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ABSTRACT: God introduced himself to Moses by a divine name, YHWH. This name appears in various translations as Jehovah, Yahweh, and the LORD, but it always suggests the doctrine of divine aseity. Jewish tradition avoided pronouncing the divine name, leading to the New Testament a...
Eloquence and cleverness cannot deliver us from God’s wrath. Only the death of Christ on behalf of sinners can turn condemnation into justification.Watch Now...
The patron saint of cultural apologetics is Augustine of Hippo, author most famously of City of God and Confessions. Second place is up for debate. But you’ll get a lot of votes for a 17th-century disciple of Augustine, the Frenchman Blaise Pascal. Graham Tomlin describes Pascal ...
We all live in a world influenced by therapy culture, whether or not we’ve been to therapy ourselves. We see evidence of therapy culture online and in popular songs, TV shows, movies, and books, and we can likely find traces of it coming out of our own mouths. Embedded in it is t...
International (MNN) — What if you never knew that God could understand your prayers? According to Rob Myers of DOOR International, that is the experience of many in the Deaf community, one of the most marginalized and unreached people groups with the Gospel. Myers says that heari...
What hope is there for blinded hearts? John Piper opens 2 Corinthians 4:4–6 to show that God grants sight by shining Christ’s glory within.Watch Now
Does eternal punishment in hell bring God glory? Pastor John challenges the rejection of God’s judgment by pointing to his unmerited mercies and perfect righteousness.Listen Now...
When we think about early Christianity, we often imagine a group of radical believers huddled in a shadowy catacomb, communicating surreptitiously to avoid Roman persecution. In the popular imagination, somehow these tiny churches survived and spread little by little until Consta...
The question isn't simply whether AI is good or bad, but good or bad for whom? This episode with Joshua Baru is shaped by that question. Joshua is an AI researcher and data science lead in Nairobi, Kenya, and he brings a perspective too often missing from Western AI conversations...
Afghanistan (MNN) — August marks five years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. What has happened to the nation since the 2021 takeover, and how is God working in the midst of it? While the Taliban’s military rule appears entrenched, conditions are worse for the averag...
Carey Moore is a fourth-generation Memphian. But she was in her 60s before she first visited the neighborhood of Orange Mound. Originally a family plantation, the land was purchased by developer E. E. Meacham and subdivided in 1890. He sold the plots to African American families,...
Why does the same gospel message offend some and delight others? Because the message of Christ crucified lands only on those whom God has called.Watch Now...
Every August in the United States, nearly twenty million college students go back to campus. Go back. It’s an interesting phrase. Go back sounds like the language of retreat, regression, or returning to where you once were. Sadly, that’s exactly what many people expect the colleg...
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–92) wrote more words in English than any Christian to date. His published sermons alone span 70 thick volumes, containing more than 4,000 sermons. In less than 40 years, Spurgeon published approximately 150 books. His literary output was, in a word, ...
A growing tribalism in evangelicalism has made a lot of Christian leaders and their followers skeptical of one another. When I was a younger pastor, just coming out of seminary, movements like The Gospel Coalition and Together for the Gospel were just getting started. While they ...
Why didn’t you cover XYZ? This is a common question for journalists, including at CT. A buzzy news story goes around, perhaps with some connection to Christianity, and our readers wonder—fairly!—why we don’t have the story when other outlets do. In my experience, readers often gu...
Crowds walked through metal detectors and into the navy pews of Greater St. John African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church on Wednesday evening to celebrate what would have been Nolan Wells’s 19th birthday in a service that included worship, prayer, and calls for truth about how t...
Do you delight to fear God? The servants of the Lord on earth do. The saints before the throne of God do. Even Jesus does. Scripture makes it clear that, for those in right relationship with God, the fear of God is a particular kind of delight in God, a full-proof pleasure that r...
From our member-exclusive livestream on August 6, hosted by CT deputy editor Bonnie Kristian and featuring Justin Giboney. They discuss Justin’s recent article, “Working Out the Grand Experiment,” and explore how the American church can move beyond culture-war gridlock to model g...
Can the devil act outside Christ’s rule? John Piper opens Mark 1:27 to show that evil spirits obey Jesus’s command.Watch Now
Andrew Hartley bikes to work, eats a plant-based diet, and involves himself in multiple organizations that help him do what he thinks the Bible tells him to do: care for the Earth. His employer, Hartley argues in a new lawsuit filed last week, does not share his mission. Now he i...
Discipleship begins in the home, and one of the best ways to do this is to study the Bible as a family. Creating a regular habit of spending time together in God’s Word invites children to learn through both their parents’ instruction and their personal experience how to read, in...
India (MNN) – India’s monsoon season may be lighter than usual this year, but the rains have still left a mark. Since July, flooding and landslides have killed at least 100 people and left families facing the difficult task of rebuilding what they’ve lost. Raina Miller with Missi...
Syria (MNN) — Israel and Türkiye face off over Syria as the United States plays peacemaker. Meanwhile, Gospel workers eye a potential storm and offer hope to the downtrodden. Earlier this week, Israel bombed a Syrian airbase where it said Turkish troops were about to deploy. The...
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...
Grief is like a room in a house. Everyone has this room, because everyone experiences loss. But its size and place differ. For some, it’s on the main floor, and every day they must walk through it. For others, it’s upstairs, where they visit once in a while, but not for long. And...
A day after President Donald Trump took office, the Department of Homeland Security released a memo reversing a policy that had discouraged immigration officials from making arrests “in or near so-called ‘sensitive’ areas”—places that include churches, schools, and hospitals. Con...
Why does evangelism matter when God has chosen whom he will save? Pastor John unpacks and rejoices in our role as God’s instruments.Listen Now
As baptisms in Southern Baptist congregations increase, a growing percentage of those entering the baptismal pools are adults. In the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Church Profile (ACP), baptisms grew for the fifth straight year to reach 263,075, the highest total since ...
Courtney and Melissa talk to Tara-Leigh Cobble about how she got over her lack of desire to read the Bible and how, over time, reading the Bible made her fall in love with its Author. They discuss the transformative effects that can come from giving just 20 minutes to Bible readi...
A few weeks after a difficult miscarriage, I wrote in my journal, “I don’t see any reason for this. I thought I was trusting the Lord fully. It seems like an irredeemable loss, a waste of something that could have been so good, and it just doesn’t make sense to me.” Suffering is ...
Indonesia (MNN) – From celebration to devastation, Indonesia’s Independence Day was overshadowed as a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked the eastern part of the country. The quake struck off the coast of Flores Island on Saturday, killing at least 68 people and injuring more than 20...
Armenia (MNN) — This month, educators from several Slavic Gospel Association (SGA)-supported Bible institutes and seminaries will gather in Armenia to share their common bond in Christ and their role as ambassadors for Him. Eric Mock with SGA says SGA’s training ministry is the m...
Last November, my husband and I moved into a new apartment. Eager to settle in, we quickly got everything set up the way we wanted. We hung curtains, put pictures on the walls, and told all our friends we couldn’t wait to have them over. Then, halfway through January, after the h...
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...
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 ...
