I’ve recently been reading through Tim Keller’s book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God. That combination—awe and...

You read that right: Jonathan Edwards just published a new book. No, not the puritan Jonathan Edwards, but a friend of mine by the same...

I had a lot of fun filming these 10-second video promos for Ready to Launch with Veronica. She automatically brings the “watchability”...

When Lifeway contacted Veronica and me to write a resource on parenting, we were understandably hesitant. As any parent knows, few...

I’m encouraged by the growing movement to use business as a way to gain access to unreached parts of the world. For many businessmen and...

I’m excited to pick up Matt Chandler and Michael Snetzer’s Recovering Redemption: A Gospel-Saturated Perspective on How to Change, which...

I’ve been re-reading Tim Keller’s Center Church, an immensely helpful and frequently challenging book. Among Keller’s many insights, I...

C. S. Lewis has one of the more intriguing stories of conversion. In his autobiography, Surprised by Joy, he called himself “the most...

Pastor J.D., I’ve been thinking a lot about something you mentioned in a sermon a few weeks ago. You said that you went through the...

I am in the midst of reading this fascinating work, the combined efforts of one of America’s foremost theologians and renowned...

This is the last of a four-part series about the Holy Spirit. Check out part 1 , part 2 , and part 3. These are working sections from a...

This is the 3rd of a four-part series about the Holy Spirit. You can see part 1 and part 2 here. These are working sections from a book...

This is the 2nd of a four-part series about the Holy Spirit. You can see part 1 here. These are working sections from a book manuscript I...

In light of the recent controversy that John MacArthur, Mark Driscoll, et al. have been stirring up about evangelical church and the Holy...

If there’s one word that sums up the lives of many in our congregations, it just might be “bored.” Even those of us who want to make a...

I’ve been re-reading Roland Bainton’s classic biography of Martin Luther, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther. The depiction of Luther...

I read this great piece recently from Abraham Lincoln: The Spiritual Growth of a Public Man, by Elton Trueblood, pp. 25-26: “When...

Martin Luther, the great German reformer, was instrumental in breaking down the artificial divide between “sacred” and “secular” work. In...

I have been reading back through an old, favorite article by David Powlison: “Idols of the Heart and ‘Vanity Fair.’” Powlison published...

I just finished reading through Gary Thomas’ Sacred Search, a valuable book for single Christians that challenges a lot of our society’s...