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“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.

Sometimes God answers our prayers by not answering our requests.

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God sometimes answers prayer by saying no. His silence is not absence; it is often His deeper mercy at work in our lives.

Leaving a Bible believing church full of sinners just because of sin, is a sin.

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Every congregation is full of sinners. Walking away from one over that fact can itself be a sin against grace.

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Contending for Truth in a Culture Adrift

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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Peace Beyond Willpower: Trusting God’s Strength Daily

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

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

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A Gallup poll shows young American men returning to faith - and one writer's family history shows why that return matters so much.

Campus Evangelism: Three Disturbing Shifts in Students

In the News Jeff Hilles -
Fifty years of campus ministry reveal three shifts: truth denial, Biblical illiteracy, and rising despair reshaping evangelism today.

Critical Thinking and the Bible: Does Scripture Hold Up?

In the News Stephanie Margos -
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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What You Need to Hear: Are You Ready for God’s Truth?

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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

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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.

True Contentment: Finding Joy in Christ Today, Not Someday

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Contentment doesn't wait for better circumstances - Scripture shows it's a posture we learn now, in the middle of ordinary days.

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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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Contending for Truth in a Culture Adrift

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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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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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“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.
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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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Peace Beyond Willpower: Trusting God’s Strength Daily

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A wife's honest reflection on prayer, Scripture memorization, and why lasting peace depends on God's strength, not our own willpower.
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Young Men Returning to Faith: A Prodigal Son’s Story

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

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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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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 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.
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Christianity vs. christianity – Who’s who in Eternity 

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How the Holy Spirit Empowers Us to Resist Sin

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Sin cannot be defeated by self-discipline alone. This Biblical reflection explains how the Holy Spirit frees believers from bondage, changes their desires, and empowers them to walk in obedience to God.
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Faithful in Little Things: A Father’s Prayer for Grace

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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.
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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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Adam, Eve, and the Meaning of Love Before the Fall

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Adam and Eve could truly love God before sin entered the world, but redeemed sinners know His love in a deeper way through mercy, grace, and the cross of Jesus Christ.
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Taking the Mark of the Beast and Still Going to Heaven

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From Being Oppressed to Being a Threat to the Kingdom of Darkness

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Years of fear left one believer feeling like perpetual prey to the devil. A single conversation exposed the real problem: not the enemy, but ignorance of who we are in Christ.
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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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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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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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Entire Sanctification: Can Christians Stop Sinning on Earth?

A reader's question about 1 John 3:6 leads to what Scripture actually says about sin, sanctification, and Paul's own struggle.
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Is God Morally Evil? What Scripture Says About His Justice

Atheists call God cruel for His judgments, but Scripture reveals a holy God who disciplines in justice and offers mercy through Christ.

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Band-Aid Bible Verses Won’t Work

Jaron Alexander -
Quoting Romans 8:28 to someone in the depths of grief can shut down the very honesty God invites. Real faith sometimes looks like tears, wrestling, and sitting in the dark — not reaching for a quick verse to skip past the pain.

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.

In the Presence of My Enemies

Derek Hastings -
Zip-tied at gunpoint in a crumbling national forest, a band of hunted believers faces execution as the mountain itself begins to split open. Even at the end, His peace holds and His promises do not fail.

Suffering According to Christians

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How a God Who is Good Allows Suffering A common...

“I Speak Jesus” – Video

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcmqSfr1ENY by Charity Gayle ABOUT CHARITY Charity Gayle houses a powerful voice...

Skin for Skin: Would Your Faith Pass the Test?

Maryanne W.N. -
Job lost children, livestock, and health in days yet never cursed God. When all visible evidence of divine love vanishes, would your faith hold, or would it reveal a love that was always transactional?

Why Following Jesus Is Hard but Worth It

Zach O'Leary -
Following Jesus was never meant to be easy. This post explores the cost of true discipleship, the battle against sin, the reality of persecution, and the eternal hope that makes faithful endurance worth everything.

Connected for a Purpose

Randy DeVaul -
Third in our series on ‘God’s Purpose for Mankind,’...

Devotions

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.

Walking the Two Tracks: Salvation and Sanctification in His Name

Rich Holt -
When Peter healed the lame man in Jesus' name, he revealed the full meaning behind Jesus Christ of Nazareth: God's salvation, humble origins, and the Anointed One who make our sanctification possible.

Give an Account: Walking in the Spirit Today

Rich Holt -
A CPA's insight on giving an account becomes a picture of walking in the Spirit, where one act of kindness reflects the King's work in us.

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Contending for Truth in a Culture Adrift

News Portal 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.
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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.
In the News

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

Daryl Wilson Daryl Wilson -
A Gallup poll shows young American men returning to faith - and one writer's family history shows why that return matters so much.
Devotion

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

Rich Holt 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.
In the News

Campus Evangelism: Three Disturbing Shifts in Students

Jeff Hilles Jeff Hilles -
Fifty years of campus ministry reveal three shifts: truth denial, Biblical illiteracy, and rising despair reshaping evangelism today.
Biblical Theology

How the Holy Spirit’s Conviction Leads to Repentance

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

Biblical View of Productivity: Trusting God With Your Time

JM Troppello 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.
Devotion

No Other Name: The Only Way We Can Be Saved

Rich Holt 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.
Devotion

Walking the Two Tracks: Salvation and Sanctification in His Name

Rich Holt Rich Holt -
When Peter healed the lame man in Jesus' name, he revealed the full meaning behind Jesus Christ of Nazareth: God's salvation, humble origins, and the Anointed One who make our sanctification possible.

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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 #20: Who is the Redeemer?

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Answer: The only Redeemer is the Lord Jesus...

Question #13: Can anyone keep the law of God perfectly?

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Answer: Since the fall, no mere human has...

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 #41: What is the Lord’s Prayer?

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

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

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

Question # 23: Why must the Redeemer be truly God?

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Answer: That because of his divine nature his...

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 #48: What is the church?

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The church, chosen by God for eternal life, is united by faith and called to proclaim the gospel and prefigure Christ’s kingdom.