Faith holds on to the truth of who Jesus is revealed to be, despite our sometimes incongruent experience with God.
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04/07/26
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.
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11/02/18
Jesus is the Word of God. God’s Word—on two legs (John 1:14). I’d read it in the first chapter of John’s Gospel many, many times.
10/04/18
Love is the sum of the law. Love God with all your heart, spirit, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. That means that if love can't be done when it needs to be done then get rid of the law, because it's not lawful.
09/28/18
A part of our series on Luther's, Heidelberg Disputation.
09/14/18
For the past twenty years that I've been a Christian, I've not found any evidence in my reading of Judges 13-16 that qualifies Samson for the "book of faith" (Hebrews 11).
09/11/18
If I were the devil, I wouldn’t just entice believers to do bad things. We’re experts at that anyway.
09/08/18
As every nail that Jesus hammered was a delight to his Father, so every email you send, every purchase you ring up, every table you wipe down, is a delight to the Father.
08/30/18
I saw a beautiful picture of grace yesterday. A real bestowing of favor on someone less deserving.
08/30/18
Sehnsucht can echo the truth, but only Scripture reveals the God who experiences it.
08/23/18
As a bass player, when I listen to music, I listen for what the bassist is doing. But, when I listen to music in my 2004 Honda Civic I have a problem: only one of the four speakers works.
08/22/18
Amazing things. That’s what happens when the Triune God shows up in Jesus Christ.
08/21/18
Press further on the historicity of the Bible, and we start to get fidgety.
08/20/18
We prefer this to be switched around. We want something to happen in us before anything happens outside of us.
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