We Are the Workmanship of God: Ephesians 2:8–10, Part 4
In Christ, we get a new legal standing before the judgment seat of God and a new nature to live ...
Articles
Everything Is Providential: C.S. Lewis on the Symphony of History
When we consider theologians in the history of the church who have celebrated the doctrine of God’s exhaustive providence, the ...
Should I Ever Pursue My Dreams?
Can we pursue our own dreams while also obeying God? Or do we need to give up our dreams in ...
What a World Ours Will Be: Why the Universe Longs to Be New
At the second coming of Christ, the people of God will see the risen King in his power and great ...
Pray Because God Is Sovereign
If seeing and embracing the sovereignty of God causes us to pray less, we have not yet understood his sovereignty, ...
Secret Allies in the Human Heart: The Advantage We Have in Evangelism
One warm, dusty midday, Jesus sat alone near Jacob’s well outside the Samaritan town of Sychar. His disciples had gone ...
Protected from False Teaching
Joyful faith in the all-governing providence of God immunizes us against false teaching that exalts man and detracts from the ...
Freed from Wrath for a Life of Goodness: Ephesians 2:8–10, Part 3
Christ has not only saved us from the wrath of God, but transformed us and saved us from the sinful ...
Slavery Old and New: Comparing Early America with Biblical Times
ABSTRACT: Many Christians, keenly aware of the evils of early modern slavery, have suggested that the slavery mentioned in the ...
Six Common Myths About Missions
Evangelical Christians are committed to spreading the good news of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. It is ...
Who Wrote the Bible?
The question “Who wrote the Bible?” has a double answer: God and man. Humans held the quill, but God ultimately ...
‘Hallowed Be Your Name’: The Greatest Prayer in All the World
The lines of the Lord’s Prayer tend to pass by our eyes, and through our mouths, in a routine manner. ...
Our God Is a Teacher at Heart
Imagine it’s the first day of class. Likely you know the feeling. The uncertainty. The anxiety. For some, the excitement. ...
When Your Husband Is Your Pastor: Counsel to Wives in Ministry
I wish someone had told me. I wish an older pastor’s wife had helped me navigate my idealistic plans and ...
The Good News of Obliterated Boasting: Ephesians 2:8–10, Part 2
God saves sinners by his grace alone to obliterate all human boasting in his presence. Is this good news for ...
What Is the Meaning of Life?
When life just doesn’t seem to make sense, or even when it seems void of any meaning at all, what ...
When Good Dreams Don’t Come True
We’ve all had the experience. The faintly lingering sweetness, the dawning sense of reality returning upon us, and then the ...
Am I Really a Christian? Lessons from John Owen on Assurance
Am I really a Christian? Perhaps for you, that question looms like a shadow in the back of the soul, ...
Sustained Through the Hardest Suffering
God’s providence not only governs all things, but it gives us hope in our suffering. We can trust that our ...
‘Adieu, Adieu, My Brother’: John Calvin and the Five Martyrs of Lyons
That in leaving this world we do not go away at a venture, you know not only from the certainty ...
What Satan Means for Evil: Four Ways God Is Defeating the Devil
Satan is not in control of this world. God never has given, and never will give, to Satan any freedom ...
Is Faith a Gift of God? Ephesians 2:8–10, Part 1
If I am commanded to believe the gospel, is faith something I create, or is it a gift of God?Watch ...
Why Is Baptism Important?
Jesus commands the church not only to make disciples, but also to baptize them. But why is baptism so important?Listen ...
Forsake Your Favorite Excuse: How Christ Frees Us to Own Our Sin
If we reach back to the beginning of our long and devastating history with sin, we will find a crowd ...
