Why Claim Total Depravity When People Do Good All the Time?
Jonathan Gibson
If you study the doctrine of total depravity on its own, you may be led to think that an unbeliever cannot do any good in society— and yet, that is incongruent with our own experience of unbelievers.
How the Gospel Speaks to Motherhood
The gospel has a practical effect on every aspect of life, including the way you raise and shepherd your children.
Making Disciples Like a Soldier, Athlete, Farmer . . . Mom
Gloria Furman
Your prayer-full, hope-filled work of evangelism and discipleship—done through the strengthening grace of Jesus—gives him praise that echoes in eternity.
Why Our Limits Are a Good Thing
Jen Wilkin
Every boundary that he places in our lives—every limit that he gives us—is for our flourishing.
How Motherhood Mimics the Cross
Abigail Dodds
God gives us gifts and abilities; then he gives us children. And perhaps it seems he’s made an error when our gifts and abilities seem completely irrelevant to the job of bringing up children and caring for a home.
What a Productive Life Is (Not) All About
Ana Ávila
The productive life is not a life of working all the time. It’s a life of wisdom to know when it’s time to work and when it’s time to rest.
The Key to Understanding Why Parenting Is Hard
Paul David Tripp
The Bible is incredibly helpful in leading us to understand why parenting is so challenging.
ESV.org—How to Highlight and Favorite a Passage
Select verses or sections that you’re using for study, memorization, or devotion, making it easy to return to them quickly and easily.
Grace: The Dominant Note of Christmas
John Piper
God the Son, who is God, and who is with God, came to reveal God in a way he had never been revealed before.
3 Practical Ways to Cultivate Gospel Fluency
Jeff Vanderstelt
It's important to speak the gospel in a community who can speak it back or reflect on what they're hearing.
Q&A: Michael Reeves Answers Your Questions about Evangelicalism
Michael Reeves answers a number of questions from around the world about the topic of evangelicalism.
5 Ways to Use the ‘ESV Story of Redemption Bible’
Use these five features of the ‘ESV Story of Redemption Bible’ to learn how God has brought salvation to mankind throughout human history.
I'd Love to Read More, but...
Dave Kraft
Leaders are life-long learners and one of the best ways that we can know of to keep learning is to keep reading.
Why Every Serious Atheist Should Be a Moral Nihilist
Every consistent atheist ought to be a moral nihilist.
How to Make Yourself at Home While Awaiting Heaven
Betsy Childs Howard
Fixing our eyes on the home that is to come will help us thrive in this world that is not our home.
Mom, What Is Your Only Comfort in This Life?
Katie Faris
When our hearts are full of questions and we're asking Why? and How?, so often what we think we want or need is answers to those questions.
Your Access Point into the Doctrine of Scripture Is Jesus
Mark D. Thompson
Why do Christians take the Bible so seriously? Despite some variety in how they might frame their doctrine of Scripture, Christians have, right from the beginning, been “people of the book.”
10 Bible Study Tools Every Christian Needs (Women of the Word Episode 8)
Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin walks through different tools that can be used in the Bible study process and offers wisdom to help know when and how to best use them.
Podcast: Why You Can't Put Jesus in a Box (Rebecca McLaughlin)
Rebecca McLaughlin discusses a number of unbiblical misconceptions that we may have about Jesus and offers encouragement for those with questions about who Jesus is.
How Often Do You Examine Your Fruit?
Lindsey Carlson
Examine your life. Is there fruit? How would you describe your growth in godliness?
October 2025 New Releases
Learn more about the new resources releasing this month, including How Church Could (Literally) Save Your Life by Rebecca McLaughlin and The Biggest Story Advent by Kevin DeYoung.
Homer, 'Breaking Bad,' and the Eternal: Part 1
Grant Horner
What does this have to do with theology and the Christian life? Turns out, quite a bit.
Let’s Be Thankful
Remember that God is good even outside of the gifts he often graciously bestows to his children.
How We Can Cherish the Work of the Holy Spirit
Mike McKinley
John Owen points out three things that we see in the New Testament in terms of how we can go about cherishing the work of the Spirit.
8 Notable Quotes from Ten Words to Live By
Are Christians to disregard the law or embrace it with joy? Learn to see the law of God as a feast for your famished soul.
3 Ways We Prevent the Gospel from Making Our Churches Attractive
Jamie Dunlop
The gospel brings people with nothing in common to love each other even more deeply than family.
Give Them Jesus
Jeff Vanderstelt
It is God’s intent that every person who comes into a relationship with him through Jesus Christ eventually will grow up into maturity. And maturity looks like Jesus.
Podcast: Is the Sabbath Still Relevant for Christians? (Guy Waters)
Guy Waters discusses God's original purpose for the Sabbath, how the idea of Sabbath rest recurs throughout the Old and New Testaments, and whether the Sabbath is relevant for Christians today.
Podcast: Is Evangelicalism out of Touch with Church History? (Gavin Ortlund)
Have Protestant Evangelicals lost our connection to church history? How can we embrace our heritage and appreciate how to learn from past Christians?