April 24, 2024 by: Crossway Gift Ideas for Mom Through Mother’s Day on May 12, 2024, Crossway+ members receive a special discount on a new edition of Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full by Gloria Furman as well as the ESV Women’s Study Bible, either of which could be a great gift for a mom, wife, sister, or daughter. Both the book and Bible are 40% off when ordering 1–9 copies and 50% off when ordering ten or more copies of the book or any individual Bible cover style. Not a Crossway+ member? Sign up for free. As a pastor’s wife and mother of four, Gloria Furman encourages women to refo ..read more

April 23, 2024 by: Cameron Cole Three Concerns For the last eighteen years, I’ve witnessed an annual rite of passage come and go for the sixth graders at my church. They sit in the musty basement room with bars on the tiny window, turn in their notecards, and march up the steep stairs of the 150-year building to the largest Sunday school room. It’s the day the sixth graders do Q&A with the head pastor in front of a room of 200 adults. Given the honesty of the kids, who ask the questions most adults would like to ask if they had the opportunity, the class is must-see TV. Every year, without ..read more

April 22, 2024 by: Matthew T. Martens Accountability Since 1989, 3,272 men and women across the United States have been exonerated after being convicted and collectively serving 28,917 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. That’s an annual average of 96 exonerations, with the rate much higher as of late. During the nine-year period from 2014 through 2022, an average of 172 men and women were exonerated each year—about 3.3 per week. The average exoneree lost nearly nine years in prison before his or her innocence was uncovered. Many spent far longer waiting for justice to arrive.1 The ..read more

April 22, 2024 by: Crossway This article is part of the The Crossway Podcast series. Living for God in the Midst of Everyday Life In this episode, Amy DiMarcangelo discusses how our lives can often look relatively normal and comfortable, which can lead us to wonder if we are truly living and sacrificing for God as we are called to do. She shares her own story of learning what it means to live sacrificially for God in the midst of everyday life. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | RSS Topics Addressed in This Interview: Battling Materialism God’s Justice and Self-Sufficiency Pursu ..read more

April 21, 2024 by: Paul David Tripp God’s After Your Holiness I am deeply persuaded that many of us struggle with questions of God’s goodness, faithfulness, and love, not because he has been unfaithful to any promise in any way, but because we simply are not on his agenda page. Our agenda, our definition of what a good God should give us, is a life that is comfortable, pleasurable, and predictable; one in which there’s lots of human affirmation and an absence of suffering. But consider God’s agenda, as it’s revealed in the following passages: Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trial ..read more

April 20, 2024 by: John Currie The Problem: An Unnecessary Disconnect Preaching is leadership in Christ’s cause. We need to train pastors who will lead the church on its mission in the next generation to connect their preaching with leadership. I have become convinced, through the study and practice of pastoral ministry for over thirty years in a variety of denominational contexts, that an unbiblical divorce often occurs between the pastoral priorities of preaching and leadership more generally. When this happens, the church suffers from either stagnation on its mission or a downgrade in the p ..read more

April 20, 2024 by: Douglas Sean O'Donnell This article is part of the What Does It Mean? series. And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” —Mark 2:17 The Use of Interrogative Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest one of all? Anybody home, McFly? O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? What’s up, Doc? Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon? What has it got in its nasty little pocketses? From classic literature to famous books, movies, shows, and advertisements, q ..read more

April 19, 2024 by: Samuel D. Ferguson A Biblical Vision of Gender Identity In our society, gender identity has been divorced from biology and rerooted in psychology, and people are increasingly questioning who they are designed to be. In this video, Samuel D. Ferguson, author of Does God Care about Gender Identity?, shares when this question became personal to him, and he carefully walks through the core beliefs of the transgender movement, comparing them with fundamental truths expressed in Scripture. TGC Hard Questions is a series of short booklets that seek to answer common but difficult ..read more

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