Is it normal to feel like giving up?

Posted on January 12, 2026 by Steve Husting

“I’m always afraid of dying and going to hell. It’s my greatest fear, thus I’m always feeling pressured by the things the Bible says we should do. I sometimes feel like giving up because it’s so hard. Although I feel this way the Holy Spirit always gets me to not give up. Because as soon as I run away from God I feel guilty and I just miss him to much. Is what I’m experiencing normal?”

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Bible Study Methods – Chapter Summary

Posted on January 9, 2026 by Steve Husting

I learned this chapter summary approach in church. With everyone in the congregation following the same chapter, we worked on this format at home individually during the week. Then we gathered on Tuesday night and shared the details of our studies. Some first-timers in the church got saved with this format. Try it out. Some used this method to study their Bible every morning for years to come. One key benefit is that this study method works for every book in the Bible.

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Similarities and Priorities

Posted on January 5, 2026 by Steve Husting

Notice the similarities at the beginning of these three famous Bible passages. The Ten Commandments: “I am the Lord your God … You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:2-3). The Lord’s Prayer: “Our Father, in heaven, hallowed be Your name” (Matthew 6:9). The greatest commandment: “You shall love the Lord Your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength” (Matthew 22:37).

What links them together is their immediate focus of priority. God is in first place. This sets the stage for soul-searching. We are to be distinguished above all the people of the earth in that we have the heart-changing knowledge of the Creator of the world, the thrice-holy God who saves all those who call upon Him.

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For the New Year: Bible Study Methods — ACTS

Posted on January 2, 2026 by Steve Husting

Why not start the new year by jazzing up your Bible study/devotional time? We can all use a tune-up where we integrate new ideas or techniques, and reevaluate methods we use that no longer make sense because we’ve matured a bit.

A search of the internet reveals a variety of Bible study methods we can use to further our understanding of God’s Word. I’m starting a series where I test a limited number of these methods, one by one. Today we will cover the ACTS Bible study method. It’s not enough to read the Bible—we want to get the most out of it so we allow it to change us. That will take place as we study the Bible and apply it to our lives.

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A New Website

Posted on August 11, 2025 by Steve Husting

The Doubt Busters site has drifted from its original mission as a question-and-answer format designed to help Christians address questions relative to their faith. But articles on the Christians’ faith journey have taken over the site.

As a result, I have created an offshoot of this website to house the latter type of articles. The site is called “Alive to God,” making reference to Romans 6:11, “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” What does it mean to be alive to God and no longer a slave to the old life?

Doubt Busters will retain all of its current content to keep the links intact. The new site is a direct copy of Doubt Busters, but with all the early Q&A content removed. If you prefer the later content you’ve been reading in Doubt Busters, please head on over to Alive to God and bookmark the new site.

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Your Kingdom Come

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Steve Husting

When we consider the Our Father prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) from the standpoint of God’s promise to Abraham, “in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:3), it adds a new dimension to this prayer. This prayer furthers a vision that the Lord has today, to bless all nations.

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Four Protective Practices

Posted on July 4, 2025 by Steve Husting

In his brief letter, positioned just before the last book of the Bible, Jude writes a lot about apostates (those who fall away from the Lord Jesus) in the past (vv. 4-11) and in the present (vv. 12-16). Jude writes of “ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness…” (v. 4). These ungodly people mischaracterized God’s grace as approval for doing immoral things. There are many ways we can be drawn away from the Lord. In this epistle, Jude focuses on straying because of listening to misleading ministers.

Jude gives us a four-dosage prescription (vv. 20-21) to keep our spiritual lives healthy and strong, so that we may not be led astray and meet the same doom as the errant instructors.

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Four Long Words

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Steve Husting

“Christ died for my sins on the cross.” These words roll off our lips with ease. Did you ever think about what salvation means, and how extensive it really is? I want to introduce four long Bible words that are packed with meaning, and that help us appreciate more powerfully what Christ accomplished when He died on the cross. Most of this material comes from the book, The Cross of Christ, by John R. Stott.

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Immanuel + Jesus

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Steve Husting

In the Old Testament through Isaiah the prophet, the Lord had given a sign to king Ahaz, “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (Matthew 1:23, referencing Isaiah 7:14). Immanuel means “God with us.”

Hundreds of years later, an angel visited Joseph and told him that Mary, his betrothed, “will bear a son, and you shall call his name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). Jesus means “God Saves.”

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Come to Me

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Steve Husting

To us who are still loaded down with the cares of life, with its many distractions, with the endless to-do’s driving us with no end in sight, Jesus’ offer still stands: “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28, NKJV).

Perhaps we cannot come to Him because our goal in life is quite different from “rest.” We want to achieve. We want the best. We need money. We need a friendly face. We have some place we want to be and rest won’t get us there.

Actually, it will.

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