Category: The Gospel Coalition

The Reductio ad Hitlerum fallacy is a fixture of online political debates. If someone doesn’t agree with your position on some issue, it must be evidence of their Nazi sympathies.…

This past fall, the Census Bureau released a study with sobering statistics. “As the pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020, roughly 3.5 million mothers with school-age children either lost jobs,…

Literature can change your life. I know because reading good books changed mine. Books and the reading of books fill the memories of my early childhood as much as anything…

A week after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, evangelical church planter Ben Layer got a call at his home in Siedlce, Poland. A Polish pastor close to the border was organizing…

For many years, Melbourne was considered the world’s most livable city. I arrived in 2005 and every year I’ve seen God’s faithfulness and grace. Our congregation comes from all walks…

These past two years of the pandemic have undoubtedly been the most difficult of my 15+ years in pastoral ministry here in India. I became the lead pastor of our small…

The definite article (“the”) is a bold choice for the title of Matt Reeves’s new film about Gotham’s fabled caped crusader. A more appropriate title for The Batman would perhaps…

“I want to be content in the presence of God with me, no matter what the circumstances are around me.” – David Platt David Platt preaches from Hebrews 13:1–21 at…

“Mom isn’t cool.” One of my kids made this comment while we were gathered around the dinner table one evening. I immediately felt compelled to prove otherwise and proceeded to…

Four years ago, my wife and I decided that we were ready to start a family. As we braced to have our lives turned upside down, we realized that our…