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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.

The 3 Little Pigs – America no longer lives in a house of bricks (2 Sam. 22:2); but of straw (1 Cor. 3:11-13) and...

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America's cultural foundation has shifted from rock to straw, leaving false teachersu2014the wolvesu2014free to enter unchecked.

“OT offered insight into our sinful reality. Jesus is the example of our desired morality.”

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The Old Testament diagnoses our sin; Christ does more than model virtue— He atones for it and empowers new obedience through His Spirit.

You can’t pack all Christian theology into one verse, so don’t draw yours from one.

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The author warns against building doctrine on a single verse: true theology weighs the whole of Scripture, not one line pulled from context.

“It behooves Christians to keep close to the word of God, and in everything to seek the teaching of the Holy Spirit.” 

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Matthew Henry reminds believers that true guidance comes only when Scripture and the Holy Spirit's teaching are held together, never apart.

The Bible remains inerrant, even when the clay doesn’t understand what the Potter is saying to us (Isa. 64:8).

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Scripture stays fully inerrant even when we, like clay before the Potter, can't grasp what God is doing or saying to us today.

“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.

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When Culture Rewrites the Church’s Confession

From abortion pill fights and gender warning labels to AI deception, pulpit compromise, and rising persecution, this week tests whether the church will hold Scripture or bend to the culture around it.
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Chosen Before Creation: Your Identity in Ephesians 1’s Gospel of Grace

Spiritual Growth Randy DeVaul -
Before creation, God chose you - not for performance, but for love. Discover the gospel of adoption, redemption, and grace in Ephesians 1.

AI: The Trojan Horse Threatening the Next Generation

In the News Jeff Hilles -
Artificial intelligence promises convenience and connection, but Scripture warns us to test what looks like a gift before we trust it.

Unequally Yoked Marriage: One Woman’s Costly Lesson in Faith

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One woman's testimony on the grief of a spiritually divided marriage - and the hope of Christ's redemption after divorce.

Evil Entering Heaven: The Biblical Roots of Lucifer’s Rebellion

Spiritual Growth Joseph Jones -
Why did a perfect Heaven give rise to rebellion? This look at Lucifer's fall exposes pride as sin's oldest, most familiar disguise.

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Relationship Evangelism Is Fading in Our Restless, Mobile World

William Delmore -
Moving every few years feels normal now, but it's cutting off the long, slow friendships God has always used to draw people to Himself.

Fruitfulness in Exile: How God Grew Joseph’s Family in Egypt

Marie Grace, PhD -
Asenath's quiet story shows how God brings fruitfulness in unfamiliar places, even in exile, when we least expect to find it.

Easy-Believism and the Sin of Doing Nothing (James 4:17)

Jeff Hilles -
Knowing the right thing and not doing it isn't a minor lapse — James calls it sin. A hard look at the gap between belief and obedience.

Spiritual Awakening: Grace Opens Our Eyes to God’s Provision

Marie Grace, PhD -
A devotional on Proverbs 20:13, exploring how spiritual exhaustion numbs the soul and how God's grace gently restores sight to His waiting mercy.

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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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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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When Culture Rewrites the Church’s Confession

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From abortion pill fights and gender warning labels to AI deception, pulpit compromise, and rising persecution, this week tests whether the church will hold Scripture or bend to the culture around it.
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Tears wiped away in Heaven (Rev. 21:4) will be partly due to how we squandered the power of prayer on earth.

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Heaven's tears may trace to prayers we left unprayed. This quote confronts how lightly we treat intercession's real power.
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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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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.
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AI: The Trojan Horse Threatening the Next Generation

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Artificial intelligence promises convenience and connection, but Scripture warns us to test what looks like a gift before we trust it.
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Chosen Before Creation: Your Identity in Ephesians 1’s Gospel of Grace

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Before creation, God chose you - not for performance, but for love. Discover the gospel of adoption, redemption, and grace in Ephesians 1.
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Prosperity Gospel Concerns and the Tommie Zito College Plan

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A new Christian college is planned for 2027, but with no published Statement of Faith, believers should test its teaching against God's Word.
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Choosing Christ Over the Comfortable Wrong Door

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A game show dilemma and a first-century crowd's fatal choice both reveal the same temptation: settling for the familiar over the right and better path God has set in plain view.
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Taking the Mark of the Beast and Still Going to Heaven

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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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HOW GOD HEALED MY EYESIGHT AFTER 11 YEARS OF WEARING GLASSES

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An optician said the words plainly: your eyes will never recover, only get worse. But leaning against that hospital wall, a quiet conviction came that the doctor's report was not the final word — God is.
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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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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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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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The Argument Between Creation and Evolution

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The article explores the creation vs. evolution debate, examining perspectives, the fossil record, and evolutionary mechanisms. It also highlights the mystery of the universe’s origin and the Christian theological perspective.
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Which Of These 4 Hearts Do You Have?

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Four soils, four hearts, one urgent question: which one is yours? The Parable of the Sower reveals how people respond when the Word of God lands in their lives, and the answer determines everything.

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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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AI: The Trojan Horse Threatening the Next Generation

Artificial intelligence promises convenience and connection, but Scripture warns us to test what looks like a gift before we trust it.
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Unequally Yoked Marriage: One Woman’s Costly Lesson in Faith

One woman's testimony on the grief of a spiritually divided marriage - and the hope of Christ's redemption after divorce.
In the News

Prosperity Gospel Concerns and the Tommie Zito College Plan

A new Christian college is planned for 2027, but with no published Statement of Faith, believers should test its teaching against God's Word.
In the News

Biblical Christianity in America Is in Crisis: The Data

New research reveals most American Christians rarely live out Biblical truth—here's what Scripture calls us to do instead.
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Abram’s Trained Servants: How God Prepares Ordinary People for Battle

Abram's 318 trained servants routed an army that beat five kings—a picture of how God prepares ordinary believers before the crisis ever comes.
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Witchtok Tarot Star Alex Ashcroft Converts, Finds Freedom in Christ

A Witchtok tarot star with a million followers deleted her occult content and gave her life to Jesus Christ after a year of quiet searching.
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Faith Deconstruction vs. Rebuilding on Christ the Rock

Deconstructing faith may feel honest, but Scripture calls us to rebuild on Christ, the one unshakable foundation for life.
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Public Moral Witness: Why Christian Silence Is Never Neutral

Moral silence in the public square is never truly neutral. It simply hands cultural influence to someone else, this essay argues.
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Law of Attraction Deception Creeping Into Christian Churches

A leadership bestseller echoes the Law of Attraction, a New Age belief now creeping into churches disguised as Biblical vision-casting.
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Self-Esteem Struggles: Why God Still Uses the Unqualified

Moses, Gideon, and Saul all felt unqualified, yet God called them anyway - and He calls you the same way, regardless of your past.
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Trusting God’s Presence When the Questions Never Get Answered

A father reflects on how mature faith slowly trades endless questions for the deeper comfort of simply resting in God's presence.
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Jericho Archaeology and the Debate Over Biblical History

A century of archaeology at Jericho has become a flashpoint in the long debate over whether Joshua's Conquest is history or legend.
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Transhumanism, Digital IDs, and the Coming Global Beast System

From brain-computer interfaces to central bank digital currencies and the agendas of global organizations, this piece traces how the modern drive to exalt human power echoes the end-times system Scripture warned us about.
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Third Temple Prophecy: Why Forcing God’s Hand Is Not Faith

A pastor's call to bomb Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock raises a deeper question: should believers force God's prophetic timing?
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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.

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Jehovah’s Witness at my Door: What to Say

Jeff Hilles -
When Jehovah's Witnesses sit at your table, polite silence may feel kind but risks leaving them and your neighbors pointed toward eternal separation from God. Righteous directness, grounded in love, is the more faithful response.

Power in the Shadows:

Randy DeVaul -
The armor of God is vivid and well-studied, but Paul's closing charge to pray always in the Spirit is the fire that makes every piece work. Without it, even the sword of truth can be swung in pride rather than love.

Suffering According to Christians

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

Can We Be Perfectly Sanctified in Christ (Updated)

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Podcast - Listen or Download Some born-again Christians believe that...

Our Lives as Stories

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How Literature can Show us What Matters Most Literature… the...

Faithfulness is the Metric — Not Outcome

Randy DeVaul -
Faithfulness, not outcomes, is the true measure of success in God’s kingdom. Obedience to God’s assignment builds a lasting legacy rewarded by Him.

Apostasy: Do Not Be Deceived and Stand Firm

Randy DeVaul -
Apostasy is a deliberate turning from truth once known. But believers are not defenseless: God anchors us in Scripture, discernment, the Spirit, the church, and the Gospel so we can stand firm.

Death Grip on a Mirage

Derek Hastings -
A man raised atheist spent decades clinging to a world he eventually recognized as a mirage. When he finally let go, he found the Truth and Love he had been searching for his whole life.

Devotions

Choosing Christ Over the Comfortable Wrong Door

Rich Holt -
A game show dilemma and a first-century crowd's fatal choice both reveal the same temptation: settling for the familiar over the right and better path God has set in plain view.

Truly Astonished: Wonder at the God Who Saves

Rich Holt -
Acts 8:9 introduces a magician chasing wonder through illusion. This devotional turns our gaze to the far greater astonishment of a Savior who defeated death and delights in our fellowship with Him.

Tell Us More: Why God’s Word Still Shapes Us Today

Rich Holt -
Most of us can't recall a single line from last Sunday's sermon, yet God still uses His word to quietly reshape our hearts over time.

Standing Firm When Pressure Tests Your Decision

Rich Holt -
Pilate had already decided to release Jesus - until pressure changed his mind. This devotional asks what happens when your convictions are tested by opposition.

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When Culture Rewrites the Church’s Confession

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From abortion pill fights and gender warning labels to AI deception, pulpit compromise, and rising persecution, this week tests whether the church will hold Scripture or bend to the culture around it.
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Chosen Before Creation: Your Identity in Ephesians 1’s Gospel of Grace

Randy DeVaul Randy DeVaul -
Before creation, God chose you - not for performance, but for love. Discover the gospel of adoption, redemption, and grace in Ephesians 1.
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AI: The Trojan Horse Threatening the Next Generation

Jeff Hilles Jeff Hilles -
Artificial intelligence promises convenience and connection, but Scripture warns us to test what looks like a gift before we trust it.
Devotion

Choosing Christ Over the Comfortable Wrong Door

Rich Holt Rich Holt -
A game show dilemma and a first-century crowd's fatal choice both reveal the same temptation: settling for the familiar over the right and better path God has set in plain view.
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Relationship Evangelism Is Fading in Our Restless, Mobile World

William Delmore William Delmore -
Moving every few years feels normal now, but it's cutting off the long, slow friendships God has always used to draw people to Himself.
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Fruitfulness in Exile: How God Grew Joseph’s Family in Egypt

Marie Grace, PhD Marie Grace, PhD -
Asenath's quiet story shows how God brings fruitfulness in unfamiliar places, even in exile, when we least expect to find it.
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Unequally Yoked Marriage: One Woman’s Costly Lesson in Faith

Nora Gwen Nora Gwen -
One woman's testimony on the grief of a spiritually divided marriage - and the hope of Christ's redemption after divorce.
Devotion

Truly Astonished: Wonder at the God Who Saves

Rich Holt Rich Holt -
Acts 8:9 introduces a magician chasing wonder through illusion. This devotional turns our gaze to the far greater astonishment of a Savior who defeated death and delights in our fellowship with Him.
Biblical Theology

Easy-Believism and the Sin of Doing Nothing (James 4:17)

Jeff Hilles Jeff Hilles -
Knowing the right thing and not doing it isn't a minor lapse — James calls it sin. A hard look at the gap between belief and obedience.
Spiritual Growth

Evil Entering Heaven: The Biblical Roots of Lucifer’s Rebellion

Joseph Jones Joseph Jones -
Why did a perfect Heaven give rise to rebellion? This look at Lucifer's fall exposes pride as sin's oldest, most familiar disguise.

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Question #29: How can we be saved?

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Answer: Only by faith in Jesus Christ and...

Question #51: Of what advantage to us is Christ’s ascension?

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Christ did not ascend and leave us behind. He rose bodily into heaven as our advocate before the Father, securing our place there and pouring out his Spirit on those still below.

Question #16: What is sin?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question #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 #43: What are the sacraments or ordinances?

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Water poured, bread broken, cup raised — baptism and the Lord's Supper are more than rituals. They are visible pledges where the Spirit seals gospel promises to every believer who receives them.