Podcast: 3 Church Fathers Every Pastor Should Be Reading (Coleman Ford)
Coleman Ford shares his thoughts on why so many evangelical pastors aren't familiar with the church fathers and how this lack of awareness can negatively impact their ministries.
Why All Christians Should Expect Trouble
Philip Graham Ryken
The longer you live in this fallen world, the more kinds of trouble you face.
Has Our Society Lost Its Vision of What It Means to Be Human?
Andrew T. Walker
These moral universes are irreconcilable. They’re impenetrable. We are unable to reason together on even the most basic essentials necessary for the common good.
Why Christians Should Encourage Consistent Atheism
times when I actually encourage unbelievers to continue in their error, in fact to do so more.
How Parenting Kids with Special Needs Shifts Your Reality
Andrew Wilson
In a sense, our story was really one of reconsidering every aspect of our lives.
An Indirect Approach to Evangelism
Jerram Barrs
Jerram Barrs offers additional insight on the challenge of sharing the gospel during the holiday season that may be helpful as you interact with close friends and family.
The Blessings of a Frustrating Church
Collin Hansen
Frustration is part of the sanctification process that God intends for us in church.
Is There a Wrong Way to Study the Bible? (Women of the Word Episode 3)
Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin describes the wrong ways we approach Bible study and what our failed attempts to engage with God's Word reveal about our own attitude toward Scripture.
How Grace Lets You Have It All
Paul David Tripp
The more you understand the magnitude of God’s grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness; and the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness, the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God’s gift of grace.
Why a Consumer Mentality Doesn’t Work at Church
Jamie Dunlop
Particularly as Western Christians, we need to understand that we’ve been steeped in consumerism our entire lives. It is all through our hearts. One way we see that is in how we think about church.
Outward Beauty Cannot Bear the Weight of Being Your Source of Hope
Jen Oshman
Does our outward appearance convey to the watching world where our hope is? Does it show that our hope is firmly rooted and established in Jesus, in his good work, on our behalf?
Podcast: Why Discernment Today Is So Needed Yet So Neglected (Tim Challies)
Tim Challies talks about what spiritual discernment actually looks like, why it's so important for the mature Christian, and how to cultivate it in our own lives.
Who Was Francis Grimké, and Why Is He Worth Reading Today?
Drew Martin
It’s hard to understand the story of American Christianity, or the story of the Early Civil Rights movement, without at least knowing a little bit about who Francis Grimké was.
God’s Commitment to Creation
Ian K. Smith
Is the world so broken that God will abandon it, and we will need to find a home elsewhere?
How Motherhood Revealed My Desperate Need for God
Katie Faris
Love is patient, love is kind, it keeps no record of wrongs, and I just know that I fall short—that I can’t conjure up that kind of love on my own.
Learn How to Pursue Christian Unity from Two Men Who Didn’t
Tim Cooper
It would be really good if we lived in a world where Christians didn’t disagree with each other. But we do live in a world where Christians disagree.
5 Images of a Gospel-Centered Leader (and the Need to Hold It All Together)
Jared Kennedy
There is a leadership crisis in the local church. When we look around, we see different visions of leadership competing for our devotion.
Dealing with Hurt as a Pastor's Wife
Pastors’ wives bear relational burdens and outright attacks that most of us cannot imagine.
You Are More Than Your Twitter Bio
Nancy Guthrie
What does the way you introduce yourself say about how you see yourself, about where you find the source of your identity?
Help and Be Helped
Edward T. Welch
We all need help and we are all helpers—that’s part of being human.
The Journey to Accepting Difficult Doctrines Is Painful (and Rewarding)
Kevin DeYoung
We can think about difficult doctrines in at least a couple of categories. Some of these doctrines are particularly hard to understand. And then there are those doctrines that are hard to accept.
Finding the Good Life: A 5-Day Video Devotional
In this 5-day video devotional, Nancy Guthrie answers the question, “What is the good life?”
Introducing the ESV Psalter
The Psalms, ESV is a wonderful edition for devotions, for liturgical use, or for giving as a gift.
How Work in the Home Reflects God
Courtney Reissig
As Christians serve and care for those around them, they are acting as God's hands and feet in the world.
Chaos to Cosmos = Dark to Light
Sidney Greidanus
Jesus Christ, the Word of God, is not only the maker of the first creation, which is now broken, but also the maker of the coming new creation.
Four Crucial Questions at the Heart of the Gospel
Greg Gilbert
Greg Gilbert begins to define the gospel by turning to the Bible and identifying four essential questions at the heart of the proclamation of the gospel.
Issues of Race in Scripture
John Piper
Jesus was forceful about the issue of ethnocentrism, the conviction or the feeling that one’s own ethnic group should be treated as superior or privileged.
Everyday Discipleship
Pastor Jeff Vanderstelt recalls the mission that Christ left his followers before his ascension.