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Sean McDowell — September 23, 2024
There has been a lot of talk recently about why kids leave the church. In the past few years, there have been important books on the subject by...
Kyle Strobel — September 20, 2024
There are tension points all along the path of Christian spiritual formation, where Scripture seems to present opposing ideas to us. We don’t get...
Kevin Lawson — September 13, 2024
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is...
Así que, hermanos, os ruego por las misericordias de Dios, que presentéis vuestros cuerpos en sacrificio vivo, santo, agradable a Dios, que es...
Kenneth Berding — September 11, 2024
Sometime during my upper teen years, I read the journal of David Brainerd (1718-1747), and like so many people before me was deeply influenced by...
Sean McDowell — September 04, 2024
One difficult lesson I have learned in apologetics and evangelism is to identify the question beneath the question. To be honest, I have spent...
Kevin Lawson — August 30, 2024
And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as...
Juntándose una gran multitud, y los que de cada ciudad venían a él, les dijo por parábola: « El sembrador salió a sembrar su semilla; y mientras...
Sean McDowell — August 26, 2024
I love having conversations with people who see the world differently than me. If we treat people with kindness, charity and show a genuine...
Timothy Pickavance — August 19, 2024
While working on the first draft of Knowledge for the Love of God, I didn’t have a contract. Idiosyncratically, I don’t like to sign a contract...
Kevin Lawson — August 16, 2024
Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very...
Sean McDowell — August 14, 2024
Do you want to make a lasting impact in the lives of other people? What is the best strategy to do this? It's simple. Ask questions. That's what...
Sean McDowell — August 07, 2024
We live in an angry and divided culture. This is true for politics, ethical issues, religion, and even sports. As a result, many people fear...
Timothy Pickavance — August 05, 2024
We need to talk about the human heart. Confusion abounds. Perhaps we should start with the Scriptures. The Hebrew word rendered ‘heart’ in English...
Kevin Lawson — August 02, 2024
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of...
Porque la palabra de Dios es viva y eficaz, y más cortante que toda espada de dos filos; y penetra hasta partir el alma y el espíritu, las...
Kenneth Berding — July 31, 2024
When I first started to learn how to pray on my own, I thought that I had to kneel when I prayed. Most of the people I had read about who were...
Kevin Lawson — July 19, 2024
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the...
Kenneth Berding — July 12, 2024
Of all the things I have ever written, there are three consecutive paragraphs I once wrote that seem to have offended more people than anything...
James Hampson, Eric Oldenburg — June 20, 2024
Christians around the world are impacted by varying traumatic experiences ranging from war, persecution and displacement to difficult family and...
Kyle Strobel — June 06, 2024
In a recent article on The Gospel Coalition website, Trevin Wax narrates three “waves” that have occurred in evangelicalism over the past 50 years:...
Kenneth Berding — May 15, 2024
I’ve been thinking a lot over the past 24 hours about prayer (again!). I’ve been wondering whether one of the primary reasons we get discouraged in...
Kenneth Berding — March 25, 2024
Frequently in the Bible, and especially in the letters of the Apostle Paul, we come across the expression “in the Spirit” — or similar such...
Thaddeus Williams — October 04, 2023
Oxford’s Richard Dawkins, the self-described “militant atheist,” opens his dated bestseller The God Delusion by laying his cards on the table. He doesn’t want you to believe in a god who is “a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak.” Neither do I.
Kenneth Berding — September 22, 2023
There are multiple problems with humility. Here are 14, in no particular order: Problem 1: Humility is difficult to write and talk about because...