In the background of my childhood Christmas memories stands a shiny, aluminum tree, illuminated by a rotating color wheel—red, green, blue, and amber. The silvery tree made no pretense of being something it was not. No one ever mistook it for a real tree. No one had to ask. It unmistakably was what it was—an…
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For more than two millennia, the enemy has tried in vain to extinguish Christianity from the earth by slaughtering believers. God, in His sovereignty, has used what the enemy meant for evil to accomplish beautiful good. The blood of the martyrs cries up from the ground. They carry on the legacy of Stephen who, with…
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Written by Dr. Michael Easley Culture always presses against Scripture. As a result, no one drifts toward a conservative view of the Bible; rather we always drift away from God’s truth. It is easy to understand. When “they say” something that challenges our faith, a Believer’s first impulse may be fear. We find it hard…
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Written by Dr. David Briscoe I like tools. Check that. I like having lots of tools! I bought my first toolbox—complete with wrenches, ratchets, pliers, and screwdrivers—when I was a teenager working on weekends at a service station. (That’s what a gas station was called before it became a convenience store with fuel pumps out…
Read MoreMost of us want our information from someone who has been there before. If we are going on a trip, we want to talk to someone who has been to that same destination. What would you do again? What would you do if you were to go back to that location? What would you avoid?…
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