Crucial Questions: 2026 National Conference

A questions and answers session with David Garner, Michael Reeves, David Strain, and Derek Thomas.

Questions:

1. How would you counsel a person struggling with the assurance of salvation and their ability to persevere to the end? (1:31)
2. How can we lovingly confront family members who claim to be saved but exhibit no fruit of sanctification? (4:34)
3. How can we prevent ourselves from thinking that our position in Christ is predicated upon our performance? (7:21)
4. When does a thought become sinful? (10:24)
5. Why are many young people leaving evangelical churches for Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy? What should we say to them? (13:50)
6. What counsel should parents give an adult child who is angry at God because life is not turning out as expected? (19:52)
7. One of our sons has rejected our faith and conservative values since college. How can we love and reach out to him? (22:08)
8. In a day when many believe that a woman’s dignity requires the right to do whatever a man can, how can we best reaffirm the true, biblical value of womanhood? (25:50)
9. Why is it important to know and understand Reformed theology? (34:28)

Note: Answers given reflect the views of the individual speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of Dr. R.C. Sproul and Ligonier Ministries. Here is our Statement of Faith.