When Genuine Obedience Becomes Impossible, Hell Becomes Impossible as Well
Kevin DeYoung
There’s no way to understand the pastoral epistles unless you realize Paul has a category for Christians who are living a faithful, obedient life, and a category for those who are unrepentant, in whom there’s no progress.
Be Good, for God’s Sake
Jen Wilkin
Generosity is the calling card of all who are recipients of the generous good news of salvation through Christ.
4 Things that Make the Bible Literary
Leland Ryken
The subject of literature is human experience. We should read the Bible through that lens.
Why Most of Us Hate Silence
Zack Eswine
Quiet is a means of God’s grace. Why does it make us so uncomfortable?
How Suffering Crushes Our Unrealistic Expectations
Paul David Tripp
Our expectation is that tomorrow will be just the same as today was, but this world is not operating the way that God intended for it to operate.
Pastor, Love Your Wife
Dave Furman
A pastor preaches on marriage often enough to know how a husband should love his wife, right?
Introducing the ‘ESV Reader's Letters of Paul’
Enjoy reading the thirteen letters of the apostle Paul without verse or chapter numbers in a clean, single-column format.
10 Notable Quotes from New Morning Mercies
Paul David Tripp
As sinners in need of grace, we can find comfort and rest knowing that God’s mercy toward us is new at the break of each day.
Work in the New Heavens and New Earth
James M. Hamilton Jr.
This side of the sin at the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, our work is ruined by all manner of afflictions moral, physical, emotional, and mental.
3 Misconceptions Your Kids Might Have About Suffering
Beth Broom
As parents, we hope our children will never have to experience deep suffering. We would love for them to be protected from anything that could harm them.
It’s by Design That We’ve Never Lived without the Sabbath
Guy Prentiss Waters
In the creation account, God makes the world and everything in it in six days. A seventh day follows that is set apart from the previous six in some important ways.
3 Questions about the End Times
Stephen Witmer
We can seek to understand as much as possible about how God will work in the end times, but let’s stay humble and freely admit our ignorance.
How Does the Parable of the Two Sons Display the Genius of Jesus?
Peter J. Williams
The parable of the two sons is Jesus’s longest story, and it’s remarkable in so many ways. Jesus loads up the story with layers of meaning.
What Our Pro-Life Predecessors Can Teach Us about Standing against Abortion
Marvin Olasky
Success on the abortion supply side—cutting down the number of abortion suppliers—is only part of the battle. Work on the demand side is at least as important.
A Christian’s Perspective on Economic Downturn
Greg Forster
Discipling people for the new economy is a major challenge. But our gospel is big enough, and our God is strong enough.
The ESV Study Bible now available in Korean
Crossway announces the publication of the ESV Study Bible into Korean, the first complete translation of the ESV Study Bible into another language.
How to Commune with Christ on a Crazy Day
David Mathis
How should you think about, and engage in the “spiritual disciplines” when God’s good, but often inconvenient, sovereignty has you reeling?
How Adoption Mirrors God’s Love for the Fatherless
Amy DiMarcangelo
Throughout history, God has faithfully used Christians to play a pivotal role in orphan care. Until Christ’s return—when he brings full restoration and makes all things new—we’re called to continue this work.
Saul Had an Extraordinary, Supernatural Conversion—and So Did You
Nancy Guthrie
Isn’t it interesting how God saves people? And whom God saves? And how he changes them? It’s often the people we least expect and in a way we would never expect.
Practicing Thankfulness during a Pandemic
Sam Crabtree
There is a kind of thankfulness that is grateful not only for what isn’t but for what is. The Bible doesn’t exhort us merely to be thankful in everything, but for everything.
Is Jesus Worth Following at Any Cost?
John Piper
Are you ready to receive him and believe in him as your supreme treasure, even if it costs you the loss of your family and your life?
What It Means that Christ Died for God's Elect
Jonathan Gibson
In the phrase definite atonement, the adjective definite does double duty. The death of Christ is definite in its intent and it's definite in its nature—Christ's death really will atone for his people's sins.
How Should Christians Engage with Arts and Culture?
Grant Horner
It is easy and common for Christians to look at the humanities—art, culture, literature, philosophy—and identify these human achievements as the source of much evil in the world.
Racism, Prejudice, and Christ
John Piper
When the eternal Son of God became flesh and dwelt among us, he crossed an infinite chasm.
Watch Out for Functional Atheism
Dave Furman
In the midst of storms in your life, have you forgotten who Jesus is?
Jesus’s Temptation Changes How We See Our Own
Thomas R. Schreiner
As believers in Jesus Christ, we constantly face temptation. We have been transformed by God’s grace, but we are not yet free from temptation.
How Medicine Is a Means of Common Grace
Kathryn Butler
Common grace prompts us especially to love one another as Christ has loved us and to pursue medicine as a ministry of mercy.
Marriage in the World Today
If the Bible is telling us the truth about reality, then the universe we live in was created primarily with marital romance in mind.
Is There Such a Thing as Race?
John Piper
It is a healthy sign to wish that the term “race” did not exist. It has not served well to enhance human relations.
If Someone Asked You What the Bible Is About, What Would You Say?
Paul David Tripp
No human being, no matter how brilliant, insightful, or experienced, would have been able to write the grand biblical story. God chooses to surprise us again and again.