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Joe Rigney

Joe Rigney serves as a fellow of theology at New Saint Andrews College. He is a husband, a father of three, and the author of a number of books, including More Than a Battle: How to Experience Victory, Freedom, and Healing from Lust.

A Safe Place for Sinners to Change: Six Marks of Gospel Presence

A Safe Place for Sinners to Change

Six Marks of Gospel Presence

Caring for someone battling persistent sin can be hard. Wise friends and counselors know how to maintain compassionate stability while firmly confronting sin.

The Syntax of Sacrifice: Introduction to Leviticus

The Syntax of Sacrifice

Introduction to Leviticus

The book of Leviticus can seem as mystifying as a foreign language — until we learn the basic nouns, adjectives, and verbs of the sacrificial system.

Not All Obedience Is Christian

Not All Obedience Is Christian

Christians do not work for our salvation, but we do work out our salvation as God powerfully works within us. All Christian obedience, then, begins on the inside.

Five Purposes of God in the Work of Redemption

The final portion of Jonathan Edwards’ first sermon on “A History of the Work of Redemption” relates five designs of God in the great work that he carries on from the fall to the end of the world. According to…

Be the Smile of God to Your Children

Be the Smile of God to Your Children

He’s a squirmy one, he is. If I don’t watch him, he’ll wriggle off the bed. But he doesn’t want to. He’s enjoying the tickle fight too much. I can’t blame him. Those giggles make this father’s heart want to…

‘Les Misérables’ and the Law of God

Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is again a topic of conversation, and for good reason. Christians, in particular, have rightly celebrated the portrayal of the beauty of mercy and grace in this moving 150-year-old tale. Most of the theological analyses have…

Treasure in the Field: Enjoying God Through the Game of Baseball

Treasure in the Field

Enjoying God Through the Game of Baseball

Our problem is not that we love the good in this world too much, but that we do not see the good in this world in relation to the One who made it.

What Makes a Man — or a Woman? Lost Voices on a Vital Question

What Makes a Man — or a Woman?

Lost Voices on a Vital Question

What makes a man, or a woman? God has not left us without answers, or without multiple witnesses to those answers.

The Bright Side of Futility

The Bright Side of Futility

Rather than run from God out of a sense of futility, perhaps we might see in that sense of futility an invitation to come home and rest in him.

Religious Affections: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic

Religious Affections

A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic

Jonathan Edwards’s ‘Religious Affections’ is a tremendous book — and potentially devastating. Here are ten things to know before reading Edwards’s classic.

Everything Is Providential: C.S. Lewis on the Symphony of History

Everything Is Providential

C.S. Lewis on the Symphony of History

When we think of the providence of God, we may think of names like Augustine, Calvin, Edwards, and Owen, but have we overlooked C.S. Lewis?

Give Thanks and Give More: A Guide to Joyful Generosity

Give Thanks and Give More

A Guide to Joyful Generosity

Generosity isn’t first about giving more, but about receiving better. If you want to be a more generous giver, ask God to make you a more grateful receiver.

Why Envy Is a Danger for the YRR

And behold, I saw a white horse. Its rider’s name was Success, and Envy followed him. Envy is a movement killer. And if you ask me, it is probably the fundamental danger facing the modest movement called Young, Restless Reformed…

Reversing Romans 1: A Glimpse of the Godward Life

Reversing Romans 1

A Glimpse of the Godward Life

Do you want to catch a clear and beautiful vision of the Godward life? Take a text about the ugly futility of mutiny against God and turn it on its head.

The Living God: What Makes Him Different and Satisfying

The Living God

What Makes Him Different and Satisfying

Have you considered how wonderful it is to draw near to the God who now and always lives?

The Light and Momentary Success of the Wicked

The Light and Momentary Success of the Wicked

Many see how the wicked prosper and abandon the costly path of faith and godliness. If only they could see where each path leads.

Do unto Authors: Four Principles for Reading Well

Do unto Authors

Four Principles for Reading Well

The best readers gladly observe the Golden Rule: they read others as they would want to be read.

Recovering the Lost Art of Chivalry

In this article, Joe Rigney takes us to Narnia to teach us the lost art of chivalry.

What Does the Lord Require of Me? The Ten Commandments and Christian Ethics

What Does the Lord Require of Me?

The Ten Commandments and Christian Ethics

The Ten Commandments open a wide and wonderful window into who God is, and what it means for us to live and love like him.

Christian Hedonics

Christian Hedonics

C.S. Lewis on the Heavenly Good of Earthly Joys

God has orchestrated a symphony of pleasures for his creation, and the more we hear, the more he’s glorified. We should all be students of God’s delights.

Psalm 111: Delighting in the Works of God

Psalm 111:2 reminds us of a fundamental principle: Delight leads to study. A Lover can recall every feature of his Beloved’s face. A mother knows every dimple, hair, and birthmark on her baby’s body. When we recognize something as full…

Envy Hunts in a Pack

Picture your bathroom. Now picture your toilet. Now, you know that space behind the toilet, the disgusting place where nobody goes? The place that, if you should happen to drop your toothbrush, it means that you’ll just have to buy…

Where Do We Disagree? Golden Rule Reading and the Call for Empathy

Where Do We Disagree?

Golden Rule Reading and the Call for Empathy

Whatever you read, wherever you read, ask yourself, “Am I doing unto authors as I would have them do unto me?”

First In, Last Out, Laughing Loudest: The Shining Strength of Good Men

First In, Last Out, Laughing Loudest

The Shining Strength of Good Men

God’s men are not to be pouty and weak, but strong and glad — a reminder God gives us every day when he makes the sun rise.

The Cravings Beneath Your Conflict

The Cravings Beneath Your Conflict

Mimetic desire means wanting something because someone else wants it first. When the object that we both desire can be shared between us, it produces friendship and camaraderie. When only one of us can possess the object, it inevitably produces envy, rivalry, and conflict.

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