Christgiving
“I was never worried for a second about a man like Hitler.” This isn't the statement of a madman or of someone privileged enough to be removed from the horrors of the war. These are the words of a pastor who was under immediate threat from the Nazi leader and who’d put on the ful...
Following his 2020 ouster from a leading church-planting network over allegations of spiritual abuse, UK pastor Steve Timmis is now facing charges for rape. Police in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom announced October 29 that they charged Timmis, the former chief executive of Acts...
William Rodriguez has become accustomed to hearing immigration-related anguish. A retired pastor, Rodriguez is currently a superintendent with the Assemblies of God and oversees nearly 340 congregations, most of which are Spanish-speaking and based in Southern California. Rodrigu...
What happens when you pull your phone out during a church service? We may not want to admit it, but I suspect that most of us know the truth: Our thoughts get interrupted, and our attention is divided. We become more attentive to our devices than to the Lord or even the Christian...
Why is wisdom more satisfying than wealth? John Piper opens Proverbs 24:13 to show how wisdom leads to everlasting happiness that riches cannot buy.Watch Now...
How do we know when we’ve worked hard enough? Pastor John offers six ways to fight anxiety and rest in the grace of Christ.Listen Now
Over the past decade, an emergent secular philosophy has taken root in Silicon Valley. It now drives many conversations around politics and technology, particularly as its ideas shape how our society approaches artificial intelligence. Known as “effective altruism,” this worldvie...
India (MNN) – In some Indian states, anti-conversion laws can bring persecution, prison or fines for those who share the Gospel. Yet believers continue sharing the Good News. Greg Musselman from The Voice of the Martyrs Canada says the danger does not deter Gospel workers: “They ...
Sudan (MNN) — Drone strikes on a market in southwestern Sudan’s Darfur killed more than 100 rebel fighters and civilians last Monday, October 26. According to a report from ACLED, both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have increased their use of ...
Desires are funny things. They drive everything we do, and yet, like the engine in a car, we rarely look at them. As the Book says, man’s heart is deep water and all that. But wise men, like C.S. Lewis, pop the hood and force us to inspect the desires that move us. In The Screwta...
The older I get, the more convinced I am that a posture of gratitude is key to a life of joy. God’s gifts are constant and abundant—his daily provision of life and breath far more than we deserve. Being alert to the constancy of his gracious provision is the epitome of rightly or...
“How long, O LORD? . . . Pour out your anger. . . . Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!” (Ps. 79:5–6, 10). As you’re reading through Psalms and you stumble across Psalm 79, you can’t help but wonder what to do with ...
Although Paul’s evangelistic work and Apollos’s ongoing teaching were essential to the Corinthians’ faith, only God could make that faith grow.Watch Now...
A member of your small group confesses, seemingly out of the blue, that he’s been attending Mass. Next, you hear a deacon wonder aloud if we really needed to break with Rome. Then a family member announces that she has “crossed the Tiber,” meaning she has converted to Roman Catho...
Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany, on November 10, 1483. He was christened at Saints Peter and Paul Church the next day. At age 7, Luther entered the Mansfeld Latin School. There he learned Latin grammar and prayers, and he memorized Aesop’s Fables. From those early yea...
This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Kevin DeYoung, Church History for Everyone: The Story of Christianity from the Fall of Jerusalem to the Dawn of the Reformation (Volume 1) (Crossway, 2026) Kevin DeYoung, a conservative Presbyterian pastor with a ...
God values justice. But how should Christians think about the principle when it comes to America’s racial history and our current social ills? In this video from CT’s Big Tent convening in Oakland, California, Malcolm Foley and Delano Squires sat down with Sho Baraka to discuss r...
Since its publication earlier this month, Lucy S. R. Austen’s “What We Know—and Cannot Know—About Elisabeth Elliot’s Sexuality” has provoked many letters to the editor and comments on social media platforms, including substantial dialogue on Substack. We’re offering a small selec...
If you’re a faithful follower of Jesus today, try this experiment: Imagine that in five years you have completely walked away from Jesus. You’re not questioning or struggling or arguing anymore. You’re not wrestling with whether to stay or leave the church. You never open the Bib...
What keeps us from seeking happiness in substitutes? John Piper opens Proverbs 4:1–13 to show that wisdom leads us to lasting joy in God.Watch Now
United States (MNN)—A Barna Research study recently answered the question, “What questions are American teens asking?” The research report, produced in partnership with Christ In Youth, surveyed 1,500 U.S. teens ages 13–18 about how much pressure they feel to have answers to diff...
My coffee had gone cold as the church planter mourned that his church felt stagnant. Worse than not growing—a thick malaise had settled over the congregation. The first three years were exciting; the community was intrigued by a new church plant, genuinely curious about what it w...
College student Ryan Cass woke up on a college-football Saturday feeling lucky. He put together a 15-part parlay and hoped that every component of the bet would hit. Off he went to the parking lot of Kyle Field. From a Texas A&M tailgate, he watched sections of his parlay play ou...
As often in great music, just when things seem to be reaching a peak, there’s a new chord, or a sudden modulation, which disrupts what we expect. Or perhaps instruments we haven’t heard up to this point suddenly blare out a shocking new variation on the earlier themes. What’s the...
In 1980, Bethlehem Baptist Church hired 34-year-old John Piper as lead pastor. Pastor John reflects on the life experience and biblical worldview that prepared him for ministry.Listen Now...
This year, we’re celebrating the intersection of the United States’ 250th anniversary and CT’s 70th anniversary. And we’re thinking about the intersection of being faithful Christians and involved citizens. Our July/August issue featured several essays about how evangelicals have...
The story of the American Housing Corporation partly begins at church. As a young couple, Bobby Fijan and his wife lived in Philadelphia, where they were members of Tenth Presbyterian Church. When they began having kids, the Fijans had to decide: Would they move out to the suburb...
In agonizing pain with pancreatitis, my grandfather kept getting awakened by the “Happy Birthday” song. At first I thought it was delirium until I heard it myself. Turns out, the maternity ward down the hall would play it over the intercom when a baby was born. I asked my grandfa...
Reflection is a powerful gift. It provides us the space to simultaneously look back on what has been and look forward to what will be. As I reflect on 2026, there is no question that God has been steadily at work. One year ago, we embarked on a new journey that has both changed a...
When Philip Major arrived ten years ago at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Syracuse, New York, the once-thriving congregation—more than 1,500 on a Sunday in its heyday—was down to about 40 members, many of whom seemed to be aging as quickly as the building, a 200-year-old gothic r...
Donald Trump is about to enter uncharted territory. During his first six years in the White House, Trump tested the institutional and personal limits of the presidency. He cajoled Republicans in Congress into supporting his priorities while simultaneously alienating and emboldeni...
You may have noticed increasing chatter about polyamory: romantic and sexual relationships with more than one person at a time. Research from 2021 found that roughly 1 in 6 Americans say they have a “desire to engage in polyamory,” while 1 in 10 claim to have already done so. Def...
Giving begins with God because everything comes from God. As James writes, “Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change” (1:17, RSV throughout). Paul asks the Corinthians,...
Two years ago, while working on an article about the 75th anniversary of “How Great Thou Art,” I interviewed worship artist Matt Redman, who’d cowritten a new verse for the hymn. Why, I wondered, has this song had so much staying power? “The best songs are both a chapel and a cla...
In the years since he was involuntarily committed to a mental health institution for bipolar disorder, Frederik deBoer has wrestled with both profound gratitude for a system that saved his life and also palpable frustration that his experience of healing has become so rare. All i...
