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It’s not always the gospel that’s offensive, sometimes it’s the Christians. 

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The gospel is meant to offend the proud, but too often it's Christians' behavior, not the message, that pushes people away.

 In Genesis, we have paradise lost, in Revelation we have paradise gained.

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The Bible's story arcs from Eden lost to Eden restored, showing that God's redemptive plan ends far better than it began.

“We are only guaranteed our last heartbeat.”

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No one is promised tomorrow. This piece explores why the certainty of death should push us toward the certainty of Christ, not fear.

The power of the pulpit should come from the Lord and not from the charisma of the pastor.

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Pulpit power isn't pastoral charisma - it's the Holy Spirit working through preached truth to convict, convert, and sanctify hearts.

Life is short and death is eternal.

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Life passes quickly, but death opens onto eternity forever fixed. This piece considers what that means for how we live now.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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Voltaire's warning still stands: false belief always precedes cruelty, and only truth in Christ can guard the heart from both.

Swimming Against the Current: The Mark of Spiritual Life

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A dead fish floats downstream with no resistance - a living faith swims against the culture's current, straining toward Christ every day.

“If you think one political party is right and the other party is evil, the problem with our politics is you.“

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Tribal politics reveals a heart problem Scripture names as pride and idolatry-not which party you back, but who you worship.

“It is not wrong to have such an intimate relationship with God that you even pray for a parking spot.”

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God welcomes the small requests, not just the big ones. Intimacy with Him means bringing every detail, even a parking spot.

There is nothing “beyond Religion.” Creation is the beginning, and eternity waits at the end.

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No one steps outside God's story. From creation to eternity, every worldview answers to the same Author.

If Unbelievers are right, oh well. If Biblical Christians are right, OH NO! Today is the day of Salvation (2 Cor. 6:2).  

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Unbelief risks everything on a coin flip; Biblical faith rests on Christ's finished work. Today is still the day of grace.

Science asks more questions over time than it answers. God answers it all.

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Science keeps generating fresh mysteries with each new discovery, but only God offers complete, certain, and eternal answers to every question.

Prayer is the greatest expression of faith because it takes our efforts offline. 

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Prayer proves we've stopped relying on our own strength and started trusting God with what we cannot control ourselves at all.

Many who go down the road of “deconstruction” never make the turn toward ”reconstruction”, and sadly fall off the edge.

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Deconstructing faith without rebuilding on Christ leaves people spiritually homeless, exposed to doubt, despair, and unbelief.

Tears wiped away in Heaven (Rev. 21:4) will be partly due to how we squandered the power of prayer on earth.

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Heaven's tears may trace to prayers we left unprayed. This quote confronts how lightly we treat intercession's real power.

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Criticisms of Christianity: Five Common Objections Answered

Is Christianity just a crutch, a fairy tale, or hypocrisy dressed up as faith? Five common objections, tested and found lacking.
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Everyday Frustrations and Finding Peace in God’s Presence

In the News Debra Hodges -
From bug encounters to QR codes and gas prices, one writer's humor turns into a heartfelt call to bring frustrations to God.

God’s Word Is Our Navigation System for Daily Life

Spiritual Growth JM Troppello -
One writer's ordinary drive home with a glitching GPS becomes a lesson in why believers still need to open God's Word every day.

Obedience and God’s Plan: What Isaac’s Story Teaches Us

Spiritual Growth Rina Schultz -
A quiet study of Isaac reveals how obedience, not drama, secures the inheritance of God's promise across generations of famine and conflict.

Contending for Truth in a Culture Adrift

News Portal Jeff Hilles -
This week: the Babylon Bee sues over AI satire rules, Iranian and Nigerian Christians face persecution, universalist candidates stir debate, and polls chart America's fading certainty about God.

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Joy versus Happiness: What the Bible Actually Promises

William Delmore -
The Bible draws a sharp line between fleeting happiness tied to possessions and the lasting joy God gives even in suffering.

What You Need to Hear: Are You Ready for God’s Truth?

Jeff Hilles -
Scripture doesn't exist to flatter us. It's meant to correct, convict, and heal - even when that message is hard to receive.

How the Holy Spirit’s Conviction Leads to Repentance

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The Holy Spirit's conviction isn't condemnation - it's mercy, exposing sin so grace and repentance can do their healing work.

Biblical View of Productivity: Trusting God With Your Time

JM Troppello -
A quieter business day, a niece driven to VBS, and an answered prayer - one writer's reminder that God doesn't need your hustle to work.

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Famous Atheists Who Became Christians

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An Oxford atheist argued with friends until Christianity made more sense than materialism. These stories of scientists, journalists, and scholars who crossed from unbelief to faith still challenge and inspire.
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Why God created man?

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God created man in His image and with a purpose, but Adam lost it chasing God's likeness. Every hard thing since then is part of a plan already in motion to conform us to the image of His Son.
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God vs. gods vs. god

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Not every religion that speaks of one god means the God of the Bible. A close look at Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, and the Jehovah's Witnesses reveals how a single word can point toward heaven or mask something far darker.
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It’s not always the gospel that’s offensive, sometimes it’s the Christians. 

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The gospel is meant to offend the proud, but too often it's Christians' behavior, not the message, that pushes people away.
In the News

Criticisms of Christianity: Five Common Objections Answered

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Is Christianity just a crutch, a fairy tale, or hypocrisy dressed up as faith? Five common objections, tested and found lacking.
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Christianity vs. christianity – Who’s who in Eternity 

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 In Genesis, we have paradise lost, in Revelation we have paradise gained.

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The Bible's story arcs from Eden lost to Eden restored, showing that God's redemptive plan ends far better than it began.
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When God Humiliated the gods of Egypt

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Pharaoh's gods ruled the Nile, the soil, the womb, and the herd — until God turned every sacred symbol against Egypt. The ten plagues were not random disasters but a precise, public humiliation of the powers Egypt trusted most.
Biblical Theology

Joy versus Happiness: What the Bible Actually Promises

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The Bible draws a sharp line between fleeting happiness tied to possessions and the lasting joy God gives even in suffering.
Spiritual Growth

Obedience and God’s Plan: What Isaac’s Story Teaches Us

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A quiet study of Isaac reveals how obedience, not drama, secures the inheritance of God's promise across generations of famine and conflict.
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Living Out Christian Faith in a Secular Environment

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In today’s world, people of faith often find themselves...
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Everyday Frustrations and Finding Peace in God’s Presence

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From bug encounters to QR codes and gas prices, one writer's humor turns into a heartfelt call to bring frustrations to God.
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Refusing to Stop Speaking in Jesus’ Name

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When commanded to stop preaching, Peter and John kept Jesus first. This devotional asks whether our churches and our schedules still make room for speaking His name, not just staying busy.
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Hope in Dark Times: Trusting God’s Deliverance

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From Pharaoh's murderous decree to today's cultural decay, God's people have always faced dark schemes. This devotional points to the deliverance and nearness of Jesus even now.
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Addressing 5 Common Myths About Christianity 

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Christianity is often reduced to a rulebook, a superiority club, or a science-denier's handbook. Five of the most stubborn myths get a direct answer from what Scripture actually teaches.
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There is a Reason for so many Bible Translations

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While studying for my postgraduate degree in translation, we...
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What did the Early Church Look Like?

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The early church met at dawn, prayed set prayers, and risked death rather than bow to Caesar. Their pattern of worship and sacrifice still shapes faithful Christian community today.
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Does the Antichrist know he is the Antichrist?

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A man will be born, live an ordinary life, and one day feel Satan himself take residence within him. Biblical cases of possession reveal that the indwelt always know it, pointing to a chilling moment when the Antichrist will too.

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What the Bible Actually Says About Pride and Homosexuality

Scripture does not open with a rule about sex—it opens with a design. From Genesis to Romans to a single past-tense word in First Corinthians, the Bible's case is clear and consistent and offers hope for every sinner on the list.

Why did the female minister go to bed?

Scripture reserves the pastoral office for qualified men. Here's a gentle, verse-by-verse look at why and what the SBC's 2025 vote revealed about the debate.

Church: You’d Love To Help, But Stacking Chairs is not Your Spiritual Gift

God doesn't only use our strengths. Sometimes He calls us into the work we'd rather skip, reminding us that every member of His body matters.

Bible Receives Modern Update With ‘Morally Gray Edition’

A Babylon Bee satire imagines a "Morally Gray Edition" of the Bible that removes God's absolute moral standards. The joke lands because progressive theology really is trying to soften Scripture.

Besides Adam and Eve, what person in the Bible had no earthly parents?

Joshua led Israel into the Promised Land after Moses died, conquered Canaan in obedience to God, and pointed forward to Jesus through his very name, which means "Yahweh saves."

Daily Bible Reading: Why No Christian Should Regret Time in the Word.

A satirical Babylon Bee headline pokes fun at our excuses, but the punchline is should not be true... no Christian has ever truly regretted opening the Bible. Here is why daily Scripture reading must be your soul's first meal of the day.

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Criticisms of Christianity: Five Common Objections Answered

Is Christianity just a crutch, a fairy tale, or hypocrisy dressed up as faith? Five common objections, tested and found lacking.
In the News

Everyday Frustrations and Finding Peace in God’s Presence

From bug encounters to QR codes and gas prices, one writer's humor turns into a heartfelt call to bring frustrations to God.
In the News

Young Men Returning to Faith: A Prodigal Son’s Story

A Gallup poll shows young American men returning to faith - and one writer's family history shows why that return matters so much.
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Campus Evangelism: Three Disturbing Shifts in Students

Fifty years of campus ministry reveal three shifts: truth denial, Biblical illiteracy, and rising despair reshaping evangelism today.
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DSA Religious Socialists: A Coalition Built Without Christ

A socialist coalition invokes Dorothy Day, Malcolm X, and liberation theologians as religious cover, but their theology diverges sharply from Scripture.
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Critical Thinking and the Bible: Does Scripture Hold Up?

From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the conquest of Canaan, this piece takes on Christianity's toughest objections directly and unapologetically.
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Getting Right with God Before the Diagnosis Comes

A woman facing terminal cancer got baptized to 'get right with Him' - and her son followed her into the water that same day.
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Christianity and Division: What Truth Claims Reveal

Christianity's critics call it divisive, but every claim of objective truth divides people, Jesus included, and that isn't a flaw.
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Abortion Up to Birth: A Biblical Christian Response

Massachusetts now permits abortion up to birth. A Biblical Christian response to what Scripture says about life in the womb.
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Forgiveness and Justice: A Gospel Answer to an Agnostic’s Anger

A store clerk's inverted cross sparked a real conversation about oppression, forgiveness, and whether God's justice can be trusted.
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Biblical Terms for Hell: Gehenna, Sheol, Hades, and the Lake of Fire

The Bible names Hell in several ways - Gehenna, Sheol, Hades, Tartarus, and the Lake of Fire - each describing a distinct reality.
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Grace and Mercy: What They Actually Mean for Trusting God

A reflection on the difference between grace and mercy, and why trusting God with daily worries brings more peace than trying to control everything.
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Make Disciples: Why the Church Quits After the Beginning

A wedding charge to mentor newlyweds and the Great Commission's call to make disciples share the same overlooked ending we all need to fix.
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Alive in Christ: How God Raises the Spiritually Dead

Before Christ we weren't wounded but dead - Ephesians 2 explains how God's grace alone brings the spiritually lifeless to life.
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Why Church Attendance Is Declining Across America

Church membership in America has fallen below half the population for the first time in decades. What's really behind the drop?

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Loving our Triune God

Kevin Probst -
The ancient people of God, the Israelites, the children...

Bible Belt Pressures and Other Things We Fall Prey To

Jaron Alexander -
What I have found remarkable about living in the Bible...

Christian Hell Can’t Be Proved 

Jeff Hilles -
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The Old Young Earth Creationist… 

Timothy Leibbe -
A wood shop teacher changes the saw blade speed while a student steps out, then watches him confidently give the wrong answer. A lesson on assumptions, humility, and why believers need not divide over origins debates.

Does Your Family Want To Kill You?

I. M. Koen -
Ten spies terrified a nation with one report, and the crowd's response to the two who pushed back was a death sentence. Faithful truth-telling has always provoked hostility, so check which camp you are in first.

How to Fight Our Battles

Paul Johnson -
My Battles While reading Psalms 33:16-17 I was immediately reminded of the...

What is Saving Faith?

Michael Small -
You can believe the whole Bible and still be...

Chasing Shadows

Vera Ezeh -
Surrounded by wealth, parties, and a lifestyle others envied, the emptiness only grew louder. One young woman's honest reckoning with hollow pleasures — and her tear-stained surrender to the only One who truly satisfies.

Devotions

Refusing to Stop Speaking in Jesus’ Name

Rich Holt -
When commanded to stop preaching, Peter and John kept Jesus first. This devotional asks whether our churches and our schedules still make room for speaking His name, not just staying busy.

Hope in Dark Times: Trusting God’s Deliverance

Rich Holt -
From Pharaoh's murderous decree to today's cultural decay, God's people have always faced dark schemes. This devotional points to the deliverance and nearness of Jesus even now.

Faithful in Little Things: A Father’s Prayer for Grace

Rich Holt -
When we excuse small disobedience as harmless, we teach our hearts - and our children - that God's rules are negotiable. Today's devotional calls us back to faithful, wholehearted love.

No Other Name: The Only Way We Can Be Saved

Rich Holt -
Like the ugly duckling who discovered he was a swan, some treat Jesus as a mere success story. Peter's bold words in Acts remind us salvation is found in Him alone.

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Criticisms of Christianity: Five Common Objections Answered

In the News Zack Duncan Zack Duncan -
Is Christianity just a crutch, a fairy tale, or hypocrisy dressed up as faith? Five common objections, tested and found lacking.
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Everyday Frustrations and Finding Peace in God’s Presence

Debra Hodges Debra Hodges -
From bug encounters to QR codes and gas prices, one writer's humor turns into a heartfelt call to bring frustrations to God.
Spiritual Growth

God’s Word Is Our Navigation System for Daily Life

JM Troppello JM Troppello -
One writer's ordinary drive home with a glitching GPS becomes a lesson in why believers still need to open God's Word every day.
Devotion

Refusing to Stop Speaking in Jesus’ Name

Rich Holt Rich Holt -
When commanded to stop preaching, Peter and John kept Jesus first. This devotional asks whether our churches and our schedules still make room for speaking His name, not just staying busy.
Biblical Theology

Joy versus Happiness: What the Bible Actually Promises

William Delmore William Delmore -
The Bible draws a sharp line between fleeting happiness tied to possessions and the lasting joy God gives even in suffering.
Spiritual Growth

Obedience and God’s Plan: What Isaac’s Story Teaches Us

Rina Schultz Rina Schultz -
A quiet study of Isaac reveals how obedience, not drama, secures the inheritance of God's promise across generations of famine and conflict.
Devotion

Hope in Dark Times: Trusting God’s Deliverance

Rich Holt Rich Holt -
From Pharaoh's murderous decree to today's cultural decay, God's people have always faced dark schemes. This devotional points to the deliverance and nearness of Jesus even now.
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Contending for Truth in a Culture Adrift

Jeff Hilles Jeff Hilles -
This week: the Babylon Bee sues over AI satire rules, Iranian and Nigerian Christians face persecution, universalist candidates stir debate, and polls chart America's fading certainty about God.
Spiritual Growth

Peace Beyond Willpower: Trusting God’s Strength Daily

JM Troppello JM Troppello -
A wife's honest reflection on prayer, Scripture memorization, and why lasting peace depends on God's strength, not our own willpower.
Biblical Theology

What You Need to Hear: Are You Ready for God’s Truth?

Jeff Hilles Jeff Hilles -
Scripture doesn't exist to flatter us. It's meant to correct, convict, and heal - even when that message is hard to receive.

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Question #50: What does Christ’s resurrection mean for us?

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Christ’s resurrection offers hope for believers, promising new life and eternal life. Those who trust in Christ will be resurrected, while those who don’t will face everlasting death.

Question #9: What does God require in the first, second and third commandments?

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Answer: First, that we know and trust God as...

Question #10: What does God require in the fourth and fifth commandments?

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Answer: Fourth, that on the Sabbath day we...

Question #26: What else does Christ’s death redeem?

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Answer: Christ’s death is the beginning of the...

Question #8: What is the law of God stated in the Ten Commandments?

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Answer: You shall have no other gods before...

Question #36: What do we believe about the Holy Spirit?

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Answer: That he is God, coeternal with the...

Question #37: How does the Holy Spirit help us?

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Answer: The Holy Spirit convicts us of our...

Question #21: What sort of Redeemer is needed to bring us back to God?

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Answer: One who is truly human and also...

Question #22: Why must the Redeemer be truly human?

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Answer: That in human nature he might on...

Question #39: With what attitude should we pray?

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Answer: With love, perseverance, and gratefulness; in humble submission...