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5 Powerful Duas from the Quran Every Woman Should Know

For Every Struggle, there’s a Supplication and Strength in Turning Towards Allah It begins quietly, doesn’t it? A late-night tear. A silent prayer whispered after Fajr. The feeling that no one f...

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Cultural Apologetics is Older Than You Think

I’m a full-time professor at a Christian university and a part-time teaching pastor in my local church. My students range in age from 18 to almost 90. Despite their many differences, they tend to v...

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5 Postures for New Elders

Every week across the country, countless elders meet in rooms with harsh, hospital-inspired lighting to discuss everything from budgets to preaching to caring for the suffering. The majority of tho...

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The ‘2 Roads’ Approach to Evangelism

Have you ever shared the gospel with someone and realized it just wasn’t connecting? We trust that God’s Word has the power to save (James 1:21) and that someone’s response to the gospel is based ...

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The Spirit of Truth: Takeaways from the Evangelium 21 Conference in Hamburg

Since the summer of 2011, Evangelium 21 (“Gospel 21”) has promoted biblically rooted church ministry in German-speaking Europe. At this summer’s meeting in Hamburg, two things stood out. The first...

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Biblical Counseling in a Therapeutic Age

One perpetual debate among Christian counselors for the last several decades is the extent to which secular therapy techniques or medical interventions can be used by believers. On one extreme, pro...

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The Dish on Gossip

When we treat gossip as an “excusable sin,” we ignore the corrosive power it has in our lives and relationships. In this conversation, Melissa Kruger and Courtney Doctor talk about why we’re so dra...

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The Most Stunning Prayer in the Old Testament

The books of 1 and 2 Kings aren’t overly interested in presenting powerful models of godliness. Even the accounts of Judah’s best kings like Hezekiah and Josiah, which interrupt the colorful proces...

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A Struggling Pastor’s Journey to Joy

For many years, I was a joyless, powerless, struggling pastor. However, late in life and ministry, God opened my eyes to his glory, the depth of my pride, and the joyful wonder of the gospel. This ...

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How David’s Kingship Illuminates the Gospel’s Genealogies

Genealogies are the least-read segments of Scripture. I have no hard facts to back up my claim. But be honest; when’s the last time you heard a genealogy read in a church service? How quickly do yo...

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The Fatherless Epidemic: Raising Up Men in Urban America

Damien McDaniel has been charged with murdering at least 18 people in Birmingham, Alabama, over the course of 14 months. His alleged victims include a firefighter, a UPS employee, and the mayor’s c...

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Sing with Getty and Other Greats in This New Hymnal

Music and family have always been connected for me. My grandfather taught me the Christian faith largely through our Welsh heritage of singing. Shortly before he died, our family gathered around th...

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Male Friendship Is Declining. Wives Can Help.

Last fall, my husband hesitantly mentioned that some guys from church were planning a weekend away to play golf, and they’d asked him to come. Before I could tell him I thought it was a great idea,...

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Why Finishing Well Matters More Than Visible Success

I already felt overbooked with weddings and studying for my ordination exams and a scheduled shoulder surgery when, unexpectedly, a key pastor left our church. Then the congregation put me in charg...

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Where Is King Jesus When Violence Reigns?

It’s bad enough no gruesome tragedy goes un-noticed by social media. But now we have to see the video of these attacks, almost in real-time. This is no movie. The screams, the fear, the blood—it’s ...

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The N. I. C. E. Dystopia: C. S. Lewis on Escaping Our Humanity

Christmas 1944 dawned well below freezing around Bastogne, Belgium, during one of the coldest winters on record for northwest Europe. Neither the cold nor the harassing German artillery was the wor...

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The Promised Land: Why and to What End?

The exodus is one of the most iconic stories in the Bible, and rightly so. Surely this has to do, in part, with the way subsequent biblical authors pick up the exodus’s images and themes for their ...

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Experiences Shape Beliefs. They Shouldn’t Determine Them.

What makes Christians different from our secular neighbors? Certainly, our worship of the risen Christ and love for others should mark us out. Our lifestyle—fighting against sin, and running after...

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‘Light of the World’: Another Step Forward for Animated Jesus Stories

It’s been a big year for Bible stories on screens. Prime Video’s House of David was a hit. The Chosen season five set theatrical records for the show. And in April, the animated Jesus movie The Kin...

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Who Made Science and Faith Enemies?

If Christianity is true, we must do our scientific work in light of the truth that God reveals himself in creation (general revelation) and in Scripture (special revelation). We must be scientific ...

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Reconnecting with Your Imaan After a Traumatic Event

Finding Faith After the Fall There’s a moment after the storm when everything feels still, but not peaceful. It’s the stillness that follows loss, heartbreak, or fear. Maybe it was the sudden dea...

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