What Christianity Alone Offers Transgender Persons
Sam Allberry The gospel is always good news—for everyone. It strikes me that there are two particular insights the gospel can offer that might form the starting point of our response.
Open Bible, Burning Heart: A Response to Andy Stanley
John Piper My aim here is to state what I think Stanley is commending to preachers, and then suggest some questions that young preachers should ask before embracing Stanley's method.
Love Your Neighbor Enough to Speak Truth
Rosaria Butterfield Rosaria Butterfield shares a personal reflection on her journey from homosexuality and unbelief.
Russia Enacts Law to Restrict Religious Freedom and Missionary Activities
Joe Carter Under the guise of implementing “anti-terrorism” measures, Russia has adopted new laws that restrict religious freedom and criminalize missionary activities.
Let Us Not Camouflage God’s Wrath
Paul Tautges Those who diminish the righteousness and wrath of God often claim to do so out of love for others. But the opposite is reality. Camouflaging God in an attempt to spare the feelings of those not yet rescued by His saving grace is not an act of love at all.
Ugly Stain, Beautiful Hope: My Response to Mika Edmondson
Al Mohler As Dr. Edmonson made clear, this means any Christian must be urgently concerned with anything that leads to the devaluing of the life of any human. That brings us to Black Lives Matter. “We have,” Dr. Edmondson declared, “a natural tendency to actively resist dealing with racial sin.”
Is Black Lives Matter the New Civil Rights Movement?
Mika Edmondson I want you to know it’s right and good for us to be talking about ethnocentrism and racism in the church. And, despite our historic failures and present struggles, Jesus will make his house a house of prayer for all nations.
What Happens to Those Who Never Hear the Gospel?
Matt Smethurst The man on the island. Perhaps you’ve encountered him in a friend’s argument against Christianity. Maybe you’ve even voiced the objection yourself. How could a good and loving God condemn to hell someone who’s never heard of him?
China's Christian Future
Yu Jie At the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, when the Communist party defeated the Nationalists and founded the People’s Republic of China, Christians in China numbered half a million. Yet almost seventy years later, under the Chinese government’s harsh suppression, that population has reached more than sixty million...
The Spread of the Gospel
This animated map is a powerful visual depiction of the most important movement in history: the spread of Christianity. Every frame is one year in the last 2000 years of the Great Commission.
How to Use the Back of a Napkin to Prove to a Jehovah's Witness that Jesus is God
Justin Taylor, Greg Koukl The definition of the Trinity is straightforward: there is only one God and He subsists as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. One God in three persons. Simple. If you want to prove it, then, all you need to do is show that three specific truths are taught in Scripture...
The Story of Iran’s Church in Two Sentences
Mark Howard Persecution threatened to wipe out Iran’s tiny church. Instead, the church in Iran has become the fastest growing in the world, and it is influencing the region for Christ...
Christians Never Graduate from the Gospel
Conrad Mbewe (podcast) In less than three minutes, Conrad Mbewe explains the importance of the gospel in the life of the Christian.
Talking with Catholics about the Gospel
Tim Augustyn Just about every book ever written with the words “Catholic” and “evangelical” in the title have been primarily for pastors or academics. But Chris Castaldo’s Talking with Catholics: A Guide for Evangelicals is different....