What will you say at the end of your life? What advice might you give to the people who still have time when your time is running out? In this episode, John Horning enters into Solomon’s sermon about living a life that isn’t wasted — a life lived in light of death.
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Why God Allows Evil Part 3
Time for the big answer. If God is good and all-powerful, then why does God allow for evil, suffering, and brokenness in His world? In this episode, John Horning explains God’s explicit reason for allowing evil with a conclusion that grates against our very nature: God is God, and we are not.
Why Does God Allow Evil Part 2
Why is this world broken? Why is there suffering if the God Who created everything is good? In this episode, John Horning discusses the historical account of how exactly the world fell to this broken state.
Why Does God Allow Evil Part 1
If God is good and if God is sovereign, then why does God allow all the suffering, sin, and brokenness in the world? In this episode, John Horning starts a three part series with the answer in 2 Peter 3: God is patient with evil people.
Why Young People Should Read Song of Solomon
There is sometimes a perception that Song of Solomon shouldn’t be read by young Christians or shouldn’t be read at all. In this episode, John Horning discusses the essential role of Song of Solomon in the life of Christians in general and in the life of young Christians specifically.
Gospel Part 4: Salvation (Romans 6)
What does salvation look like in the life of a Christian? If a person becomes a Christian, what does that do to him? In this lesson, John Horning finishes talking about the Gospel by discussing the result of the Gospel in a believer’s life.
2 Kings 2 — Elijah and Elisha
How does Elijah’s ministry end? What does it look like to transfer a ministry from one person to another? In this lesson, John Horning discusses what it means to pass the mantle and pass it well from the story of Elijah’s ascent to Heaven.
Gospel Part 2: Hell (Romans 2)
What is Hell? What is Hell like, and what is Hell for? Why is the Gospel “Good News?” In this lesson, John Horning discusses the judgment waiting for all who reject God and His offer of Salvation.
1 Kings 21 — Ahab and the Vineyard
What is the homelife like of Ahab and Jezebel? What kind of unrighteousness defines the people of Israel at the time of Elijah? In this lesson, John Horning discusses the wickedness of Ahab and Ahab’s nation, God’s judgment, and God’s mercy to the repentant.
Job 38-42 — God’s Response
After 37 chapters of suffering and conversation, what does God finally say to the suffering Job? In this lesson, John Horning discusses God’s declaration of His own glorious sovereignty and creativity.