This is an excerpt from the first chapter of A Reasoned Defense of the Faith by Adam Francisco (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 1-3.
04/05/26
The resurrection means your ultimate problem is no longer ahead of you. The grave is not waiting for you. It is behind you.
04/03/26
Job needs a savior, and he knows it. And in Jesus, he gets one.
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08/25/17
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.
08/21/17
That image of the “godly woman” haunted me from examples in the Bible of honorable women.
08/16/17
Christ is the answer to both the Who and the how of our extra nos salvation.
08/15/17
We sinners share a common problem when it comes to Jesus’ parables. We read them with an eye to our own righteousness.
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08/07/17
Just when we think we had it all under control, Christ breaks into the midst of our futile efforts to save ourselves.
08/02/17
Ultimately, however, we find in the Heidelberg Disputation the root and core of Luther’s theology, which he would build and expound upon throughout his life.
07/31/17
She heard it before, but looking around she struggles to see how it matters.
07/27/17
“My Old Man” is the story of a single father, a grossly flawed character, told through the eyes of his son who can’t help but love him.
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07/25/17
In Christ we are already dead to sin and the eternal consequences of sin. “There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,” writes Paul (Romans 8:1).
07/21/17
Those clinging to God in Christ can be assured that it’s all clean.
07/19/17
Yet, just as the Jews had two choices, true God or no God, the Christian has the same, true Jesus or no Jesus.
07/14/17
It’s a subject that for some comes up every 4th of July. How does the American Revolution square with Romans 13?
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