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The Huguenots were French Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who clashed, often violently, with the Roman Catholic leadership and majority. They faced intermittent persecution until the Edict of Versailles in 1787.

The Tetragrammaton is the combination of four Hebrew letters to form the ancient Hebrew name of God, YHWH. This name demonstrates God’s self-existence and self-sufficiency and is linked to how God described himself to Moses.

The Gospel of Thomas, as well as other books in the pseudepigrapha, failed this canonicity test and, therefore, did not earn a place in the Bible. We run into a group of writings known as the pseudepigrapha. In other words, writers would adopt the...

Although Ezekiel does denounce a number of cities and nations as well as Israel for their sins, he also plays the role of comforter and consoler, a typical balance we see amongst many Old Testament prophets.

One of the most dedicated Christian women of the nineteenth century, France Ridley Havergal wrote poems, hymns, religious tracts, and works for children. Here's what you need to know about her life.

With anti-Semitism on the rise, we must especially now, more than ever, never forget the events of the Holocaust and understand that they can happen to any targeted minority group. We need to learn everything we can about history, so we do not...

We sometimes believe we’ll gain more of a hearing if we present Jesus as teacher but not as a former corpse. It is too disturbing, we think to ourselves, too weird. How then do we communicate the Easter story to children, as something more than...

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Discover how the Christian lexicon defines faith, worship, and spiritual growth in our latest article from a Christian perspective. Explore the profound role of language in Christian theology and spirituality.

In Galatians 5:22-23, Paul lists nine specific behaviors – love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control – that result from the work of the Holy Spirit in a Christian’s life.

Every step forward that inventions like this allow us to take, while not inherently evil, presents new ethical and moral questions that we must answer as a society and especially as Christians striving to live holy lives in the midst of a lost...

Each principle is centered on the Lord, bringing the glory to Him alone, and the fulfillment of each is essential to the healthy Christian life.

Lordship salvation asks an intriguing question: how important is it to make Jesus lord of your life after being saved?

The humble birth of our Savior has so many beautiful lessons tucked within it. Let’s discover a few of them together and get a better understanding of the true nature and wonder of our awesome God.

You may have heard about the succubus in scary movies. But did you know that Christians like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas wrote about the succubus? What do these sources tell us, and can we see evidence of the succubus in the Bible?

Created in the mid-17th century, the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) outlines the core beliefs of what we call Reformed Christianity.

How can Christians be better witnesses to people who practice Shintoism?

We avoid emotional abuse by following the Lord Jesus Christ’s example and adhering to his principles of love, kindness, and compassion.

Postmillennialism is an end-times view that focuses on the progressive victory and expansive influence of Christianity. It believes that we are currently living in the “Millennium” and that, during this indefinitely long period of time, Christians...

Belial seems to be the personification of wickedness and evil. The New Testament does use Belial as a proper name for Satan. Often Satan likes to copy what God does and twist it ever-so-slightly. That applies to the father imagery we see.