The story of David is all about Israel’s search for identity, security, and happiness—a search that we share as well. Which is why...

Anyone can be happy when things are going well. But can you have joy when they aren’t? Flipping through the TV channels with my kids a...

The greatest Christian leaders for the last two thousand years have maintained that Romans is the most important theological book ever...

We drafted this post prior to the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Rayshard Brooks—and the subsequent protests...

We drafted this post prior to the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd—and the subsequent protests around the...

What’s the one thing people are looking for right now? (Well, other than toilet paper and face masks.) It’s hope. Yet Jesus tells us in...

The following is an email one of our staff members shared with his team. It was a pastoral reminder about our role as church leaders...

Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...

It’s interesting that in Romans 8:35, Paul lists affliction and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword in...

Many Christians believe that if we live like we are supposed to, we can avoid—or at least minimize—suffering. A related assumption is...

Romans 8:28 is one of the most well-known verses in the Bible: “We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God...

You and I are not facing the same kinds of persecution the Apostle John was when Jesus appeared to him in a prison cell on the island of...

Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...

Picture the prophet Jeremiah in a dungeon, sunk up to his armpits in mud, wrestling with the prospect that he might never see his family...

This afternoon the Southern Baptist Convention voted to elect me as its 62nd president. I am at once honored and humbled to step into...

Things were unraveling quickly for Judah, the southern kingdom of Israel, around 600 B.C. The northern kingdom, Israel, had already been...

Many people in our congregation—and around the country—are still reeling from the astounding and horrid protests in Charlottesville, VA...

Do you often feel dry spiritually? Or just cold? Like something is missing? Many people have been Christians since they were little. They...