• The Bible as Nourishment for the Christian Life
    May 31 2024

    Christians feed on Scripture. Holy Scripture nurtures the Holy Community as food nurtures the human body. Eugene Peterson helps us understand how we can find nourishment from the Bible. Read this full article here.

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    22 mins
  • Christian Faith and the Natural Sciences
    May 17 2024

    In recent years, there has been growing interest in the relationship between Christianity and the natural sciences. Oxford Professor Alister McGrath illustrates how Christianity helps make sense of the world and provides a framework for both science and a spirituality of nature. Read this full article online.

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    15 mins
  • Death and the Doorway to Life
    May 3 2024

    The modern world tends to downplay or deny the reality of death, relegating it behind closed doors or to a few lines in the back of the newspaper. Death is considered a rare stranger instead of a certain and approaching visitation. But ignoring death is short-sighted and can prevent us from living fully. Death not only filters our priorities, it also filters our passions. In this insightful message, Gary Thomas helps us understand why it is wise to remember the fragility and brevity of our own lives and recall the lives of those who have gone before us. Read this article online here.

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    21 mins
  • A Welcome Change in Apologetics
    Apr 19 2024

    We’re burdened for our friends who don’t know the joy of the Gospel. So how do we approach evangelism and apologetics? Randy Newman shares our need to ask God to reshape us so we truly love people and see them as “precious, eternal, valuable souls.” Furthermore, he suggests that we must adjust our approaches to sharing the Gospel according to the dramatic changes in our culture. Read this article online.

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    14 mins
  • Why are Christians so Bad?
    Apr 5 2024

    Christians aren't immune to evil, but skeptics are often quick to seize on a Christian's bad behavior as reason to discount the faith. The gospel can uniquely address the skeptic’s contention – because the gospel’s response is to demonstrate that there is Someone they can trust. Read this article online.

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    13 mins
  • James Houston on Prayer and Spiritual Friendship
    Mar 22 2024

    Our desire to pray is God’s gift of love and friendship to us. Learn more about the relationship between prayer and friendship with God in this insightful message from Dr. James Houston. To read this article online, please click here.

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    2 mins
  • John Stott and the Incomparable Christ
    Mar 8 2024

    How can we present Jesus Christ to the world in a way that is simultaneously authentic and relevant? How can we be loyal to the authentic Jesus and simultaneously present him relevantly to our contemporaries? Read this article online.

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    6 mins
  • Success and Failure with David Prior
    Feb 23 2024

    Do you desire to be successful? What would that look like? In our world today there are numerous definitions of success and failure. But God’s blessing, God’s protection, God’s presence, God’s grace, God’s peace—that all adds up to being fulfilled and being complete. That is success. Anything else is, ultimately, failure. Read this article online.

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    20 mins