Not If but When: Reflections on 4 Different Kinds of Healing
Andrew Wilson,
Rachel Wilson
At some point or other, every Christian with a disability is going to have to figure out how to think about physical healing. In our case, theological reflection on healing has been essential.
Q&A: Dane Ortlund Answers Your Questions about the Heart of Christ for Sinners
A couple of weeks ago, we asked readers to submit their questions for Dane Ortlund. Many of you sent in questions from around the world.
10 Helpful Books for Church Leaders
Crossway suggests 10 books would be valuable for every church leader to read and have in their library.
Make Enemies with Sin and Satan
Ryan M. McGraw
Our friendships say a lot about who we are. Friendships can make or break people, shaping who we are and making us better or worse for the experience.
The Gospel in John
Scotty Smith
Everything John tells us about Jesus leads us to his cross and his empty tomb—to his substitutionary death and glorious resurrection.
Family Worship and the Day I Made My Daughter Cry
Donald S. Whitney
Many times after family worship, I wondered if anything good had been accomplished.
Be Excellent as Christ Is Excellent
Andreas J. Köstenberger
It is precisely because Christians have been called to or by God’s glory and excellence that they are to add excellence to their faith.
Why Study the Book of Galatians?
Geoff Ziegler
The constant pressure is toward practical atheism, toward falling asleep to the glory of our God. Galatians is given to wake us up.
Why Pastors Have a Unique Responsibility to Counsel
David Powlison
You must counsel. It’s not optional. You can’t say no as if it were simply a career choice, a matter of personal preference, or an absence of gifting.
Why We Need Systematic Theology
Joel R. Beeke,
Paul M. Smalley
Why do we need systematic theology? How we answer the question depends a lot on what we think theology is.
Lent Ends in Jesus’s Death—and Yours
Paul David Tripp
Everywhere you die, you will be resurrected to new life in that area. It is the continuing resurrection/ transformation/liberation work of sanctifying grace.
How Idolizing Comfort Can Lull Us into Spiritual Sleep
Lydia Brownback
We’re all comfort junkies and we crave it from the minute we get up until the minute we go to bed.
3 Misconceptions about Christian Growth
Thabiti Anyabwile
For the Christian to grow in a healthy way, we must clarify what growth is and is not.
3 Reasons We're Addicted to Digital Distraction
Tony Reinke
Author Tony Reinke explains how we use digital distractions to escape people, situations, and thoughts that make us uncomfortable.
How Faith in Christ Alters Our Perspective on Death
Kathryn Butler
There are two main points in which Christian faith should differentiate how we approach end-of-life care.
Was Christ’s Coming the End of the Law? (Romans 10)
Robert W. Yarbrough
Christ is the termination of the law in the sense that he ushers in a new age— both continuous with and different from the former age.
D. A. Carson’s Tribute to an Ordinary Pastor (His Dad)
D. A. Carson
Most pastors won't regularly preach to thousands, let alone tens of thousands. They won't write influential books, supervise large staffs, and they will never see more than modest growth.
A Word to Those Who Are Lonely This Christmas
Paul David Tripp
Human beings weren't created to be lonely. We were created for intimate relationship with God and intimate relationships with one another.
Podcast: A Trauma Surgeon’s Guide to Modern Medicine and the End of Life (Kathryn Butler, MD)
Kathryn Butler, MD shares from her experiences working as a trauma surgeon in an ICU and offers biblical wisdom for walking alongside loved ones at the end of life.
Podcast: What We Often Get Wrong about Our Emotions (J. Alasdair Groves)
In this episode, Alasdair Groves discusses what the Bible teaches about our emotions and how Christians should think about and deal with the full range of them.
The Intersection of the Natural and the Supernatural in Preaching
John Piper
How do the supernatural and the natural intersect in the act of preaching?
How to Pray for the Global Church
Samuel T. Logan Jr.
In praying for the global church, start by remembering that there is just one church of Jesus Christ.
Blessed: Why Study the Book of Revelation? (Episode 1)
Nancy Guthrie
Nancy Guthrie discusses the book of Revelation and how we actually can understand its central message, encouraging us to accept the blessing promised to those who “hear and keep” this book.
How Hebrews Helps Us Read the Psalms Christologically
Daniel Stevens
Salvation and judgment hang in the balance and are determined by whether one submits to this Son of God. On this side of the Gospels, it is hard not to read Psalm 2 as about Jesus.
What to Say to Someone Who Has Had an Abortion
Russell Moore
There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ—including those who have had an abortion.
Are You a Docetic Christian?
Graeme Goldsworthy
“Docetism,” was a heresy which could not accept the direct union of God and man.
Podcast: A Christian Scientific Perspective on Evolution (Stephen Meyer)
Stephen Meyer discusses the controversial topic of theistic evolution and explains what the term does and doesn't mean.
Are You Losing Your Gospel Mind?
Paul David Tripp
I don’t know about you, but in the rush and press of life I can lose my mind. No, I’m talking about a subtle form of insanity that often inflicts me and a vast number of my Christian brothers and sisters.
Podcast: The Day I Lost My 3-Year-Old Son (Cameron Cole)
Cameron Cole talks about losing his three-year-old son and how that tragedy and all the suffering it entailed has ultimately strengthened his hope in God.
The Outrage of Jesus
D. A. Carson
Today it is considered good form to weep discretely, dab tears and turn away, to be quiet and subdued. But in Jewish culture in the first century, that was simply not the way it was.