My Son, Give Me Your Heart: The First Desire of Fruitful Parenting
Joe Rigney | An ancient proverb teaches us that we are to aim at more than just our children’s obedience. More than anything, we want their hearts.
Mar 13, 2023•8 min
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The Shadow We Cannot Shake: What to Do When Darkness Remains
Scott Hubbard | “Up and be doing.” It’s not the only wise counsel to give to someone walking through doubt or spiritual darkness, but it might be the counsel some need to hear most.
Mar 12, 2023•12 min
God of Ages Past: The Awakening We Need Today
Greg Morse | Though our experience may tell us to expect few conversions, few baptisms, and no grand spiritual movements, the God who revives and awakens is still our God today.
Mar 10, 2023•12 min
Thirty Days of Easter: Invitation to Enjoy the Risen Christ
David Mathis | Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter — the best stories reward re-reading. And none matches the one we rehearse each spring as Easter approaches.
Mar 09, 2023•11 min
Losing Christ in Christianity
Greg Morse | Christianity without Christ is a sunless solar system, a waterless ocean, an airless sky. Yet how subtly and easily we who name Christ can lose sight of him.
Mar 06, 2023•12 min
Do You Want to Die Well?
Marshall Segal | What would life be like if you were unafraid of death? If you knew death would really be gain, what kind of life might you be free to live?
Mar 05, 2023•11 min
A Holy Conspiracy of Joy: The Heart of Healthy Pastors and Churches
David Mathis | In the healthiest churches, we find a holy conspiracy between pastors who gladly care for the sheep, and sheep who do what they can so that the pastors might serve joyfully.
Mar 03, 2023•11 min
Sit at the Feet of Loss: What Endings Teach the Living
Jon Bloom | The wisdom we need in this world often wears black. Painful as they are, all our deaths and endings hold lessons we cannot live wisely without.
Mar 02, 2023•10 min
Man Enough to Weep
Greg Morse | When was the last time you cried over someone’s soul? Do you ever ask God to make the tears flow again?
Feb 26, 2023•12 min
Four Marks of Faithful Teaching
Scott Hubbard | In Paul’s final meeting with a group of pastors, he gives them four marks of faithful teaching — the kind of teaching God uses to win the world.
Feb 23, 2023•11 min
Live Against the Drift: Refocusing the Distracted Soul
Marshall Segal | For many Christians, our greatest danger is not that we will suddenly run from Jesus, but that we will slowly, subtly drift away.
Feb 20, 2023•11 min
The Stable Presence: Five Traits of Resilient Fathers
Joe Rigney | Our homes need men who see with clarity, stand with stability, and act with wisdom. We need resilient, sober-minded fathers.
Feb 19, 2023•10 min
Move the Body, Renew the Mind: A Christian Use for Exercise
David Mathis | To think seriously about Christ and his word, you will need to push your brain. And if you want to push your brain, you may need to push your body.
Feb 17, 2023•12 min
Friends Who Fell Away: When Apostasy Comes Close to Home
Greg Morse | They sang with us in church, confessed to be Christ’s, renounced the world and Satan — and later walked away. How can we make sense of such painful apostasies?
Feb 15, 2023•12 min
Suffering Proves We Are Real
Marshall Segal | No one asks for suffering. But when it comes through the hands of our wise and loving Father, we can do more than tolerate it. We can rejoice, even in this.
Feb 12, 2023•12 min
The Living God: What Makes Him Different and Satisfying
Joe Rigney | Have you considered how wonderful it is to draw near to the God who now and always lives?
Feb 10, 2023•9 min
Faith in the Wilderness of Waiting
Scott Hubbard | The gnawing ache of hopes unmet and prayers unanswered tries our faith. But God is with us in our waiting. None who trust in him to the end will be disappointed.
Feb 09, 2023•11 min
Beneath the Mountain of Smoke: Recovering the Awe of Worship
Greg Morse | Does Sunday morning feel like a gathering before almighty God? We can far too easily lose sight of what we’re doing when we come together to worship.
Feb 06, 2023•12 min
Christ Did Not Please Himself: The Joy of Bearing with Others’ Failings
David Mathis | Christians know ourselves called to love (and keep loving) difficult people. Fewer of us may realize that this hard path is also the path of joy.
Feb 05, 2023•13 min
Every Marriage Needs a Mission: Three Steps for Husbands
Scott Hubbard | How can a husband lead his marriage into God-glorifying mission? He might begin by taking three modest steps: dream, draw, and do.
Feb 03, 2023•12 min
Does Technology Help or Hurt Dating?
Marshall Segal | Technology can help dating relationships, and technology can hurt them. Unfortunately, many assume the former, while living the latter.
Jan 26, 2023•15 min
Be Still, My Soul: A Hymn for the Hardest Losses
Jon Bloom | Some three centuries ago, a hymn appeared that has comforted countless hearts in the deepest pain of grief and loss: “Be Still, My Soul.”
Jan 23, 2023•15 min
The Light and Momentary Success of the Wicked
Joe Rigney | Many see how the wicked prosper and abandon the costly path of faith and godliness. If only they could see where each path leads.
Jan 22, 2023•9 min
How Not to Pray: Learning from Pharisees and Pagans
Greg Morse | The look-at-me prayer of the Pharisee and the say-more prayer of the pagan both find their cure in the simple Godward sincerity of the Lord’s Prayer.
Jan 20, 2023•11 min
The Spiritual Power of Staying Put: Why Christians Are Slow to Leave
Scott Hubbard | In one sense, it’s never been easier to move — to find a new job, a new home, a new church. In another sense, it’s never been better to stay.
Jan 19, 2023•14 min
Lovers of Good: Eyes of Hope in a World Gone Bad
David Mathis | Christians believe in good. They look for good. And they do good because, at bottom, they are lovers of good.
Jan 17, 2023•11 min
Forgive Me and Help Me Forgive: The Lord’s Prayer for Daily Sin
Marshall Segal | Many Christians pray at every meal and often thank God for giving them daily bread. But how many pray as often about forgiveness?
Jan 15, 2023•11 min
Begin Where You Are: How to Renew Your Prayer Life
Joe Rigney | C.S. Lewis wrote a book on prayer in which he pens four words that might change your prayer life: “Begin where you are.”
Jan 12, 2023•12 min
Do the Will You Know: The First Step for Further Guidance
Scott Hubbard | How can you walk in God’s will for your life? Do the will you already know. Discern the will you don’t.
Jan 10, 2023•13 min
The Curse Under Our Breath: What Grumbling Sounds Like to God
Greg Morse | If we could hear all that our grumbling says, we would be slower to murmur and quicker to seek more joy in God.
Jan 08, 2023•14 min
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