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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.
There is no greater need for the church today than to think rightly about Jesus, biblically and theologically.
Podcast: Why Did God Let Job Suffer? (Christopher Ash)
Christopher Ash discusses the story of Job and how God's goodness shines through suffering. He also explores the roles of Satan, the fall, and the cross of Jesus Christ in human suffering.
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.
The book of Titus is a letter from Paul to a young pastor, urging him to lead his people deeper into the gospel.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Second Corinthians is filled with the astounding paradoxes of the gospel.
In the book of Jude, our heavenly Father threatens the church to keep her from being dragged away from his love.
Our work, when earnestly undertaken, lays us open to attacks in the direction of depression.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How Does the Parable of the Two Sons Display the Genius of Jesus?
The parable of the two sons is Jesus’s longest story, and it’s remarkable in so many ways. Jesus loads up the story with layers of meaning.
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.
Sin and the Snake separated us from God, but the Snake Crusher came to restore our relationship.
Nativity Scenes, T-Rexes, and the Gestalt Shift
One of the most powerful human experiences is when one construal is replaced with another, when a shift in the Gestalt happens and we come to see in a different way.
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.
The Custom ESV Bible Program allows you to create a custom cover to represent your church, ministry, or organization.
Peter writes to encourage a “mixed bag” of believers with dear but easily forgotten truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
As we first begin to read the Bible, we may be overwhelmed at the many different stories and characters. But there is a single big story that is told all through the Bible.
Where is the gospel in Jude’s epistle? In such a compact space, we actually receive a potent portrait of the gospel.
Endure Suffering with Patience until Jesus Returns
It may be that many people approach the book of Revelation with the assumption that somehow, as they look at the book, it's going to give them a better sense of when Jesus is going to return.
4 Things that Make the Bible Literary
The subject of literature is human experience. We should read the Bible through that lens.
Commentaries can be wonderful friends, debating partners, and theological mentors. But start with the Bible.
3 Questions about the End Times
We can seek to understand as much as possible about how God will work in the end times, but let’s stay humble and freely admit our ignorance.
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.
Gifts for Moms, Dads, and Grads
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