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I have a friend who’s 20 and he’s worried about the draft. What he was wondering was and I’m interested too and if we’re Christians and we are not supposed to murder, [then] what does the Bible have to say about that?

Is there a commandment in the Bible that says that you have to fight for your country and in view of the political scene in the Middle East, lets say United Stated decided to send some troops into the Middle East for their interest in oil, for that reason. Would that be having to fight for your country?

In I Timothy, chapter 5, verses 9 and 10 it gives the qualifications for the " widows indeed," it says in verse 10, "... if she has brought up children..." Suppose that there is a lady that gets married and cannot have children, so they decide to adopt a child and later on she becomes a widow.  She raised the child, but she couldn't have the child, would she be qualified to be on this list?

"How do I know the Will of God for my life?"

Could you please tell me how we can each know what God's special plan is in our lives, in terms of how we can use our talents, or how we know when we are using them in the right direction?

If everything happens in the will of God, then why do people say, when you’re doing something wrong, “Oh, that’s not in the will of God; that’s not the will for your life”…if everything is in God’s will?

How can I make decisions consistent with God's will for my life?

Can you elaborate on your principles for knowing exactly where God wants us and some patterns maybe we can follow to find that out for sure?

I always hear that God helps those who help themselves and like you mentioned, you ought to do something, you shouldn't just be in limbo. How do you draw the line between the point where you are doing something that God can work on and where you're doing so much that it shows that you really don't have faith that He's going to answer your prayer?

Where do you stand on the wine issue and why?

What is the right Christian stand on drinking?

What does Proverbs 24:3-4 mean? [Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.]

"When the Jehovah Witnesses come or the Mormons should we be bold to these people [or hide]?"

I would like to ask a question of Luke 8:16-18, "Now no one, after lighting a lamp, covers it over with a container, or puts it under a bed; but he puts it on a lamp stand, in order that those who come in may see the light. For nothing is hidden, that shall not become evident; nor anything secret, that shall not be known and come to light. Therefore take care how you listen: for whoever has, to him shall more be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has shall be taken away from him." What does it mean?

I have a question in relation to Ezekiel, chapter three, God appoints Ezekiel as a watchman over the House of Israel, and He says in verses 18 and 19, "When I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his inequity, but his blood I will require at your hand. Yet if you have warned the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself." My question is, "If what way or any are these verses applicable to modern day believers in relation to our responsibility to tell unbelievers about the Gospel?"

We were trying to tell him about the Word of God and that it was real. He said, "Well that’s what you say. You know the only thing that’s real is what I could touch." My question is, when you are talking to people, trying to witness to people like that, what can you do?

Is it safe to say when you are witnessing to people to say that Christianity is not a religion, that religion is man trying to make himself presentable to God through his own means and his own actions and Christianity is a relationship with God, having no confidence in the flesh and putting all of your faith, hope and trust in Jesus Christ, Who was God in human flesh?

I’ve been involved in a couple of Bible studies where women have ended up sharing throughout the time, so I did some studies on it. I was reading the MacArthur I Corinthians commentary and I came to a sentence that I wanted you to clarify for me. It says, “There are times in informal meetings and Bible studies where it is entirely proper for men and women to share equally in exchanging questions and insights.”

My brother-in-law attends a church where a woman is the minister. Is this right?

How would you reply to a believer, in the Charismatic movement, who agrees that revelation [new] cannot be added to Scripture, but would still argue that God still gives "Words of Knowledge" in the church, for direction as long as it falls in line with the Scripture?

Is it ok for a wife to work outside the home, and what are a wife's priorities?

In a Christian marriage, should the wife work?

My question is about your sermon on “How to be a Godly Mother” on 1 Samuel, you said in that sermon, that a woman’s duty, the highest duty would be not to leave her child or disrupt her routine in any way like in any way, like until the child is three. I was just wondering if you would feel that today’s woman would have to be that way, not to leave a child or not to leave it with a baby sitter? Also, I wondered how your family with your four children and your wife handled this?

"I want to ask why lots of people accept the Lord only when something drastic happens in their lives?"

I have a couple of verses that I struggle with; first one’s John 5:29, Jesus says, “And will come forth those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, and those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.”  And then the other one is Romans 2:13, “For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but the doers of the law who are justified.”  I’ve just struggled at times to try to understand those in light of, like what R. C. Sproul talked about last night, justification by faith alone.  How do you teach this?