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Biblical Exposition, Ministry and Leadership, New Testament
Kevin Lawson — October 25, 2024
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the...
Biblical Exposition, Ministry and Leadership, Spiritual Formation, Theology
Por esto, mis amados hermanos, todo hombre sea pronto para o铆r, tardo para hablar, tardo para airarse; porque la ira del hombre no obra la...
Spiritual Formation, Theology
Jeannine Hanger — October 23, 2024
The Gospels use multisensory language to reveal that Jesus鈥 teaching, ministry, and interactions with people engaged the senses. Talbot School of...
Biblical Exposition, New Testament, Old Testament, Theology
Kenneth Berding — October 18, 2024
What does the apostle Paul mean when he uses the word 鈥渧eil鈥 in 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:3? For years I didn鈥檛 really understand 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:3...
Church Life, Ethics, Theology
Kenneth Way — October 16, 2024
Almost everyone is a caregiver in some capacity. Whether counseling friends, parenting children, educating students, pastoring a church, caring for...
Kevin Lawson — October 11, 2024
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in...
Esto, pues, digo y requiero en el Se帽or: que ya no and茅is como los otros gentiles, que andan en la vanidad de su mente, teniendo el entendimiento...
Historical Theology, Spiritual Formation
Timothy Pickavance — October 10, 2024
We get information about the world from an array of sources. A little reflection makes this more or less impossible to avoid believing. We use our...
Kenneth Berding — October 02, 2024
The four most important spiritual disciplines are: 1) scripture, 2) prayer, 3) church and 4) mission. No other spiritual disciplines rise to the...
Church Life, Ministry and Leadership, New Testament, Spiritual Formation
Kevin Lawson — September 27, 2024
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up...
Y 茅l mismo constituy贸 a unos, ap贸stoles; a otros, profetas; a otros, evangelistas; a otros, pastores y maestros, a fin de perfeccionar a los...
Ethics, Spiritual Formation, Theology
Timothy Pickavance — September 25, 2024
My oldest turned fifteen a few months ago, and this summer he鈥檚 working through the California DMV鈥檚 approved online drivers education curriculum....
Culture, Ethics, Marriage and Family, Ministry and Leadership, Spiritual Formation, Theology
Sean McDowell — September 23, 2024
There has been a lot of talk recently about why kids leave the church. In the past few years, there have been important books on the subject by...
Kyle Strobel — September 20, 2024
There are tension points all along the path of Christian spiritual formation, where Scripture seems to present opposing ideas to us. We don鈥檛 get...
Biblical Exposition, Old Testament, Theology
Kenneth Berding — September 18, 2024
This morning I was reading in Exodus 30:11-16. (Yes, a passage that is sandwiched between instructions for the construction of the incense altar...
Apologetics
William Lane Craig — September 16, 2024
If there is an infinite amount of seconds after this, how can this current second matter or be special?
Biblical Exposition, New Testament, Spiritual Formation
Kevin Lawson — September 13, 2024
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is...
As铆 que, hermanos, os ruego por las misericordias de Dios, que present茅is vuestros cuerpos en sacrificio vivo, santo, agradable a Dios, que es...
Kenneth Berding — September 11, 2024
Sometime during my upper teen years, I read the journal of David Brainerd (1718-1747), and like so many people before me was deeply influenced by...
Church Life
Kenneth Berding — September 09, 2024
I recently turned 60. (I know, I don鈥檛 look a day over 65!) Trudi wanted to craft a special gift for my birthday. What a wonderful gift she...
Apologetics, Culture, Evangelism, Spiritual Formation
Sean McDowell — September 04, 2024
One difficult lesson I have learned in apologetics and evangelism is to identify the question beneath the question. To be honest, I have spent...
Kevin Lawson — August 30, 2024
And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, 鈥淎 sower went out to sow his seed. And as...
Junt谩ndose una gran multitud, y los que de cada ciudad ven铆an a 茅l, les dijo por par谩bola: 芦 El sembrador sali贸 a sembrar su semilla; y mientras...
Culture, Ethics, Theology
Kenneth Berding — August 28, 2024
Certain biblical themes are increasingly becoming political 鈥 at least in many people鈥檚 minds. But keep in mind that all six of the biblical themes...
Apologetics, Culture, Ethics, Evangelism, Spiritual Formation
Sean McDowell — August 26, 2024
I love having conversations with people who see the world differently than me. If we treat people with kindness, charity and show a genuine...