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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Christmas conversations with Kelsi Klembara, Daniel Emery Price, Scott Keith and Blake Flattley.
“The days are coming,” and God said it. God, who kept his promise that Christ would come at Christmas.
Is it possible to celebrate Thanksgiving every time we come together as God’s people as well?
What do Habakkuk and Israel have? Nothing but the word of God. Nothing but the promise of God. Nothing but God himself.
One could reason that God might, at least, give the church a little worldly power.
Jesus came from the heights of heaven above to the depths of earth below to rescue and redeem his long-lost love.
Even if not a turning point, 1518 is a point of no return for Luther.
Bo Giertz attained infamy in Sweden for a humble adherence to unpopular, orthodox practice and doctrine.
Our Lord is not only the King of creation but the King of creativity.
God and Jeremiah may have been looking at the same person, but they were seeing very different things.
God has in fact executed his plans for his people, plans of peace (probably a better translation than welfare), a future, and a hope in Jesus Christ.
The goal of language in the mouth of a Christian isn’t to hold power for ourselves but to give it.