Video Q & A

I think, most simply, the will of God is spoken of in Scripture in two basic ways. There's his will of purpose and his will of precept.

The reason there are so many denominations is that man is a fallen creature, and we live in a fallen world, and the church, even though it is God's called-out expression, it's made up of sinful creatures. 

I think we can overemphasize immersion - the important question is who is baptizing, not so much how. 

While women have been fighting to change the noxious nature of the purity culture, men should also work to reduce the toxicity residing within the purity culture.

Before answering this question, it's very important to define terms because what one church defines as a pastor is sometimes different than what another church defines as a pastor.

God has revealed to us that there is an eternal heaven. And He has revealed to us there is an eternal hell. And he has revealed to us Himself in His Son, Jesus Christ, who comes from heaven and truly enters hell on the cross. 

That’s a great question; it is one of a whole family of similar questions. What about acupuncture, homeopathic medicine, and reflexology?

The gift of prophecy has always been an important gift to the people of God. A prophet spoke forth the Word of the Lord.  

As Christians, we should celebrate both our alikeness as new creatures in Christ and also our differences as men and women. In today's culture, the lines between men and women have blurred, which has both positives and negatives. 

If you take a brief look through a history book, however, you will notice that none of these things are new or personalized to our current era. Only a blind idealist would think that any of these will or can be stopped as long as the world exists in its broken, sinful state.

We’ve got to take God at his word. The most loving person who has ever lived spoke so straightforwardly about the awfulness of hell.

God loves in many different ways. There are distinctions, and when you blur those distinctions, you flatten how the Bible talks.

The Noahic covenant is the covenant that's unlike the rest of the covenants in the Bible. It is a covenant that's made with all of creation.

It is important to see that in Genesis 15, for example, where the promise is made of a temporal people and temporal nation and temporal land, you also have the promise of a far greater reality that transcends it.