Is Assurance Like Light from a Dimmer Switch? 

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Article by Calvinist Jon Bloom, staff writer for and co-founder of desiringGod.org. See here for the article entitled, “How God Gives Assurance” (9/4/15). Bloom opens his article with these words: “Am I truly a Christian? Few questions cause more fearful trembling in believers…” Here is his view: “Like most things in the Christian life, assurance
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Racism and the Rapture

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Our culture is saturated with accusations of racism. There are certainly racists in every community, and with every color of skin. We would expect that in a world dominated by sin. But I think most of us would agree that charges of racism have gotten out of hand. In some circles, a person who supports
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He Who Believes in Jesus Is Saved, But He Who Believes That Jesus Is the Christ Is Not?

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Stephanie sent me a link to an article by a defender of the Christian faith, an apologist. The 2018 article by J. Warner Wallace is entitled, “When Belief ‘That’ Becomes Belief ‘In.’” See here. See also this article at gotquestions.org that makes the same argument. Stephanie writes, “Can you help me understand this article? It
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Israel’s Future 

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The late Charles Krauthammer, a Pulitzer winning columnist, once said this about Israel: “Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago” (Charles Krauthammer, Things
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What Was a Mystery in the OT Revealed in the NT? 

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The word mystery (mustērion) occurs twenty-seven times in the NT. Twenty of those times, or seventy-four percent, occur in Paul’s writings. It only occurs three times in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. And it occurs four times in Revelation. We will focus on two things that Paul calls a mystery. A mystery was not something that
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