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Five Promises of God in the Gospel: Will You Believe Them?

God does not want his children to live in constant dread concerning the state of their souls. He wants us to have a rock-solid confidence that we are loved and accepted by him in Jesus. However, early on in my Christian life, I struggled on and...

Dear Parents: You Can Do It!

I saw the cover of a children’s book recently that had a blurb on the cover ensuring parents that reading this book to their children would take less than three minutes “so you can get on with your lives.” What a despicable view of parenting —...

Rejoice, the Lord is King!

When one looks around at the world, reasons for rejoicing often seem few and far between. The news about our world is a constant stream of strife, war, disease, tragedy, death, injustice, corruption, oppression, wickedness, perversion, immorality, and sorrow. The seemingly obvious conclusion when viewing all...

A Hope For Vengeance

We are drawn to the murder mystery novel. It calls to a desire we have for another world, where the crime is always solved. We are moral creatures living in a moral universe, and we long for justice. Swift. Immediate. But the broken hearts of thousands...

What if They Found the Bones of Jesus?

Are Jesus’ bones buried somewhere in Israel? Does it really matter? If archeologists definitely demonstrated that they had found the bodily remains of Jesus, what difference would that make? In 1 Corinthians 15, the Apostle Paul was responding to some people who were denying that there...

Christ’s Resurrection: The Dawning of the New Creation

Two ladies named Mary went to Jesus’ tomb early Sunday morning (Matthew 28:1). They weren’t expecting to see a risen Jesus, but to anoint his dead body with spices. First, they would have to figure out how to get that giant stone rolled away from the...