May your love in me produce a closer likeness to your holiness, righteousness, justice, and mercy than all the laws, threats, and judges combined. Through Jesus, who ransomed me from sin, I pray. Amen ...

First, the mission of Jesus. He is the Messiah whose coming was anticipated and prophesized throughout the Hebrew Bible, also ...

I m betting the question of whether a believer can lose their salvation will never be firmly settled until Christ returns ...

There is no other name that can save, no other way that can offer eternal life. Acts 4:12 stands as a reminder that salvation ...

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I receive questions about God and the Bible, and one of the more frequent is whether God really listens and answers prayer.

A Bible verse that continually challenges me, and which I seek to be guided by in my life, is Micah 6:8: “He has told you, O ...

Few things have bothered us as much this year as President Donald Trump demanding an apology from Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde.

I receive questions about God and the Bible, and one of the more frequent is whether God really listens and answers prayer.

7:5 - this verse supports the practice of natural family ... [through adultery]…[T]hey [must] not turn away from them the mercy of God…by changing the natural use into that which is against ...

A local pastor posted an open letter by a “progressive” preacher John Pavlovitz urging all pastors in the nation to stand in support of Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde for her remarks made to ...