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Can I Pray to the Holy Spirit?
It’s a great question and the theological guideline is that we can pray to anyone who is God. So you’ve got choices.
Articles on The Christian Life
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How the Bible’s Irony Combats the Prosperity Gospel
Since our life is to be like Christ’s, our life must include suffering of some kind so that God’s spiritual strength can be exhibited in our physical weakness.
Are Miracles Still Possible and Probable?
The most fundamental reason that people don’t believe the miracles in the Bible is because they already believe something else, namely, that miracles are impossible.
Meditate On and Mutter God’s Word
Slowly and prayerfully turning over Scripture engages the eyes, the ears, and the mouth, and drills through the granite to the heart—maximizing internalization and devotion.
Help! I Don’t Know How to Bring My Faith to Work
Like all working people, Christians must deal with deadlines, difficult people, and office politics. How should a Christian approach life at work?
What Does It Look Like to “Put On” Love?
When we “put on love,” we aren’t merely personifying a feeling or exerting an emotion, we’re putting on Christ himself.
Help! It Feels Like God Is Far Away in My Suffering
Lament is the biblical language for people who feel like God is distant.
If the Bible Is Enough, Why Is It Good to Retell Bible Stories?
God, throughout history, has always given not only his word to people but also has given qualified men who might teach others.
Good Advice for Living a Countercultural Life
When you think about your life, you are the main character. You never think about your life as a supporting actor or actress in someone else’s story.
God Doesn’t Love You Because You’re Special or Good
God loves his people despite their sin against him. He loves them before they love him back, and before there’s anything in them worthy of his love. But his love doesn’t stop there.
The Death of My Son Awakened Me to the Reality of Heaven
Even though I was grieving my son's death, heavenly mindedness was giving me greater perspective. It was refining me. It was motivating me for things of the Lord.
How Do We Grow in Holiness? (Part 1)
Holiness isn’t a mysterious spiritual state that only an elite few can reach. It’s more than an emotion, or a resolution, or an event.
Jesus knows that true power only flows through weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities.
A Checklist to Help Identify Your Anger and Help for What to Do Next
Christopher Ash, Steve Midgley
The Bible has plenty to say about anger—not just our own anger but also God’s. Anger is an important emotion for many reasons.
Fitness Is Not an End in Itself
A Christian motivation for exercise is the good of others. Or we could say, for love’s sake. I exercise to make myself a better servant of others, to be fit for good works.
Praying in Jesus’s name is an acknowledgement of our total dependence on his provision. We push away from any personal claim on God’s blessing and lean entirely on Christ’s provision.
Why You Can’t Have Justification without Sanctification
Justification should not be abstracted from the person of Christ.
Build Your Life around Spiritual Habits, Don’t Just Fit Them In
If there's anything in our life that we want to do with regularity, we have to plan for it. It's just practical living.
Why Christians Depend on Revelation from God
Christianity is a religion that rests on revelation: nobody would know the truth about God, or be able to relate to him in a personal way, had not God first acted to make himself known.
10 Things You Should Know about the Spirituality of the Church
True unity is what we want. This is achieved only together with true diversity. Uniformity is never the biblical pattern. Unity is, and unity, as we see perfectly manifested in the Undivided Trinity.
Fighting Fear When It Comes to Sharing Your Faith
It's time to confront our fears about sharing the gospel.
One Simple Yet Crucial Decision College Freshmen Need to Make
My oldest son is a freshman in college. So I’ve thought about this question: What is that important piece of advice for a graduating high school student heading off to college?
Memento Mori: What It Means and Why It Matters
When we see death as an unshakeable reality, it has the ability shed perspective on life in the meantime.
What Makes God Joyful? Reflections on Joy
When it comes to joy, we are all about it. And this is not problematic; God has created us to be joy seekers. The problem is when we seek joy in the wrong places.
Food played an important role in the life of Jesus and continues to be an ingredient in our enjoyment of God's goodness.
We each have a blink. We can waste it in sinful busyness or laziness or discontentment or distraction. Or the gospel of Jesus Christ can change how we spend our time.
6 Practical Steps to Help Grow Your Confidence in God’s Word
Sometimes we have our doubts about the stories we read in the word of God, about its moral convictions and the promises it makes.
The Three-Fold Office of Christian Witness
Everyone who knows Christ experientially has a calling and passion to make him known. Christian witness is the identity and calling of the church.
God is interested in character far more than possessions. His intention is that our work becomes an integral part of the process of character development.
9 Conversation Starters to Help You Get Out of a Prayer Rut
How do we talk to our heavenly Father like we might to good friends? Quite simply, what does it mean to become human again as a group?