Christian Faith Questions — In Plain Talk
Baptism: What It Means and Who It’s For
FAITH FOUNDATIONS • CHURCH & SACRAMENTS Baptism: What It Means and Who It’s For Why Christians baptize, what baptism says about Jesus, how it relates to faith and salvation, and why faithful churches disagree about who should receive it. Baptism ...
Understanding the Return of Christ:What Scripture Says
REVELATION & END TIMES Understanding the Return of Christ: What Scripture Says Christians may disagree about timelines and details, but Scripture is remarkably clear about the central promise: Jesus Christ will return personally, visibly, gloriously, and finally. Few Christian teachings ...
What Is the Gospel, Really?
JESUS & THE GOSPEL • SALVATION & GRACE What Is the Gospel, Really? Christians talk about “the Gospel” constantly. But what exactly is it? Is it a set of beliefs, a moral code, a prayer we pray, or the announcement ...
Jesus the Jew: Understanding Christ in His Own World
JESUS & THE GOSPEL • BIBLICAL CONTEXT Jesus the Jew: Understanding Christ in His Own World Jesus was not born into a modern Western culture. He lived, worshiped, taught, prayed, and read Scripture as a first-century Jew. Understanding that world ...
Money, Work, and Calling
CHRISTIAN LIVING & DISCIPLESHIP • WORK & VOCATION Money, Work, and Calling What Scripture says about earning, providing, ambition, vocation, stewardship, and finding meaning in the work God has given us to do. For most of us, work takes up ...
Race, justice, and the church’s record
The church has the most compelling answer in the world to the question of race — every human being made in the image of God, every tribe and tongue gathered before the throne, the dividing wall of hostility torn down ...
What Did Jesus Teach About Himself?
JESUS & THE GOSPEL • FAITH FOUNDATIONS What Did Jesus Teach About Himself? Jesus taught about God, forgiveness, the kingdom, love, and eternal life. But He also made remarkable claims about Himself. What exactly did He say, and what are ...
Predestination, Free Will, and Election
GOING DEEPER INTO THEOLOGY • SALVATION & GRACE Predestination, Free Will, and Election How God's sovereign purpose, human responsibility, grace, faith, and election fit together — and why Christians have understood that relationship in different ways. Does God choose us, ...
Why the Trinity?
FAITH FOUNDATIONS • GOING DEEPER INTO THEOLOGY Why the Trinity? If Christians believe there is only one God, why speak of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit? The answer begins not with philosophy, but with what Christians believe ...
What Do Christians Actually Believe?
FAITH FOUNDATIONS What Do Christians Actually Believe? Christianity can look complicated from the outside. There are denominations, traditions, doctrines, and disagreements. But beneath all of that is a remarkably clear center: God, Jesus Christ, the cross, the resurrection, grace, faith, ...
