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Does God give People a Choice?

Question: Does a person have a choice when God deals with their heart?Response: All people without exception are called to repent and believe the gospel. God holds no one back from believing. However,...

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How We Ought to Respond to Difficult Providences

by Thomas BostonIn your sufferings,"Consider His holiness and justice, showing he wrongs you not;His mercy and goodness, that it is not worse;His sovereignty, that it may silence you:His infinite...

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The Providence of God After the Pattern of Christ

by Thomas BostonObserve the providence of God in the dispensations of it, about the man Christ, the most noble and august object of it, more valuable than a thousand worlds. Did not Providence keep...

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Be Content With Your Present Condition

by Thomas BrooksIf the saints have such an excellent, such a transcendent, and such a matchless portion, oh then, let them be content with their present condition, let them sit down satisfied and...

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Why do Christian's Always Talk About Salvation?

What do Christians mean when they say that people need to be "saved"?Do we mean that people need to just modify their behavior and obey God's law? It would be great if it were that simple, but that is...

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Repentance in the Ordo Salutis

Repentance is not forsaking sin that you may turn to Christ. It is turning to Christ that you might forsake sin.When we trust in Jesus Christ we do not simply go to a generic Jesus, but to Jesus...

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Can Objective Morality be Arrived at by Unaided Reason Alone?

Atheist: Objective morality can be arrived at with reason alone and we should all be obligated to live by it. Right is simply what makes the most people happy.Response: I am not sure you understand the...

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Atheist Says You Should Not Lie to Your Children

Atheist: It is wrong to teach the Bible to your children because you're lying to them.Response: Didn't you say you were an atheist who believes in evolution? Your assertion is actually self-refuting....

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How Do You Know All Things Can Be Explained by Natural Causes?

Atheist: A supernatural explanation of the universe is wrong because it cannot be explained by natural causes.Response: Your assertion reveals an a priori commitment to naturalism. You conclude that...

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Sinners Before an Infinitely Holy God

The following is a negative response by a visitor to the Christian belief that those who trust in their morality will end up in hell - that good morality is not what makes a Christian.Visitor:I don’t...

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The Gospel of Jesus Christ

PRINTABLE PDFTHE GOSPEL IS A MESSAGE ABOUT:1. GOD1. Is. 6:1-5, 5:16; Rev.4:8-11. God is Holy.2. Dan. 4:35; Ps. 135:6. God is Sovereign.3. 1 Jn. 4:8,16. God is Love.4. Heb. 12:29. God is a Consuming...

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Slavery and the Idols of our Culture

An overwhelming number of our country's social problems are directly or indirectly realted to the idol of sex. You have abortion (millions dead), pornography (objectifying women), human trafficking...

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In Prayer We Come as Humble Suppliants for Mercy

by John CalvinIn prayer, we yield all confidence in ourselves and humbly plead for pardon8. We come as humble suppliants for mercy

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Secularism: Road to Nowhere

When I was a college freshman before I was a Christian, a friend of mine and I were on some mind altering substance and we decided to take a drive. He was driving towards the mountains.I said, "let's...

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Why does the Bible ask people to repent and believe if they are unable to...

Question:Why does the Bible ask people to repent and believe if they are unable to respond?Answer:That's an important question... As R. C. Sproul once said, "God is not going to negotiate His holiness...

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Cognitive Dissonance

 Cognitive dissonance is a state of conflict occurring within a person when they hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time. The conflict produces feelings of discomfort which the individual seeks...

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Dear Atheist Friends

Dear atheist friends,If there is one thing I know for certain it is that I am not better than you. My purpose here is not to try to convince you that I am morally superior to you. Clearly, I am not....

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Thor, Zeus, Orbiting Teapots and the Error of Equivocation

Two of the most common errors modern web atheists commit are the CATEGORY ERROR and the ERROR of EQUIVOCATION.CATEGORY ERROR an error in logic in which one category of a thing is presented as belonging...

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Some Thoughts From Calvin for Reformation Day

by John CalvinOUR feeling of ignorance, vanity, want, weakness, in short, depravity and corruption, reminds us, that in the Lord, and none but He, dwell the true light of wisdom, solid virtue,...

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The Resurrection of Jesus and the Early Church

Many of the first Christians genuinely believed they witnessed Christ's physical resurrection from the dead (over 500 of them - 1 Cor 15:1-8). Including some who initially opposed it like Paul. The...

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