What Does It Mean That King David’s Son Would Build a House for God? (2 Samuel 7)
John L. Mackay
The Lord is undoubtedly favorably disposed to David, but this does not warrant a blanket endorsement of all that David proposes. It is the Lord’s right to decide when and by whom a temple for him should be built.
What Does Jeremiah 29:11 Mean?
Matthew S. Harmon
This verse is commonly found on bumper stickers, signs, cards, etc. to encourage people to have hope for the future. But is that really what this well-known verse means?
What George Mueller Can Teach Us about Prayer
Donald S. Whitney
George Mueller (1805–1898) is widely considered one the greatest men of prayer and faith since the days of the New Testament.
What Happens when Doctrine Suffers from Historical Amnesia
Gavin Ortlund
As evangelicals, we tend to go right to the cross and to Jesus dying to save us, and sometimes we forget that’s not the only thing that he did to save us.
What Is Epiphany?
Douglas Sean O'Donnell
On January 6, twelve days after Christmas, the Western church celebrates Epiphany. What does it mean and where does it originate?
What Is Feminism?
Courtney Reissig
Nearly every few weeks, it seems, another female celebrity is either claiming feminism for herself or renouncing feminism as an unnecessary ideology for women today.
What John Calvin Really Said
Jeff Robinson Sr.
Do John Calvin’s modern-day opponents really know Calvin’s theology?
What John Stott Learned about Theology from Bird-Watching
Tim Chester
Stott’s obsession with the snowy owl was more than a charming eccentricity. It reflected some important themes in his theology.
What Modern Atheists Could Learn from David Hume
One of the most important things that modern atheists can learn from David Hume is the limitations of sense perception and reason.
What Our Pro-Life Predecessors Can Teach Us about Standing against Abortion
Marvin Olasky
Success on the abortion supply side—cutting down the number of abortion suppliers—is only part of the battle. Work on the demand side is at least as important.
What Really Happened At the First Christmas
Andreas J. Köstenberger,
Alexander E. Stewart
In order to appreciate the significance of Messiah’s coming—and thus to understand the true meaning of Christmas—we need to travel back in time, back to the first Christmas.
What Sola Scriptura Really Means
Mark D. Thompson
For Martin Luther, Scripture alone was of ultimate authority for Christians, yet this did not mean that there were no other means of discovering truth.
What's So Special about John Calvin?
Michael Horton
If readers look to Calvin they will find a godly pastor who, with all of his flaws, evades the caricatures and exhibits the sort of piety that we need desperately today.
What Star Wars Can Teach Us about History
Nathan A. Finn
Thomas Andrews and Flannery Burke suggest that the opening sequence in the Star Wars films reminds us of the importance of historical context.
What’s The Deal With Footwashing?
Mike Cosper
Jesus demonstrates to the disciples through footwashing that the greatest among us is the one who serves out of deep and abiding love
What the Early Church Can Teach Us about Living in This Strange New World
Carl R. Trueman
Traditional Christians are typically those who take history seriously. If only we might be able to return to ancient worlds, we tell ourselves, all might be well.
What the Puritans Understood about the Human Heart
Dane Ortlund
The genius of the Puritans was that they knew how to build bridges between Scripture and the human heart.
What We Can Learn from the Reformation 500 Years Later
Stephen J. Nichols
The Reformation emphasized preaching the gospel with boldness and clarity.
What We Lose If We Deny a Historical Adam
Wayne Grudem
The importance of believing in a historical fall of Adam and Eve is seen when we ask the question Who is to blame for the evil in the world today?
When J. I. Packer Walked Out
Sam Storms
For Packer, affirming biblical authority is meant not merely to provoke a debate but to give ethical direction to life.
Where Did Youth Ministry Go Wrong? Identifying a Way Forward
Jared Kennedy
It's concerning that our ideals about how to do family discipleship have sometimes distracted us from our more primary responsibility to teach kids the gospel. Here are a couple of the ways we get distracted.
Where the Bible Teaches We Are Saved by Christ Alone
Stephen J. Nichols
The five solas are inspired by and rooted in Scripture, which states that we are saved by grace and faith in Christ alone, to the glory of God alone.
Who Caused the Divorce of Science and Faith?
The dispute between the church and Galileo sowed the seed for the apparent divorce between science and faith.
Who Is John Feinberg?
Gregg R. Allison,
Stephen J. Wellum
In God’s providence, it was to a teaching career that God graciously called John to use his gifts and abilities to serve the larger evangelical church.
Who Was Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones?
Christopher Catherwood
Martyn Lloyd-Jones—often known as “the Doctor” from his medical degree—was one of the greatest preachers of the twentieth century.
Who Were the Magi, and Why Did They Worship Jesus? (Matthew 2)
Dan Doriani
Popular Christian images of the magi clash with Matthew’s account. The magi were counselors, not kings, and while they bore three gifts, their number (unstated) was large enough to cause a stir in Jerusalem.
Why Archaeology Can’t Prove the Bible (and Doesn’t Need To)
David W. Chapman,
John D. Currid
In this video with Drs. David Chapman and John Currid, editors of the ESV Archaeology Study Bible hear why archaeology isn't needed to prove the Bible true.
Why Are There So Many Versions of the Bible?
Greg Gilbert
Go into any Christian bookstore, and you can find an entire shelf—sometimes an entire section!—of different Bible translations.
Why C. S. Lewis Wasn't a Pacifist
George Sayer
C. S. Lewis was horrified by England’s declaration of war on Germany [in 1939], but he had no doubt of its rightness.