I was blessed to spend 13 years working in college ministry, mostly at two large residential universities in Virginia. Those were wonderfully sweet years of ministry for our family. We…
Category: The Gospel Coalition
Love and Liberty: The Original Sexual Revolution – Glen Scrivener, Andrew Wilson, Kyle Harper
Nearly a millennium before the swinging ’60s, a revolution in attitudes toward sex and sexuality transformed how we consider marriage, family, the sexes, equality, consent, and even concepts like free…
Help and Hope When Church Leaders Fall – Laura Spaulding
Our backyard forest is struggling to survive this year’s relentless Texas drought. Dead grass, withered leaves, and fallen branches litter the parched ground, and a massive hackberry tree fell this…
True Blessing Comes from Countercultural Living – Collin Hansen, Alistair Begg
“Jesus hears and cares about the things that make your heart heavy and your cheeks wet.” That was perhaps the most moving line in Alistair Begg’s new book The Christian…
From Shadow to Substance: Aaronic Priesthood’s Transformation – Justin Dillehay
Let’s say you’re reading through Exodus and you get to chapter 40, where the Levitical priesthood is being described. There you read that Aaron and his sons were to be…
A Search for Significance – Nathan Guy
“Is this all there is?” Each verse in Peggy Lee’s 1969 song describes a life event, such as going to the circus or falling in love. Such things seemed so…
How a Gentle Spirit Silences Contention – Ray Ortlund, Sam Allberry
In this episode of You’re Not Crazy, Sam Allberry and Ray Ortlund discuss 2 Timothy 2:14–26. They consider the importance of avoiding a quarrelsome spirit in Christian leadership and the…
Our First Evangelistic Task: Make Christianity Comprehensible – Alan Noble
“For many people today, to set aside their own path in order to conform to some external authority just doesn’t seem comprehensible as a form of spiritual life,” writes Charles…
One Thing My Parents Did Right: A Home Grounded in Reality – Mason Jones
My mom is the single greatest influence on my life, and the Lord used her in a vital way to bring me to a saving knowledge of Christ. She laid…
The Best Hymn Writer You’ve Never Heard Of – Joseph V. (Josh) Carmichael
She’s been called the “poet of the Sanctuary,” and even “the all-time champion Baptist hymn-writer of either sex.” She penned hymns as a contemporary of Charles Wesley, John Newton, and…