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The deepest ground of God’s faithfulness, to his word and to his people, is his faithfulness to his own self.

God works through prayer to establish and guard us in the faith. Prayer is the lifeline by which he holds us fast.

Prayer is an offensive weapon and a defensive weapon. Do you utilize it in both ways?

The apostle Paul wants Christians to subjectively experience the comfort that is already objectively ours in Christ.

The church ought to preserve traditions that evidence biblical fidelity — and discard those that elevate our ways over Scripture.

Christians stand firm by holding to the truth, depending on God in prayer, and hoping in his promise to keep us.

God’s call to his people is not merely a call to salvation. God’s call is for us to share in his glory.

Are we becoming more like Jesus by the power of the Spirit? If not, we have reason to question whether our faith is real.

True salvation entails both faith in the truth and sanctification by the Spirit. God choosing us doesn’t render either irrelevant.

The particular, electing love of God from before the foundation of the world is the reason why anyone becomes a Christian.

Scripture says that the church will face terrible pain and opposition at the end. Why would God allow his people to suffer?

Satan’s efforts to lead people astray from the truth do not happen apart from God’s plan and design. And yet, many will fall away.

The alternative to belief in the gospel is not merely unbelief, but a deep love for unrighteousness which opposes truth.

Satan wants all of us to yawn at truth and salivate for sin. We must persistently resist him and cling to Christ.

Signs and wonders can serve both truth and deception. We should trust what we see in the Bible above what we witness with our eyes.

The man of lawlessness has an appointed time and an appointed end which Jesus will bring when he returns.

God sets the times and seasons. He has appointed a time for the man of lawlessness to appear. He is in full control.

What is the temple of God in which the man of lawlessness takes his seat? This lab explores two possible answers.

Lawlessness is the rejection of any authority. It exists in every sinful heart, and it will reach full expression in the man of lawlessness.

Rebellion and lawlessness characterize every age in a fallen world, but they will crescendo before the return of Christ.

The blessed hope for which we wait is not a secret rapture, but the terrible, awful, and glorious event of Christ’s return.

To avoid being influenced by false teachings about the second coming, the apostle Paul calls for careful thinking.

What does it mean when the Bible says that Jesus will come “like a thief in the night”?

The glory of Christ shines through every resolve for good and work of faith because he empowers them according to his grace.

Every good work in the Christian life is rooted in the grace of God, empowered by the person of God, and designed for the glory of God.

God ordains that his people are made worthy of his calling through the faithful prayers of his people.

The goal of all creation and redemption is fulfilled when Christ is glorified in his saints and his saints marvel at his glory.

You were made to see the glory of God in Christ and to be with him forever. This is what the damned will lose.

God is glorious and God is just. These realities ought to guide our thinking about hell, not our limited ideas of what seems fair.

Those who do not know God are those who suppress the knowledge of him. So do you know him?

When Jesus returns, he will give relief to those who obey the gospel and wreak vengeance on those who do not.

When Christ returns with his mighty angels, he will exercise full justice, repaying the afflicters with affliction and the afflicted with relief.

God’s work to provide relief for his afflicted people is not only a matter of his mercy, but of his justice.

The mystery of the kingdom of God is that it’s already here and yet it’s still coming.

God uses afflictions to transform his church and thus make her fit for the kingdom of heaven.

Witnessing growing faith and love should result in exultation to God and exultation to one another about God.

Faith and love (and growth in each) are the gifts of God, and therefore it is fitting that we thank him for both.

God’s grace does more than secure our pardon; it empowers us to walk in the good works he has prepared for us to do.

To be in God means to have all the immeasurably great benefits of his electing and keeping love.

The church is not the building Christians worship in. It is the people whom God has called to himself through the Lord Jesus Christ.

We have much of our New Testament because of Paul’s relational, spiritual, and theological vigilance on behalf of the churches he planted.

The New Testament does not convey the mere opinions of men but the very words the risen Christ wanted his church to hear.

First Thessalonians is a letter that affirms the election of the saints and calls them to live holy lives as they anticipate the longed-for return of Christ.

The apostle Paul made himself clear that the entire church needed to read this letter.

The command to greet one another with a holy kiss is a call to grow in expressions of true, holy, familial affection in the church.

The prayers of ordinary Christians are the means God uses to cause his word to run and be exalted in the world.

What is the connection between God’s effectual calling of believers and his constant keeping of believers? His faithfulness.

By faith we are reconciled to God, and by faith we pursue the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Paul sometimes describes humans as body and soul, sometimes as body, soul, and spirit. What does man consist of?

One way to quench the Spirit is to have a cynical attitude towards spiritual gifts that he gives to the church.