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Christian Education, Church Life, Ministry and Leadership, Spanish
Kevin Lawson — August 29, 2025
He aquí, tú tienes el sobrenombre de judío, y te apoyas en la ley, y te glorías en Dios, y conoces su voluntad, e instruido por la ley apruebas lo...
Church Life
Ed Stetzer — August 27, 2025
This post is part two of four in the series “Renewing Expository Preaching.” Read part one here . Expository preaching is the best, but not the...
Theology
William Lane Craig — August 25, 2025
This is a Q&A blog post by our Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, William Lane Craig. Question If God created Hell, and God is omnipresent, then...
Spiritual Formation
Kyle Strobel — August 22, 2025
When we talk about spiritual formation, the Christian life, or maybe even just growth, we all presuppose a paradigm for what we are talking about....
Church Life, Ministry and Leadership
Ed Stetzer — August 20, 2025
This blog post is part one of four in the series “Renewing Expository Preaching.” Expository preaching plays a vital role in the life of the...
Historical Theology
Kenneth Berding — August 18, 2025
In Philippians 1:19, Paul writes, “for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my ...
Spiritual Formation, Theology
Kevin Lawson — August 15, 2025
Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When...
Spanish, Spiritual Formation, Theology
Oíd, hijos, la enseñanza de un padre, Y estad atentos, para que conozcáis cordura. Porque os doy buena enseñanza; No desamparéis mi ley. Porque yo...
Ed Stetzer — August 13, 2025
Church matters, and because church matters, what we mean by church matters. The New Testament presents the church as both universal and local, but...
Kenneth Berding — August 11, 2025
Here’s a thought experiment. Suppose that we were to take the statements in Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8 about a thousand years being like a day...
Biblical Exposition, Historical Theology, Old Testament
Kenneth Way — August 08, 2025
In our previous post, we discussed faith in Gideon’s story. Here in Part Two, we discuss the remaining three individuals from Judges who are...
Kenneth Way — August 06, 2025
Hebrews 11:32-34 mentions four infamous individuals from the book of Judges (ordered Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah). [1] But these four are...
Kenneth Berding — August 04, 2025
My thoughts wandered this morning on my prayer walk. [1] I kept bringing my mind back to prayer, but my mind was wandering from my very first...
Christian Education, Ministry and Leadership
Kevin Lawson — August 01, 2025
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win...
Por lo cual, siendo libre de todos, me he hecho siervo de todos para ganar a mayor número. Me he hecho a los judíos como judío, para ganar a los...
Biblical Exposition
Gary Manning Jr — July 30, 2025
In John 4:9, the Samaritan woman is surprised that Jesus asked her for water from the well. The reason for her surprise is that “Jews do not ____...
Biblical Exposition, Ministry and Leadership, Spiritual Formation
Kenneth Berding — July 21, 2025
God trains us through waiting. On the day I started writing this post, I was waiting for God to answer a prayer. You see, Trudi and I have been...
Biblical Exposition, Ministry and Leadership
Kevin Lawson — July 18, 2025
I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. Great...
Te exaltaré, mi Dios, mi Rey, Y bendeciré tu nombre eternamente y para siempre. Cada día te bendeciré, Y alabaré tu nombre eternamente y para...
Gary McIntosh — July 16, 2025
“I just don’t get it,” pastor Randy Gallo (not his real name) commented, while holding the cell phone closer to his ear. “During the announcements...
Ministry and Leadership, New Testament
Kevin Lawson — July 11, 2025
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses...
Tú, pues, hijo mío, esfuérzate en la gracia que es en Cristo Jesús. Lo que has oído de mí ante muchos testigos, esto encarga a hombres fieles que...
Biblical Exposition, New Testament, Theology
Kenneth Berding — July 09, 2025
This morning, I spent time in Hebrews 12:18-24 during my morning reading in God’s Word.[1] I found myself particularly attuned to some things I had...
Gary McIntosh — July 07, 2025
“When are you going to mow the lawn, pastor?” The question astonished pastor Miller (not his real name). He had only served Crossroads Church for...
Gary McIntosh — June 30, 2025
Pastors seize an adventurous, daring enterprise — making disciples of all people! The last words of Jesus to his disciples included a command to “...