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The Psalms Know What You Feel

Marshall Segal | No matter what situation you’re in, the psalms know what you feel. And the psalms can help you feel as you ought.

The Happiest Family of All: How Father and Son Glorify Each Other

David Mathis | An astounding and holy contest runs through the pages of Scripture, as the Father and Son seek to “outdo one another in showing honor.”

Submit Your Felt Reality to God

Joe Rigney | Our own sense of reality is not the same as reality itself. And simply recognizing that distinction can be the first step toward aligning our thoughts and emotions with God’s word.

Face Your Fear of Man: How Christ Delivers from Human Approval

Greg Morse | Jesus could love people like he did because he did not fear them like we do.

The Beast I Become: How to Bring Bitterness to God

Scott Hubbard | Sometimes, God seems to be answering a longtime prayer or fulfilling a deep desire — until it all crumbles before our face. How do we receive such painful turns from the hand of God?

The Pillar in the Pews: How the Church Upholds the Truth

Marshall Segal | What makes the church a pillar and buttress of the truth? She holds up and lives out what God has said — whatever God has said, however he has said it, whatever it means for us.

Midlife Clarity: Five Proverbs for Men in Crisis

David Mathis | A midlife crisis, disorienting as it may be, is not only a trial to be endured, but an opportunity for Christian maturity. New cracks in our soul may allow our theology to sink deeper than ever before.

A Most Harmful Medicine: How Subjectivism Poisons a Society

Joe Rigney | The surest way to give the world over to evil is to begin to deny such evil exists. And this is exactly what we have begun doing.

When My Mother Became Annie’s Mom: A Tribute to a Woman’s Great Love

Jon Bloom | “A woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” For Mother’s Day, Jon Bloom obeys this verse and honors his mother’s beautiful love for the least of these.

Stuck Between the World and God: How I Almost Died in Indecision

Greg Morse | God is not honored by mere checked boxes. He’s honored by a life that says he can be trusted, obeyed, and treasured above all else.

The Word of God Is Worth the Work

Scott Hubbard | If you want more joy, more warmth, more life from your devotions, don’t bypass the hard, necessary work of thinking.

We Stand for Truth Himself

David Mathis | Christians stand for truth, but not in the way the world might. Truth, for us, is unavoidably and irreducibly personal.

You Have Put More Joy in My Heart

Marshall Segal | The joy God gives is not a fragile joy, ready to vanish in painful circumstances. It is strong enough to sustain fragile people through them.

How to Entertain the Holy Spirit

Scott Hubbard | How do we show hospitality to the Holy Spirit? We hear his voice, heed his motions, hate his enemies, and receive his grace.

Me, Myself, and Lies: The Spiritual Dangers of Isolation

Marshall Segal | One of Satan’s favorite strategies is isolation, and smartphones and social media have made his work that much easier.

Invisible and Unmistakable: How Scripture Pictures the Holy Spirit

Joe Rigney | If you want to understand the Holy Spirit better, you can begin by grasping the images of the Spirit given in Scripture: wind and breath, spirit and river, oil and bird.

All-Sufficient, All-Satisfying: What Saving Faith Sees in Christ

John Piper | How does saving faith honor Christ? By seeing him as not only all-sufficient, but all-satisfying. Not only efficacious, but glorious. Not only trustworthy, but a treasure.

The Love in His Grief: How the Spirit Responds to Our Sin

Greg Morse | The Spirit can be grieved with us. But if we are in Christ, the Spirit will never leave us.

The Son Must Rise: What Made Easter Inevitable

David Mathis | Jesus did not merely rise from the dead — he had to rise from the dead. His resurrection was not optional. Do you know why?

Behold the Man Upon the Cross

Jon Bloom | Why do Christians call this Friday, of all Fridays, good? Because we would have no good apart from the horrors of the cross.

When the Dawn Seems to Die: How Jesus Keeps Us from Falling Away

Scott Hubbard | When hope flees, and faith feels weak, and the dawn seems to die, what will keep us from falling away? Jesus prays for us.

I Have No Good Apart from You: Prayer of the Satisfied Heart

Joe Rigney | Many of us struggle to experience contentment because we look for it in the wrong places. The satisfied heart prays, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”

The Best Sermon for Marriage: Seven Lessons for Lasting Love

Marshall Segal | The best marriages take their cues not only from the romance of the Song of Solomon, but from the daily, unspectacular faithfulness of the Sermon on the Mount.

What God Can Do in One Conversation: Recovering the Power of Personal Evangelism

Greg Morse | In all the emphases on slow, patient, relational evangelism, have we forgotten just how much God can do in a single conversation?

Did Jesus Need the Spirit? Pondering the Power of the God-Man

David Mathis | Jesus’s miracles certainly show that he is God — but the New Testament’s answer as to how he performed those miracles is not quite as simple.

Our God-Sized Ordinary: Six Ways to See the Holy Spirit

Marshall Segal | If you belong to Christ, God has flooded every familiar and unremarkable corner of your life with his Spirit.

Roses Grow on Briers: Unsentimental Love in a Sentimental World

David Mathis | When you think about the love of God, how much has your imagination been shaped by the sentimental age in which you live?

Sympathy Without Distress: The Exalted Compassion of Christ

Greg Morse | The risen Jesus remembers us, loves us, intercedes for us — and not in a way that diminishes his heavenly joy. That is really good news.

The Joy of God in Us: Why the Spirit Produces Happiness

Jon Bloom | Why is the Holy Spirit so often connected to joy in Scripture? Because he is the Joy at the center of reality.

How to Pray Like Jabez

David Mathis | Twenty years ago, ‘The Prayer of Jabez’ became one of the bestselling Christian books of all time. What made it so popular, and how might we learn from Jabez today, without throwing away Scripture?

The Prayer to End All Prayers

Marshall Segal | In the world to come, we will have nothing to fear, nothing to mourn, nothing to endure, nothing to confess. Can you imagine?

Some Kindness Stings: Why Love Uses Hard Words

Jon Bloom | The most loving people do not delight in wounding others, but they are willing to, for the sake of real healing. They know that soft words can sometimes be cruel, and hard words kind.

The Subtle Way to Waste Your Life: Confessions of a Sophisticated Sloth

Greg Morse | Life is rarely wasted all at once, but rather through thousands of small, seemingly insignificant moments.

Kneeling Among Lions: Learning to Pray Like Daniel

Joe Rigney | Before Daniel courageously survived the lions’ den, he courageously knelt before his God. What can we learn from his brave prayer?

Live Closer to Home: How Proximity Shapes Responsibility

Scott Hubbard | The best place to live today is the place you already are. And the best people to give your attention to are those already near you.

After Two Whole Years: Have We Humbled Ourselves Yet?

David Mathis | The question isn’t whether God’s humbling hand descended over these last two years, but have we acknowledged it, and humbled ourselves before him?

The Strange Sounds of Praise: A Sufferer’s Introduction to the Psalms

Jon Bloom | Why do we love the psalms? In part because we know, deep down, that real worship sometimes means weeping.

Lord, Let Me Die: Mercy for Those Tired of Living

Greg Morse | Some walk through the valley of the shadow of death and long to just lie down. How does God respond to those who pray for life to end?

The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Questioning How We Frame Reality

Joe Rigney | Are you ever perplexed that two people can experience the same event and come to very different conclusions about what happened?

Did We Kiss Purity Goodbye?

Marshall Segal | The pursuit of sexual purity always goes awry when we try to enforce the laws of God without extending the heart of God.

The Power of a Praying Mother

Scott Hubbard | Many of the greatest victories and advances God has worked in history have been answers to a mother’s persistent prayers.

As for Me and My House: The Delightful Duty of Family Religion

Greg Morse | God doesn’t want worship to be a tiny corner of family life. He wants worship to touch every room, closet, and hallway.

Talking Back to God: How His Promises Provoke Our Prayers

David Mathis | God means for prayer to be more dynamic and relational than an employee petitioning his boss for a raise, or a slave requesting some provision from his master.

The Safest Man for Women: A Guide Toward Sexual Purity

Marshall Segal | How Christian men treat sex, whether married or not, sheds light on Christ for all to see, or obscures and slanders him.

Will I Trust God? Simple Prayer in a Desperate Moment

Jon Bloom | The power of a man who believed, in the face of the humanly impossible, has had a ripple effect that will touch every soul in heaven. Will you, like him, trust God?

Pastors Are Only Matchmakers: The Humble Heart of Faithful Ministry

Scott Hubbard | In their heart of hearts, all Christians ask their pastors, “Would you show me Jesus?” And in their heart of hearts, all faithful pastors say, “Gladly.”

The Blissful and Trivial Life: How Entertainment Deprives a Soul

Marshall Segal | What, if any, of your entertainment might need to be curbed or redirected for the sake of your soul?

What Does a Faith Crisis Feel Like?

Jon Bloom | For some Christians, common doubts build up over time to produce a serious faith crisis. How can we care for those who feel lost in the storm?

The Contagion of Cowardice

Greg Morse | God requires a lot of men in the church. The enemies are real, and the risks are great. Will we trust God enough to lay aside our fears?

Am I Real? A Basic Guide to Christian Assurance

Scott Hubbard | How can you know your faith is real? The enemies of Christian assurance are great. But for all who are in Christ, the God of assurance is greater.

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