Podcast: How Should We Respond to Our Doubt? (Randy Newman)
Randy Newman explains that when we struggle with questions about our faith, we should view these not as roadblocks to faith but as natural twists and turns that accompany our lives as Christians.
Podcast: Answering Hard Questions about Predestination and Free Will (Andy Naselli)
Andy Naselli answers a few of the most common questions about the doctrine of predestination, including what the Bible really says about it and what impact this teaching may have on the idea of free will.
Is Predestination Unfair?
Andrew David Naselli
A common objection to unconditional election is that it’s unfair. Paul directly answers this objection in Romans 9, and Jesus indirectly answers it in Matthew 20.
Podcast: Have We Domesticated the Cross? (Jeremy Treat)
Jeremy Treat talks about how the doctrine of atonement is often misunderstood by believers and unbelievers alike and about the impact that it should make on our day to day lives as followers of Christ.
10 Things You Should Know about the Atonement
Jeremy Treat
Through his death on the cross Jesus accomplishes reconciliation, victory, removal of shame, justification, adoption, propitiation, glorification, healing—and much more!
Podcast: The Doctrine on Which the Church Stands or Falls (Matthew Barrett)
Matthew Barrett sheds light on the meaning of justification by faith alone, explaining why it’s so central to the Christian faith, and he explores why the book of James says that we’re not justified by faith alone.
Where Christ Isn’t Being Treasured, He’s Being Used
John Piper
Christ as a treasure is not a slice of Christ. It is every dimension of Christ—all of Christ—making up the totality of his infinite value.
Hope for the Hypocritical
Amy DiMarcangelo
Experiencing conviction over sin should actually encourage rather than condemn us, because it is evidence of being alive in Christ.
14 Passages to Read When You're Doubting Your Salvation
When the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy.
Podcast: Does God Choose Who Will Be Saved? (Robert Letham)
Robert Letham talks about predestination, God’s sovereignty, free will, how it all fits together, and how these doctrines are a great source of encouragement for the believer.
What Is Distinct about the Theology of Ephesians?
Benjamin L. Merkle
Why has this small letter had such a big impact on the church? The answer, at least in part, is due to the depth and diversity of topics emphasized in the letter.
What Is the Doctrine of Election?
Benjamin L. Merkle
God is worthy of our praise precisely because he has chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world.
How God Works All Things for Good for His People
Andrew David Naselli
God works all things for good for his people. “Those who love God” does not refer to a subset of believers but to all “who are called according to his purpose.”
Why Romans Is the Greatest Letter Ever Written
Andrew David Naselli
Paul’s letter to the Romans is relatively short (it takes about sixty minutes to read aloud), and it is profound. It explains and exults in and applies the greatest news we could hear.
We’ll Be Truly Alive on Our Third Birthday
J. I. Packer
Some day, some way, my heart will stop, as sure as eggs are eggs, and that what the world will call my death-day will really be a birthday—the third in line.
Podcast: Can Affectionless Faith Be Genuine? (John Piper)
John Piper discusses how he came to saving faith in Jesus and how his view of that faith has changed over the years.
Our Christian Terminology Is Built on the Old Testament
Greg Lanier
When it comes to the nuts and bolts of the gospel, the NT often adopts essential concepts/words from the OT, particularly the Greek version.
What Is Needed to Be a Christian?
J. I. Packer
In order to make this commitment to Jesus, you need to know the essentials about who he is and what he has done for you. This is the Gospel (“good news”) of Jesus Christ.
Should We Look for God in Every Story?
Glenda Faye Mathes,
Leland Ryken
Finding God is our primary task and our greatest treasure. Can he be found in every story? How can literature feed us spiritually?
The Believer’s Paradoxical Experience of Sin
Joel R. Beeke,
Paul M. Smalley
Christians live in the painful paradox of salvation begun but not completed.
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.
3 Good Reasons to Be Baptized
Bobby Jamieson
Why should you get baptized? Christ not only commands believers to get baptized, baptism is also a gift he graciously gives for our benefit and blessing.
7 Questions about Conversion
Michael Lawrence
To be converted as a Christian is to have changed your thinking and your believing about Jesus Christ, and to be changed into a person who is no longer an enemy of God but a beloved child of God.
10 Key Bible Verses on Salvation
Because of Christ, believers are granted salvation from sin and the promise of eternal life. What hope we have in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus!
Our Advocate
Dane Ortlund
Do not minimize your sin or excuse it away. Raise no defense. Simply take it to the one who is already at the right hand of the Father, advocating for you on the basis of his own wounds.
Saved to the Uttermost
Dane Ortlund
The doctrine of the atonement reassures us with what Christ has done in the past, the doctrine of his intercession reassures us with what he is doing in the present.
Lacking Assurance of Salvation? Join a Church
Mark Dever
You don’t join a church in order to be saved, but you may want to join the church to help you in making certain that you are saved.
Sin Didn't Kill Jesus—God Did
John MacArthur
The reality of Christ’s vicarious, substitutionary death on our behalf is the heart of the gospel according to God.
Why the Gospel Requires Undivided Attention
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The gospel of Jesus Christ, the message of the book of Hebrews, calls upon the world to give earnest heed to what it has to say.
God, Our Mighty Fortress
Gloria Furman
As ordinary as our days may seem, the world we live in is precarious. The unknowns we live with can threaten to overwhelm our faith and even our very lives. Where can we look for hope and security?