He Is Risen Indeed!

Matthew Edmund

Principle Author
Jesus Is Risen is my public confession—essays on Christian faith, culture, and the events of our time, written plainly and without pretense.

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  • Muslims Don’t Lack Love—They Lack the Gospel

    Reading Time: 4 minutes
    Many Muslims are trained from a young age and often understand their own doctrine better than many Christians. If you tell them what they believe, rather than asking and listening, they will tune you out. That’s not evangelism—it’s pride. Let them speak for themselves. Engage honestly. Don’t straw man. Be patient, even if your role is only to plant. Another may water. Another may reap. And some will never believe—yet God is still glorified. Your job is not to win. It’s to be faithful.
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  • The Truth About AstraZeneca

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    The phrase “A stra ze neca” is not Latin. In fact, some of the segments—like “ze”—look unusual or exotic but are simply gibberish in Latin. All the letters in “AstraZeneca” are from the Latin alphabet, but the arrangement has no grammatical or semantic meaning in Latin. It’s just a modern brand name broken apart to look ominous.
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  • God’s Sovereignty, Our Responsibility

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    Sovereign properly means possessing all authority—ruling freely without any higher power over you. That doesn’t mean God merely watches from a distance, nor that His creatures are turned into robots. Scripture teaches that God actively governs all things according to His will (Ephesians 1:11; Hebrews 1:3), yet we still act as real, responsible agents. Compatibilism…
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  • Making Account

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    This reaction reveals a troubling disconnect between federal employees and the expectations of the workforce at large. I sympathize with people fearing the loss of their jobs—I’ve been there. But nearly every conversation I’ve had with federal employees on this issue reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of their role.
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  • What is Abortion Abolition?

    Reading Time: 9 minutes
    Abortion abolitionism is an organic movement of Universal Christian Church, led by the Spirit, affirming all humans are made in God’s image. As such, abortion is murder, it must be immediately abolished, and to that end preach the gospel with boldness, truth, and love.
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  • Leaving Calvinism’s Parking Lot

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    With what we’ve examined so far, it seems to me Our Brother was seeking an experience and didn’t find it. Nothing in his letter about “Why I Left Reformed Theology” lends confidence to an understanding of what he was drawn to or departed from. It’s as if he arrived in the parking lot, didn’t read the pamphlet, came in attracted by the lights, and left disappointed after his vision didn’t comport with the rich doctrinal and historical context of Reformed Theology.
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