Category: Q&A

Q – If those of us who are saved for heaven all get the same reward, regardless of our works (except for the rewards of crowns that we’ll throw down before the throne), then does that mean that horrible people like Saddam Hussein who throw people in meat grinders feet first will get the same...

Q – Was Namoi a bitter person? I have heard so many preachers/teachers and they all seem to say the same thing, that she was very bitter. But then I read how Orpah and Ruth clung to her, did not want to leave her, and then they all wept together. And if she was so...

Q – At the beginning of the summer, I took a study course on the tabernacle by Beth Moore. When I was going through this study, I came to realize how completely irreverent I am in prayer to God. I mean, I know this is the King of Kings, Lord of Lords. I know He...

Q – Are you familiar with Ephraim the Syrian? And, if so, what is the controversy surrounding him and the rapture? Thank you for taking my question. I really like the Q and A section of your website! Jim – Well, there’s a question you don’t often see! But, you’re right. There is a controversy...

Q – Was John Calvin a Murder? Jim – This is a question that shows up in my email from time to time. It’s a claim that is leveled by those who seek to besmirch Reformed Theology. Usually, the claim that Calvin was a murderer is an attempt to make all Calvinistic doctrine wrong through...

I was recently listening to an online broadcast where the host was taking questions from callers. The subject of the New Covenant came up and the caller asked the host — a self-identified amillennial Covenantal Baptist — about the fact that both Jeremiah and the author of the book of Hebrews state that the recipients...

Q – I was listening to Sovereignty 101 … now I have another question. Why would God create the people that are not chosen to be part of his elect? If they are not chosen, then they are destined for hell. If I understand this correctly, they have no hope of heaven. This is the...

I recently received an email from Singapore that read: Hi Pastor Jim, How are you? I hope all is well and good with you by the grace of GOD … truly I am so blessed by your ministry and I want to thank GOD for it. Many people may not like the things you say...

Q – A friend asked me if Paul was always a tentmaker. After training under Gamaliel, did he continue to make tents while teaching the law? And after his conversion, was he in “full-time” ministry getting wages from the churches as well as gifts? Jim – Well, the Bible is not definitive on the topic....

Q – What is your opinion of someone being a pastor who is divorced? I want to hear your input on this whole “man of one wife” thing because one church we’ve been visiting will allow an elder to be divorced, but not the pastor. Yet when I read Titus, it clearly says bishop and...