Someone recently asked me to venture an answer to this question.

Here's the question, what's the most common question we get on the podcast? And I don't know the answer to that question exactly so this is just a guess

and my guess based on my experience I would say this

our most often asked about question is about the unpardonable sin.

And by that I mean in the broadest sense of the term not only what is the unpardonable

sin as defined in scripture, but have I committed to sin that is so ugly, so gross,

so heinous, so premeditated, so repeated, so high-handedly evil that God will surely not be

able to forgive me for it.

That was my answer.

That's in my best guess the most common question that we get in the inbox,

certainly one of the dominant themes in APJ over our first decade, as you can see in the APJ book on pages 337 to 339.

Will God forgive my very worst sin?

That's the question from an anonymous young woman today who listens to the podcast.

Dear Pastor John, I had an abortion.

That is the one and only thing I knew I would never ever do, but I did it.

I can't begin to detail here the grief and damage it has caused me, and I know I deserve every bit of it. I feel as though I will always

be a low-class Christian because of what I've done. I was a believer when I committed this sin.

I did not do it to avoid disruption in my life but because I had no confidence that I could offer any quality of life to a child at the time.

In my twisted mind I felt I was doing the child better by preventing him or her from having

to suffer in a broken family or a foster home.

I understand that way of thinking is absurd.

I just didn't understand that at the time. I grew up in a family

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