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“The God of Your Own Making Will Never Confront Your Sin”

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We all want a god who blesses what we already want. Scripture describes something else entirely: a God who confronts sin because He loves us too much to leave us there.

Perhaps 75% of the church believes sanctification is becoming “nicer.”

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Most churched people think sanctification means becoming nicer. But "nice" can mask a lost soul. True growth begins with loving God, obeying His Word, and grasping the concept of His grace.

“Societal division does not deteriorate God’s sovereignty.” 

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Societies fracture, but God's throne does not wobble. Scripture reveals a sovereign Lord whose purposes prevail through every cultural collision, political upheaval, and generational divide.

“He that fears God, fears nothing else.”

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John Donne makes the point that reverent fear of the Lord frees Christians from anxiety, and roots true courage in God's sovereignty.

“Show Me Your Scars,” said the dying woman.

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When a parish priest came to absolve a dying woman of her sins, she asked one piercing question: show me your scars. Only Christ, the Lamb of God, can forgive sins.

“Fading faith has nothing to do with the lack of examples of faithful people.”

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Fading faith is rarely caused by a lack of faithful examples. More often, it begins in the private choices of the mind—but God still loves fading hearts.

“The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life…”

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A Biblical Christian reflection on Matt Chandler’s quote about praising God in the storm through a deeper knowledge of God’s goodness and grace.

“The Rod and the Staff are a symbol…”

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The rod and staff symbolize protection and guidance, with the cross embodying God’s justice and mercy.

“If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things…” 

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Christians believe God controls all things, providing comfort and assurance through providence.

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but…”

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True success is aligning one’s heart with Christ and living a life of faithfulness, love, and service, prioritizing eternal values over worldly pursuits.

“Remorse and repentance are not the same thing.”

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Remorse and repentance are often used interchangeably, but they are distinct concepts in a Biblical Christian worldview. Remorse is emotional regret for sin, while repentance involves a change of heart and turning away from sin.

“Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship.”

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Christians face global persecution, yet history shows it strengthens faith. Believers are called to support and advocate for those who are being persecuted.

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.” 

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Worry is a common struggle for Christians, but the Bible encourages believers to trust in God’s control and care.

“I do believe that the dominant Christian theory is that…”

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Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, plans to convert to Christianity before dying of cancer. The article emphasizes salvation comes from accepting Christ, not good deeds.

“The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.” 

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The article explores the idea that God’s grace will always sustain believers, even in difficult times. It emphasizes that God is always present, providing comfort and guidance through scripture.

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Spiritual Growth

Kadosh Holiness: The Sermon on the Mount’s Hardest Call

I.M. walks through the uncomfortable parts of the Sermon on the Mount - the calls to reconcile, purify, and surrender - and asks what it means to become kadosh: set apart for God.
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Faith in Action: How a Roadside Meeting Changed Two Lives

Spiritual Growth Andrew Ross -
A chaplain stops to help a disabled homeless man and discovers that one small act of kindness can grow into friendship, faith, and lasting hope.

Citizens of Heaven: Living Faithfully in Two Kingdoms Today

In the News Randy DeVaul -
A July 4th reflection on living faithfully as citizens of America now while holding fast to our true, eternal citizenship in Heaven.

The Quiet Damage of Good People Who Aren’t Paying Attention

In the News Joseph Jones -
A sobering meditation on the accumulated harm of small, careless moments — the laugh, the unanswered message, the post — and the six words that can still turn the count the other way while the window remains open.

Religious Liberty, Rulings, and Cultural Drift

News Portal Jeff Hilles -
This week: a landmark ruling on girls' sports, Iran seizes a church, DOJ's religious liberty report, false prophets, AI's spiritual dangers, and America's Biblical roots examined.

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Sacrificial Giving as Faith: The Seed That Precedes Breakthrough

Joseph Jones -
Salvation cannot be purchased and God's love is freely given, yet Scripture repeatedly shows faith that moves before the breakthrough. A reflection on giving as trust, not transaction.

Run Lighter: How Grace Frees Us to Lay Down Our Burdens

Marie Grace, PhD -
Regret and failure can become burdens we mistake for our name. Through Hebrews 12 and the restoration of Peter, grace does not deny the weight but teaches us how to release it, so we can run lighter.

God’s Nearness in the Hospital Room When Fear Presses In

Marie Grace, PhD -
Marie writes from a hospital bed about the moment fear pressed in and God drew near—not with explanations, but with the quiet promise that He was not yet finished.

Heaven: The Land of No Memory and Our Relationships

Rina Schultz -
A believer wrestles honestly with Psalm 88 and the question of how relationships, marriage, and memory will be transformed in Heaven.

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Why R.C. Sproul and Billy Graham Will Meet in Heaven

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R.C. Sproul and Billy Graham stood on opposite sides of the Calvinist-Arminian divide, yet their shared faith in Christ points to a deeper unity than theological rivalry.
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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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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 God of Your Own Making Will Never Confront Your Sin”

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We all want a god who blesses what we already want. Scripture describes something else entirely: a God who confronts sin because He loves us too much to leave us there.
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How to Love God with All Your Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength

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The article explores loving God, growing in Christ, prioritizing His kingdom, and aligning life with His will. There is a need for a genuine relationship with God and loving Him with all one’s heart, mind, soul, and strength.
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The Quiet Damage of Good People Who Aren’t Paying Attention

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A sobering meditation on the accumulated harm of small, careless moments — the laugh, the unanswered message, the post — and the six words that can still turn the count the other way while the window remains open.
Biblical Theology

Sacrificial Giving as Faith: The Seed That Precedes Breakthrough

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Salvation cannot be purchased and God's love is freely given, yet Scripture repeatedly shows faith that moves before the breakthrough. A reflection on giving as trust, not transaction.
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Faith in Action: How a Roadside Meeting Changed Two Lives

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A chaplain stops to help a disabled homeless man and discovers that one small act of kindness can grow into friendship, faith, and lasting hope.
In the News

Citizens of Heaven: Living Faithfully in Two Kingdoms Today

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A July 4th reflection on living faithfully as citizens of America now while holding fast to our true, eternal citizenship in Heaven.
Biblical Theology

Taking the Mark of the Beast and Still Going to Heaven

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Podcast - Listen or Download I know for many Biblical...
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“The Rod and the Staff are a symbol…”

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The rod and staff symbolize protection and guidance, with the cross embodying God’s justice and mercy.
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So He Gave Them His Attention: What God Wants in Return

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God gives us His attention, expecting to receive something from us, not just something, but everything. Today, give Him your whole heart in return.
Spiritual Growth

Kadosh Holiness: The Sermon on the Mount’s Hardest Call

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I.M. walks through the uncomfortable parts of the Sermon on the Mount - the calls to reconcile, purify, and surrender - and asks what it means to become kadosh: set apart for God.
Biblical Theology

College Students not so Progressive after all.

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88% of college students admitted faking progressive views to fit in socially or academically. Beneath the performative conformity, a more traditional moral core is quietly surfacing across America.
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Sleeping With the Enemy: The One Thing You Lack

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We can live where our hearts feel right with God yet quietly house compromises we refuse to touch. This piece presses on the 'one thing' we keep avoiding and calls us to tear it down today.
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Religious Liberty, Rulings, and Cultural Drift

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This week: a landmark ruling on girls' sports, Iran seizes a church, DOJ's religious liberty report, false prophets, AI's spiritual dangers, and America's Biblical roots examined.

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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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The Quiet Damage of Good People Who Aren’t Paying Attention

A sobering meditation on the accumulated harm of small, careless moments — the laugh, the unanswered message, the post — and the six words that can still turn the count the other way while the window remains open.
In the News

Citizens of Heaven: Living Faithfully in Two Kingdoms Today

A July 4th reflection on living faithfully as citizens of America now while holding fast to our true, eternal citizenship in Heaven.
In the News

Why Gen Z Leaves the Church but Keeps the Faith

A young writer reflects on why so many of his generation walk away from organized religion while holding tightly to belief in something transcendent - and what the Church may still hold that no forest walk can replace.
In the News

Recovering Empathy: Seeing One Another’s Pain in a Numb Age

We live in the most connected age in history, yet many have never felt more alone. This reflection asks whether we have lost the art of entering another person's pain, and points toward the presence that begins to heal it.
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From Religious Legalism to Humanism to Jesus

Bill Gray's testimony of learning, unlearning, and relearning — out of religious legalism, through the empty promises of humanism, and home to a living faith in Jesus Christ.
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When the Worship Leader Is a Hypocrite: A Faith Crisis

An outside author recounts the morning he watched a wife-beater lead worship, and how his own silence forced him to confront the difference between a building and a living faith.
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Sleeping With the Enemy: The One Thing You Lack

We can live where our hearts feel right with God yet quietly house compromises we refuse to touch. This piece presses on the 'one thing' we keep avoiding and calls us to tear it down today.
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Does Science Point to God? Faith, Reason, and the Evidence

A look at Dios, La Ciencia, Las Pruebas and the classical arguments for God — cosmological, teleological, ontological, and moral — alongside the scientific evidence that points toward a Creator.
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When Life Hits Hard: What Does Normal Mean After Loss?

After losing three loved ones in a matter of days, one believer wrestles with grief, the shadow of death, and the question of what 'normal' really means.
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Does God Still Do This? Numbers, Symbols, and Patterns

Forty days, three days, repeated wilderness years: these recurring Biblical numbers and symbols are not coincidence. They point to Christ and to how God restores us.
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Does God Still Do This? Numbers, Symbols, and Metaphors

Rina Schultz follows the Bible - from Ezekiel and the wilderness to Christ's forty days - and finds patterns resolving into Jesus and the call to trust God.
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Could God Put Aliens on Another Planet? A Biblical View

Scientists say life needs a perfect habitable zone, water, and a magnetic shield. But if God created the cosmos and still works miracles, He could place life anywhere He pleased—and recent UFO disclosures could only serve to confirm that.
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Why the Devil’s Gifts Always Come With a Bill You Can’t Afford

The devil rarely tempts you toward obvious evil; he markets reasonable offers that quietly cost your peace. One believer's testimony on why the blessing of the Lord is the wealth worth waiting for.
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When Conscience Carries the Wound: Moral Injury and Grace

Moral injury is the ache of conscience that lingers when our actions collide with our deepest beliefs. Dr. Marie Grace names the wound honestly and points the crushed in spirit toward the God who draws near.
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When Reason Becomes a god: The Zizian Tragedy

The Zizians chased pure logic and ended in bloodshed. Their story is a sobering picture of what happens when reason becomes the highest authority and God is left out.

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Choose Wisely

Derek Hastings -
Adrift in the freezing Bering Sea, a Coast Guard officer felt his life was meaningless and finally let his barriers down. On Halloween 1979 he cried out to Jesus and discovered that life without Him is no life at all.

Christian Focus Can Be Out of Balance Toward God

Jeff Hilles -
Podcast - Listen or Download There is a tension between...

American Dream or Heavenly Dream

Derek Hastings -
A Marine who lost his best friend to an IED and nearly lost himself to a bottle found something no American Dream could offer: an unshakeable life built on early-morning prayer and costly discipleship.

Did God Kiss Adam? The Holy Intimacy of Genesis 2:7

I. M. Koen -
Genesis 2:7 says God breathed life into Adam—no spoken word, but personal contact. More than CPR, it was divine intimacy that points straight to the breath of redemption in Christ.

Little children in spirit

Klaus Meyer -
A father held his restless toddler through the night after surgery, and she slept in peace. That picture of childlike trust is exactly what Jesus calls every believer to offer their heavenly Father.

The Greatest Source of Apostasy within the Christian Community

Jeff Hilles -
Abortion, homosexuality, political ideology — these feel like the fault lines splitting the church. But the deeper crack runs beneath them all: what a Christian believes about the Bible.

Childlike Faith

Klaus Meyer -
New believers often trust God for everything, yet education and intellect can quietly erode that bold faith. Scripture and the Spirit can retrain the carnal mind to believe like a child again.

The Dreams of a Hunter

Derek Hastings -
A lone hunter tracks a missing trail camera deep into the wilderness and finds far more than he bargained for. What begins as a quiet morning in the mountains becomes an encounter with a divine calling to steward creation itself.

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The Author of Life Rewrites Every Young Saul Incident

Rich Holt -
At Stephen's stoning, Luke pauses to name a young onlooker named Saul. Isn't it great that our full story, with all its furious moments and failings, has been rewritten by the Author of life and rebirth?

So He Gave Them His Attention: What God Wants in Return

Rich Holt -
God gives us His attention, expecting to receive something from us, not just something, but everything. Today, give Him your whole heart in return.

When Compromise Quietly Claims the Throne of Your Heart

Rich Holt -
Adonijah claimed David's throne while the king slept, and subtle compromise can do the same to our hearts. Now is the time to examine where we are heading and whether it still fits His plan.

Have Ears to Hear: Listening as Food for the Soul

Rich Holt -
Acts 7 shows men who stopped their ears against the truth. Scripture honors those who listened and heeded. Our entire walk with God rests on our willingness to keep quiet and hear His Word.

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Sacrificial Giving as Faith: The Seed That Precedes Breakthrough

Biblical Theology Joseph Jones Joseph Jones -
Salvation cannot be purchased and God's love is freely given, yet Scripture repeatedly shows faith that moves before the breakthrough. A reflection on giving as trust, not transaction.
Spiritual Growth

Kadosh Holiness: The Sermon on the Mount’s Hardest Call

I. M. Koen I. M. Koen -
I.M. walks through the uncomfortable parts of the Sermon on the Mount - the calls to reconcile, purify, and surrender - and asks what it means to become kadosh: set apart for God.
Devotion

The Author of Life Rewrites Every Young Saul Incident

Rich Holt Rich Holt -
At Stephen's stoning, Luke pauses to name a young onlooker named Saul. Isn't it great that our full story, with all its furious moments and failings, has been rewritten by the Author of life and rebirth?
Spiritual Growth

Faith in Action: How a Roadside Meeting Changed Two Lives

Andrew Ross Andrew Ross -
A chaplain stops to help a disabled homeless man and discovers that one small act of kindness can grow into friendship, faith, and lasting hope.
In the News

Citizens of Heaven: Living Faithfully in Two Kingdoms Today

Randy DeVaul Randy DeVaul -
A July 4th reflection on living faithfully as citizens of America now while holding fast to our true, eternal citizenship in Heaven.
In the News

The Quiet Damage of Good People Who Aren’t Paying Attention

Joseph Jones Joseph Jones -
A sobering meditation on the accumulated harm of small, careless moments — the laugh, the unanswered message, the post — and the six words that can still turn the count the other way while the window remains open.
Devotion

So He Gave Them His Attention: What God Wants in Return

Rich Holt Rich Holt -
God gives us His attention, expecting to receive something from us, not just something, but everything. Today, give Him your whole heart in return.
News Portal

Religious Liberty, Rulings, and Cultural Drift

Jeff Hilles Jeff Hilles -
This week: a landmark ruling on girls' sports, Iran seizes a church, DOJ's religious liberty report, false prophets, AI's spiritual dangers, and America's Biblical roots examined.
Spiritual Growth

The Sermon on the Mount’s Hardest Call: Become Kadosh

I. M. Koen I. M. Koen -
The Beatitudes comfort us, but Jesus meant the Sermon on the Mount to expose us. A look at the verses we skip and the holiness God is after.
In the News

Why Gen Z Leaves the Church but Keeps the Faith

Joseph Jones Joseph Jones -
A young writer reflects on why so many of his generation walk away from organized religion while holding tightly to belief in something transcendent - and what the Church may still hold that no forest walk can replace.

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Question #25: Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven?

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Answer: Yes, because Christ’s death on the cross...

Question #35: What is our only hope in life and death?

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Answer: That we are not our own but...

Question #41: What is the Lord’s Prayer?

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Answer: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your...

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

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

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

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

Question #49: Where is Christ now?

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Risen and reigning, Christ is not absent but active, seated above every power and interceding for his people right now, until he returns to judge and make all things new.

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

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

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

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

Question #18: Will God allow our disobedience and idolatry to go unpunished?

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Answer: No, every sin is against the sovereignty,...

Question #16: What is sin?

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Answer: Sin is rejecting or ignoring God in...