Questions in this episode: – What is the difference between spirit and soul? – If I don’t have a church, but give to a Christian organization, is that okay? – How should married couples approach prayer? – Can you explain the difference between a moralist and a Christian? – What was the benefit or result …
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: Should we believe in a “young earth” or “old earth?” How do we communicate what it means to be a “slave of Christ?” Is addressing someone by their preferred pronouns somehow sinful or a compromise of my Christianity? What does it …
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: How do we discern pride in ourselves and others? Where did all the different ethnicities come from after the flood. What is the biblical view on the “age of accountability” How does Satan have any authority on earth if dominion is …
Often we struggle with a variety of verses in our Bible reading because they grate against our preconceived ideas about who we believe God to be. That would never happen if…
What are Your Spiritual Fitness Goals for 2024?
As the percentage of people in our world who deny and reject the God of the Bible grows, now more than ever we need to get our spiritual fitness in shape.
Start with the foundational understanding that God exists and that there are rational reasons to believe this to combat the growing secularization of our culture.
Be sure to request the book How to Know God Exists by Josh McDowell with your generous donation this month.
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: Do you need to believe in the resurrection to be saved? Is it okay for Christians to donate their organs after death? How should Christians respond to the cultural pressure to reduce the population? Could you provide Scriptural evidence for a …
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: How should Christians view birth control and artificial insemination? Does the Bible say what language will be used in the New Heaven and New Earth? How do we work out God’s sovereignty with our prayers for people’s salvation? What happens to …
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: How do we deal with a professing Christian about sin that they are unwilling to acknowledge? Is AI/machine learning dangerous? And what about pastors who use it to create sermons? What happens to us immediately after we die? In the Millennial …
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: Is it a sin for professing Christians to not read the Bible? Is belief in the sign gifts a secondary issue in the Christian life or is it salvific? How do we navigate friendship versus a dating relationship between Christian men …
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: How would you respond to Roman Catholics who use church history, church fathers and apostolic succession just as authoritatively as the Bible? How do you respond to a Christian who says they are homosexual but are not acting on it? And …
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: Would Job be one of the first people to be a Christian? What is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and is that an unforgivable sin? Please explain John 14:28 where Jesus says the Father is greater than I. Is there any …
This is a set of messages delivered to the high school group True North at the Revival 2021 summer camp.
This is a set of messages delivered to the high school group True North at the Revival 2021 summer camp.
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: 1. How do you transition from knowing about God to knowing God? 2. What is the best way to help people find the right path to live a life God wants them to live. (My paraphrase) 3. What is the best …
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions from this session: 1. Covid Vaccine and the Mark of the Beast. 2. What happens to a young child that passes away before hearing the Gospel. 3. What is deconstruction? Definition of Modernism and Post-Modernism. 4. Roman 5 verses 30 and 40 are unclear …
Pastor Mike answers questions about God, the Bible, and Christianity. Questions in this session: 1. Question on same sex attraction. 2. Do all pastors at Compass agree to all 5 points of grace. 3. Question related to understanding the differences between dispensational and Covenantal theologies and can they be reconciled. 4. How does a woman …
he Bible presents us with a mathematical dilemma when we study the nature of God. From the beginning we are told that there is only one God. That revelation became the doctrinal rally point of ancient Israel – “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one” (Deuteronomy 6:4). And yet, also from the beginning, there has been a kind of uncontainable “plurality” to that one God. Not only do we find
Worship and good theology must go hand in hand. When Jesus dialoged with the woman at well in John 4, he reprimanded the Samaritans with the words, “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know” (John 4:22). Paul did the same when he spoke to…
Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions in this service: 1. How do we learn to trust the Lord more? 2. Daughter goes to a Lutheran school that teaches confirmation. Is it okay for the daughter to go through these ceremonies when she does not know what she is doing? 3. …
Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions in this service: 1. How should I respond to my sisters gay marriage? 2. Matthew 12:31-32 – what exactly is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit and how can we be sure we have not done so? 3. Galatians 5:22-23 – how are we to …
Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions in this service: 1. How do we maintain rest without being a legalist about it? What is rest? 2. How do you know that you are understanding what the Bible is instructing you to do. Talk about righteousness and self righteousness. 3. In Acts, …
Knowing that God is the sovereign owner of all things who will personally come to reign over his creation should motivate us now to live in submission to the King of kings.
Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions in this service: 1. 1 Peter 2:18-22 – Another Pastor did not want to preach on this and preferred to skip it. What does Pastor Mike think about this. 2. Rev 14:6-11 – is taking the mark of the beast an unpardonable sin. Secondly, …
Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions in this service: 1. 1 Corinthians 7 – Paul says this comes from me and not the Lord. Please talk about this. 2. A mother asks if she needs to walk away from her daughter after raising her 2 children and then finding out …
Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions in this service: 1. Responding to questions on Social Media as to when to present the Gospel Message 2. Trichotomy verses dichotomy 3. How can you tell if your child has repentance from will or repentance from God that leads to salvation. 4. Please …
Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions in this service: 1. Why did God create us? 2. How old is the age of the universe and world and how many days did it take to make the world? 3. Acts 19 – discuss why some people had not received the Holy …
Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions in this service: 1. How do we now think biblically about the Jewish people scattered around the world? 2. What is the difference between the 4 and 5 points of Calvinism? 3. How do we strike the biblical balance between doctrine and love? 4. …
Pastor Mike answers questions on the Bible, God and Christianity Questions in this service: 1. Does Satan think he can win this battle against God? 2. Why does Paul seem to make an extreme point about 2 people not being unequally yoked? 3. Why is God referred to as the father of Abraham and not …
