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Doubt and Assurance

Do You Still Doubt the Reality of the Resurrection of Jesus?

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  • Sam Storms

Are you doubting the resurrection of Jesus? Did really Jesus rise? This article explains seven reasons for doubting the resurrection of Jesus.

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Go to Jesus with Your Doubts!

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  • S. Alserda

What are you to do when you doubt as a child of God? This article first mentions the various kinds of doubts that can exist among God's children, then considers a passage often mentioned in this discussion, Mark 9:24. We are to go to Jesus with our doubts, and surrender to him.

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Doubt and Assurance

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  • John Tweeddale

This article meditates on Psalm 130, as a guide leading from doubt to assurance.

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Doubt-Killing Promises

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  • Justin Taylor

Borrowing from John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, this article encourages those who struggle with doubts to fix their attention on the promises of God’s Word.

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I Believe in Doubt

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  • Os Guinness

Dr. Guinness demonstrates that resolving doubt leads to deeper and more mature faith.

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Doubt as Virtue, Assurance as Arrogance

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  • Tim Challies

The author presents the thoughts of John Frame on doubt and assurance, over against the notion that it is somehow virtuous to doubt, and arrogant to be assured of our faith.

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The Difference between Doubt and Unbelief

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  • Colin Smith

The author provides direction in distinguishing between doubt and unbelief, and instruction about how to deal with either in faith.

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Does Your Doubt Dishonor God?

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  • Greg Morse

This article calls for those who doubt to examine their doubt, and addresses spiritual laziness as a possible cause of weak faith.

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Face Your Doubt and Then Fight It

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  • David Powlison

This brief article is written to encourage believers in their fight against doubt.

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Doubt

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  • CK

This article provides some basic definitions, responses, and biblical data on the topic of doubt. It may be useful to those who must provide insight and direction to believers who struggle with doubt.

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Doubting Your Doubts

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  • Philip G. Ryken

This article provides a biblical perspective on doubt, and biblical direction for dealing with it.

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Lay Aside the Weight of Doubt

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  • Jon Bloom

In this article, the author speaks from personal experience about struggling with doubt, and offers practical ways to lay aside the weight of doubt (Hebrews 12:1).

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When Doubt Becomes Unbelief

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  • Alastair McGrath

This article explains how doubt—which is natural, and experienced by all believers—becomes unbelief, and offers helpful instruction to prevent believers slipping from doubt into unbelief.

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Helps for Doubting Christians

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  • William Boekestein

This article provides clear biblical encouragement and advice to believers who struggle with doubt.

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Doubts

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  • Ed Welch

This article encourages those who struggle with doubt to follow the example of the Lord Jesus when he was tempted by Satan in the wilderness: consider what God has promised and revealed about himself in his Word.

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When in Doubt, Overpractice

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  • Ed Welch

The author advises those who doubt to be diligent to practice the fundamental spiritual disciplines.

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Spiritual Doubts and What to Do about Them

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  • Ed Welch

This article offers some advice about how believers can overcome the doubts that assail them.

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Dealing with Doubt

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  • Randy Alcorn

This article offers encouragement to those who are struggling with doubt, to direct their attention to the things that are certain and sure.

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Seven Ways to Deal with Doubt

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  • C. Michael Patton

This article provides a balanced perspective on the believer’s struggle with doubt, and offers biblical advice to encourage endurance in faith.

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How to Help People Lost in the Maze of Doubt

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  • Leah Baugh

How do you help those who Christians who struggle with doubt? This article offers some suggestions: listen to them, get to the root, and walk with them.

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Helps for Doubting Believers

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  • William Boekestein

Mark 9 records three forms of unbelief. This article shows how these three accounts can help Christians deal with their doubts, as the author points to five remedies to doubting.

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Walking through Doubt

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  • J. T. Caldwell

How do you as a Christian overcome doubting? This article explains different kinds of doubt, lessons to be learned in the period of doubt, and seeing the light in the darkness of doubt.

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The Danger of Not Doubting

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  • Nick Rynerson

As long as spiritual warfare is real, then doubting will always be part of the Christian life. How then should Christians go about dealing with doubt? This article offers five things.

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Doubt Is Not a Disease

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  • Matt Manry

How do you disciple those who doubt? This article calls for understanding the relationship between faith and doubt, because the gospel is the good news to those who are doubting.

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Moving from Uncertainty toward Assurance

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  • Robert A. Peterson

What are the grounds for assurance of salvation? Is it possible to have the assurance of salvation? God gives his children assurance through the promise of adoption, the work of the Spirit, and through sanctification.

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Three Ways to Know You Are a Christian

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  • Adriel Sanchez

How do you know that you are truly saved? Many people lack assurance of salvation, resulting in constant fear and restlessness in their life. The Bible teaches at least three ways that you can know you are a Christian: you can know because you bear fruit, because the Spirit testifies to you that you are a Christian, and because the promises of God affirm this.   

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