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Post-Divorce Healing for Muslims: Rebuild Your Life & Faith

You are not what happened to you. Your worth comes from Allah, not from someone who couldn’t value you. Healing Is Not a Luxury; It’s a Right Walking away from a toxic marriage takes courage....

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I Miss the Pews: Why Uncomfortable Togetherness Mattered

Red-padded pews. It’s one of my most vivid memories from growing up in church. Their smell resembled my grandparents’ closet. They weren’t comfortable. They were impossible to nap on during sermons...

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Christ on Every Page: How the Book of Jonah Points to Jesus

All of Scripture points to Jesus. Whether a passage predicts Christ, prepares God’s people for Christ, reflects Christ, or shows the results of Christ’s work, we can find him on every page. It’s ea...

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Accept God’s Invitation to Rest

“It feels so nice to finally stop and catch my breath.” Can you remember the last time you had a moment like that? For some of us, it’s been a while. In our hard-working, highly productive culture...

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The Crisis of Choice in an Age of Longing

We live in an age of longing—for significance, permanence, purpose. We see it in the stories we tell, the goods we consume, and the goals we pursue. And amid what some have called our meaning crisi...

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How AI Is Changing Job Opportunities for New College Grads

Over the past few weeks, the mainstream media has been sounding the alarm on a worrying new trend. “AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Bill Gates says Gen Z may not be safe no matter how well they...

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How Judges Points to Jesus

Few books are as depressing as Judges. The old Methodist commentator Adam Clarke once lamented that some of its worst characters are people whom “humanity and modesty wish to be buried in everlasti...

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Making Decisions with Our Limits in Mind

Melissa Kruger and Courtney Doctor talk with Jen Wilkin about how to make decisions regarding good opportunities in light of our finiteness. They talk about why quitting is sometimes wise, how to t...

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Men Really Want . . . Intimacy

There’s a “bikini barista” coffee hut just down the street from my office. There are always cars (pick-up trucks, to be precise) in the drive-thru. Sometimes I wonder what would compel a girl to wo...

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The 4 Faces of America’s Nones

The Story: A major new survey reveals the religiously unaffiliated “nones” aren’t all the same. How should that shape our approach to reaching them with the gospel? The Background: In a study of 1...

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Don’t Hand Education Over to AI

For nearly three decades, I’ve worked in Christian education, leading schools in Boston, Missouri, and Illinois. Increasingly, I’m fielding questions about the place of technology in K–12 schooling...

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Is Prayer Difficult? Pray Scripture Back to God.

If there’s a limit to how many books one person should read on a single subject, I’ve probably exceeded it with books on prayer. I keep reading about it because I often feel dissatisfied with my pr...

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The Function and Usefulness of Apocalyptic Preaching

In this lecture, Don Carson explores the distinctive role of apocalyptic literature in biblical theology. Carson highlights how its vivid imagery and symbolism convey transcendent truths about God,...

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How Leviticus Deepens Our View of Substitutionary Atonement

From the beginning, Christian theology has argued that the sacrifices and offerings prescribed in Leviticus were types of Christ. And much of that theology, especially from the Reformed tradition, ...

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Churches, Don’t Dismiss ‘Brain Rot’

“Brain rot” was Oxford’s word of the year in 2024, defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material ...

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Themelios 50.2

The new summer 2025 issue of Themelios has 204 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews. It’s freely available in three formats: (1) PDF, (2) web version, and (3) Logos Bible Software. 1. J...

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How to Deal with Loneliness as a Single Muslim Woman

There’s a quiet moment that hits you hardest. Maybe it’s at a wedding where everyone keeps asking, “When is it your turn?” Or maybe it’s late at night, scrolling past engagement posts, feeling th...

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Baptists Still Need Theological Retrieval

“Theological retrieval” is a buzzword in contemporary Christian theology. You don’t have to look far to see an array of theologies celebrating retrieval. Its flowers bloom in many soils. We might ...

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Back-Row Christianity Won’t Build Your Faith

After my third child was born, I listened to seminary courses while I nursed him. I also had curated a lovely worship playlist, a list of favorite podcasts, and a shelf full of books of Christian b...

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The Romans Road: How the Book of Romans Changed the World

Throughout church history, sinners have come to faith in nearly every conceivable way and through the most unlikely people. Justin Martyr, one of the earliest Christian apologists, was evangelized...

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Easing Comer’s Fears on Penal Substitution

Best-selling author and former pastor John Mark Comer has worries about evangelical views of the atonement. In a series of recent Instagram posts, he pointed to Andrew Rillera’s book Lamb of the Fr...

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