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March 28, 2024 by: Randy Newman A Problem for Everyone
Over the many years I’ve listened to people share their struggles and questions about faith, the problem of pain is the objection most frequently raised. That makes a lot of sense. It’s a disturbing and ever-present problem. Sooner or later, regardless of how much we may try to avoid thinking about it, everyone will die. As a young child, I learned about the Holocaust—the systematic murder of six million of my people, two-thirds of the population of European Jews. While attending religious instruction at our local synagogue, I watched film ..read more
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March 27, 2024 by: Mitchell L. Chase
Hope in a Hard World
Believers need to have incredible hope in the hard world that we live in. And because of the Genesis 3 context, we are in a broken and fractured creation. We sense this inwardly with our sin. We sense this outwardly with temptations and snares. We notice the suffering and brokenness all around the world.
We need to be people of great hope in this broken world, and that means our hope shaped by the Scriptures must involve a resurrection concept. In a world full of broken bodies and suffering people, God is going to bring redemption and ..read more
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March 27, 2024 by: Crossway An Exclusive Offer for Crossway+ Members
Teenagers today face unprecedented and complex challenges in their lives and relationships. Parents and youth leaders can offer valuable Christian guidance, but it’s in Scripture that we encounter the wisdom of Jesus, new and sufficient for that day’s difficulty and temptation.
This updated edition of Paul David Tripp’s bestselling book New Morning Mercies features 366 engaging daily devotionals, adapted for teenagers. Each day includes a one-sentence, gospel-centered reading and an extended meditation, Bible verses, and a pr ..read more
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March 26, 2024 by: David M. King Jesus Is the Authority on Scripture
Does the Old Testament really point to Jesus? To answer that question, we should ask an expert. Who’s the leading authority on Bible interpretation? It’s not the dear person who first shared the gospel with you, as knowledgeable as he or she may be. It’s not your pastor either, despite his wisdom and experience. It’s not even a biblical scholar who has devoted an entire academic career to the study of Scripture. All these people are valuable in the formation of our faith; we should learn from them as much as we can. But the l ..read more
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March 25, 2024 by: Daniel P. Miller
This article is part of the Open Letters series.
Dear Brother or Sister,
Local churches hurt people. People hurt people, of course, but since churches are people, churches have the capacity to inflict severe relational pain.
By God’s grace the reverse is also true. The local church is designed by Christ to function as a spring of encouragement and joy to its members. I hope that you have experienced the blessing of walking in fellowship with a body of believers that Jesus used, or is now using, to strengthen your faith and envelop you in covenantal love.
Bu ..read more
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March 25, 2024 by: Crossway
This article is part of the The Crossway Podcast series.
Parenting Teens Is Impossible, but There’s Hope
In this episode, Paul Tripp offers practical advice and encouragement to parents seeking to raise their teenagers to know God and feel ready to go into the world. He shares how so many of the difficult situations facing our teens come back to the issue of identity, and he discusses how parents can cultivate a foundation that teens can trust as they begin to ask important questions for themselves.
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March 23, 2024 by: Sam Allberry, Ray Ortlund Jesus and Community
In Mark 10, Jesus gives us this staggering promise: Jesus said,
“Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.” (Mark 10:29–30)
What we leave. Jesus is always honest, even blunt, about the cost of discipleship. He never buries suffering in the small ..read more
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March 23, 2024 by: J. Garrett Kell
This article is part of the How (and How Not) series.
How Not to Fight Sin
Fighting sin is spiritual warfare, and warfare requires a battle plan. If left to our own devices, we would have little success against our unseen enemy. Thankfully, God’s word supplies wisdom to assist us in eluding the evil one’s snares. We’ll begin by briefly considering how not to engage in the battle, followed by practical tactics to flee sin and follow God.
Don’t Fight Sin by Ignoring It
Pretending sin isn’t there won’t help you fight it, as with Ben. Ben was a jokester, but at ..read more
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March 22, 2024 by: Jonathan Gibson
The following is a sample day’s readings from O Sacred Head, Now Wounded: A Liturgy for Daily Worship from Pascha to Pentecost, a 48-day devotional liturgy to help readers effectively prepare their hearts from Pascha (Easter) to Pentecost.
A Liturgy for Remembering Christ’s Life, Death, and Resurrection
Since the beginning of time, it has been God’s plan to fill heaven and earth with the praise of his name. By grace, we have been swept up into this plan through faith in his Son, Jesus Christ. A liturgy of daily worship aims to help us worship God by meditati ..read more
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March 21, 2024 by: Tony Reinke Is it wrong to seek online fame?
Influence is not wrong. Seeking to influence others is very Christian. But many Christians now set out to become social-media “influencers.” When does this become fame-seeking?
The desire to be famous is a sin. But the desire to be influential isn’t, not inherently. “And the problem arises when the pleasure sought in being made much of is greater than the pleasure sought in being of service. So, there is the rub. It is not a sin to desire that those who know us think well of us, provided that our hope and our prayer and our effort ..read more