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Dec 2024
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How do we know God is real?

Kaitlyn Schiess
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Justin Brierley joins Kaitlyn to answer one of the most important questions we've heard: How do we know God is real? Justin explains some compelling reasons to believe in God, describes the difference between knowing and proving that God is real, and helps parents and Sunday school teachers talk to kids (and grown ups!) about believing in God in our pluralistic and skeptical age.

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