The Quiet and Crucial Work of Deacons
Marshall Segal | Deacons are not only handy, administrative, or good at meeting needs. They are also holy, humble, and unusually sacrificial. Deacons are spiritual giants who bow low.
Jul 03, 2022•12 min
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‘In Faithfulness You Have Afflicted Me’
Jon Bloom | In his faithfulness, God promises not only that he will deliver us from affliction, but that we will do something good through the affliction.
Jun 29, 2022•13 min
A Wife No Man Would Want: Lessons from the Hardest Marriage
Marshall Segal | The moments when marriage feels most challenging are often the moments with the most potential to say something profound about Jesus.
Jun 27, 2022•12 min
Harry Potter Turns 25: What I Saw While Reading to My Sons
David Mathis | Today marks 25 years since the first Harry Potter book released. What Christian lessons might we take away from the bestselling series?
Jun 26, 2022•11 min
Casual Church: What Happened to Christian Reverence?
Greg Morse | Where reverence withers, worship suffers.
Jun 23, 2022•13 min
Immersed into Mission: Why Jesus Commands Us to Baptize
Joe Rigney | Being baptized into the church means being immersed in its mission. The old has passed and a new life now begins.
Jun 21, 2022•7 min
God Makes War with Words: Why Teaching Will Win the World
Scott Hubbard | Satan knows the power of words — he’s been undoing souls with them from the beginning. And wherever Christ is faithfully taught, the devil is undone by them.
Jun 17, 2022•9 min
Some Answered Prayers Hurt: The Hidden and Faithful Love of God
Jon Bloom | If God’s answer to your prayers hurts, don’t assume he doesn’t love you. Assume his love is working something good you cannot now see.
Jun 16, 2022•10 min
Do Not Fear to Leave This World
Greg Morse | Want to measure your growth in grace? Consider how deeply you long for heaven.
Jun 15, 2022•10 min
Find a Storm to Stir You
Marshall Segal | The friends we need will not always be the friends we want. They’ll often be the brotherly storm that wakes us back up to God.
Jun 12, 2022•10 min
Do unto Authors: Four Principles for Reading Well
Joe Rigney | The best readers gladly observe the Golden Rule: they read others as they would want to be read.
Jun 10, 2022•13 min
Your Darkness Is Not Dark to Him
Jon Bloom | The hardest part of many trials is how far away God can feel. But he’s not far at all, and if we trust him, he will, in time, flood our dark nights with light.
Jun 08, 2022•13 min
Because They Are No More
Greg Morse | If a pitiless culture will not mourn for the missing, she will.
Jun 06, 2022•9 min
Jesus Shall Reign: The Remarkable Story of the First Missionary Hymn
Scott Hubbard | On Pentecost 1862, some five thousand men and women, many of them former cannibals, gathered in the South Pacific to sing the hymn “Jesus Shall Reign.”
Jun 05, 2022•9 min
Your Home Is a Hallway Out of Hell
Marshall Segal | Those who have been invited into heaven become people who love to open their front doors. They know that ordinary hospitality is often how the lost are found.
Jun 03, 2022•9 min
How Did Jesus ‘Make Disciples’?
David Mathis | He didn’t just give the Great Commission; he lived the Great Commission. What might we learn from Jesus’s own life about what it means to “make disciples”?
Jun 02, 2022•12 min
How to Watch for Wolves: Three Signs of False Teachers
Jon Bloom | False teachers may look like sheep, talk like sheep, and even act like sheep for a time. But eventually, they will show themselves to be the wolves they are.
May 31, 2022•14 min
Seeing Is Not Believing: Why We Miss God in Daily Life
Greg Morse | Some imagine they would believe in God if he would simply write his message in the clouds. But what if he actually did?
May 29, 2022•12 min
Do Not Despise the Day of Small Groups: Four Marks of Daring Community
Scott Hubbard | Small groups may feel unremarkable, but again and again, God has struck revival with small matches. Here are four marks of the small but daring community.
May 28, 2022•16 min
The Psalms Know What You Feel
Marshall Segal | No matter what situation you’re in, the psalms know what you feel. And the psalms can help you feel as you ought.
May 23, 2022•8 min
The Happiest Family of All: How Father and Son Glorify Each Other
David Mathis | An astounding and holy contest runs through the pages of Scripture, as the Father and Son seek to “outdo one another in showing honor.”
May 22, 2022•16 min
Submit Your Felt Reality to God
Joe Rigney | Our own sense of reality is not the same as reality itself. And simply recognizing that distinction can be the first step toward aligning our thoughts and emotions with God’s word.
May 19, 2022•9 min
Face Your Fear of Man: How Christ Delivers from Human Approval
Greg Morse | Jesus could love people like he did because he did not fear them like we do.
May 16, 2022•11 min
The Beast I Become: How to Bring Bitterness to God
Scott Hubbard | Sometimes, God seems to be answering a longtime prayer or fulfilling a deep desire — until it all crumbles before our face. How do we receive such painful turns from the hand of God?
May 15, 2022•11 min
The Pillar in the Pews: How the Church Upholds the Truth
Marshall Segal | What makes the church a pillar and buttress of the truth? She holds up and lives out what God has said — whatever God has said, however he has said it, whatever it means for us.
May 13, 2022•12 min
Midlife Clarity: Five Proverbs for Men in Crisis
David Mathis | A midlife crisis, disorienting as it may be, is not only a trial to be endured, but an opportunity for Christian maturity. New cracks in our soul may allow our theology to sink deeper than ever before.
May 11, 2022•13 min
A Most Harmful Medicine: How Subjectivism Poisons a Society
Joe Rigney | The surest way to give the world over to evil is to begin to deny such evil exists. And this is exactly what we have begun doing.
May 09, 2022•11 min
When My Mother Became Annie’s Mom: A Tribute to a Woman’s Great Love
Jon Bloom | “A woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” For Mother’s Day, Jon Bloom obeys this verse and honors his mother’s beautiful love for the least of these.
May 08, 2022•11 min
Stuck Between the World and God: How I Almost Died in Indecision
Greg Morse | God is not honored by mere checked boxes. He’s honored by a life that says he can be trusted, obeyed, and treasured above all else.
May 06, 2022•10 min
The Word of God Is Worth the Work
Scott Hubbard | If you want more joy, more warmth, more life from your devotions, don’t bypass the hard, necessary work of thinking.
May 05, 2022•10 min
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