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A Pastor’s Guide to Celebrating Christmas as a Church
Christmas sermons and services should evoke the question, “What do these things mean?” to which the pastor then heralds the eternal answers.
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Human Weakness Doesn’t Limit God
Rest and patience of heart are not found in figuring out what is going on or conjuring up in our minds how in the world God is going to do what he’s promised us that he would do.
Why Must We Read the Old and New Testament as a Unified Body of Scripture?
We need to recognize that the one God who spoke in the Old Testament also speaks in the New Testament.
Doubt can be a stimulus to faith, or an ongoing annoyance in the Christian life, or a fatal blow to someone’s loose commitment to Jesus. It all depends on what we do with our doubts.
My view of the Bible was always a view through the Bible.
Podcast: Marriage Questions about Sex, Submission, and In-Laws (Chad and Emily Van Dixhoorn)
Chad and Emily Van Dixhoorn share personal insight on a number of questions related to marriage, discussing topics like submission, relationships with family, and the ultimate purpose of marriage.
Teenagers and the Dangers of Relativism
There are two pretty big things that young people have to face when trying to follow Christ in a post-Christian world.
The First Step Toward Finding Joy in God Is to Desire It
The desire to rejoice in God is a species of joy in God. It’s a seed. You think of a seed and a tree. A seed is a real thing. It’s life, but it’s different from a tree.
Spiritual warfare made the Puritans what they were. They accepted conflict as their calling, seeing themselves as their Lord’s soldier-pilgrims.
Podcast: The Life and Legacy of Corrie ten Boom (Jennifer T. Kelley)
Jennifer T. Kelley reviews the life of Corrie ten Boom and discusses the message that her story has for us today.
Podcast: Confronting the Idols of Body Image, Sex, Abortion, and Motherhood (Jen Oshman)
Jen Oshman discusses the many empty promises that the culture of the modern world makes that run counter to the clear teaching of Scripture and God's good plan for us.
4 Prayers to Pray in Gratitude
Turn to the Lord in gratitude with help from Scripture and these prayers of the saints.
Finding God in My Loneliness This Christmas
In other words, loneliness is an indicator that something is missing, and that something is found only in Jesus Christ.
How Have Modern Ways of “Doing Church” Fallen Short?
Coleman M. Ford, Shawn J. Wilhite
I think that modern ministry has had a lot of fruit come from it, and perhaps a lot of good methods have been produced. Typically, what it doesn’t do, though, is to care about the soul of the pastor.
Don’t Waste Your Life: A 5-Day Devotional
Beyond the legacy that you’ll leave for your family, what gospel difference will your life have made in the world?
Why Preaching Is the Number One Way a Pastor Leads
Preaching has to be the first way we lead as pastors, in one sense, because it’s inherent within our position, within our role.
Loving God in Marriage or Singleness
I guess being married or not married, being in a relationship or not—is a really, really big deal.
The Surprising Benediction to the Book of Romans
It is tempting to skip over the final paragraphs of Paul’s letters, thinking they are simply polite and perfunctory formalities. But this misunderstands the function of such elements.
Two of Prayer’s Essential Ingredients
The resurrection is the most important thing to behold in God’s word to fuel our desire to pray. But really, we need all of God’s word. We also need God’s people.
Faith Is More about Confidence than Certainty
There’s an arrogance in saying we can know with absolute certainty. That sounds more like the Enlightenment than from the Bible.
When the Tyranny of the Urgent Invades Missions
We're living at a time in global missions today where the gospel and faithful ministry are threatened because we often sacrifice the important for the immediate, the best for the most pressing.
Free E-Book: "Why Trust the Bible?" by Greg Gilbert
The Bible stands at the heart of the Christian faith. But this leads to an inescapable question: why should we trust it?
Let's pray. How many times have you been privileged to say or hear those words?
Why You Need Faith to See God’s Glory
The supreme spectacle of the cross brings a cosmic collision with the spectacles of this world. And we’re in the middle.
Only when we catch a glimpse of this God and his glorious purposes that our lives finally make sense and can truly be purpose driven.
7 Tips for Pastoring Your Children
If you’re a pastor and a father, you already know how hard each is, and how much harder the two in tandem can be.
Podcast: Has Christianity Really Caused More Harm Than Good in the World? (Sharon James)
Sharon James makes the case that despite the many failings of many Christians over the centuries, Christianity has indeed been very good for the world.
No, Good Theology Didn’t Start with the Reformation
Sometimes evangelicals view church history as though our main tradition is the last 500 years, but there's much more to our history.
A Devotional for Talking with Your Kids About Jesus Being the Only Way to Salvation
True salvation does not depend on how well you obey but on what Jesus has already accomplished. All these other roads are about “doing.” Christianity is about “done.” Jesus is the only road to God.
Podcast: How to Intentionally Disciple Your Kids (Lindsey Carlson)
Lindsey Carlson discusses what it looks like for parents to thoughtfully disciple teenagers during a pivotal point in their lives.