The Gospel and the Christian Life

John is a 38-year-old Christian man. He ends most days physically and mentally exhausted, having spent almost no time before God in prayer, Bible reading, or quiet reflection. Most nights, he feels guilty about being lazy. The thought occurs to him that, if after...

The comical science fiction series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy tells the story about a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demanding to learn the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything from the supercomputer, Deep...

One of the many errors which come from ignorance of this struggle and which must be avoided is perfectionism. This misnomer came from John Wesley and John Fletcher and manifests itself in Methodism, Nazarenes, the Salvation Army, and the Holiness Movement. It is a...

Pause what you are doing. Turn off every device that makes noise in your house. Crack a window and listen carefully. Can you hear a faint sound, not unlike the sniffle of a boy hiding in the bathroom after having had his lunch money stolen? This is the whimper of men...

Progressive Sanctification: A Divine Co-op Who lives your Christian life, you, or God? That may sound like a trick question, but it really is not. It is a question to help the believer reckon clearly and biblically with one of the most pertinent and foundational...

The coronavirus pandemic has thrust the followers of Christ on the horns of a dilemma. Scripture clearly calls the people of God to assemble regularly for public worship, which includes the proclamation of God’s word and the administering of the ordinances. The writer...

It has become increasingly popular of late—you might even say a bit theologically cool and edgy—to downplay Christian promises as clichés, and to criticize those who claim and proclaim them as escapists, those in denial of the real world of grief and lament. There is...

In a lesser well-known allegory, Hinds’ Feet on High Places, author Hannah Hurnard writes of a protagonist named Much Afraid who is born with club feet. She encounters the Good Shepherd and tells him of her desire to dance upon the high places like the deer. He then...

“I just don’t know what to do. This virus has made my anxiety go through the roof. I am having more panic attacks and I just can’t shake this worry” Rachel[i] said to me during our session over the phone. As a therapist, the above-referenced quote is one that I have...