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In some ways the exodus is a death and resurrection story, but in many other ways the death and resurrection of Jesus is an exodus story.
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Podcast: Surviving College with Your Faith Intact (Michael Kruger)
Michael Kruger discusses the top intellectual challenges to biblical Christianity many students will face on a secular campus.
12 Practical Ways to Be on Mission This Halloweeen
Halloween offers opportunity to engage in new relationships or to revisit old ones with missional intentionality.
Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions: Does God Love Me More When I Obey My Mom and Dad?
Because we’re not God, our anger is imperfect anger at times, even sinful. But it doesn’t change our love for our kids.
The Christian’s Hope Isn’t Complete without a Bodily Resurrection
The apostle Paul is talking about our Christian hope of a bodily resurrection—not to minimize our suffering, but to maximize our perspective.
Is Family Life a Proving Ground for Ministry?
The family really is meant to be a proving ground for a man's character, his ability as a leader, his ability to teach and shepherd and guide and direct and provide.
Am I Sinning When I'm Not Content?
God is in control of every part of life—from the mundane to the significant. Discontentment is questioning the wisdom and sovereignty of his plans.
How to Pray in the Wake of Hurricane Dorian
Natural disasters can be a doorway for spiritual questions and eternal decisions. We can do more than just watch and marvel.
How to Stop Praying the Same Old Things about the Same Old Things
“Empty phrases” are ruinous in any area of spirituality, but especially in prayer.
Podcast: Knowing Your Heart and When (Not) to Follow It (Craig Troxel)
What's the difference between a Christian and secular understanding of the heart, what are the heart's spiritual functions, and how we can think about them in terms of our minds, desires, and will?
The Vicious Cycle of Idolatry and Loneliness
Escape from difficult circumstances can easily turn into idolatry and unhealthy coping mechanisms. But God always provides a way out.
Introducing the ‘ESV GraceLaced Bible, Journaling Edition’
The new ESV GraceLaced Bible, Journaling Edition features lined margins for note-taking and watercolor artwork by Ruth Chou Simons, founder of GraceLaced Co.
Being Constantly Online Has Changed Us More than We Think
When you ask, How could being on the internet so much be shaping us?, the real answer is, How could it not be shaping us?
John MacArthur taught believers that they should be more preoccupied with the glories of eternity than with the afflictions of today. He is now finally and truly at home with his Lord.
Sin is not breaking a petty taboo or overstepping a mere tradition. Sin violates the sacred covenant God made with us. Sin also tears down the beautiful solidarity he built among us.
Why You Should Disciple Your Child during the Teen Years
We are so used to training up our children when they’re very young, but it's just as important when they hit the pivotal growth point of the early teen years.
Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions: What If I Keep Failing at Something No Matter How Hard I Try?
It can be so hard to try your best at something and not have the outcome that you expect. Adults struggle with this and wrangle over the ramifications for their identity and their self-worth.
Brian S. Borgman explains why emotions should not be discounted in our faith.
Podcast: Using Stories to Help Kids Understand Right and Wrong (Betsy Childs Howard)
Why are stories such powerful tools for instilling deep, biblical truths in our kids? Are moral formation and the gospel of grace mutually exclusive?
A Brief History of the Bible Verse (and Why We Developed the ESV Reader's Bible)
Crossway has published the ESV Reader’s Bible as an invitation to read the Bible as it was originally written.
For all his resplendent glory and dazzling holiness, his supreme uniqueness and otherness, no one in human history has ever been more approachable than Jesus Christ.
Growing a Disability-Effective Church
How can churches become equipped to be disability effective? By living transparently with weakness and allowing these weaknesses to issue forth in fruitful labor in Christ’s church.
The Economy Is about More than Money
The economy is a system of choices we make about all of our resources. Every choice we make is an economic choice.
The Hope of the Resurrection That Is Found in the Old Testament
Where does the concept of resurrection come from? Why is it necessary for Jesus to be raised? It’s because it’s already predicted in the Old Testament.
When the church ceases to treat the Bible as a final standard of spiritual truth and wisdom, it is going to wobble between maintaining its tradition in a changing world and adapting to that world.
What Does It Look Like to “Put On” Compassionate Hearts?
Compassion shares features with mercy and kindness. It is a response to God’s compassion, and it prefers to act.
Podcast: A Closer Look at One of the Most Famous Chapters of the Bible (David Gibson)
David Gibson unpacks the images in Psalm 23 that have become so familiar to us (maybe overfamiliar), showing us what it truly means when the psalm describes the Lord as our shepherd.
Taking a Closer Look at Romans 6
If you have ever struggled to understand this chapter, just know you’re not alone. Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrestled with these verses too, but he found the wrestling to be very rewarding.
Why We Feel So Tired and Confused by What We See Online
The internet makes no distinction between what is relevant to us or what is not relevant to us, what is part of the life that we’re supposed to live or what doesn’t really matter.
The Crucial Difference Between Two Kinds of Authority Instituted by God
The Bible presents two kinds of authority—one with the power of enforced discipline and one without. The former we can call the authority of command; the latter we call the authority of counsel.