A Parent’s Guide to Talking with Kids about Gender
Andrew T. Walker,
Christian Walker
Remember that you want to be the first person to have the conversation with your child to be able to lay the biblical foundation. Otherwise, culture will form the foundation for you.
Help! It Feels Like God Is Far Away in My Suffering
Mark Vroegop
Lament is the biblical language for people who feel like God is distant.
What Is Distinct about the Theology of 1 Thessalonians?
Andrew Malone
The Thessalonians had much to learn about the Christian journey ahead. Thus, the letter happens to capture helpful statements about each stage of that Christian journey.
The Notion of Authority in God's Created Order
Greg Gilbert
Authority is integral to God’s created order, and when his work of creation was completed, the structure of authority he’d established in the world was good and beautiful.
Introducing the ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible
The ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible is designed to help readers see Christ in all of Scripture, and grace for all of life.
Boasting in Weakness
Elyse Fitzpatrick
Jesus knows that true power only flows through weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities.
Build Your Life around Spiritual Habits, Don’t Just Fit Them In
Glenna Marshall
If there's anything in our life that we want to do with regularity, we have to plan for it. It's just practical living.
Fitness Is Not an End in Itself
David Mathis
A Christian motivation for exercise is the good of others. Or we could say, for love’s sake. I exercise to make myself a better servant of others, to be fit for good works.
Introducing Buffalo Leather Bible Covers
Crossway has expanded cover options for select Bible lines to include buffalo leather covers.
Foolish and Slow of Heart
Chris Bruno
Are you too foolish and slow of heart to understand why life sometimes doesn’t make sense?
How to Preach Proverbs
Douglas Sean O'Donnell
The biblical proverbs as a whole have a Godward goal: the fear of the Lord. As preachers, our job is to focus on that fear.
A Blueprint for Multigenerational Faithfulness
Voddie Baucham Jr.
God has not left us to wander aimlessly in the wilderness as we raise our children. He has given us a blueprint for multigenerational faithfulness.
How to Pray about Your Sin
Bryan Chapell
Praying in Jesus’s name is an acknowledgement of our total dependence on his provision. We push away from any personal claim on God’s blessing and lean entirely on Christ’s provision.
What Does Covenant Theology Teach Us about Living in a Family?
Ryan M. McGraw
Human life usually begins in families. Whether families are stable or unstable, helpful or harmful, family connections shape who we are.
How the Bible’s Irony Combats the Prosperity Gospel
G. K. Beale
Since our life is to be like Christ’s, our life must include suffering of some kind so that God’s spiritual strength can be exhibited in our physical weakness.
7 Tips for Improving Your Ministry Team
David Mathis
Jesus does not mean for his followers to go about their work alone. He is the one singular leader in his church. No peers. The rest of us follow his example together.
One Simple Yet Crucial Decision College Freshmen Need to Make
Kevin DeYoung
My oldest son is a freshman in college. So I’ve thought about this question: What is that important piece of advice for a graduating high school student heading off to college?
Why Study the Book of Mark?
Dane Ortlund
The whole Bible is from heaven, and the whole thing is profitable (2 Tim. 3:16). But different parts of the Bible serve us in different ways.
God Doesn’t Love You Because You’re Special or Good
Matthew McCullough
God loves his people despite their sin against him. He loves them before they love him back, and before there’s anything in them worthy of his love. But his love doesn’t stop there.
Why Christians Depend on Revelation from God
J. I. Packer
Christianity is a religion that rests on revelation: nobody would know the truth about God, or be able to relate to him in a personal way, had not God first acted to make himself known.
Blessed: The Marriage Imagery of Revelation with Jonathan Gibson (Episode 5)
Nancy Guthrie
Nancy Guthrie talks with Jonathan Gibson about God's people being prepared as a bride throughout Scripture in anticipation of the marriage supper of the Lamb and an eternal marriage in Revelation.
Why Does Food Matter?
Tim Chester
Food played an important role in the life of Jesus and continues to be an ingredient in our enjoyment of God's goodness.
The Problem with Trying to Portray the Holy Spirit
Fred Sanders
As we strive to know the Holy Spirit the way he makes himself known in Scripture, we are constantly tempted to add a few details, to quietly nudge the Spirit in the direction of being more immediately vivid.
If the Bible Is Enough, Why Is It Good to Retell Bible Stories?
Kevin DeYoung
God, throughout history, has always given not only his word to people but also has given qualified men who might teach others.
Podcast: Should Christians Fear God? (Michael Reeves)
What is the Bible getting at when it commands us to fear the Lord? Is it ever sinful to fear?
The One Thing That Makes Parenting Tough Today
Paul David Tripp
Distraction is a huge issue for the modern Christian parent.
What Does It Look Like to “Put On” Love?
Dustin Benge
When we “put on love,” we aren’t merely personifying a feeling or exerting an emotion, we’re putting on Christ himself.
Memento Mori: What It Means and Why It Matters
Matthew McCullough
When we see death as an unshakeable reality, it has the ability shed perspective on life in the meantime.