6 Questions College Students Must Be Ready to Answer
Cameron Cole (article)
Strong apologetics can give a student confidence in Christ and his Word when challenges to faith inevitably arise.
Jesus, Friend of Sinners: But How?
Kevin DeYoung
(Article) We may have misconstrued ideas of how Jesus was a friend of sinners.
When City Gates Crumble: An Urgent Call for Women to Pray
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth Many people, feeling hopeless and helpless, turn to social media to exchange opinions and express emotions, hopes, and fears. But we’re not helpless, and we have an even better place to turn because we can cry out to a powerful God.
Hillary, Bernie, Donald, and Me
John Piper At 70, I am energized to dream great things, because this year Hillary turns 69, Bernie turns 75, and Donald turns 70. My rising energy has nothing to do with their policies or character. It has to do with the incredible fact that all of them want to spend their seventies doing the hardest job in the world.
You Could've Been Something
Andrea Burke You have a great voice. You could've been something!" Gulp. That one goes down hard. I'm nearly 33 and for some reason, those four words seem to stick into my heart a little like gritty dirt and sour lemon...Here’s the problem: when I tried to become significant, my world became about me and my hungry ego.
Minimize Student Debt, Maximize Christian Mission
Alex Chediak How many current (and incoming) students are making decisions today that will put them in even deeper debt? What is clear is that thousands upon thousands of students need help assessing the largest investment they’ve ever made. How should Christian students in particular think about their finances in this transitional and formative season of life?
There's No Difference Between "Spiritual" and "Secular"
John Mark Comer The sacred/secular divide is this idea that some things are sacred or spiritual, and they matter to God. But other things are secular or physical, and at least by implication, they don’t matter to God—at least, not all that much.
Letters to a New Believer, Part One
Aaron Armstrong Dear new believer, About a year or so into being a Christian, I did something absolutely, spectacularly dumb: I joined the men's ministry leadership team at our church. Seriously, on a scale of dumb to really dumb, this was just the worst. It was such a bad idea...
A Plea For Gospel Sanity in Missions – From East to West (Part 3)
Aubrey Sequeira The scene was so disorienting, it felt like it must be from a Hollywood (or Bollywood) movie. We are in a bustling bazaar in a large city in Northern India. A white dude in skinny jeans rides up on a mini-motorcycle to meet us. He guides...
A Plea For Gospel Sanity in Missions – From East to West (Part 2)
Aubrey Sequeira I sit there, intrigued, as I listen to the man’s story. We are in an important (and extremely unreached) city in North India. Detail upon intricate detail mounts as he narrates the amazing events that caused him to renounce Sikhism for Christianity...
A Plea For Gospel Sanity in Missions – From East to West (Part 1)
Aubrey Sequeira I feel like I’ve had the conversation more than a thousand times. In my years living in the United States, believers often meet me and having learned that I’m from India, they ask...
Six Foolish Things I Used to Believe about the Ministry
Scott Slayton When I look back on my younger years in the ministry I often shake my head as I remember things I said or attitudes I harbored which were completely wrongheaded...