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5 Reasons to Get Muslim Religious Help for Your Child

Raising children can be challenging, especially for Muslim parents who want to instill strong Islamic values while navigating modern influences. With so much information available, it can be overwh...

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Don’t Overlook the Significance of Jesus’s Ascension

Ascension Day seems to be the Cinderella of the church calendar. Christmas grabs our attention since it celebrates the incarnation of God’s Son, bringing joy to the world. On Good Friday, we recall...

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Let the Bible Replace Your Digital Addiction

“If I were the devil (please, no comment),” J. I. Packer wrote in his foreword to R. C. Sproul’s Knowing Scripture, “one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. Knowing ...

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Season 1: Your Questions, Our Answers

Melissa Kruger and Courtney Doctor respond to questions submitted by listeners, such as what advice they have for newlyweds, how women can thoughtfully have relationships with their pastors and eld...

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Scroll Less, Stroll More: A Summer Challenge to Leave Your Phone at Home

Spend less time scrolling and more time strolling. Outside. Unmediated. Just you and your walking shoes. This is my summer challenge. Are you up for it? By now, we’re aware of addictive scrolling...

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The Myth of the ‘Irreligious World’

For the past decade, I’ve taught Intro to Christian Theology courses to undergraduates at the University of Edinburgh. My students come from every continent. Although some bring a deep commitment t...

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Outlaw Pornography. Now.

Last week, The New York Times published an exposé that, in any morally serious culture, would have been met with a wave of bipartisan outrage and urgent congressional action. Instead, it was largel...

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Gender Isn’t Primarily About Function

Sometime in the seventh century BC, Semonides of Amorgos wrote a poem providing a systematic and quasi-scientific classification of wives primarily as animals. Among the 10 types are the sow (her h...

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Meditations on the World to Come for Life in the Meantime

“My future is vulnerable, and my future is up to me.” These are the two basic assumptions of modern life, says Matt McCullough. And these assumptions are making us anxious and miserable. McCulloug...

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I Learned Virtue from Alasdair MacIntyre (1929–2025)

Alasdair MacIntyre (1929–2025) was one of the 20th century’s most significant moral philosophers. He was a highly sought-after professor, with stops at prestigious institutions like Oxford, Brandei...

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When Your Spouse Doesn’t Believe: 3 Postures for Faithful Living

“We need to work on your posture,” the physical therapist told the woman with a fractured femur. “The right posture will make all the difference in your pain levels and safety when walking.” I wor...

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Antisemitic Attack Kills Messianic Jewish Bridge-Builder

The Story: Two Israeli embassy staffers—including one who was a Christian—were killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, earlier this week in what authorities describe as an antis...

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When the Pastorate Wasn’t God’s Plan: Trusting the Lord in Shifting Circumstances

We proclaim our belief that God works all things for our good and his glory (Rom. 8:28). We affirm that the Lord will fulfill his purpose for us (Ps. 138:8) and that he’s mapped out every detail of...

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The Zeal of the Lord Is for Your Salvation

Believers appreciate Isaiah 9:2–7 because Isaiah prophesies about the child, a son, who will be named “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father and Prince of Peace.” However, we often ov...

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The Treatment of Transgender Theory Christians Have Been Waiting For

Cultural perceptions of transgender theory have shifted recently. Evidence continues to mount that cross-sex hormones have generally negative outcomes for minors. Approval of measures to ensure sex...

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Kitchen-Table Counseling Within Your Local Church

Melissa Kruger and Courtney Doctor talk about how to seek out the counsel of wise friends and how to respond well when friends seek your counsel. They discuss how to ask good questions, deliver a g...

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Emotional Gap in Marriage? 5 Ways to Rebuild Your Bond

Feeling marital distance can be like sharing a home with a stranger. An emotional gap in marriage is one of the leading causes of divorce 58% of divorced couples cite growing apart as a major facto...

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Fight the Subtle Seduction of Self-Reliance

My worn Bible lay open before me. I had that look of pained reflection that often attends my guided prayer times. Hoping for fresh insight, I reread Psalm 33:16–17 slowly and prayerfully: “The king...

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Kay Arthur (1933–2025): The Woman Who Taught Me to Study the Bible

Many of us learned about the Bible for the first time in Sunday school classes or youth group Bible studies. Perhaps in college we learned how to study it for ourselves through a campus ministry or...

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Maga Catholics are on a collision course with Leo XIV - and they have good reason to fear him | Julian Coman

They have been quick to brand the new pope an ‘anti-Trump’ ‘total Marxist’. In return, he is already critiquing their worldviewIn the outer reaches of the Magasphere, it would be fair to say the ad...

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Imprisoned Chinese Pastor: ‘Pursue Unity, Not Homogeneity, in the Church’

As we seek unity in our churches, there are three counterfeit forms of unity to watch out for. The first is coercive unity, in which people are pressured to conform outwardly while they secretly h...

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