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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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Biblical Truth vs. Human Truth: Why God’s Ways Outrank Ours

A veteran believer compares Naturalism, Humanism, and New Age thought with Scripture's answer: repentance, grace, and a Shepherd who provides.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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The Christian View of Assisted Suicide and the Value of Life

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Assisted suicide promises control over death, but Scripture calls us to trust the Author of life, even in unbearable pain.

Valley of Baka: What It Teaches About Passing Through Hard Seasons

Marie Grace, PhD -
A short devotional on Psalm 84's Valley of Baka, showing how God turns hard seasons into springs along the road to Zion and beyond.

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

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

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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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The Christian View of Assisted Suicide and the Value of Life

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Assisted suicide promises control over death, but Scripture calls us to trust the Author of life, even in unbearable pain.
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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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Christianity vs. christianity – Who’s who in Eternity 

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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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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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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.
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Valley of Baka: What It Teaches About Passing Through Hard Seasons

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A short devotional on Psalm 84's Valley of Baka, showing how God turns hard seasons into springs along the road to Zion and beyond.
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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.
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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.
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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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Boldness in Prayer: You Will Need It Today

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Some days remind us how much we depend on prayer for wisdom, patience, and deliverance from temptation. Prayer draws us near to the God who already knows our hearts.
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Biblical Truth vs. Human Truth: Why God’s Ways Outrank Ours

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A veteran believer compares Naturalism, Humanism, and New Age thought with Scripture's answer: repentance, grace, and a Shepherd who provides.
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Holy Spirit After Death: What Happens When a Believer Dies

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The Holy Spirit indwells believers by personal union, not physical location, so death and the rapture change nothing about His presence.
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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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Is the Rapture a Modern Invention or Biblical Truth?

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Is the Rapture of the church a recent theological invention, or is it rooted in Scripture? This article examines the Biblical, historical, and theological case for the Rapture and answers common objections.

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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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Biblical Truth vs. Human Truth: Why God’s Ways Outrank Ours

A veteran believer compares Naturalism, Humanism, and New Age thought with Scripture's answer: repentance, grace, and a Shepherd who provides.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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

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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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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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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We want a God who fits our comfort zone, not the one revealed in Scripture. But God will not reshape Himself to suit our preferences, and every choice to ignore His Word is a step away from Him.

Water Baptism and Living Water in the Christian Life

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The author explores the significance of water in the Bible and its connection to spiritual growth and new beginnings. Schultz shares her personal experience of navigating through difficult times, drawing strength from biblical passages like Isaiah 43:1-5 and Matthew 11:28-30. She emphasizes God’s faithfulness and presence during challenging times, highlighting how He carries burdens and fights battles.

Reflecting on a Sea of the Lost

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Salvation of the Mind vs. the Heart

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A daughter baptized twice, the second time because her first was only in her mind, not her heart. Intellectual assent accepts a Savior; true salvation surrenders to a Lord, and a changed life over time is the proof.

Go Tell It On The Mountain – Theology in Song

Jeff Hilles -
The hymn, “Go Tell it On the Mountain” has had a...

Survey of the Gospel of John

Jaqueline Grandi -
John opens before creation itself, declaring Jesus the eternal Word made flesh. This survey traces how one Gospel moves from cosmic prologue to empty tomb, inviting every reader to believe and receive life in His name.

A Review of the song – Trust in God

Jeff Hilles -
Elevation Worship's Trust in God borrows the melody of Blessed Assurance but carries subtle tensions worth examining. Does its repeated refrain invite genuine faith or unspoken demands on God's sovereignty?

No Casting of Stones

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Every believer struggles with faith, even the shepherd. Scripture convicts before it comforts, but that conviction is a gift, not a verdict. No stones needed here, only grace and the God who already made the first move.

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Boldness in Prayer: You Will Need It Today

Rich Holt -
Some days remind us how much we depend on prayer for wisdom, patience, and deliverance from temptation. Prayer draws us near to the God who already knows our hearts.

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

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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.

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Valley of Baka: What It Teaches About Passing Through Hard Seasons

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A short devotional on Psalm 84's Valley of Baka, showing how God turns hard seasons into springs along the road to Zion and beyond.
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The Christian View of Assisted Suicide and the Value of Life

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Assisted suicide promises control over death, but Scripture calls us to trust the Author of life, even in unbearable pain.
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Boldness in Prayer: You Will Need It Today

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Some days remind us how much we depend on prayer for wisdom, patience, and deliverance from temptation. Prayer draws us near to the God who already knows our hearts.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.

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Question #3: How many persons are there in God?

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Answer: There are three persons in the one...

Question #46: What is the Lord’s Supper?

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Bread broken, cup lifted, souls fed. The Lord's Supper is more than ritual remembrance — it joins believers to Christ and to each other, and points forward to the feast still to come.

Question #2: What is God?

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Eternal, infinite, and unchangeable — God stands apart from every false rival. His power, goodness, wisdom, and truth are without limit, and nothing in creation occurs outside his sovereign will.

Question #52: What hope does everlasting life hold for us?

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This broken world is not the final word. Everlasting life means dwelling with God forever in a renewed creation, free from sin and death, with every tear wiped away and resurrection bodies made to last.

Question # 24: Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die?

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Answer: Since death is the punishment for sin,...

Question #1: What is our only hope in life and death?

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The New City Catechism opens with the hardest question a person can face: what holds you when everything falls apart? The answer is not a what but a who, and He already owns you completely.

Question #44: What is baptism?

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Water poured in the name of the Trinity is more than ritual. Baptism publicly seals a believer's adoption into Christ, the washing away of sin, and a lifelong belonging to God and His people.

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 #40: What should we pray?

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Answer: The whole Word of God directs and inspires...

Question #33: Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else?

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Answer: No, they should not, as everything necessary...