War Your Way to Heaven
Greg Morse | The Christian life is one of fierce holiness. Christ calls us to hoist crosses, hack off limbs, gouge out eyes, contend for souls, and wage war against spiritual powers.
Jul 16, 2024•15 min
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What Makes God Happiest? Enjoying His Signature Joy
David Mathis | Lay God’s many pleasures side by side, and ask which one is his deepest delight. Across the scope of Scripture, one clear answer emerges.
Jul 13, 2024•17 min
Save a Soul from Death: How We Bring Wanderers Back
Greg Morse | Do you know someone who is wandering away from Jesus? God may have a word for you in the final verses of James, a letter to spiritual wanderers.
Jul 09, 2024•16 min
A Republic — If God Keeps It
David Mathis | At the founding, perhaps only as few as 10 percent of Americans were church members. So, what happened in the early 1800s, and what might we learn from it today?
Jul 04, 2024•12 min
A Father’s 5-to-9: The Holy Ambition of Godly Dads
Scott Hubbard | Children need to see a dad ambitious to spread God’s kingdom in the world. But with equal surety, children need to see a dad ambitious about being dad.
Jul 02, 2024•11 min
Speak to Men Like Men
Greg Morse | In our overly sensitive society, have we lost the ability to talk to men like men?
Jun 29, 2024•13 min
The Wild Glory of an ‘Ordinary’ Life
Jon Bloom | A typical human life is a lot like grass — brief, quiet, and apparently ordinary. But one day we will see that no human life could ever be considered ordinary.
Jun 28, 2024•9 min
The Skies We Die Under: Common Deathbed Deceptions
Greg Morse | Many hopes make death easier. Many give a sense of life well-lived. Many bring comfort. But only one hope will not prove flattering and false in the end.
Jun 25, 2024•13 min
The Blessings of Being Bound: Finding Freedom Through Commitment
Scott Hubbard | Many imagine the more options, the more happiness. But from the beginning, it was not so. God made us to find freedom in loyalty, blessing in being bound.
Jun 22, 2024•12 min
My Body Is Not My Own: How God Redeems What Sin Seized
David Mathis | Magnifying Christ in our bodies depends, in part, on understanding the story of our bodies — how God redeems what sin has seized and fits our flesh for glory.
Jun 18, 2024•14 min
The Strong Legacy of a Weak Father
Jon Bloom | Don’t underestimate the impact a debilitated father can have on his children. Sometimes, the strength our kids need to see most comes through profound weakness.
Jun 16, 2024•17 min
The Undistracted Soldier: Six Marks of Christian Manhood
Greg Morse | How might men of God live like the disentangled soldiers God calls us to be? We might learn from the example of a soldier slain for refusing to play civilian.
Jun 15, 2024•15 min
Love (All) Your Neighbors: A Surprising Test of True Faith
Scott Hubbard | If you want to assess the health of your faith, don’t simply consider your acts of religious worship. Consider the depth of your love for neighbors.
Jun 11, 2024•13 min
Throw Yourself Away in Hope: The Sacred Death of Fatherhood
Greg Morse | Fathers give life through death. They lay themselves down to die, like seeds planted in the earth, trusting that God will grant a future harvest.
Jun 08, 2024•11 min
Lord of All the Law: How Jesus Handled the Ten Commandments
David Mathis | Are the Ten Commandments binding on Christians today? Pay careful attention to the words of Jesus, how he handles the Ten, and the greater authority he brings.
Jun 07, 2024•26 min
God Beckons Through Beauty: Where Our Deepest Longings Lead
Jon Bloom | The longings we feel at the sight or sound of beauty point to something beyond the beauty itself. They point to the place and the person from which all the beauty comes.
Jun 01, 2024•11 min
Give Them Time to Grow: Learning the Power of Patient Love
Scott Hubbard | If we could imagine the coming glory of the Christians we know, we might find the grace we need today to remain patient with their slow growth.
May 28, 2024•12 min
The Splendor of His Queen: How the Church Reflects Christ’s Majesty
David Mathis | For now, the church appears with spots and wrinkles and many blemishes. But the day is coming when Jesus will present her to himself in splendor — as the reflection of his own majesty.
May 25, 2024•21 min
When Love Takes You by the Shoulders: Embracing the Gift of Exhortation
Jon Bloom | Sometimes, the encouragement we need most is not tender but firm — not a shoulder to cry on, but someone to lovingly take us by the shoulders.
May 24, 2024•11 min
Bring Out Her Best: The Privilege of Christian Husbands
Scott Hubbard | Among the various ways we can describe a husband’s calling, one may help to capture our focus, and give us a lifetime of work: bring out your wife’s best.
May 21, 2024•13 min
Grace Has Taught Our Hearts to Fear
Greg Morse | Many today downplay or dismiss the fear of God. But in one of the Bible’s most staggering promises, God names fear as one of the best gifts of the new covenant.
May 18, 2024•14 min
The Lost Son Who Never Left: Imagining the Older Brother’s Return
Jon Bloom | Like the older brother in Jesus’s parable, we can be lost in our moralism and condemned in our duties. He too needs to return home. Here is his story.
May 11, 2024•14 min
See Through Enemy Eyes: Expecting Temptation Before It Comes
Greg Morse | If you want to discern your most vulnerable points of spiritual attack, try asking, “If I were Satan and wanted to destroy my soul, how would I do it?”
May 07, 2024•13 min
Examine Yourself, Forget Yourself: Help for the Overly Introspective
Scott Hubbard | Self-examination can leave us feeling lost in the mirror of me. But done rightly, self-examination can lead to health, freedom, and self-forgetful joy in Christ.
May 04, 2024•14 min
Head of Every Head: How to Lead Like Jesus
David Mathis | Every husband is a head, and every husband has a head: Jesus. And husbands lead best when they first know themselves weak and in need of his help.
May 03, 2024•13 min
Better Than Our Bitter Thoughts: The God of Surprising Goodness
Greg Morse | Hard and bitter thoughts about God reveal far more about us than about him. He is the good God, the wonderful God, far better than our best thoughts of him.
Apr 27, 2024•15 min
Be Ready to Speak of Jesus: Evangelism as Spiritual Warfare
Scott Hubbard | In spiritual war, Christians do not simply hold fast or stand firm — we advance and march with our King, boldly sharing Christ with a lost world.
Apr 20, 2024•12 min
The Unimpressive Path to Immortality
Greg Morse | Does the Christian life feel uncomfortably ordinary a lot of days? Come and remember the startling glory of this narrow, simple path.
Apr 13, 2024•15 min
Life Beneath a Sovereign Lord: How His Power Unleashes Us
Scott Hubbard | If God really is as sovereign as the Bible says, how should we live? His sovereignty invites us to pray more boldly, take greater risks, and draw even closer to heaven.
Apr 08, 2024•12 min
Wrap Your Soul in Truth: Under-Armor for Spiritual War
David Mathis | Christians are people of the truth — lovers of the truth, speakers of the truth, armored in the truth, as we follow Truth himself.
Apr 06, 2024•13 min
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