This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Someone once came up to me, almost shaking in fear over one of Jesus’ Beatitudes. The one that troubled her was “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy” (Matt. 5:7, ESV throughout). Her proble...
King Saul famously courts a medium in 1 Samuel 28, summoning the ghostly figure of the departed Samuel in a moment of distress and disconnection with God. This summer, German researchers summoned new insight on this mysterious passage after uncovering medieval sermon notes from A...
Religious liberty is for everyone. It is for Christians and Muslims, Jews and Mormons, Wiccans and neopagans and observers of whatever other strange rites people are inventing these days. It is for false religion as well as true, so long as its practitioners do not harm their nei...
Where is Christ when calamity strikes? John Piper shows from Colossians 1:9–20 how Christ rules over all things for his glory.Watch Now
The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. (Revelation 12:4) [Let us] not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. (2 Corinthians 2:11) The devil grinned from ear to ear in July of 2024....
In the last few years, higher education has suffered a severe loss of trust. Public confidence is at 42 percent, down from 57 percent in 2015. Rising costs, perceived politicization of the curriculum, charges of antisemitism, and top-heavy administrations at public and private in...
Kidnappers released Kevin Rideout, an American missionary pilot held hostage for nine months in Niger, last Friday, according to his missions agency, Serving in Missions (SIM). Throughout Rideout’s captivity, Ishaku Izang, a fellow SIM missionary in Niger, gathered on Zoom every ...
What is God like? Is he a harmless grandfatherly figure, comfortably reclining on a cloud? A bohemian shouting about love (or wrath) through a megaphone on a street corner? An enigmatic entity who wound up the universe like a clock and now watches, disengaged, from afar? A scowli...
In wisdom, God hides his plan of salvation from the self-proclaimed wise of this age. In grace, he reveals the power of the cross to those he calls.Watch Now...
Most of us carry the news in our pockets. Headlines no longer wait for the morning paper or evening broadcast. They interrupt our work, follow us to the supper table, and crowd our last quiet moments before sleep. This makes the sources we choose especially important. No outlet r...
The new summer 2026 issue of Themelios has 231 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews. It is freely available in three formats: (1) PDF, (2) web version, and (3) Logos Bible Software. 1. J. V. Fesko | Editorial: The Council of Nicaea and Christian Character Fesko argues ...
Years ago, I asked my pastor what he felt was the most challenging aspect of ministry. His response: “Persuading unhappy people that what they think will fix them actually won’t.” Finding a more fulfilling career, richer friendships, or even a spouse doesn’t magically turn a mise...
Most of us deal with death by choosing to ignore it. “Being unable to cure death,” Blaise Pascal once wrote, “we’ve decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.” In Pascal’s 17th-century Parisian context, death-avoidance was a rich man’s game. Gamble more, hunt ...
On March 7, 2014, Brian Simmons spoke at Harvest Time Church, an Assemblies of God congregation in Greenwich, Connecticut. He encouraged the crowd to follow God’s will, regardless of their own human qualifications. He gave examples of biblical heroes who had been used by God: Gid...
Around 5:30 p.m. on February 3, Joel Adisa, a 27-year-old Christian resident of Kaiama, a town in Nigeria’s Kwara State, received reports over Facebook and WhatsApp warning area residents to avoid the road linking his hometown to the majority-Muslim village of Woro as armed men w...
Should we believe Paul’s words? John Piper opens Galatians 1:11–24 to show why Paul’s testimony about Christ can be trusted.Watch Now
How can Christians avoid placing a relationship or hobby over a desire for God? Pastor John calls us to let earthly delights turn us Godward.Listen Now...
What happens when a machine offers to give you back someone you love? That question opens this episode with Autumn Ridenour. We begin with the idea of a “Granny-Bot”: a chatbot built from a dead relative’s messages, voice notes, and emails. It sounds comforting at first, but Ride...
Venezuela (MNN) — Life remains in limbo for many earthquake survivors in Venezuela. Official figures report that more than 17,900 people lost their homes in the two June 24 earthquakes. Annabel Torrealba is the International Director for Latin America and the Caribbean with TWR. ...
Japan (MNN) — As the latest disaster in southern Japan triggers difficult memories, local Christians step in to help survivors. Trauma resurfaces A series of strong earthquakes shook Kumamoto, Japan, in April 2016. On July 28, 2026, a pair of earthquakes struck the same area – on...
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons. (Psalm 106:37) I’ve wondered if demons ever appear as bees. At night, my children sometimes come to me complaining that the bees are after them. “What bees?” I ask. “The bees right there,” they say, pointing insistentl...
I want you to love typology. I recognize that statement may seem a little strange, so let me explain. I want you to love typology because typology exposes us to the glory of the Son of God incarnate. It reveals the grace of God found in Jesus Christ. It gives us a three-dimension...
What makes Paul so unwilling to add eloquence to the word of the cross? The apparent folly of the cross proves its actual power to those who are saved.Watch Now...
This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Robert Harris, Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome’s Descent into Dictatorship (Doubleday, 2026) Toward the close of Robert Harris’s Agrippa (2026), the novel’s eponymous narrator admits he lacks the secretaries who ...
What did Jesus believe about the Bible? John Piper opens John 10:33–36 to show why Jesus’s trust in God’s word must become ours.Watch Now
Hardship packs the book of Job. Yet so do plenty and comfort — and I don’t mean only in the bookends of the story. While Job 1:1–5 depicts a materially blessed life, and Job 42:10–17 a materially rebuilt life, other instances of abundance hide between these passages. Where? In th...
How can you believe what the Bible says about sexuality when Christians have acted so hatefully? How can you be a Christian given the church’s record on race? Questions like these have caused many to doubt—and even deconstruct—their faith. Where can we find help when we feel rack...
Ukraine (MNN)—Many in Ukraine face a traumatic reality as the war in their country continues. “It just seems like it’s getting worse—the drone attacks, the missile attacks,” says Greg Yoder of Keys for Kids Ministry. “I was talking with our Ukrainian pastor last night, and the qu...
Without a doubt, Revelation is one of the most difficult Bible books to understand. It has baffled ancient and modern commentators alike. Yet Revelation continues to capture the church’s imagination. The church remains divided over how to interpret the Apocalypse. There are two m...
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