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Will all believers have fruit?

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What About The Tribes?

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Why is the church so divided?

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What About Evolution?

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Why Should I Trust The Bible

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Will Christians be absent from the tribulation?

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But what if I don't want to "rule" with Christ?

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Why does the Bible sometimes call for Justice and others to love your enemy?

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How to stop doubting your salvation.

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The Reward For Life: A Fictional Imagining.

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How to stop doubting your salvation.

Got this great question from a subscriber.
Hi Lucas, I recently haven't gotten the feeling of the presence of God. I was talking to someone the other day about salvation... now I'm confused again. I started doubting a little bit because I thought that the lack of His presence meant either I wasn't saved or He isn't there. People say that they have God help them with decisions which I feel has never happened to me. Or when they pray they feel something (which I used to feel but it went away). It feels like I'm doing something wrong, or He isn't there.LUCAS' ANSWER: EMOTION IS DANGEROUS. Here's why: I cried at the end of the Matrix Trilogy and had an existential experience at the finale of the first Twilight film. I shed a full ten tears during the Anakin Skywalker Vs. Obi Wan Kenobi dual. Sometimes I'm even emotionally moved in church but it happens less often than it does in movies. So I don't put much stock in my emotions when they do show up. …

Does a Christian Turned Atheist Lose Eternal Life?

My daughter woke up crying at 6:30AM. After my wife got her back to sleep I laid in bed for another few minutes but I couldn't sleep. I had something running through my head. It was this question, "can a Christian become an atheist and still be saved." I felt like this would be a really good topic to write about today. So I came out to my writing office and checked to see what questions had been submitted over night.

This question came in anonymously this morning.
"If I once believed wholeheartedly, full commentment, baptized, truely believed and now don't. Am I still saved?" How serendipitous... Ok. So. The answer is YES, and I'm going to tell you why. First, we need to understand what happens when someone believes in Jesus. As a quick primer before you read on, here's a video we produced on the subject. You can watch it before you read this article, or skip it.

Now let's jump in. What happens the moment you first believe? At the moment you be…

Why is the church so divided?

I had a good conversation with a friend last night. He asked a really good question. The essence of the question was this:
“If the gospel is simple to understand, Why is there so much disagreement?”
He’s right. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of divisions in the church. I have a few quick ideas on why this is.

It seems to me, from Scripture, that there are three things to blame for these divisions. (1) Scripture distorters, (2) Satan, and a (3) Self-gratifying audience. SCRIPTURE DISTORTERSPeter once said, “…our dear brother Paul also wrote you… His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.” (2 Peter 3:15-16)

Peter says: (a) Some of what Paul writes is hard to understand. (b) People will twist and distort Paul’s writings. (c) Those same people will distort all scripture.

You may have heard the phrase, all roads lead to Rome. I have a phrase, all confusion leads to Rom…

Isn't God A Murder?

In a conversation with a good friend, I was asked about the times in the old testament where God kills men and women. I didn’t have a good response at the time, and possibly still don’t. After thinking about it for a while, though, this is what seemed appropriate to say.

God only gives life but never takes it.

Very few reasonable people would complain about God’s unfairness if he allowed a man of 109 years to finally die. They would focus on the amount of life he was allowed to live and celebrate it.

No one is worthy of the life they are given. My six-month-old child is lying in her crib right now. She’s cute, but she has done nothing to earn a right to be alive. She was given life free of charge. That gift did not come from me or her mother even though we were the ones that were there when it was given. Obviously, I’d be horrified if anything bad ever happened to her. Of course, all life including hers is extremely valuable, but that should not be confused with having earned a right to …

What About Evolution?

A subscriber writes:

I'm currently in online school and the classes all teach evolution to be true. I'm not sure what I believe about that and how it would correspond with my Christian faith. I was curious what you thought in that area because secular evolution is forced down my throat at school.
My security is in Christ, not creation. I'm 5000% more confident in the gospels than I am in my ability to understand the first few chapters of Genesis. We really don't know exactly how God did it. Genesis tells us that God did it, and gives some details. Though, Genesis leaves out a lot of information. That doesn't bother me at all.

Personally, I believe God designed and built over a long period of time. I believe that fits with what Genesis teaches. I don't believe it was evolution, but I know plenty who do.

You used the term "secular evolution." If by "secular evolution" you mean, an evolutionary process that God is not involved in, and didn'…

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