Recent content by Paul Christensen

Gossiping was a real problem in the large Charismatic church I used to attend in the 1970s. What used to happen was when people had counselling sessions with the elders (the church was elder run with a board of elders), the elder would engage in pillow talk with their wives. In turn, the wives...

I was once associated with a discipleship group similar to the theology of YWAM. There was a practice during group prayer sessions where participants were pressured to confess sins to the group. Often the confessions were deep personal, often sexual sins. These were embarrassing and very...

You may need to do a serious reading of the Book of Hebrews to see how the Sabbath fits into the Christian life. Especially the part where our rest in Christ through He being our Great High Priest is what the Saturday Sabbath pointed to. Once we enter our rest in Christ, we no longer need to...

In what way?

There is nothing wrong with taking a day off work to rest and to engage in Christian worship and fellowship, as long as it is not made a legal requirement for a successful and holy Christian life.

It very well appears that the Apostles had a unique calling, as the Apostles of Christ, to perform healing and miracles as an integral component of the Gospel they preached to the Jews and Gentiles. No doubt about it. However, how come in our modern day, most of attempts to get people healed...

It is an established statistical fact that only around 5% of people who make a decision for Christ last beyond their first year of Christian life and become fruitful church members. Why is this so? And why is it so difficult to answer the question that many ask, "What do I need to be saved...

Kicking the player instead of the ball doesn't contribute to good natured debate. Therefore I won't comment further in order not to be contentious.

I searched for where Jesus made that statement, but all I got was the Exodus 20 reference. What I did get was that Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for men, not men for the Sabbath, and that He is Lord of the Sabbath. But nowhere did He command His followers to observe the Sabbath...

I have some really crazy dreams at times which I wouldn't dare to interpret. The frustrating ones is when the narrative is really interesting but my cat gets up on the bed and licks my nose and meows in my face, waking me up and ruining the ending. Once I dreamed that I was preaching and the...

It wasn't until after I left the Pentecostal movement and studied Reformed theology that I learned that when Jesus died on the Cross He took upon Himself the penalty for all my sins, and gave me His pure righteousness as a free gift, and that true faith is in the Christ of the Gospels, and not...

Where in the Biblical record does it say that he was a worshiper of God while he lived in Ur of the Chaldees, before God called him to leave and go to the land where He would lead him? I have no difficulty with the fact that Abraham was a changed man after God spoke to him. Perhaps he...

It is the Jewish Saturday Sabbath, being a requirement for Jews under the Mosaic Law. Gentiles were not obligated. The Sabbath does not apply to Christian believers because Law has been replace by grace and the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Although the Mosaic Law has been fulfilled and set aside for believers in Christ, it is still active for those who have not believed the Gospel and have rejected Christ. There are two types of people in the world, those who have been saved by grace through faith in Christ, and those who are...

Paul says that those who have never heard the Law will become a law to themselves, in other words, they will be judged according to their own conscience. The Scripture says that if a person does something that his conscience tells him is sin, then it is sin for him. Because man is made in the...