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.
11 Notable Quotes from Gospel Fluency
To become fluent in a new language, you must immerse yourself in it until you actually start to think about life through it.
Podcast: 10 Tough Questions about the Salvation of Doubters, the Elect, and the Unreached (Joel Beeke)
Joel Beeke answers some of the most common—and most difficult—questions that Christians tend to have about salvation.
Blessing in God’s Plan of Redemption
William R. Osborne
Blessing plays a significant role in God's plan of redemption, in that blessing is the goal of God's plan of redemption.
Even in Your Groaning, Remember That the Lord Will Restore All Things
Paul David Tripp
The Bible is punctuated with promises of restoration. They assure you that restoration is written into God’s unshakable redemptive plan.
3 Reasons Christ Must Remain Human for Us: Learning from Calvin and Owen
Kelly M. Kapic,
Ty Kieser
By focusing so much on Christ’s work in the past, we may ignore the significance of what Christ is doing in the present. Here are three reasons that we should study Christ’s present work.
The 2 Battles Every Minister Fights
Jeff Robinson Sr.
In ministry, there will be a war in which you’re called to come and lay down your life as Christ laid down his life.
God's Invading Grace
Paul David Tripp
Why did Jesus send his disciples into that storm? He did it for the same reason he sometimes sends you into storms—because he knows that sometimes you need the storm in order to be able to see the glory.
Teaching Your Kids Gratitude in the Media Age
William P. Smith
Media doesn’t create a sense of entitlement—a sense of “I deserve”—but it fuels that belief by holding in front of our eyes what others have and do.
Podcast: Asking God "Why" in the Midst of Suffering (Mark Talbot)
Is it okay to ask God why when suffering? What do you do when you go through profound suffering?
You Talk about What You Love
Jeff Vanderstelt
Jesus said that it is out of the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks (Luke 6:45). What comes out of your heart displays what’s in it and what has captured it.
Artist Spotlight: Joshua Noom
Learn more about artist Joshua Noom and his work on the ESV Single Column Journaling Bible, Artist Series.
The Promises of God: A 7-Day Devotional
We are to treat a promise of God as reality, as someone treats a check. We are to take the promise and endorse it with our own name by personally receiving it as true.
Podcast: Without Judgment, Life Doesn’t Make Sense (Tom Schreiner)
Tom Schreiner discusses what the Bible really teaches about hell and the final judgment, and why it's worth thinking about, even though it's hard.
Introducing the 'ESV Devotional Psalter'
The devotional content of the ESV Devotional Psalter is intentionally designed to point to and highlight the biblical text, and to build bridges from the Psalms into the reader's heart.
4 Lessons for Pastors from the Life and Ministry of John Calvin
John W. Tweeddale
While Calvin is remembered today as a great theologian, he viewed his calling from God primarily in terms of his work as a pastor and preacher in Geneva.
What Peter and Jude Would Say to the Contemporary Church
Matthew S. Harmon
One of the things that makes 2 Peter and Jude so relevant to our contemporary situation is the fact that they address issues that the church still faces today.
What Our Physical Diet Says about Our Spiritual Appetite
Abigail Dodds
He has prepared food for us. The food he has prepared is himself. He serves us himself through his holy word—the Bible.
12 Practical Ways to Be on Mission This Halloweeen
Jeff Vanderstelt
Halloween offers opportunity to engage in new relationships or to revisit old ones with missional intentionality.
Podcast: How I Study the Bible (Lauren Chandler)
Lauren Chandler shares her Bible study and reading habits and how Scripture has impacted her personal life and work as a songwriter.
The One Thing That Will Free You from FOMO
Cameron Cole
The more heavenward my life has become, the more meaning I’ve found in mundane things, and the more motivated I’ve been to serve the Lord.
What Makes Salvation So Great
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
What is more wonderful than to be able to put your head on the pillow knowing that if you die during the night it doesn’t matter, that you will go to heaven and wake up there as a child of God?
Motherhood Is for the Faint of Heart
Gloria Furman
You may have read on a greeting card somewhere that motherhood is not for the faint of heart. Don't believe it.
Because of Bethlehem
Max Lucado
Out of chaos, Christ came. In spite of, and out of, the pandemonium, Christ came.
Podcast: The Making of the ESV Study Bible (Justin Taylor)
Today's episode is a conversation with Justin Taylor—Crossway’s book publisher and project manager for the ESV Study Bible when it was being created.
An Open Letter to Pastors on Preaching through the Whole Bible
Tim Patrick,
Andrew Reid
Expository preaching is preaching that “exposes” the text of Scripture as God delivered it to us. It does not bring its own agenda to the Bible or to the pulpit, but seeks to understand the Bible text in its own terms.
‘Charlie and the Preschool Prodigal’ Read-Aloud Video
Watch a video and enjoy hearing this retelling of the parable of the prodigal son through the eyes of wild-child Eddie and his rule-following brother, Charlie.
When Christ Turns Persecutors into Persecuted (for His Glory)
Tim Keesee
Jesus is alive, is at work, and he’s bringing men and women to himself.
Men: Your Wife Only Needs One Savior
Justin Buzzard
Men, remember this. The difference maker in your marriage isn’t you, it’s Jesus.
Redefining Beauty from a Biblical Perspective
Kristen Wetherell
The world will tell us that beauty is to be found within ourselves—in what we look like, what we can accomplish, and who we are becoming in that sense. But we have a different story.