Podcast: 6 Practical Principles for Increasing Your Productivity (Ana Ávila)
Ana Ávila emphasizes that we each have just the right amount of time to do what God wants us to do, walking through several key productivity principles that will help us manage our time wisely.
Podcast: How Do I Discipline My Kids without Shaming Them? (Heather Nelson)
Heather Nelson talks about what it looks like to pursue shame-free parenting so that we might have joy-filled homes.
Face Your Doubt . . . and Then Fight It
David Powlison
Don't succumb to guilt if you are doubting; instead, combat your doubt with specific truth.
Podcast: The Blessings and Burdens of Pastoral Ministry (Jeff Robinson)
What are the joys and hardships of doing ministry for the long-haul and what does it look like to be faithful in the midst of pastoral overwhelm and exhaustion?
8 Notable Quotes from What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?
God’s word addresses how we, as Christians, should think about sexuality and offers us hope and wisdom for navigating today’s cultural landscape with humility and grace.
The Normalization of Pride
Russell Moore
Pride is, by definition, idolatrous and insurrectionist because it is rooted in ingratitude. It glorifies the creature over against the Creator and claims the inheritance rights of image-bearers without acknowledging that we have these things …
Crossway 2022 Book Award Winners
Christianity Today and the Gospel Coalition have announced the winners of their book awards for the year, including Overcoming Apathy by Uche Anizor, which won Christianity Today’s Book of the Year award.
What Does It Look Like to “Put On” Compassionate Hearts?
Edward T. Welch
Compassion shares features with mercy and kindness. It is a response to God’s compassion, and it prefers to act.
How Pastors Can Benefit from Studying Archaeology
David W. Chapman
When we understand what's going on culturally in the Bible, we're more able to understand the world that much better.
Virtual Church Is an Oxymoron
Collin Hansen
Virtual church cannot deliver the water of baptism. It cannot deliver the body and the blood, the bread and the wine of Christ's body broken and his blood shed for us.
How to Study the Bible with Purpose
Jen Wilkin
How can we begin to be more purposeful in the way we approach Bible study?
Set Free from Self-Focus: A 6-Day Devotional
Begin to discern subtle false messages from the truth in God’s Word—exchanging a self-focused life for the abundant life Jesus promises in the gospel.
3 Practical Ways to Love Your Neighbor
James H. Grant Jr.
In 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 the apostle Paul gets very practical about what brotherly love should look like.
Is There Any Benefit to Looking Inward to Find Myself?
Brian S. Rosner
It's easy nowadays to sneer at people who say things like, "Be yourself. Be true to yourself. You do you.” But the reality is there are some real benefits to looking within yourself to find yourself.
Is Feeling Discouraged Always Wrong?
Lindsey Carlson
If Jesus knew our humanity and that we needed to be encouraged to be strong and courageous, then we don't have to feel embarrassed or ashamed when we feel afraid.
Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions: Can I Choose to Be a Boy or a Girl?
Andrew T. Walker,
Christian Walker
When we are approached with questions like that, the first thing we want to do is go to Genesis 1. And when we look at Genesis 1, we see this notion of creation order.
How Our Sin Dethrones God
Paul David Tripp
Sin causes us to deny our need for God and others. Sin causes us to assign to ourselves the wisdom, strength, and righteousness we do not have.
Can I Really Have Friendship with the Triune God of the Universe?
Mike McKinley
Because of everything that God has done for us in Christ, we can shockingly have a relationship—a friendship—with God.
The Greatest Example of Courage in the Bible
Joe Rigney
It was joy that animated Jesus in the face of hardship, and therefore, he is the greatest example of courage.
Reading Plans for the 'ESV Reader's Bible, Six-Volume Set'
Our hope at Crossway is that you will encounter the beauty of God's Word and be able to step back and marvel at its masterful author.
9 Notable Quotes from Lead
Ministry leadership, at its core, is about a community of leaders practicing together the presence of the Lord.
The Fundamental Decision We All Must Face
Joe Rigney
You can either put God at the center of the universe in your heart or you can put yourself or something else there.
Why the Book of Psalms Is for You
Dane Ortlund
The Psalms were written for ordinary Christians leading ordinary lives—lives marked by depression, discouragement, despair, frustration, or maybe even numbness toward God or anger toward others.
I’ll Be More Faithful When I’m Older
Glenna Marshall
I thought I would get to be this wise Christian woman that I desired to be later in life, and I really thought that would just come with age.
3 Ways Youth Leaders Can Help Parents
Cameron Cole
Many youth pastors are young, but they still have valuable insights on teenagers that can be of great help to parents.
The Prayers of Jesus: A 5-Day Devotional
Jesus’s ministry on earth as a human was marked by a devotion to prayer. Through his prayer life, we see what it means to truly depend on God.
Our Advocate
Dane Ortlund
Do not minimize your sin or excuse it away. Raise no defense. Simply take it to the one who is already at the right hand of the Father, advocating for you on the basis of his own wounds.
Why Beauty Is a Problem without God
Philip Graham Ryken
I think in a way, for somebody who has not yet surrendered to Jesus Christ, beauty is a problem because beauty is so evident in this world, and it awakens a desire for eternal things.
Download the Free 'Alive in Him' Study Guide
Dig deeper into the book of Ephesians with the ‘Alive in Him’ study guide.
Christmas Is for the Poor and Humble
R. Kent Hughes
Without a doubt we could spend our lives searching the literature of the world for a story as beautiful as that of the nativity and never find it.