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Eddie Stobart obituary

Founder of the haulage business that carried his name and grew into a multimillion-pound concernHis was the name that adorned a thousand lorries, so familiar on the motorways of Britain that famili...

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Keep the faith with Father Christmas | Brief letters

Santa sceptics | Economic joke | The Piers participle | Humorous history | Newt memoriesIt seems Rev Dr Paul Chamberlain thought year 6 children were old enough to be sceptical about Santa (Ho-ho-n...

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Meet the Astronaut Who Left NASA to Help Support Healthy Churches

In spring 2021, Capitol Hill Baptist Church (CHBC) in Washington, DC, had nine pastoral interns. Eight were 40 years old and under. Seven were coming out of—or would head into—seminary. And one wa...

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TGC Editorial Staff: Books We Enjoyed in 2024

One of the secrets to writing and editing well is reading a lot. It’s an important part of our jobs as we publish books and evaluate others for the annual book awards. The editorial team at The Gos...

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The God Who Made Everything (Gen. 1–2)

In this lecture, Don Carson introduces a new series, “The God Who Is There.” He explores the creation account in Genesis, highlighting key attributes of God and humanity. Carson also emphasizes the...

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Teach Your Teen About Christian Freedom

When kids are young, we work hard to train their consciences, to teach them God’s commands and how to choose between right and wrong. But as kids get older, they must learn to navigate issues that ...

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Best Christian Music of 2024

Christian music had a banner year in 2024. It’s one of music’s fastest-growing genres, with surprising gains especially among younger listeners. I pondered possible explanations for this in a recen...

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Editor’s Choice: The Best of 2024

You can’t be a good editor unless you enjoy being wrong. Wait, aren’t editors the people who go around explaining why everyone else is wrong? Aren’t they the people who think they have the world f...

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These Swamp Fantasies Stand on Solid Ground

Just over a decade ago, my daughter had a school assignment to write a letter to a living author she admired. She was stumped. She loved reading but had an innocently misinformed feeling that all t...

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It’s been a grim year for baby-making. But what can the Christmas story teach us about having a child?

It’s an enduring dilemma, this becoming-a-parent thing. It’s never a good time to embark on parenthoodMaking sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday l...

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Have You Lost the Ability to Think Deeply?

During their debates in the 1850s, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas took one to three hours each to give a speech. They’d then take equally long to respond to each other, with audience member...

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Culture Is Everywhere. Use It to Point to Christ.

Like fish in water, we’re immersed in culture in ways we don’t realize. Christians talk about culture as something “out there” in the world that influences how we think, or maybe as a society that ...

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Humble Confidence as Secure Curiosity

One of my mentors gave me wise advice as I first stepped into my senior pastor role: Lead with humble confidence. Although oxymoronic, the phrase intuitively made sense to me. This is the way of ou...

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Personality Clash: John Owen and Richard Baxter in Conflict

When I think of recent feuds, musicians like Drake and Kendrick Lamar or athletes like Kobe and Shaq come to mind. I’m surprised by how hot the emotions get when observers choose sides. The substan...

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Opportunities at Christmas with Glen Scrivener and Andrew Wilson

In this episode of TGC Podcast, Kendra Dahl, Andrew Wilson, and Glen Scrivener explore the incarnation’s richness and the unique opportunities for evangelism during Christmas. They discuss the fol...

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The Priest’s Wife Who Saved Christmas

There’s a vault under a mountain above the Arctic Circle. It’s intentionally remote and cold, to prevent its contents from being damaged by war or disaster, and because the temperatures aid preserv...

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Is Living Together Before Marriage Really a Sin?

College life is finally over. You and your partner have started attending a new church. You love it there. The preacher opens the Bible every week. He walks through a passage of Scripture and appli...

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You Should Preach a Topical Sermon

Tim Keller encouraged young ministers to to give their congregations the opportunity to ask questions publicly. I implemented that practice early on in my ministry, and it has yielded tremendous fr...

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Don’t Be Jaded by Christmas. Ponder the Virgin Birth.

I was raised in a family that loved Christmas. Every December after school ended, my mom took me and my little brother to a small town in west Tennessee to spend a couple of weeks with her family. ...

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No Fidelity Without Remembering (Ezek. 16; 23)

In this lecture, Don Carson teaches mainly from Ezekiel 16, which describes Jerusalem’s spiritual adultery and compares the city to an ungrateful prostitute who turns to infidelity. Carson also poi...

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