Ask Pastor Steve
We're Here to Answer Your Questions of the Christian Faith!
About the show
Your Questions of the Christian Faith Answered in ~15 minutes or less every other week.
If you would like to submit a question to Pastor Steve please text the word "Question" to 410-220-2977. (Please let us know in the text if you would like to be anonymous or you can list your name and where you're from! You can also submit your questions on your social media platform of choice, or if you would like to submit your question anonymously, send it to: [email protected] with 'Anonymous in the subject line.)
We hope that Ask Pastor Steve will become a helpful resource for you and others as we tackle the toughest and strongest doubt-inducing questions of the faith.
Episodes
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(Q1) Did God Ever Love the Devil? — (Q2) Christians that Refuse to Attend Church? — (Q3) Elihu's Counsel to Job? — APS Ep. 58
February 11th, 2026 | Season 2 | 7 mins
bible, christian podcast, church hurt, did god love the devil, maryland usa, pastor answering questions, prophets, satan, theology, wrong prophecy
Steve discusses the following questions he got sent in from you!
Timestamps:
00:07 - (Q1) Did God Ever Love the Devil?
01:50 - (Q2) Christians that Refuse to Attend Church?
05:23 - (Q3) Elihu's Counsel to Job? -
(Q1) How Should We Interpret Revelation? — (Q2) Where Did The Wives For Cain & Abel Come From? — APS Ep. 57
January 28th, 2026 | Season 2 | 6 mins 59 secs
believer, christianity, church, meat, milk, stoicism, systematic theology
Steve has two questions for us today (the first is rather a long answer).
- What is the best way to interpret the Book of Revelation in the Bible?
- What is the best explanation for the origin of the Wives for Cain and Abel?
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Q1 Pastors Get Things Wrong and Double Deaths in the Bible — Q2 Are There Yet Undiscovered Holy Scriptures? and Q3 Fasting for Health Reasons and Taking Communion? — APS Ep. 56
January 14th, 2026 | Season 2 | 8 mins 56 secs
bible, church, communion, fasting, holy scriptures, lazarus raised, maryland, pastor answers, pastors wrong, theology
Here are the questions that Steve will answer for us today:
- How should a congregation handle when their Pastor gets something wrong in the pulput + Lazarus was raised twice?
- Are there yet undiscovered parts of Holy Scripture, and if found, what to do with them?
- Fasting for health reasons and taking communion?
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1) Affirm Sola Scriptura & Extrabiblical Resources — 2) We are Inheritors? — 3) Present Their Wives?
December 31st, 2025 | Season 2 | 9 mins 7 secs
bible, christian podcast, church, ephesians, god is not dead, marriage, reformed theology, sola scriptura
Here are the questions that Steve will answer for us today:
- Can We Affirm Sola Scriptura as Well as Extrabiblical Resrouces
- If God is not Dead, How Can we be an Inheritor?
- How do Husbands "Present Their Wives", like in Ephesians 5?
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Q1) Christianity and Stoicism? — Q2) How to Know what is Milk? — Q3) How to get into Systematic Theology? — APS Ep. 54
December 17th, 2025 | Season 2 | 6 mins 22 secs
believer, christianity, church, meat, milk, stoicism, systematic theology
Steve answers your following questions!
Q1) Are Christianity and Stoicism Compatible?
Q2) How to Know what is Milk and What is Meat?
Q3) How to get into Systematic Theology for a Time-Constrained Believer?
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Q1) Formal Counseling Ministries in Churches — Q2) Head-coverings for Women — Q3) How is There Only One Resurrection? (Rev 20:4-5)
December 3rd, 2025 | Season 2 | 8 mins 27 secs
Steve answers the following questions on today's episode:
1) What do I think of formal counseling ministries in churches?
2) Head-coverings for women in church?
3) How is there only one resurrection? (Rev 20:4-5)
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Episode 52: In What Settings Should Women Lead in Prayer? Children's Professions of Faith are Unreliable? Are There Prophets in the World Today? - APS Ep. 52
November 19th, 2025 | Season 2 | 8 mins 7 secs
baptism, baptize, children, church, prayer, prophet, women, women leaders
Steve answers the following questions for us today:
1) Should women be leading in prayer?
2) Should we baptize our children, even though they could give an unreliable profession of faith?
3) Are there still prophets from God in our world today?
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Q1: How to Assess if Your Child Has Faith | Q2: Who to Pray to When We Pray? | Q3: What About Mercy Suicide? — APS Ep. 51
November 5th, 2025 | Season 2 | 8 mins 43 secs
bible, christian, faith, prayer, suicide
Today, Steve answers the following questions:
How can you Realistically Assess if Your Child Has Faith?
Which of the Godhead Should we Direct our Prayers Towards?
What Should we Think About When Believers are Desiring a "Mercy Suicide"?
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Contemplation for Transitioning Mothers, Traumatic Visions, and Best Approaches — APS Ep. 50
October 22nd, 2025 | Season 2 | 14 mins 22 secs
bible, biblical, christian podcast, church, pastor, theology, trauma, traumatic visions
Steve answers the following questions:
What should mothers consider when leaving work outside the home?
I have a child experiencing traumatic visions, what should I do?
What is the best approach to letting a believer know that they are divorcing on unbiblical grounds?
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What does the Bible say with regard to Self-Defense? Speaking in tongues? Gap theory? — Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 49
October 8th, 2025 | Season 2 | 11 mins 25 secs
bible, christian, christian podcast, church, emotional, emotional manipulation, emotions, michael clary
Steve questions an important question regarding self-defense as well as:
Is it Biblical to speak in tongues?
What about Gap theory?
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Homosexuality's Usage in the Bible, How Should we Think About our Enemies and the Right Kind of Compassion — Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 48
October 1st, 2025 | Season 2 | 10 mins 6 secs
bible, christian, christian podcast, enemies, enemy, scripture, theology
On today's episode, Steve deals with some difficult questions that are important for us to know the answers to, as Christians in this day and age:
Was the word Homosexual always in the Bible?
How do we reconcile what the Bible tells us to do in regard to our enemies?
How can we balance having compassion for others, but not being untethered in our compassion?
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Heavenly Bodies? Col. 1:23? Was Jesus Defiled? — Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 47
September 2nd, 2025 | Season 1 | 8 mins 53 secs
bible, christian, church, glorified body, heaven, maryland, theology
What will our bodies be like when we are glorified and in heaven?
Colossians 1:23 is confusing, it seems as though the Apostle Paul is saying the Gospel has gone global?
When Jesus did the healing miracles... wouldn't that have made him unclean as he touched Lepers and other diseased individuals, thus becoming unclean himself?
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What should Christians get into disputes over? (Rom 14), and what about the different views of the Lord's supper, as well as how should we use our Christian liberty? — Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 46
August 20th, 2025 | Season 1 | 10 mins 7 secs
1) What should Christians get into disputes over? (Rom 14)
2) What about the different views of the Lord's supper?
3) How should we use our Christian liberty?
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When can we Know it's God? Some Encouragement for Those Outside Gender Norms. What About Formal Counseling? - Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 45
July 30th, 2025 | Season 1 | 9 mins 4 secs
bible, christian, christian podcast, doctrine, family, husband, israel, israel war, palestine, podcast, theology, war, wife
Today, Steve answers several questions: 1) Are we listening to the voice of God, or is it all in our heads? 2) What if I'm Some Outside the "Gender Norm"? and what about getting formal counseling outside of Church?
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Differing Opinions on Baptism, Divorce and Remarriage in the Church, and What About Truly Non-Binary Individuals? — Ask Pastor Steve Episode 44
July 16th, 2025 | Season 1 | 12 mins 22 secs
baptism, bible, christian podcast, christian questions, christianity, divorce, john macarthur, marriage, r.c. sproul, remarriage, theology
On today's Ask Pastor Steve, how should the body of Christ handle differences of conviction when it comes to baptismal modes, as well as handling conversations surrounding divorce and remarriage, and lastly, a curveball of a question, what about people who seem to be outside the normative of God's design?
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Childbearing, Steve's Favorites and is God Fair? — Ask Pastor Steve Ep. 43
July 2nd, 2025 | Season 1 | 8 mins 59 secs
#children #motherhood #christianity #god #church #bible #women #podcasts
What is the best interpretation of 1 Tim 2:15? Steve answers this question and many more on today's podcast!