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Featured Sermon: Valuing Jesus (Matthew 13:44-52)

Pastor Mark Dever preached on Matthew 13:44-52 about “Valuing Jesus” on Sunday, August 18, 2019, at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC.

Featured Sermon: Wisdom (James 3:13-18)

Pastor Troy Nesbitt, the founding pastor at Cornerstone Church in Ames, Iowa, preached on James 3:13-18 on Sunday, July 14, 2019.

Skillet’s John L. Cooper on Young Christian Influencers Leaving the Faith

John L. Cooper: “It is time for the church to rediscover the preeminence of the Word. And to value the teaching of the Word. We need to value truth over feeling.”

Featured Sermon: Called to Pursue Mercy and Justice

Dr. Peter Cha of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School preached on Isaiah 58 at Cottage Grove Church in Des Moines, Iowa on July 21, 2019.
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C.S. Lewis: Lord or Lunatic, But Never Good Teacher

Kelvey Vander Hart: As C.S. Lewis reminds us, you can call Jesus either Lord or lunatic, but never just a good teacher.

Homosexuality, the Gospel, and Repentance

Shane Vander Hart: You can’t repent of what the Bible calls sin while at the same time, call it good and right and say that God made you that way.

The Pope’s Fallible Edit

Phil Bair: The whole idea behind this so-called “edit“ of the Lord’s Prayer is reckless and erroneous. We can not improve upon the Word of God.

Is a Young Universe Nonsense?

Phil Bair: It seems we cannot weasel out of the idea of apparent age no matter what we do, no matter what we think, no matter what theories we endorse or scorn.

What A Pastoral Prayer for the President Should Look Like

Pastor David Platt showed what a pastoral prayer for the president should look like when President Donald Trump made an unannounced visit to McLean Bible Church.

The World, Not Scripture, Gets LGBT Issues Wrong

Shane Vander Hart: The Church emulating the teaching of the world will not help it grow. As mainline Protestantism demonstrates, it does the opposite.

America’s Last Christian Generation?

Collin Brendemuehl: Could this be the last generation of well-meaning evangelicals in the US? There’s a good chance of it.

Book Review: “God Over All” by William Lane Craig

Collin Bredemuehl: Dr. William Lane Craig in “God Over All” has provided us with a proper piece of philosophical theology.

Two Book Recommendations for Elder Training

Collin Brendemuehl: The principle and practice of developing mature elders in the church charts a course for a more mature, more effective local church.

Ten Inspiring Christmas Quotes

In observance of Christmas eve and Christmas we thought we’d share ten inspirational Christmas quotes with you. We think these are encouraging, we hope you do as well.

Natural Rights and Evangelical Apologetics

Collin Brendemuehl: The idea of natural rights (the Christian version) would not communicate the gospel correctly in North Korea or Pakistan.
Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms – Anton von Werner – 1877

Happy Reformation Day

On October 31, 1517, a German monk named Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenburg Castle church sparking the Reformation.