Learn this key principle in making our scheduling and time-management truly Christian: Let love for others be the driver of your disciplined, intentional planning. Sanctifying our time Godward will mean spending it on others in the manifold acts of love.

Sometimes the grace of God needs defending. Not as much from the world and the devil as from ourselves. Those of us who love his grace most will take the greatest care, with his help, to guard it from perversion…

Christians need to display and promote the joy of maintaining lifelong marriages.

Let me encourage you to take a very hedonistic approach to worship this weekend, and to every corporate worship gathering. We Christians don’t believe that human pleasure in itself is the highest good, but we should believe that finding our…

We all want to be “doers of the word, and not hearers only” (James 1:22). Who wants to feel the failure or share in the shame of being pegged like one “who looks intently at his natural face in a…

Don’t be fooled by the popular locker room read on Philippians 4:13. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” — score a touchdown, hit a homerun, climb a mountain, run a marathon, win the game with a…

If we see fasting as a means of grace to strengthen and sharpen Godward affections, we’re holding a powerful new tool for enriching our joy in Jesus.

You are a writer. Even if it’s just email. Even if it’s hardly anything of significance. Even if you’d never self-identify as a “writer,” or ever consider trying to make a living at something you’re so bad at. But if…

Worshiping Jesus together may be the single most important thing we do. It plays an indispensable role in rekindling and sustaining our spiritual fire.

This is your verse. If you believe in the God of the Bible, and you love him, all the bounty of one of his greatest promises is yours. God’s staggering pledge of Romans 8:28 is that “all things” — not…

You were made for more than private devotions. As nice as it can be to tuck ourselves away in some nook and cranny, all by our lonesome, and read the Scriptures we want to read, pray the prayers we prefer…

I’m unaware of any command in the Bible to sing old songs. It’s not disobedient to sing old songs; it simply isn’t something God needs to remind us to do.

Visible words. That was the Reformers’ term for baptism and the Lord’s Supper. In complement to the spoken words of gospel preaching, these twin rhythms of the gathered church are dramatizations of the grace of God. These “visible words”…

The Lord’s Supper is an extraordinary meal. To be sure, it is simply an ordinary means of God’s grace to his church, but as eating and drinking go, it can be an unusually powerful experience. Along with baptism, the…

Wednesday of Holy Week. The day when key pieces come together in the plot of the greatest sin in all of history — the murder of the Son of God.

“The heavens declare the glory of God,” says Psalm 19:1, and the best of links do the same, if you have eyes to see it.

Listening is one of the easiest things you’ll ever do, and one of the hardest and most important. Here are six lessons to help you listen well.

We were made to meditate. One reason our hearts are so cold is because we don’t intentionally take time to warm our hearts at the fire of Bible-saturated, Christ-exalting meditation.

It’s rare to find a major motion picture that paints humanity, as a whole, to be this bad. Not only was it human evil that nearly destroyed the world in some great war, but now it is human depravity that…

Deep beneath modern celebrations is Patrick’s mission of pioneering the gospel among the unreached, despite the frowning face of the church establishment.

It’s a shame the word “fellowship” has fallen on hard times in some circles, and is dying the death of domestication and triviality. It is an electric reality in the New Testament, an indispensable ingredient in the Christian faith, and…

Doctrine is for the sake of delight. Christian theology does not exist for its own sake, but for our desiring and enjoying Christ. Simply put, the mind is meant to serve the heart. Thinking serves feeling. God gave us the…

He is “the God of all grace” (1 Peter 5:10). Not only did he choose us before the world began, and give his Son to save us, and cause us to be born again, but he also sustains the whole…

Alanis Morissette’s album Jagged Little Pill debuted in 1995, just as the first wave of Millennials was crashing into America’s high schools. Her music became one of the soundtracks for these critical years — for many of us, not chosen…

The Christian life, from start to finish, is utterly dependent on the grace of God. Not only do we come into spiritual life by sheer grace (Act 18:27; Romans 3:24; Ephesians 2:5), but it is in divine grace that we…