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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To be lukewarm is to take refuge in your own works apart from the works of God.
When the Bible talks about bearing fruit, it’s not talking about what we must do to produce fruit.
The prophets of old were right: we do resemble what we revere. Our anthropology is hijacked by materialism. We become just stuff who consume stuff and hope to have enough stuff to make life worth it.
“There is no obedience that does not have its eyes on either God or neighbor. An obedience that is motivated by what we will get out of it is no obedience at all.”
We expect God to try us, not for our crimes, but for our better moments.
I got your life application right here! First off, Happy New Year! It's 2019 and there's a sense of optimism floating about in the air.
As is usually the case with God, He uses something strange and earthly as a picture of His grace and mercy.
We fail over and over again to tame the sin in our hearts, to guard the doors of our lips and to act like the children of God.
Following him will also mean keeping our eyes locked on him so unswervingly that we don’t have the time or energy to be standing on tiptoes, peeping over fences into other people’s troubles and struggles.
So much religion is all about us getting this or getting that. The God who comes to us in Jesus is all about giving us himself over and over.
I’m a drug addict. Specifically, a recovering drug addict. More specific, a grateful recovering drug addict.
Freedom from the Law does not come through personal perfection, it comes through Jesus Christ. The answer is not a better you, but a you who is united to God through Christ.