Podcast: We're Thinking about Technology All Wrong (Tony Reinke)
Tony Reinke considers what the Bible has to say about human innovation and the things we create and why Christians are often so attracted to tech dystopianism, the future of AI, and more.
You Need a Plan (to Grow in Godliness)
Carolyn Mahaney,
Nicole Mahaney Whitacre
In order to sit and plan, you have to hit the pause button on life. You have to get away from everyone and everything clamoring for your attention.
Is Christianity Bad News for Women?
Jen Oshman
The true Christian faith elevates, cherishes, protects women. Women are drawn to it. Our God created us imago Dei, and his desire is that each life will be cherished and protected.
Podcast: Why Is Our Culture So Obsessed with Identity? (Brian Rosner)
Brian Rosner talks about how our cultural obsession with identity impacts us as Christians and how we should think about that through the lens of the Bible.
Does Christian Education Need to Be Reclaimed?
Ted Newell
If education is the whole process of personal development, then the dismal news is that Christian education is in crisis.
Can We Really Claim to Be Well?
John Dunlop, MD
Wellness is much more than physical health and freedom from distressing symptoms. Wellness involves the whole of our being, which includes six distinct areas.
What Is True Blessedness?
Uche Anizor
In our culture, to be blessed is to have something you know many others would want or something you know is beyond the experience of the average person.
When ‘I Don’t Know’ Is a Good Answer and When It’s Not
Rebecca McLaughlin
It’s vital that everyday Christians are speaking into nuanced cultural issues from a biblical perspective.
Reclaiming Psalm 139 from the Clutches of Coffee Cups and Picture Frames
Psalm 139 is more than just fodder for t-shirts, coffee mugs, and picture frames.
The Most Significant Edit to the Declaration of Independence
Andrew Wilson
Franklin read Jefferson’s draft which said, “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable,” and he crossed out “sacred and undeniable” and replaced it with “self-evident.”
Why Listening to a Podcast Is Not a Substitute for Going to Church
Brett McCracken
Going to a church has many benefits. If you are physically able to attend a church, you should make it a priority.
Materialism: The Material Girl
James Montgomery Boice
A fourth “ism” which is part of the “pattern of this world” is materialism.
Podcast: Trauma, Pain, and Loss: A Doctor’s Story of Faith and Healing (Katie Butler)
Kathryn Butler discusses her work as a trauma surgeon working in the ICU, sharing what it was like to be inundated with life and death situations day in and day out.
Are Love and Authority Mutually Exclusive?
Jonathan Leeman
But authority in creation and authority and redemption actually work together—for good.
The Economy’s 3 Essential Ingredients
Greg Forster
Economists are looking at things that people have to make trade-off decisions about. That includes material resources, time, and relationships.
This Day in History: John Stott Was Born
Tim Chester
On this day in history John Stott, one of the most influential Christian leaders of the twentieth century, was born. This year marks the centenary of his birth.
The Biggest Challenge the Church Faces Today Is to Think Differently than the World
D. A. Carson
The greatest challenge that the church faces today to avoid thinking like the world is the same as the greatest challenge that the church always faces to avoid thinking like the world.
What Do They Know? Learning From "Secular” Leaders
When God speaks through his world, we call it general revelation or common grace.
Podcast: Why You Shouldn't Feel Bad about Enjoying the World (Joe Rigney)
What does it look like to love God and enjoy this world? Are the two in contention with each other?
The Song of Songs: A 7-Day Devotional
Through this video devotional, beging to grasp God’s vision for love and marriage by working through the Song of Songs.
Rejecting Theistic Evolution ≠ Embracing a God of the Gaps
Stephen C. Meyer
A God of the gaps argument is an argument that has a formal, logical structure. Logic is known as an argument from ignorance—an informal fallacy.
10 Reasons Joy Brings Christ to Our Culture
Greg Forster
How can Christians help their neighbors live more like God wants and resist the decay of our culture?
3 Ways the Internet and Social Media Benefit Wisdom
Brett McCracken
In what sense are the Internet and social media potentially valuable for wisdom? We know the many downsides to online life. What are the upsides?
Technological Progress Must Honor God’s Design for Our Bodies
Tony Reinke
We may eventually modify our bodies in ways that are helpful and necessary. But we will never reach a point where the human body is a disposable machine.
The Problem with Manufactured Femininity
Abigail Dodds
There is no ideal standard of a woman that we are supposed to achieve apart from the virtues found in Christ himself.
A Plastic World Changed How We Perceive the Self
Carl R. Trueman
The notion of the self with which we now intuitively operate in the West is arguably simply one example of a much broader view of the whole of reality.
Check Your Digital Self-Image
Tony Reinke
In the rare moments when we catch broad attention from our social media presence—whether through our images or tweets or memes—we become the star.
4 Ways Baseball Fuels Supernatural Joy
Joe Rigney
How does my natural joy in baseball become a supernatural joy in God? That’s the question Christian Hedonists ask.
Podcast: Roe v. Wade Has Been Overturned. Now What? (Scott Klusendorf)
Scott Klusendorf talks about what the Supreme Court's ruling means for the pro-life cause and how it should impact how we, as Christians, seek to advocate for the lives of the unborn in our communities.
5 Myths about Anger
Christopher Ash
We live in an angry world, and most of it is obviously destructive. But anger is not intrinsically evil, essentially evil, or necessarily evil.