Raising Disciples, Not Defendants: Parenting with Grace Instead of Law
ARTICLE • A courtroom or a football team: which is your home more like? Law-based parenting stifles growth, but grace-based parenting rooted in the gospel builds trust, family identity, and maturity by replacing fear-driven control with inspiring, visionary leadership.
Read time: 5 min
Venom or Virtue: Are Your Words Poisoning or Blessing Your Marriage?
ARTICLE • Words can heal like balm or kill like snakebite. Are any of these 14 toxic communication patterns lurking in your marriage? It’s time to recognize the effect your words have on your spouse—and to lace your speech with grace.
Read time: 8 min
Doubt Yourself Before You Doubt the Lord
DEVOTION • “Will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” (Luke 18:7–8)
Read time: 2 min
A Skeptic’s Guide to the Evidence for Jesus’ Resurrection
ARTICLE • What evidences do Christian historians, theologians, and philosophers most often cite to substantiate the central Christian conviction that God raised Jesus from the dead? This article lists and describes 57 lines of argument and evidence that—love them or hate then—you need to know.
Read time: 5 min (Lists) • 56 min (Descriptions)
How John Eldredge Wildly Misses the Heart of Biblical Manhood
ARTICLE • In its enthusiasm to call men back to wild strength and adventure, Wild at Heart makes a crucial mistake: it treats desires as de facto truth rather than affections that must be tested, often rejected, and always corrected in light of God’s true Word.
Read time: 7 min
Passion in the Pulpit: How to Exegete the Emotion of Scripture
Book Review • Vines, Jerry, and Adam B. Dooley. Passion in the Pulpit: How to Exegete the Emotion of Scripture. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2018). Kindle. 209 pp. $18.99..
Read time: 7 min
New Atheism: The Opiate of the Masses
ARTICLE • The New Atheism, while rejecting God, clings to his gifts: purpose, meaning, morality, and hope—offering hollow, synthetic substitutes that mimic the very “delusion” it critiques.
Read time: 12 min
Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages
Book Summary • Haddon W. Robinson, Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages, 3rd edition (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2014), Kindle, 355 pp. $17.
Read time: 8 min
Plugged in But Not Charging?
DEVOTION • “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself… neither can you, unless you abide in me” (John 15:4).
Read time: 2 min
Training Preachers: A Guide to Teaching Homiletics
Book Summary • Scott M. Gibson, editor, Training Preachers: A Guide to Teaching Homiletics (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2018). 294 pp. $10.
Read time: 7 min
A Manual for Preaching: The Journey from Text to Sermon
Book Summary • Abraham Kuruvilla, A Manual for Preaching: The Journey from Text to Sermon (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019). 317 pp. $21.
Read time: 6 min
Worried of Lack in the Presence of the Provider?
DEVOTION • “Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. . . . Jesus, aware of this, said to them, ‘Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?’” (Mark 8:14, 17)
Read time: 2 min
Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching
Book Summary • Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 1981.) Kindle Edition. 317 pp. $20.
Read time: 5 min
How to Write Your Personal Testimony
ARTICLE • Your personal testimony is an authentic and non-intrusive way to share your faith in Jesus Christ with others. This guide helps you structure your story, share the gospel, create opportunities to share in everyday conversations, and draft your 5-minute salvation testimony.
Read time: 11 min
Saving Eutychus: How to Preach God’s Word and Keep People Awake
Book Review • Gary Millar and Phil Campbell, Saving Eutychus: How to Preach God’s Word and Keep People Awake, 2nd edition (Sydney: Matthias Media, 2022), Kindle. 180 pp. $9.99.
Read time: 6 min
The Gospel: The Only Truly Good News for a Fallen World
ARTICLE • Humanity’s fallen condition is profoundly disturbing, but the gospel’s good news is that redemption, restoration, and transformation are provided through faith in God’s Son. This article (non-comprehensively) lists 64 ways God answers sin’s devastating effects with grace in Jesus Christ
Read time: 9 min
360-Degree Preaching: Hearing, Speaking, and Living the Word
Book Summary • Michael J. Quicke, 360-Degree Preaching: Hearing, Speaking, and Living the Word (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003). 234 pp. $27.
Read time: 8 min
A Heartwarming Lesson from a Cold Morning
DEVOTION • “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it” (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Read time: 3 min
Christian Higher Education
Book Summary • John David Trentham, “Christian Higher Education,” in Christian Education: A Guide to the Foundations of Ministry, ed. Freddy Cardoza (Ada, MI: Baker Academic, 2019), 327–39.
Read time: 3 min
How to Read the Bible: An Inductive Method
ARTICLE • Many Christians struggle to read Scripture regularly because they lack a method for understanding and applying it. The Inductive Bible Study Method is an effective solution. (Free Reading Guide here).
Read time: 3 min