Do You Have the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation? Ephesians 1:17–19, Part 2
If you have seen glory in the Bible, be assured, you can see more. Do not settle for what you’ve ...
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Five Points for All Peoples: How Reformed Theology Is Transforming Africa
Recently a missionary to our country asked me about my ministry. I explained that we are planting a church and ...
Boys Cannot Be Girls: How Words of God Become Hate Speech
“Trans Rights Are Human Rights!” In June 2020 the Pride Flag was displayed at the US embassy in Moscow. When ...
How Do We Raise Kids Who Are Not Naive or Cynical?
As Christians, we aspire to live out the paradox of brokenhearted boldness. But how do we teach and model this ...
Policies, Persons, and Paths to Ruin: Pondering the Implications of the 2020 Election
This article is probably as close as you will get to an answer on how I will vote in the ...
How Did God Call Me to Himself?
From our perspective, coming to Jesus Christ feels like placing our faith in him. But God himself enabled and awakened ...
Humble Yourself — Like God: The Power of Christ’s Lowliness
Behold, your king is coming to you . . . humble and mounted on a donkey. (Zechariah 9:9) God commands ...
Why Do We Pray to the Father of Glory? Ephesians 1:17–19, Part 1
Why is God called the Father of glory? What does that phrase mean, and how does it shape and inspire ...
Singing to the Risen Son: A History of Christian Hymns
ABSTRACT: In the early second century, the Roman governor Pliny the Younger described a group of Christians singing “a hymn ...
Mastered by Matchless Love: The Sweet Experience of Irresistible Grace
Since the day I became a Christian as a 14-year-old boy, I have never had any reason to doubt the ...
I’m Obsessed with My Appearance — How Can I Stop?
We know outward beauty is insignificant compared to inward beauty. But what should we do if we still feel insecure ...
Christian Fragility? Missionary Confidence in the Face of New Critics
It was a few days after Christmas during the last winter of the war in Bosnia. I was sitting by ...
Faith and Love Mark Every Christian: Ephesians 1:15–16, Part 3
Why are faith and love so tied together in the Bible? Because they are tied together as a summary of ...
Some Learn and Never Grow: A Lost Remedy for Spiritual Immaturity
If you grew up going to church youth camps, you may remember that kid who would seem to have a ...
Are Our Standards for Sexual Purity Too High for Pastors?
Is faultless chastity an appropriate standard for pastors, or are our expectations simply too high?Listen Now
He Died to Have Her: The Stubborn Love of Definite Atonement
What happened for you at the cross? Jesus died for my sins, many might rush to say (and rightly so). ...
Seize the Day’s Interruptions
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” sounds, to any Christian, like a grand and noble calling. Jesus’s words can ...
Do Not Trust Your Anger
The anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. (James 1:20) Our world, including our Christian circles, gives ...
My Suffering Feels Meaningless — What Can I Do?
Sometimes pain seems meaningless, but in Christ, every millisecond of your suffering is producing for you an eternal weight of ...
Who Do You Say That She Was? The Legends of Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene is, I believe, the most misunderstood and historically distorted of Jesus’s followers recorded in the New Testament. Consider ...
Why Do We Thank God for Our Love? Ephesians 1:15–16, Part 2
When you look at your life and notice greater devotion to Christ, greater obedience to his word, greater love for ...
How Can I Love God More Than My Boyfriend?
As a couple’s affection for one another deepens, how can they make sure they are loving God more than each ...
Paralysis Was His Good Plan: How Predestination Changed My Suffering
“Your broken neck is no accident, Joni. God has an amazing plan for your life.” Christian friends said something like ...
Why Jesus Was Not a Woman
God became a man, and not a woman. Jesus was a son, not a daughter; a brother, not a sister. ...
