Why Don’t We Have Good Friends?
Marshall Segal | It’s never been easier to make new friends and connect with old ones, so what’s keeping us from having more meaningful friendships?
Nov 07, 2022•14 min
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Am I Ready for Ministry? Three Tests for a Man’s Aspiration
Scott Hubbard | How can a man discern if he genuinely aspires to pastoral ministry? He can begin by asking where his aspiration comes from, where it aims, and what shape it takes.
Nov 06, 2022•13 min
The Pastors We Didn’t Expect: Four Contours of Christian Leadership
David Mathis | We might expect Jesus to appoint world-class executives or entertainers to lead his church. Instead, he adopts a comparatively quiet plan: local teams of sober-minded teachers.
Nov 03, 2022•12 min
The Five Not-Points of Calvinism
Scott Hubbard | To grasp both the offense and the comfort of Calvinism, we would do well to consider what the five points do not mean, what TULIP never taught us.
Oct 31, 2022•16 min
The Indispensable Lives of Ordinary Christians
Greg Morse | When the world judges us as unimpressive, and we see ourselves as expendable, Jesus turns to us and speaks one word: “indispensable.”
Oct 30, 2022•9 min
Messy, Late, and Happy: How to Survive Sundays with Small Kids
Marshall Segal | Young families have some good reasons to stay home on Sunday morning. But we have even better reasons to gather the kids, pile in the car, and see God’s people face to face.
Oct 27, 2022•10 min
How Can God Forget My Sins? What We Remember at the Table
Jon Bloom | When we take the Lord’s Supper, we hear God the Father say, “Because my Son has shed his blood for the forgiveness of your sins, I will remember your sins no more.”
Oct 25, 2022•11 min
Living Among Majesties: The Grandeur of the People of God
Joe Rigney | “As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.” The Bible sees a majesty in believers that believers themselves often miss.
Oct 23, 2022•8 min
King Over Kin: The Warm Danger of Earthly Loves
Greg Morse | If your wife or husband or child or parent left the faith and tried to pull you away with him or her, would you?
Oct 20, 2022•14 min
The Inner Man of Pastors: Six Glimpses into God’s Design
David Mathis | The apostle’s charge to a team of local elders in Acts 20 gives us six glimpses into the mature masculine soul and its particular fitness for Christ’s pastoral calling.
Oct 16, 2022•17 min
You Will Be Breathtaking: Why God Clothes Us in Glory
Marshall Segal | The glory due to God alone is not kept by God alone. Amazingly, God not only frees sinners to enjoy his glory, but he also gladly glorifies them.
Oct 13, 2022•12 min
Shades of Grace: Catholics and Protestants in Conversation
Greg Morse | Both Catholics and Protestants may love words like justification, righteousness, and grace, but the realities they see in those words expose two very different religions.
Oct 11, 2022•18 min
To the Uttermost: How Jesus Keeps Us Day by Day
Scott Hubbard | Three words are enough to silence the objections, calm the fears, and resurrect the hopes of Christ’s believing people: to the uttermost.
Oct 09, 2022•12 min
Not by Head Alone: The Warm Heart of Justification
David Mathis | The beloved Reformed slogan of “faith alone” does not make good works optional in the Christian life. Nor does it mean that saving faith involves the intellect alone and not also the heart.
Oct 06, 2022•14 min
The Beautiful Roots of Courageous Submission
Joe Rigney | God describes feminine courage very differently from how the world does. So what makes a godly woman brave, and how might that change her marriage?
Oct 03, 2022•9 min
Give Me More of God: Why Spiritual Intimacy Can Feel Elusive
Jon Bloom | The path to intimacy with God can sound so simple, yet those who follow this path often find intimacy with God more elusive than they expected.
Oct 02, 2022•12 min
What Is the Lord’s Supper?
David Mathis | This is a family meal ordained by Jesus Christ himself, meant to be enjoyed by his gathered church, in order to remember him and nourish our souls.
Sep 29, 2022•10 min
The Hands That Made the Meal: What the Supper Says About Ordinary Work
Marshall Segal | When Jesus broke the bread and shared the cup, he blessed the ordinary work of ordinary hands like ours.
Sep 26, 2022•10 min
Doubt: A Personal History
Scott Hubbard | One of the more disorienting parts of facing doubt is that so few talk about their own struggles with doubt. Part of overcoming temptation is realizing you’re not alone.
Sep 25, 2022•16 min
My Flesh Is True Food: The Meaning of an Offensive Image
Jon Bloom | “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” Few words of Jesus have been more misunderstood and misapplied.
Sep 19, 2022•11 min
Humbled, Whole, and Honorable: What to Look for in a Pastor
David Mathis | As our lists grow longer of what to beware in a leader, do we have any corresponding clarity on what to pursue?
Sep 18, 2022•13 min
How to Squander Your Spiritual Gifts
Marshall Segal | Are you wasting your God-given abilities? God builds the church through ordinary, everyday members taking the capacities he has given and gladly using them for the good of someone else.
Sep 15, 2022•11 min
Better to Have a Burden
Scott Hubbard | Don’t assume that the burdens you’re bearing in this season are somewhere outside God’s good plans for you. Assume they’re one of God’s plans for you. Because they are.
Sep 12, 2022•10 min
What Spoils the Lord’s Supper? How Not to Come to the Table
Joe Rigney | In many churches, the Lord’s Supper feels somber, heavy, and introspective. But is that what Jesus intended when he broke the bread and poured the cup?
Sep 11, 2022•11 min
We Work with You: How Pastors Serve Their People’s Joy
David Mathis | Pastors, remember your people want to be happy. Dignify your people as partners, not just recipients. And embrace ministry that is harder, not easier.
Sep 09, 2022•12 min
Escape from Every Temptation
Jon Bloom | How does Jesus help us in temptation? He gives us all his promises. He delivers us from the fear of death. He always intercedes for us.
Sep 08, 2022•10 min
The Dark Side of Equality
Greg Morse | Equality can be a gift and mercy in an unjust world. But when cries for sameness rise up against God-established authority, we see equality’s dark side.
Sep 05, 2022•12 min
The Messy Home of Blessing: Why Children Are Worth the Chaos
Marshall Segal | Does parenting feel trivial? Does it feel unrewarding? Does it feel futile? Let God remind you of the giant blessings buried in the chaos.
Sep 04, 2022•10 min
Why Bread and Wine? Enjoying the Meal Above All Meals
Scott Hubbard | If you want to taste more of Jesus’s love in the Lord’s Supper, take a closer look at the meaning of the bread and the wine.
Sep 01, 2022•11 min
Be Comforted in Your Smallness
Joe Rigney | Does one of your callings in life feel overwhelming? Let C.S. Lewis help you take comfort in your smallness.
Aug 31, 2022•9 min
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