Q. Do you support Israel in the war against Palestinians? It seems it is the fundamentalists from the “right” who are always in support of Israel. Furthermore, shouldn’t we take into consideration that Palestinians had their homeland taken?
Q. I have not been following the Israel conflict much. But, as you know, many believe that Israel is not the Israel of the Bible – that the Israel in the Bible refers to a people – not to a government or nation. Can you clarify this for me?
Who or what is the Mahdi we keep hearing about in Middle Eastern news? Is this the Muslim version of latter days prophecy?
Q. Our pastor gave a sermon that really upset some members of our church. It was about the “metachoi” of Christ in Hebrews 3:14. The believers who got angry said he was preaching a “faith/works” message and promoting the idea of an elitist club around Christ in heaven. Can you help explain this?
In many of our churches we have tried to divorce ourselves so completely from a works-oriented faith that we have embraced what many call “cheap grace.”
If heaven is filled with sinless people and good angels, why do we suffer here on earth so that we can become more like Christ to rule with him?
Trade – in Your Selfie Stick for Shepherd’s Staff!
“if we endure, we will also reign with Him.” We will be “priests of God and of Christ” and we will ‘reign with him for a thousand years…over the nations” (2 Tim. 2:12; Rev. 20:6; 2:26). What does that mean?
Part of our on-the-job-training in suffering, persecution and spiritual warfare is our preparation to receive our inheritance.
“The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward” (Matthew 10:41, ESV).