Category: Q&A

Q – After reading many of your sermons and listening to quite a few of your tapes, I thank God that He is using people, like yourself, to teach His word. I am truly blessed and humbled through your teaching. Jim – You are much too kind. Thank you for all your encouraging sentiments. But,...

Q – I am always intrigued by the first time something happens; the first words a person says, my first bike, first car, first punch in the nose. In John 2 we have Jesus’ first miracle. Is there a significant reason why this is His first? Jim – Your first punch in the nose? Did...

Q – Whenever I’m discussing salvation and “free will” with someone, they always seem to retreat to John 3:16. They say, “Look right there! It says ‘whosoever’ believes will be saved! That means that anyone who wants to can accept Jesus and be saved!” How do you answer that? Jim – Good question! You’re right,...

[A person I have been corresponding with recently sent this question, along with a reply received from a newsgroup discussion.] Q – Does not being saved mean you are damned to hell? Or does it have a different meaning? Below is what I’m talking about here. Please let me know if this is sound teaching....

Q – Please explain the following from James 5:19-20 – “Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. ” Jim – Since...

Q – I want your take on Baptism. Is it essential for salvation? Is this a two part series or is it truly believing Christ died for my sins enough? I have been baptized, but I want to know how this works. Jim – There are indeed churches that insist on baptism as a condition...

Q – Is there anything in the Bible to indicate that Satan and Co. try to drag us down, despite our salvation, thus rendering us temporarily ineffective as ministers/witnesses? From what I’ve read here, it would seem like you’re leaning in the direction of ‘no.’ But I’ve been told, well, since I was very young,...

Q – I recently visited the church I attended in high school. Well, I walked in and could cut the tension with a knife. I thought it might be money troubles or something. Then, this week, I was informed that the pastor has begun teaching that there is no hell and no eternal damnation. He...

Q – I know that Ephesians 5:22 and other passages say a wife should obey her husband in all things. I went to the Q&A section but you don’t seem to have a section devoted to the wife’s submission. I was hoping that you could explain, in light of the entire Bible, how a wife...

Q – I am really curious about this passage from 1 Corinthians 7 – [12] But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. [13] And the woman which hath an husband...