What It Means to Have Living Hope

Pastors, Do You Encourage Your Congregation with the Sacraments?

Coleman M. Ford, Shawn J. Wilhite

The Spirit is at work in all aspects of worship and ministry, but the two sacraments (or ordinances) provide special physical pictures of his powerful work of spiritual transformation.

How Union with Christ Shapes Our Assurance of Salvation

Brad Wetherell

Many of us will experience seasons where assurance of our salvation gets covered over and feels hidden, almost the way the sun can be hidden behind the clouds.

Podcast: How Reverence Changes the Way You Worship, Suffer, and Grow (Laura Story)

Laura Story discusses the importance of reverence towards God and how it helps us through suffering, changes our worship, and is the soil for spiritual growth.

How Do We Know If Repentance Is Genuine?

Chris Brauns

Fake repentance can look remarkably like the real thing. But even if it is difficult to distinguish godly grief from worldly sorrow, we need not despair that it is impossible.

7 Ways a Husband Can Take Initiative in Showing Love to His Wife

Jonathan Leeman

Husband, you’re not your wife’s sinless, all-wise redeemer. She has one: Christ. Yet Christ died to save the church and to make the church holy before the Father.

5 Things We Lose When We Subtract Evangelism from the Christian Life

Sharonda Cooper

The real reason many of us avoid evangelism is the relational risk it brings. We don’t want people to avoid us. We fear losing friends. We dread awkward interactions.