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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Job needs a savior, and he knows it. And in Jesus, he gets one.
The Pharisee valued fasting and giving tithes, but could not find value in his fellow sinner.
One might say that the first statement of the Reformation was that a saint never stops repenting.
This is an excerpt from chapter 6 of Scandalous Stories by Daniel Emery Price and Erick Sorensen (1517 Publishing 2018).
Paul is writing as a man who has already lived a life of law-keeping while denying the resurrection.
The smallest amount of Holy Spirit-created faith defeats every antichrist belief we hold.
Moses is no Jesus but he, like us, is saved by Him. The law cannot enter the promised land, and yet the true and greater promised land is occupied by nothing but lawbreakers.
Who we are buried with matters. But there is no need to go out and find a dead prophet so you can join him six feet under.
This is the patient love of God. He is stubborn about the salvation of sinners. He will not be rushed even if his name is mocked, and the trustworthiness of his promises are called into question.
Here is someone to love; they’re not a Christian. They’re not very clean and don’t seem to care. Love them. Let your life become intertwined with theirs. Let it cost you something.
Absolution is the word God speaks to cause his sin-dead creation to live.
Jesus is proclaiming the good news that he has come to put an end to laboring to be loved by God.