What Israel’s story makes painfully obvious is that following the Lord is a lifelong lesson in “I believe, but help my unbelief” (Mark 9:24).
Faith holds on to the truth of who Jesus is revealed to be, despite our sometimes incongruent experience with God.
This is an excerpt from the first chapter of A Reasoned Defense of the Faith by Adam Francisco (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 1-3.

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This is the first direct promise of the Seed who will reunite all mankind to God by defeating Satan on the Cross.
Christian peace is not the absence of problems, but it is the presence of God amid our pain and sorrows.
The LORD God had promised He was coming, and they were certain there could be no better time for Him to fulfill His promise.
With a new year comes many new things. In the corporate world, we again introduced to our yearly performance review.
Proper preaching of good works is never for our encouragement.
Every age gives cause for both hopefulness and despair.
I woke up this morning feeling restless. It could be the 7,000 holiday calories I have eaten every day for the past two weeks or it could be that a new year has started and so follows the resolutions.