them well?  2. In  1 Samuel 16:14  it says that the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul. Does that mean that the Holy Spirit can leave us? 3. What does it mean that Christ...

Episode 134 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What hope is there for people who think that God has given them more than they can handle? 2. How often should we take the Lord's Supper? 3. What place do the courts have in telling the church whom we can marry or not marry? 4. Is it okay for Chris...

Episode 133 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What are spiritual sacrifices? And if we are supposed to be offering them, how can we do that?    2. What does it mean that we are created in the image of God?    3. If we fail to share the gospel, will Jesus deny me?   4. Is there anything else I...

Episode 132 | 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 say something like, "hold onto your baptism," if we are saved by faith, what do you mean by this? 2. In  Mark 7:26-28 , what did Jesus mean in the interchange with the woman? 3. What does a life that is pleasing to God look like? 4...

Episode 131 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What are specific ways a pastor can watch over the 'souls of the flock'? 2. What does 'lead us not into temptation' mean? 3. Do you believe that anyone who falls away from Christ can be restored? 4. How do we look forward to the coming of Christ wi...

Episode 130 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1.  I have been a Christian for a while but I tend to worry about heaven. I'm worried that I won't really like it. What am I missing? 2.  Why was Paul a real Apostle? Shouldn't the number of Apostles always to be 12?  3.  What does biblical community...

Episode 129 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1.  How important is it for church to be exciting? I know that sometimes the most important things in life can be boring, but if the gospel is really about amazing grace how can we allow this to become boring? What do you think? 2.  Why do you think s...

Episode 128 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How should we encourage others to be more edifying in their speech? 2. What should we focus on when we take the Lord's Supper? 3. Is God responsible for sin? 4. How do we deal with apparent contradictions in the Bible 5. How can I have victory over...

Episode 127 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1.  Are there such things as guardian angels? 2.  I really believe in striving to lead a holy life but the more I strive the more I realize that I can't do what I want to do. I have heard people say that we need to rely on the Holy Spirit. How do we d...

Episode 126 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. As a single mother I have a lot of stress in raising kids. At the church I attend there is a lot of pressure to send your kids to a Christian school or to home-school. I can't afford to do either. Is it a sin to send your kids to public school? Wil...

Episode 125 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Is there a place for self-defense as a Christian, or must we always turn the other cheek? 2. Is obedience necessary for salvation? 3. In Ephesians 2:19, Paul says that we are no longer "strangers and aliens," but in 1 Peter 2:11, Peter writes to Ch...

Episode 124 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In Matthew 11:30 Jesus says, "for my yoke is easy and my burden is light." What happens when the Christian life does not seem easy and light? 2. How much does someone need to know about doctrine to officially become a Christian? 3. If God is loving...

Episode 123 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Since Jesus was without sin and incapable of sin, how was his temptation real and genuine? 2. I would really like to take my faith more seriously and study the Bible, but I have no idea where to begin. What do you recommend? 3. How do you understan...

Episode 122 | 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 in Mark 12 when Jesus teaches that in heaven we won't be married? 2. Why does the book of Ecclesiastes describe life as being meaningless? How does this have anything to do with Jesus? 3. How does Jesus' suffering save people if l...

Episode 121 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Is it Biblical to say that we are saved by love and not by law? 2. How do you maintain hope in the face of all the confusion in the church today? 3. Is Romans 8 talking about the salvation of the natural world? 4. Does union with Christ mean that w...

Episode 120 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How should we think about pluralism? In what ways is this bad and in what ways is pluralism good?​ 2. How should we practice the Lord's Supper? Is it okay for people to administer the Supper to themselves? 3. How should I understand God's wrath and...

Episode 119 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What do you wished people understood about the Bible? 2. I grew up thinking that if I was faithful God would provide me with a good life. Yet, I know of so many Christians who are not blessed, and especially when I think of Christians in poor count...

Episode 118 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Why is it important to believe in justification by faith and have assurance? Doesn't a lack of having assurance help us to sate motivated to do good works? 2. In John 14:27 Jesus says, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the wor...

Episode 117 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. How can I prevent my personal Christian growth from becoming stagnant? 2. Can a person make Jesus their personal savior without making him Lord? 3. Why does the God of the Old Testament seem so different then the God of love in the New Testament? I...

Episode 116 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. 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 that same conclusion? 2. Can a Christian in this life have assurance of salvation and can he have full assurance of salvat...

Episode 115 | 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 is one of the big challenges facing the church? 2. I was a biker and have a pretty bad background. I know that when I became a Christian that I was forgiven but I still can't help thinking about the past. How can I stop thinking a...

Episode 114 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Jessica writes, "I have heard people talk about salvation as having a past, present, and future aspects so that we could say that a person has been saved in the past, is being saved in the moment, and will be saved in the future. I feel like I don'...

Episode 113 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What does Paul mean in 1 Corinthians 1:18 when he says that the gospel is foolishness to those who are perishing? 2. My husband and I just found out we are pregnant (praise God!). There are other young mothers in the office where I work that contin...