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What is the Catechism? Is it Still Applicable Today?

Allie Boman

The catechism is a foreign concept to many evangelical Christians. It may evoke a sense of mystical reverence or a yawn of boredom. It may connote religious emptiness. But much is to be learned from...

How and Why Should I Pray for Leaders?

Jessica Van Roekel

God calls us to pray for leaders because he knows that prayer moves hearts towards him and softens our hearts towards others. In government, schools, home, the workplace, and more, leaders bear loads ...

The Meaning and Importance of the Doxology in Christianity

Ashley Hooker

Doxologies are an expression of praise to God. In the Christian church, we often hear them sung or chanted. They are a tradition that has meaning and importance for all Christians. Since the early c...

5 Steps to Find Peace in a Really Bad Situation

Paul Dean

How do you get peace in a really bad situation? You may be in the fight of your life financially and about to lose your home. It may be that you've been diagnosed with lung cancer as my father-i...

The Witness of Scripture: Work of Men, or Word of God?

The Bible is the account of God’s activity in and beyond time. But is it a trustworthy account? To answer that we need to establish three things......

9 Judges You Probably Forgot About

Alyssa Roat

It’s not unlikely that you might hear a sermon preached on Gideon. The story of Samson is a Sunday School staple — despite some of its more mature elements. And Deborah serves as an insp...

What Is a ‘Helmet of Salvation’ in Spiritual Armor?

Hope Bolinger

Head, symbolically in the Bible, tends to mean the whole person. Therefore, we must protect the head at all costs, putting on our helmet of salvation. Putting on Jesus. ...

Who Was Saul of Tarsus?

Mike Leake

Saul was a religiously devoted man who was zealous in his beliefs. And he had the education to back it up. Think of your rising star seminary student. But as the story fills out a bit more, we see tha...

3 Empowering Reminders as We Seek Grace for the Grind

Frank Santora

Paul was not boasting, rather he was trying to protect new Christians who were being led astray from the faith by some false apostles. In doing so he gives us some tremendous insight into the Christia...

3 Lessons Learned from Lottie Moon: A Slaveholder’s Daughter Turned Missionary to China

Emily Hall

How did otherwise faithful Christians who read and revered the Bible attempt to reconcile the gospel with owning enslaved people? And how was I to think of Lottie Moon now that I know she wasn’t a per...

Protecting Your Pastor's Marital Fidelity

How can the church walk alongside its pastor to help him keep his marriage vows with joy?...

Pastor Charles Stanley: A Legacy for Christ

Lisa Loraine Baker

As we mourn his passing from this life on earth, we rejoice he is home with Jesus, the Savior He faithfully proclaimed and served for over fifty years while pastor of the Atlanta church....

Romans 6: Deliverance From Sin

There is, of course, no literary break between Romans 5 and Romans 6. But now Paul is going to show that Christ's victory at Calvary liberates us....

Transformed by Grace: The Power to Say No

According to Scripture, there is something that teaches us to say no to sin—something that trains us to renounce ungodliness and teaches us instead to live righteous and godly lives....

What Does it Mean to Delight Yourself in the Lord? (Psalm 37:4)

Rhonda Stoppe

Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight yourself also in the LORD and He shall give you the desires of your heart.” Since it is human nature to battle against self-worship, we are tempted to focus on ...

How Can Parents Effectively Explain the Gospel to Their Kids?

Sheila Alewine

As parents, we must have a firm grip on the gospel ourselves, and be committed to teaching it, speaking of it, and illustrating it in our daily lives, so that our children will not only hear it, but s...

3 Things to Do Immediately When You Feel You've Lost Your Spiritual Edge

Frank Santora

You get your edge back when you determine to know nothing except Jesus Christ and Him crucified, when God becomes your passion, rather than your past-time and when you determine to make Him the one yo...

Gambling and the Common Good

Russell Moore

Too many of our “opponents” see us as morally-prissy Victorians who don’t want people doing “naughty” things in our presence. Let’s demolish that pretense....