by Alex McFarland and Shari Abbott
We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus We believe in a pre-Trib Rapture because we believe that is what the Bible teaches. The Tribulation is a seven-year period, the seventieth week of Daniel’s prophecy (Daniel 9), not a 3 ½ year period....
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus In Genesis 2:4 it switches from simply “God,” as used repeatedly in Genesis 1, to LORD God. Gen 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus When asked the question, “What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?” Pastor R.C. Sproul answered, “The main difference is this: “The God of...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus No one really knows where this idea originated. The question must be asked, why would the 13th day of the month be “unlucky” if it falls on a Friday? And, how should Christians feel about Friday the...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus God sent down fire from Heaven every time a sacrifice was consumed. However, in the Old Testament, there are at least seven very significant recorded occurrences of fire from Heaven: Fire from...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus There are a lot of churches in every city. From denominational to non-denominational and fellowship gatherings, it can be a difficult task to find a church home. So, how does one know which is a...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus In the biblical sense, what is really meant by the word “love?” Our culture often defines love in terms of emotion, and the way another person or thing makes us feel. But in a scriptural sense, love...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine… We interpret “not given to wine” to mean not allowing wine to influence...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Q. Is it possible for Satan to actually put thoughts in our minds? Can we tell if sinful thoughts are from ourselves or from Satan? A. Satan cannot enter into a blood-bought, Holy Spirit sealed...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus We’ve all experienced what the Bible calls conviction— that “nudging” by the Holy Spirit, that heaviness of conscience, as God calls on us to change our ways. But what happens when we choose not to...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus The popular Christmas story, “The Gift of the Magi,” was written by William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), using the pseudonym, “O’ Henry.” The plotline of O’Henry’s Christmas story has captivated...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus College has increasingly become a place where one’s faith in Jesus is being attacked. We know from multiple studies that many young people leave their faith while in college. It may not be...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Only God knows the time and the hour when Jesus will come back (Mat 24:36), but we do know that His return is drawing closer and closer. As we observe increasing sin in the world and apostasy in the...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Distance from God is something that all Christians experience from time to time. Sometimes it might feel like prayers are unheard, but we must remember that we know they are heard (1 Pet 3:12). There...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus A rock too big to move is an “oldie-goldie” apologetics question. Be ready with an answer. The challenge inherent in this question is whether there is something God cannot do. Either God can make a...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Question: I have heard the saying “all dogs go to heaven”, but animals don’t have a soul. Still, do our beloved pets go to heaven when they pass, and will we see them again? It is truly difficult to...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Over six decades (around late 1910s-1980s), it’s counted that 205 people died in public shootings in America. Contrast that with the early 1980s unto today, in which more than 1,400 people have died...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Some Christians will talk about intelligent design and claim that it points to God and proves evolution false, but that’s not really true.Intelligent design, which is sometimes called ID,...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus While words are “just words,” every word carries a meaning and an influence that is used to communicate and that’s why words matter. Our ability to use words to communicate is a gift from God...
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We need your help. Please consider supporting Reasons for Hope*Jesus Yes, there is sufficient evidence to prove God. There are ample proofs in nature that there is a creator, and the truths of the Bible assure us that this Creator is the God whom Christians worship...