I receive questions about God and the Bible, and one of the more frequent is whether God really listens and answers prayer.

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My wife and I have been saying after each major purchase, “Well, that’s the last one of those we will have to buy.” One appliance installer smiled and said it might last 10 years. That’s not what we ...

The term “hold fast” seems to contradict itself—kind of like jumbo shrimp, yet it is easy to understand. To hold fast means to remain firm in our belief, to hold ...