If you've benefited from Crossway resources over the years, please take a moment to listen to this urgent message from Crossway's President, Lane Dennis: A flood recently swept through Crossway's headquarters. About two feet of water poured into our 32 first-floor offices due to unrelenting rains. The damage was extensive and repairs and rebuilding will take five or six months. More important, however, is the impact this could have on major ministry projects that we have planned. As a not-for-profit ministry, Crossway is not only committed to publishing the ESV Bible and gospel-centered … [Read more...] about Crossway Needs Immediate Help
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Justification and Adoption
These are excellent messages on justification and adoption, and what these truths mean for us: Union with Christ: … [Read more...] about Justification and Adoption
Truth For Life ‘Staff Picks’ For College Student Reading
I was deeply honored to see that Thriving at College once again made the list of Truth For Life's 'Staff Picks' for College Student Reading. They write: Do you have a young adult, college student or prospective college student in your life? The new series, Lessons For Life, features Alistair Begg teaching university students the pitfalls of real-world dangers, namely jealousy, laziness and temptation. Alistair uses humor and relevant examples to navigate a young audience through the value of friendships, generosity, and a sustained devotion to Christ. Lessons For Life Volume 1 and Volume … [Read more...] about Truth For Life ‘Staff Picks’ For College Student Reading
5 Tools Needed to Reach Today’s Teens
Cameron Cole, Director of Youth Ministries at Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama, and the chairman of Rooted: Advancing Grace-Driven Youth Ministry, articulates five tools needed to reach today's teens: 1. Knowledge about the canonization of Scripture. 2. Developed theology of sexuality, particularly homosexuality. 3. Ability to teach the Bible in the greater context of redemptive history. 4. Theological, not only moral, understanding of sin. 5. Understand adoption as an element of salvation. See his post for an explanation of why each of these is vital in … [Read more...] about 5 Tools Needed to Reach Today’s Teens
Can a Practicing Homosexual Be a Christian?
ESPN reporter Chris Broussard is taking tremendous flack simply for answering a specific question from a Christian perspective. Note that Broussard did not volunteer this information. He was asked. Broussard goes on to make an outstanding point about what "true tolerance" is and why it is important not to throw around names like "bigot." He refers to LZ, a fellow ESPN sportwriter who is openly gay. Broussard has now gone on Twitter to defend his remarks, saying: "Today on OTL, as part of a larger, wide-ranging discussion on today's news, I offered my personal opinion as it relates to … [Read more...] about Can a Practicing Homosexual Be a Christian?
John Piper and Mark Noll on the Life of the Mind
Jonathan Parnell: Last fall Mark Noll and John Piper converged to discuss this topic. In an event hosted by Bethlehem College and Seminary and the MacLaurin Institute, Noll and Piper, authors of Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind and Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God respectively, each presented a lecture and interacted with questions related to the mind and Christian scholarship. Read the rest from Parnell. … [Read more...] about John Piper and Mark Noll on the Life of the Mind