The psalmist says, “God dwells in light inaccessible.” We can use any word. I remember talking to R.C. about this and he said, “You know, the word I used was ‘holiness,’ but there are a lot of words ...

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We need to make some important distinctions about the biblical meaning of “fearing” God. These distinctions can be helpful, but they can also be a little dangerous. When Luther struggled with that, he ...

Questions like this are often pastoral questions that need to be explored in context. I would need to know what the family member believes and what your relationship with the family member is. I think ...

FERGUSON: All of us on the panel believe that there is a biblical relationship established between Christ and Melchizedek. I think most of us believe that Melchizedek was just an ordinary king of ...

We’re all called to serve Jesus Christ. The word “missionary” just means somebody who is sent. And we’re all sent, we’re all drawn into Christ and we’re sent out by Christ to live in the world as ...

THOMAS: When I was in seminary in the 1970s, John MacArthur went after the “carnal” Christian view, which taught that you could be saved and get to heaven without obedience or holiness. You would be ...

HORTON: I just wrote a book on the Holy Spirit, and it really enriched my own experience of the Spirit as well as thoughts about questions like this; and it made me more uncertain of the answers that ...

CHARLES: A couple of things come to my mind. One is what Burk mentioned, which is the second great command that Jesus gives—to love your neighbor as yourself (Matt. 22:39). We, as shepherds in our ...

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Maybe I can try to answer that question by asking, “How would you answer it?” You could answer it by reading the Gospels and seeing what it was about Jesus that drew people to Him. That would be a ...