Core Christianity

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...

Episode 112 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In Matthew 28:18–20, the passage on the Great Commission, Jesus says, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Hol...

Episode 111 | 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 ma...

Episode 110 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. The Bible seems to talk about unbelievers as if they don't do anything good, I'm thinking of Romans 3 for example. But I know people who are not Christians who are good people. They are good neighbors and seem to be overall kind people. How do you...

Episode 109 | 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 108 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What did Jesus mean when he said that he was the Way? Is Jesus saying that there is no salvation without believing in him? 2. What is the difference between grace and peace? Paul often begins his epistles this way. What does this mean? 3. How shoul...

Episode 107 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Will Christians become holy by just focusing on the gospel or is there more to it than that? 2. What advice do you have for being faithful to Jesus in the little things, the sort of everyday grind of work, friendships, and family? 3. Does the Bible...

Episode 106 | 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 to say that the Bible is the Word of God? 2. Does the head or the intellect ever get in the way of the heart? 3. When 1 Peter 3:1 is wrongly used as an example that Christianity has helped spread misogyny, how can we help set the...

Episode 105 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Dr. Horton, I recently read a book about someone having a dream about them going to hell and being told about Jesus. Does God work through visions and dreams? What should I think about their account of hell? 2. I have a friend who stopped going to...

Episode 104 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Can we prove that God exists; or that the Bible is true? 2. What are the great and unsearchable things in Jeremiah 33:3? 3. How can I discover my spiritual gift? 4. How important do you think it is to have powerful experiences of God working in our...

Episode 103 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What is Abraham's bosom? 2. What did Paul mean about head coverings in 1 Corinthians 11? Does this apply to us today? 3. Was Peter a true Christian when he denied Jesus 3 times? 4. What does Paul mean in 1 Cor. 14 that speaking in tongues builds up...

Episode 102 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Philippians 4 says that we should always rejoice in the Lord. How do we do this? 2. I grew up hearing a lot about the Antichrist. Some people think he is a world leader others think that the Antichrist still hasn't revealed himself. Who do you thin...

Episode 101 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Hebrews 10:31 says, "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." How does this work if God is love? Doesn't love cast out all fear? 2. John 5:27 says, "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent...

Episode 100 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Is hell really a lake of fire? 2. Does God hear the prayer of unbelievers? 3. Are there new apostles today? 4. What does Paul mean in Ephesians 5 when he tells women to submit to their husbands? 5. How should I go about finding God's perfect plan f...

Episode 99 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In Jeremiah 15:19 it says, "If you repent, I will restore you that you may serve me; if you utter worthy, not worthless, words, you will be my spokesman. Let this people turn to you, but you must not turn to them." How might this apply to the church...

Episode 98 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Is it okay for a Christian to practice yoga? 2. Ephesians 1 says that Jesus has a plan to unite all things to himself. Will this include all people, even people in hell? 3. What is the difference between being predestined for adoption and predestina...