Christians Are Waiting for the Return of Christ

August 3, 2023

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The Core Truth:

Christians are waiting for the return of Christ to raise the dead, judge the nations, and lead us into the everlasting glory of the age to come. We know this is true because he’s already been raised. As a result, those in Christ are able to face numerous tragedies and even death itself since this is not the end of the story. No longer a legal penalty for sin, death for the believer becomes the burying of the seed in winter that bursts forth from the soil at Christ’s return.

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Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller explore how both liberals and fundamentalists have often shared faulty assumptions about history, and how those assumptions have shaped the church’s outlook.

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04/17/26•Mary Van Weelden•15 min

Why Is Silicon Valley Fascinated with Heretical Christianity? Theologian Responds to Peter Thiel

Why is tech billionaire Peter Thiel interested in dispensational eschatology, gnosticism, and Calvinism?

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Last Things: A Review Series of Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley, Reformed Systematic Theology (Part 7)

All good things must come to an end, or at least so they say. With the release of their fourth volume, Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley have brought their mammoth project of *Reformed Systematic Theology* to completion. This final installment now brings this […]

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