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'Theo of Golden' Offers Winsome Witness
3+ hour, 38+ min ago (649+ words) Interview by Isaac Wood Allen Levi's friends wouldn't let him leave his novel in a drawer collecting dust. Theo of Golden's success is unique in some ways, both as a self-published novel and as a book centering on a Christian…...
An Able Reply to the Toughest Challenges to Reformed Theology
3+ hour, 38+ min ago (837+ words) J. Todd Billings (Author), Suzanne McDonald (Author), Alberto La Rosa Rojas (Author) D'tente achieved, we went on our date, enjoying a polite, theology-free meal. And that was that." I have spent most of my adult life in and around the Reformed…...
Christian Doctrine in 70 Hebrew Words
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (402+ words) The Hebrew Bible does not contain a formal creed or systemization of core doctrines, but if it did, it might be Psalm 110. Martin Luther called it "the very core and quintessence of the whole Scripture," and there is no Old…...
The Sweet Seriousness of Lent
2+ day, 38+ min ago (463+ words) How shall we express this paradoxical gladness and sadness of Lent? While tackling a recent home repair project, I taught my son how to remove a screw. It's counterintuitive. You've got to push in hard so you don't strip the…...
Safety in Our Weakness
2+ day, 38+ min ago (458+ words) In this fast, Christ is my lifeline. What if there had only been two fish and one loaf of bread? Could Jesus still have fed the 5,000? These are the questions my dusty flesh asks on days when I am rundown…...
Laetare!
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (393+ words) The theme of finding joy even in grief is at the core of the Christian vision of life. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice…...
30 Lessons from 30 Years of Marriage
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (330+ words) Tracey and I sailed into marriage three decades ago with considerable wind at our backs. We had dated four years, joined a marriage class, worked through multiple marriage books, and overcome a series of potentially relationship-ending crises, including a death…...
Fighting in Nigeria Leaves Christian Converts Exiled
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1151+ words) JOIN CT FOR MEMBERS-ONLY ACCESS TO JEN WILKIN & RUSSELL MOORE LIVE A Fulani herder leads his cattle to graze. At dawn one morning in the spring of 2000, Jibrin Abubaker awoke with a start to the voice of a street preacher…...
I Long for My Old Church—and the Tree Beside It
1+ week, 1+ day ago (739+ words) JOIN CT FOR MEMBERS-ONLY ACCESS TO JEN WILKIN & RUSSELL MOORE LIVE There was a magnolia tree by a white church on a hill. It was a beautiful tree'tall and green and blooming every year with those massive flowers, so sweet…...
We're Not Made to Outlast Time
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1416+ words) JOIN CT FOR MEMBERS-ONLY ACCESS TO JEN WILKIN & RUSSELL MOORE LIVE At the Korean Lunar New Year, everyone turns a year older. Psalm 103 frames aging as a sign of God's sustenance. I remember the first time that celebrating Seollal, the…...