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Kenneth Berding — October 17, 2025
I recently read a deep and thoughtful book on Christian living entitled A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation . I...
Marriage and Family
Kenneth Berding — October 13, 2025
She broke her promise. She vowed to love, respect, and stay faithful to her husband — for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and...
Biblical Exposition, Church Life
Kevin Lawson — October 10, 2025
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and...
Si yo hablase lenguas humanas y angélicas, y no tengo amor, vengo a ser como metal que resuena, o címbalo que retiñe. Y si tuviese profecía, y...
Biblical Exposition, New Testament
Gary Manning Jr — October 08, 2025
In season 2 of the popular television series The Chosen, the apostle Simon the Zealot is depicted as a former assassin from the Zealot party — with...
Biblical Exposition, Ethics
Kenneth Berding — October 03, 2025
How many times have I heard someone say, “That’s just wrong!” when the action being discussed isn’t wrong in a moral sense, but is simply unwise...
Church Life, Culture, Spiritual Formation
Joanne Jung — October 01, 2025
“Let’s start a movement!” is what I started my class session with one day in Fall 2025. To a room full of university students, their attention was...
Biblical Exposition, Philosophy
William Lane Craig — September 29, 2025
This is a Q&A blog post by Talbot School of Theology’s Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, William Lane Craig. Question I'm not a Christian...
Christian Education, Church Life
Kevin Lawson — September 26, 2025
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. Have nothing...
Huye también de las pasiones juveniles, y sigue la justicia, la fe, el amor y la paz, con los que de corazón limpio invocan al Señor. Pero desecha...
Spiritual Formation
Kyle Strobel — September 24, 2025
For those of you who don’t know, I have entered a new season in my academic life. When I posted the update about my new role as the Director of the...
Kenneth Berding — September 22, 2025
This morning, toward the end of my prayer walk, I waved at three people (all from the same family, I think) who were standing at the top of their...
Historical Theology, Spiritual Formation
Kyle Strobel — September 17, 2025
When talking about desert spirituality, John Cassian’s Conferences must be a key resource. In Cassian’s work, we find him and his friend Germanus...
Biblical Exposition, Culture, Ethics, Spiritual Formation
Kenneth Berding — September 15, 2025
Did you know that the Bible tells us that there are certain things we shouldn’t even talk about? The apostle Paul writes in Ephesians 5: “But...
Church Life, Spiritual Formation, Theology
Kevin Lawson — September 12, 2025
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food,...
De manera que yo, hermanos, no pude hablaros como a espirituales, sino como a carnales, como a niños en Cristo. Os di a beber leche, y no vianda;...
Culture
Thaddeus Williams — September 11, 2025
The following is based on a video published on Thaddeus Williams’ YouTube channel. By now, we’ve all heard the horrific headline that Charlie Kirk...
Church Life, Ministry and Leadership
Ed Stetzer — September 10, 2025
This post is part four of four in the series “Renewing Expository Preaching.” Read part one , part two and part three . Preaching should be...
Christian Education, Church Life, Ministry and Leadership
Kevin Lawson — August 29, 2025
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed...
Christian Education, Church Life, Ministry and Leadership, Spanish
He aquí, tú tienes el sobrenombre de judío, y te apoyas en la ley, y te glorías en Dios, y conoces su voluntad, e instruido por la ley apruebas lo...
Ed Stetzer — August 27, 2025
This post is part two of four in the series “Renewing Expository Preaching.” Read part one here . Expository preaching is the best, but not the...
Theology
William Lane Craig — August 25, 2025
This is a Q&A blog post by our Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, William Lane Craig. Question If God created Hell, and God is omnipresent, then...
Kyle Strobel — August 22, 2025
When we talk about spiritual formation, the Christian life, or maybe even just growth, we all presuppose a paradigm for what we are talking about....
Ed Stetzer — August 20, 2025
This blog post is part one of four in the series “Renewing Expository Preaching.” Expository preaching plays a vital role in the life of the...
Historical Theology
Kenneth Berding — August 18, 2025
In Philippians 1:19, Paul writes, “for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my ...