John and Jena Starke’s “The Sabbath We Need: Finding Rest in a World of Counterfeits” (Intervarsity Press, 2026) is an insightful and refreshing treatment of the oft-neglected gift of the Sabbath.
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Born for a Purpose Hebrews 10:5–10 I have come to do your will, O God. Hebrews 10:7 Our Lord came into the world for a purpose. That is important, for it is uniquely true of him. It cannot be said of any other person that he or she came into the world to do something.
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Smartt was a founding father of the PCA and a catalyst for evangelism.
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The book of Job presents Satan as a heavenly being inside the Lord’s celestial assembly who raises questions about character and motive and instigates divine action.
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Christ’s Saving Work Hebrews 9:25–28 So Christ [has been] offered once to bear the sins of many. Hebrews 9:28 Jesus’s offering of himself was the perfect and final sacrifice for sin. Therefore, nothing more needs to be done or can be done to reconcile sinful men and women to God. Jesus’s sacrifice of himself was
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When it comes to the continental United States, Fargo is the Presbyterian Church in America’s final frontier.
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Our Great High Priest Hebrews 8:1–6 We have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven. Hebrews 8:1 Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament priestly function in two ways, by offering himself up as a sacrifice for sin (which the Old Testament priests could
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Priest and King Hebrews 7:11–28 For it is witnessed of him, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.” Hebrews 7:17 The author of Hebrews stresses that Jesus is a priest forever in Melchizedek’s order, as opposed to any other kind of priesthood. So we ask, What is it about Melchizedek that points
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On this episode of “What Christians Believe,” host Derek Rishmawy and Scott Swain tackle one of the most foundational and misunderstood pieces of covenant theology: The Covenant of Redemption.
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The Lord is pleased to spend a lifetime molding and making us after the likeness of Christ, working in us what pleases him, using perhaps decades of ordinary faithfulness, in which our lives develop a patina that reflects the beauty of Christ.
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