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I am the primary caregiver for my family member who has struggled with mental illness for many years. How can I show Christ's love when I am tired and need a break?

Why do believers worry that they can lose their salvation? If the Scripture is so clear that we can't, why are so many concerned about it?

Is the spiritual life lived by the follower of Jesus alone or by God alone?

Jeremiah 32:17 says about God: “Nothing is too hard for you.” Still, I’ve always wondered about an old paradox: Can God create a stone too heavy for Him to lift? If we say “no” then there’s something that God can’t create. But if we say “yes” then there’s something that God can’t lift. What’s the answer?

God knows everything that will happen. For example, Jesus said to Peter that “today—yes, tonight— before the rooster crows twice you yourself will disown me three times” (Mark 14:30). But if He foreknew that Peter would deny Him, then Peter had to deny Him. So, why are we considered sinful, since nobody can change what He already knows will...

How did God point out Achan to Joshua in Joshua 7?

We all sin, but after asking Jesus for forgiveness for our sins, what if we then turn around and commit that exact sin the next day or a week later and ask for forgiveness again? Does Jesus forgive us every time we ask for forgiveness, even if we commit the same sin over and over? Question and Answer The great news of the gospel is that...

Is it a sin to fantasize about a celebrity? There weren’t television or computers in Christ’s day. Wasn’t He speaking only about people who knew one another? Question and Answer While there were no television or computers in Christ’s day, the temptation to fantasize has existed since the Garden of Eden. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve...

I often feel as though, under the pressure of addictive sin, I have no choice but to fall. How much choice do we really have when something seems impossible to resist? Question and Answer This is a very good question, and sadly it suggests a deception too often propagated about one of the great gifts God gave us, the gift of choice. Because...

When Christians die, do they immediately go to heaven or do we wait for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ? Question and Answer When Christians die, their soul and spirit (two aspects of our immaterial self) go immediately to heaven. Separated from their physical bodies, they will be in the immediate presence of God and in conscious and thrilling...