Coming Untrue

In 1931, an excavator named Claude Schaeffer on a dig in Ras Shamra, Syria came across three clay tablets in the ruins of a house belongin...

Psalm 3 is a little piece of history. The superscript over it reads, “A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.” It takes us ...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. The Gospel Coalition is an evangelical colossus, w...

Today I want to do a short follow-up from last week’s post, which was about bad songs that conservative evangelical congregations are sing...

One of the minor themes that has caught my attention throughout my latest pass through scripture in my morning readings is the orthodoxy o...

“Six days you shall labor , and do all your work …” There’s much discussion in Western economies among secularists, and more recently am...

“What is the ‘marvelous light’ 1 Peter 2:9 refers to?” Light is frequently a metaphor for truth, revelation or understanding, not just i...

When a man cannot stop talking, something is terribly wrong. That is especially true among the people of God, where self-control should be...

The word Selah appears in the Old Testament a total of 74 times, primarily in the Psalms, but also a few times in the prophecy of Habakku...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Matthew , Mark and Luke all make reference to a...

The congregation I was in last weekend was singing this new song: “Holy Spirit, come invade us now  We are your church  We need your ...

We evangelicals love to use words long past their best-before date. Perhaps the reading material we share in common influences us to sound...

Proverbs is wisdom literature. As such, we expect it to deal with mostly with practicalities and real-world concerns, and this is exactly ...

“To what extent are friendships transactional?” If you peruse secular media and believe what you read, your answer is probably a quick a...

I don’t believe in evolution. One reason is that I can do math. Another is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. A third is that evolution req...

We were looking last week at the future, earthly opposition to God and his Messiah described for us in Psalm 2. David tells us that the ru...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. The website GodIsImaginary is an interesting stud...

I was talking to a close friend last week. He’s serving as an elder in a local congregation of believers. A man of their gathering has rai...

An unsaved friend and former co-worker passed away unexpectedly this week, to my great regret. You always assume you’ll have more time … u...

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it .” Children are largely a product of the paren...