Core Christianity

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...

Episode 97 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What does it look like to fix my eyes on Jesus? 2. If Jesus is the son of God how can he also be God? 3. How do you think Christians should be involved in or think about problems surrounding the environment? 4. Do you think Christians can learn impo...

Episode 96 | 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 6:4-6 where Jesus marveled at unbelief? 2. How do we crucify the flesh? 3. Is it possible to be a Christian-Buddhist? 4. What is the difference between legalism and love?​ 5. How should we think about transhumanism, the ide...

Episode 95 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. John 6:56, When Jesus said, "Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him," was he speaking literally? 2. How can I learn to encourage people with the gospel? 3. What advice do you have for Christians today who continue t...

Episode 94 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Who is the abomination of desolation? 2. If God is sovereign and Satan is under God's control, then why does God allow Satan to tempt us? And why does God blame us for giving into temptation if we don't have a choice? 3. Where in the Bible does it t...

Episode 93 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. I didn't grow up Christian and through the help of some friends, I have come to believe that salvation is all of grace and not based on our works because of Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross. But I have this question: If the gospel is about what...

Episode 92 | 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 resurrection of the saints in Matthew 27:51–54. What does the Bible mean here? 2. I have heard you say this before but I'm not sure I understand it. What does it mean that Jesus was raised for our justification? 3. If God...

Episode 91 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. Was Jesus raised from the dead with a body or was his resurrection only spiritual? 2. What happens to infants who die? Do they go straight to heaven because they haven't committed sin yet? 3. What does a person really need to know to be saved? I'm a...

Episode 90 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. In John 15:19 Jesus says, "If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." Is  Jesus is saying that being hated by people is a sig...

Episode 89 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. So the Bible says Jesus is the Son of God, but I don't understand how God could become a human being. Did he just take over someone's body? How did it happen? 2. Do miracles still happen? I believe that miracles happened in the ancient world, but  I...

Episode 88 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today's show: 1. What is grace? 2. Is Peter and his writing more important than the other apostles? 3. Why doesn't God protect his people from mass shootings and natural disasters? Isn't God supposed to keep his people safe? 4. Is it okay to pray the Lord's Prayer?...