Q&A

Question:  I desire to be honest and transparent but struggle with how much is okay to share.  My parents taught me that a partial truth was the same as a lie.  Am I lying to people if I don’t share all of the details about a situation? Answer:  A half truth with the intent to…

Questions: We have experienced immense conflict and division within our church family.  People in the church want us to reconcile which brings up several interrelated questions, such as: Answers: The same Holy Spirit that lives in you, lives in other believers; even those that do hurtful things.  I’m going to say something that may shock…

Question: Why is my struggle with masturbation a flippant thing one time and a very convicting one at another?  At one season of life justification takes place because you didn’t commit an act of adultery, then you read Jesus’s words that if anyone looks upon a woman to lust he has already committed it in…

Question: Hebrews 6:4-6 says: For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to…

Question: Paul sets high standards for ministry leaders (1 Timothy 3:1-13, Titus 1:5-16).  Once one has been in ministry and has a moral failure or other disqualification, can they be restored to a position of leadership in ministry? Answer: This is a tricky question in that God is able to do anything He chooses, including…