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If our selfish desires are being met, our prayer life suffers, as does our relationship with God.  

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Selfish desires quietly starve our prayer life and distance us from God, but repentance restores intimacy and true communion.

God, the Creator, has every right to say, “do what I say, not what I do.”

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God's right to command differs from ours entirely: He is Creator, not subject to the law He gives, so His words settle what ours never could.

We need to trust God, even when we don’t understand Him.

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Trusting God isn't about having answers. It's about resting in His character when nothing adds up.

Our culture’s continued slide into unbiblical immorality has conditioned many of us to sidestep personal sanctification.  

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Cultural compromise doesn't excuse spiritual passivity. Scripture calls believers to pursue holiness even as the world normalizes sin.

Lifestyle Evangelism is like General Revelation – it does not save anyone.

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A godly life adorns the gospel but cannot deliver it. Salvation comes only through the proclaimed word of Christ crucified.

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.

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Bearing One Another’s Burdens: Why We Weren’t Made for Isolation

A search for empty moving boxes becomes a reminder that Christian community means sharing the load, not just cheering from the sidelines.
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Holy Kiss: A Small Habit That Reveals Real Christian Love

Spiritual Growth Stephanie Margos -
A grocery store snub taught this writer what Paul meant by "greet one another with a holy kiss" - and how love is measured in small moments.

Occult Involvement: What Scripture’s Warnings Really Mean

In the News Debra Hodges -
Scripture's warnings against sorcery, divination, and occult practices show that only Christ's authority holds real power over darkness.

What Is Biblical Faith? Trust, Pistis, and the Greek Roots of Belief

Spiritual Growth Jaqueline Grandi -
A look at the Greek word pistis shows Biblical faith as active trust in God, not blind belief without reason or evidence.

The Unnamed Woman at the Well Who Saved a King’s Life

Spiritual Growth I. M. Koen -
An unnamed woman in 2 Samuel 17 hid two fugitives and saved a kingdom, proof that God uses ordinary obedience over fame.

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Salvation Is Once for All: Everything Else Is a Process

Jeff Hilles -
Salvation is a finished event in Christ, but obedience, knowledge, and Christlikeness are lifelong work for every believer.

PCA vs. PC(USA): What Really Divides These Presbyterians

Jeff Hilles -
One denomination holds Scripture as fully inerrant; the other does not - and that single choice reshaped everything else.

The Infinite Gap Between Heaven and Hell, Not Just Degrees

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Rewards and judgments both come in degrees, but Scripture draws an unbridgeable line between eternal life and eternal loss.

Religion in the Courtroom: What Scripture Says About Justice

Jeff Hilles -
Why did a judge grow angry when religion came up in trial twice? Scripture offers a clearer standard for courtroom justice.

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If our selfish desires are being met, our prayer life suffers, as does our relationship with God.  

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Selfish desires quietly starve our prayer life and distance us from God, but repentance restores intimacy and true communion.
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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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Salvation Is Once for All: Everything Else Is a Process

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Salvation is a finished event in Christ, but obedience, knowledge, and Christlikeness are lifelong work for every believer.
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God, the Creator, has every right to say, “do what I say, not what I do.”

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God's right to command differs from ours entirely: He is Creator, not subject to the law He gives, so His words settle what ours never could.
Biblical Theology

PCA vs. PC(USA): What Really Divides These Presbyterians

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One denomination holds Scripture as fully inerrant; the other does not - and that single choice reshaped everything else.
In the News

Occult Involvement: What Scripture’s Warnings Really Mean

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Scripture's warnings against sorcery, divination, and occult practices show that only Christ's authority holds real power over darkness.
Biblical Theology

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.
Spiritual Growth

Holy Kiss: A Small Habit That Reveals Real Christian Love

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A grocery store snub taught this writer what Paul meant by "greet one another with a holy kiss" - and how love is measured in small moments.
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Bearing One Another’s Burdens: Why We Weren’t Made for Isolation

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A search for empty moving boxes becomes a reminder that Christian community means sharing the load, not just cheering from the sidelines.
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Christianity vs. christianity – Who’s who in Eternity 

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Strange Bedfellows: How God Uses Unlikely Alliances

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Herod, Pilate, and the crowds were unlikely allies in crucifying Jesus, yet God used their conspiracy to accomplish salvation. See how He still turns strange circumstances into instruments of His purpose today.
Devotion

Finding Rest and Hope in Christ Amid Life’s Futility

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Shakespeare's Macbeth captured the ache of a purposeless life, but Scripture points to a better ending: peace and hope secured only in Jesus Christ.
Spiritual Growth

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.
Spiritual Growth

Rooted in Christ

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Fruit grows up, but health starts underground. Deep roots in Christ, not outward performance, are what keep faith standing through drought, pressure, and uncertainty.
In the News

One World Religion – From the Pope

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Pope Francis told a Singapore interfaith gathering that all religions are different languages leading to the same God. Revelation warns of exactly this convergence, and the signs are worth taking seriously.
Spiritual Growth

What Is Biblical Faith? Trust, Pistis, and the Greek Roots of Belief

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A look at the Greek word pistis shows Biblical faith as active trust in God, not blind belief without reason or evidence.
Biblical Theology

God is Outside of Time

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God stoops to speak through timelines and sequences, yet He stands outside them entirely. That eternal vantage point illuminates Old Testament salvation, predestination, and why every human soul faces one decision that echoes forever.
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Evidence of a Creator: The Universe’s Order Points to God

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From Fibonacci spirals to DNA's code, nature's mathematical precision raises a question no lab experiment can answer alone.

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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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Occult Involvement: What Scripture’s Warnings Really Mean

Scripture's warnings against sorcery, divination, and occult practices show that only Christ's authority holds real power over darkness.
In the News

New Age Spirituality: What Christians Need to Know

New Age spirituality is surging in search trends and pop culture - here's where it began and how it contradicts the gospel.
In the News

The Devil Made Me Do It: A Biblical Look at Blame and Sin

Flip Wilson's punchline became an excuse for sin, but Scripture ties temptation to our own hearts and holds us responsible.
In the News

Evidence of a Creator: The Universe’s Order Points to God

From Fibonacci spirals to DNA's code, nature's mathematical precision raises a question no lab experiment can answer alone.
In the News

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.
In the News

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.
In the News

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.
In the News

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.
In the News

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.
In the News

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.
In the News

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.
In the News

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.
In the News

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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The Hidden Sovereignty: 

Dr. Samuel Shamaun -
The Bible, with the Holy Spirit’s guidance, helps believers discern truth and resist deception. Cultivating discernment involves daily Bible reading, memorization, prayerful reflection, and mentorship.

What is Holiness?

Mark Winter -
A grandmother who banned cards but kept her snuff habit secret captures the muddle most of us make of holiness. It is not a checklist but a brand, a permanent mark of belonging to Christ who shapes us into His likeness from the inside out.

Don’t Let Your Blessings Be Your Downfall

Donald Pay -
“Let the bountiful table set before them become a...

Is gluttony a Hell-bound sin?

Jeff Hilles -
Many years ago, part of my job in ministry...

How to Love Difficult People

Jaqueline Grandi -
Jesus taught us to love others, but honestly, some...

Who Are the Real Aliens?

Maggie Carey -
Every UFO headline and backyard sighting is a shadow of something wilder: humanity itself is the alien, exiled from God and living in a dominion of darkness. The good news is that Christ came to bring us home.

The Comfort and Horror of Time

Gail Thomson -
Solomon starts the third chapter of Ecclesiastes with a...

Wash Their Feet — Surprising Perspective of Life

Donald Pay -
What is considered normal in this life is focusing...

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Strange Bedfellows: How God Uses Unlikely Alliances

Rich Holt -
Herod, Pilate, and the crowds were unlikely allies in crucifying Jesus, yet God used their conspiracy to accomplish salvation. See how He still turns strange circumstances into instruments of His purpose today.

Finding Rest and Hope in Christ Amid Life’s Futility

Rich Holt -
Shakespeare's Macbeth captured the ache of a purposeless life, but Scripture points to a better ending: peace and hope secured only in Jesus Christ.

Sovereign Lord: The Introduction That Never Fails

Rich Holt -
When Peter and John's friends faced threats, they didn't rush to ask for help - they first remembered who God is: the Sovereign Lord who made everything.

Trusting God’s Sovereignty When the Story Gets Scary

Rich Holt -
Like a child listening to a suspenseful bedtime story, we can find comfort knowing God already sees how our story ends and reigns over every trial we face today.

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Bearing One Another’s Burdens: Why We Weren’t Made for Isolation

Spiritual Growth JM Troppello JM Troppello -
A search for empty moving boxes becomes a reminder that Christian community means sharing the load, not just cheering from the sidelines.
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Holy Kiss: A Small Habit That Reveals Real Christian Love

Stephanie Margos Stephanie Margos -
A grocery store snub taught this writer what Paul meant by "greet one another with a holy kiss" - and how love is measured in small moments.
Biblical Theology

Salvation Is Once for All: Everything Else Is a Process

Jeff Hilles Jeff Hilles -
Salvation is a finished event in Christ, but obedience, knowledge, and Christlikeness are lifelong work for every believer.
Devotion

Strange Bedfellows: How God Uses Unlikely Alliances

Rich Holt Rich Holt -
Herod, Pilate, and the crowds were unlikely allies in crucifying Jesus, yet God used their conspiracy to accomplish salvation. See how He still turns strange circumstances into instruments of His purpose today.
In the News

Occult Involvement: What Scripture’s Warnings Really Mean

Debra Hodges Debra Hodges -
Scripture's warnings against sorcery, divination, and occult practices show that only Christ's authority holds real power over darkness.
Biblical Theology

PCA vs. PC(USA): What Really Divides These Presbyterians

Jeff Hilles Jeff Hilles -
One denomination holds Scripture as fully inerrant; the other does not - and that single choice reshaped everything else.
Spiritual Growth

What Is Biblical Faith? Trust, Pistis, and the Greek Roots of Belief

Jaqueline Grandi Jaqueline Grandi -
A look at the Greek word pistis shows Biblical faith as active trust in God, not blind belief without reason or evidence.
Devotion

Finding Rest and Hope in Christ Amid Life’s Futility

Rich Holt Rich Holt -
Shakespeare's Macbeth captured the ache of a purposeless life, but Scripture points to a better ending: peace and hope secured only in Jesus Christ.
Spiritual Growth

The Unnamed Woman at the Well Who Saved a King’s Life

I. M. Koen I. M. Koen -
An unnamed woman in 2 Samuel 17 hid two fugitives and saved a kingdom, proof that God uses ordinary obedience over fame.
In the News

New Age Spirituality: What Christians Need to Know

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New Age spirituality is surging in search trends and pop culture - here's where it began and how it contradicts the gospel.

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Question #4: How and why did God create us?

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Answer: God created us male and female in...

Question #39: With what attitude should we pray?

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

Question #7: What does the law of God require?

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Answer: Personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience; that we...

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

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

Question #15: Since no one can keep the law, what is its purpose?

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Answer: That we may know the holy nature...

Question #47: Does the Lord’s Supper add anything to Christ’s atoning work?

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Christ died once for all, and the Lord's Supper adds nothing to that finished work. Yet this covenant meal still shapes believers, strengthening faith and pointing toward the feast to come, while warning the unrepentant.

Question #38: What is prayer?

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Answer: Prayer is pouring out our hearts to...

Question #31: What do we believe by true faith?

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Answer: Everything taught to us in the gospel....

Question #34: Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through Christ alone, must we still do good works and obey God’s Word?

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Answer: Yes, because Christ, having redeemed us by his...

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

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