This is an excerpt from the first chapter of A Reasoned Defense of the Faith by Adam Francisco (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 1-3.
The resurrection means your ultimate problem is no longer ahead of you. The grave is not waiting for you. It is behind you.
Job needs a savior, and he knows it. And in Jesus, he gets one.

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How many of you Christians out there are barely holding it together? I know the inclination should be towards joy and hope, but for some of us, it's not.
He comes to fill our old, stony heart with the new wine of his forgiveness.
They say girls in our society should have nothing to worry about. They should have the opportunity for education and choices far beyond generations before.
Can there be joy in obedience? That depends on if obedience if a free choice or the result of threats.
Never has the law fallen so hard on me as in motherhood. Never before was I more aware that my best wasn’t good enough.
My Grandmother recently lost a long battle with cancer. Her name was Joy, and a name has never been more fitting.
We need a God who can heal us of true guilt and false guilt. We need a Christ who not only removes the shame we feel for what we’ve done, but who washes away the shame that others have smeared upon us.
God knows our need. He knows how it is to raise unruly children. He is very experienced in dealing with rebellion.
Having a particularly sad day, I set out to find the Gospel of Happy.
Having a particularly sad day, I set out to find the Gospel of Happy.
Being a run-of-the-mill, mediocre parent is a gift to your children. It models for them what life is all about: the little things, the overlooked things, the minuscule elements of daily life that—in various ways—are God’s gifts to us.
That image of the “godly woman” haunted me from examples in the Bible of honorable women.