The Indispensable Weapon We All Need to Carry
God’s word—the sword of the Spirit—is intended for warfare. Every other piece of armor in Ephesians 6 has been defensive and protective, helping God’s people resist evil and stand firm against it.
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The Indispensable Weapon We All Need to Carry
God’s word—the sword of the Spirit—is intended for warfare. Every other piece of armor in Ephesians 6 has been defensive and protective, helping God’s people resist evil and stand firm against it.
In 1 Thessalonians, Paul cannot stop rejoicing that the gospel came to the Thessalonians in word, in power, and with full conviction by the Holy Spirit.
4 Crucial Truths the Gospel Presents
Perhaps more clearly than any other book of the Bible, Romans contains a deliberate, step-by-step expression of what Paul understood to be the good news.
Teaching Kids What the Bible Says About Homosexuality
Andrew T. Walker, Christian Walker
When we go to Genesis 1, we see something that's laid down in Scripture in what I call the Genesis blueprint. God created humanity in his image. God creates humanity, male and female.
Podcast: 15 Questions about Reading and Understanding the Bible (Greg Gilbert)
Greg Gilbert answers common questions about reading the Bible such as: How do I get started with a consistent habit of Bible reading? When should I read it? How long? And what if I don’t understand something?
10 Key Bible Verses from the Sermon on the Mount
You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
Introducing ‘Do You Believe?’ by Paul David Tripp
Paul David Tripp takes a close look at 12 core doctrines and how they engage and transform the human heart and mind.
3 Questions about Christ’s Sinlessness
Temptation cannot be defined in terms of the capacity of the one tempted to succumb. Temptation is enticement to sin from whatever source.
The Scandal at the Heart of the Christian Faith
If we imagine that Jesus was born in a freshly swept, county fair stable, we miss the whole point. It was wretched—scandalous!
How to Help Your Kids Love the Bible
As parents and caregivers, we want our children to know the God revealed in the Bible and come to love his word deeply, just as we have.
We get our Bible, first of all, because God has chosen to reveal himself to humans. If it weren’t for that first step, of course, there would be no Bible.
The Final Days of Jesus: Saturday, April 4, AD 33
In this video series, well-known New Testament scholars explore the background and significance of the history-shaping events that occurred during Jesus's last week on earth.
The book of Titus is a letter from Paul to a young pastor, urging him to lead his people deeper into the gospel.
Reading the Bible with Dead Guys: Charles Spurgeon on Psalm 23:1
*Reading the Bible With Dead Guys is a weekly blog series giving you the chance to read God’s Word alongside some great theologians from church history.
There is no greater need for the church today than to think rightly about Jesus, biblically and theologically.
Jesus’s Temptation Changes How We See Our Own
As believers in Jesus Christ, we constantly face temptation. We have been transformed by God’s grace, but we are not yet free from temptation.
Podcast: Reading the Psalms with Jesus in View (Dane Ortlund)
Dane Ortlund discusses how the psalms uniquely invite us into prayer and devotion, how they reflect the greatness of God, and how he cares for his people.
The Custom ESV Bible Program allows you to create a custom cover to represent your church, ministry, or organization.
How Creativity Can Fuel Your Worship
If God created us in his likeness, wouldn’t he make us with creative minds and hands? What if engaging in creativity could draw us into deeper worship of our Creator God?
Second Corinthians is filled with the astounding paradoxes of the gospel.
Read the Bible the Way Jesus Did
Far too often, Bible students seek to understand and apply Scripture without considering that the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ—the message of the gospel—is the center of the Scriptures.
Our work, when earnestly undertaken, lays us open to attacks in the direction of depression.
The Devil’s Doctrine: A Sermon from Lemuel Haynes Against Universal Salvation
The holy Scriptures are a peculiar fund of instruction. They inform us of the origin of creation, of the primitive state of man, and of his fall, or apostasy, from God.
In the book of Jude, our heavenly Father threatens the church to keep her from being dragged away from his love.
Does the Gospel Need a Feminist Rescue?
Men and women and children are to conduct themselves in accordance with a pattern. A woman’s personal gifts do not take priority over the design pattern that God established in the garden.
You Don't Need a Degree to Read (and Understand) the Bible
Sometimes we make studying the Bible more complicated than it has to be. In reality, it's actually just a matter of asking the right questions that point us in the right direction as we seek to relate to God through his Word.
4 Things that Make the Bible Literary
The subject of literature is human experience. We should read the Bible through that lens.
A Teen’s Argument for the Bible’s Truthfulness
Christianity isn’t a religious system that collapses if you think about it too hard. The truth can stand up to the toughest questions.
How the “Crux Tool” Can Help You Understand Any Book of the Bible
Just as every Bible passage has a main point, so does every biblical book, and it’s very important to find it. The crux tool—a hermeneutical tool—can help you do that.
Peter writes to encourage a “mixed bag” of believers with dear but easily forgotten truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ.