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Resurrection’s Old Testament Logic

The resurrection ranks among the most crucial doctrines of Christianity. For Jesus and the apostles, the resurrection is the bedrock of New Testament theology (e.g., John 11:25–26; 1 Cor. 15:12–5...

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Gen Z Is Spiritually Hungry. Let’s Get Ready to Feed Them.

Pew Research Center began tracking America’s religious landscape in 2007. Since then, they’ve reported Christianity’s steady decline. In 2024, pollster George Barna told the Christian Post that the...

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Pagans and Paranormal-Seekers Need the Unchanging Gospel

I used to listen to George Noory’s Coast to Coast AM on the radio during middle-of-the-night commutes. I was amused by his guests as they talked about UFOs, ghosts, and chupacabras. Along with regu...

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Editor’s Pick: 6 Books on Christian Apologetics

The task of equipping every believer for Christian apologetics has never been more urgent. As an elder and Sunday school teacher, I frequently get asked questions that come from influencers online ...

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How to Pursue Justice for Jesus

A few years ago, I led a workshop titled “How the Church Can Combat Human Trafficking” at a large Christian conference in Oregon that focused on global mission work. Afterward, a college student ap...

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Why Philosophical Theology Still Needs the Creeds

I’ve been asked several times what I think about Christianity’s perceived decline in the West. One of my frequent responses is to ask the questioners if they’re aware of the renaissance in Christia...

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Voddie Baucham (1969–2025) on the Resurrection

Voddie Baucham (1969–2025) has gone home to be with the Lord. In light of the common hope we hold as Christians, we’re looking back at his message from The Gospel Coalition’s 2015 National Conferen...

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Transparency Is the Answer to Conspiracy Thinking

Some conspiracy theories are true. Governments have lied. Corporations have covered things up. Institutions have acted corruptly. From Watergate to Big Tobacco’s decades of deception, there are re...

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Grace-Based Discipline in Real Life

Twenty-plus years later, I can still picture the glee on my daughter’s face as she squealed out her response to the question that always concluded our times of discipline: “What is now true?” “Cl...

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Is Christianity Good?

“Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone” (Mark 10:18). This was Jesus’s response when the rich young ruler, kneeling before him, asked, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit et...

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Ransomed by the Lamb: The Passover Story

For Christians, Jesus Christ’s death is intimately associated with the Passover. This connection is hardly coincidental, given the significant role that Passover plays in God’s liberation of the Is...

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Pastors, Teach Your People to Love Their Country

The year 2026 will mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and America plans to celebrate. A long-standing bipartisan commission and a White House task force s...

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The Hollow Comfort of AI in Worship and Grief

In a recent Sunday service at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, pastor Jack Graham paused his sermon to play an audio clip of the late Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and founder ...

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Covetousness: The Sin Behind the Sin

Melissa and Courtney talk with Jackie Hill Perry about the sin of covetousness and why it’s so hard to recognize and admit. They discuss signposts that tip them off that they’re coveting, the relat...

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How China’s Persecuted Reach China’s Marginalized

To protect the identity of Chinese Christians, all names are pseudonyms. “Who is my neighbor?” Two thousand years ago, a young Jewish leader brought this question to Jesus. The query still resona...

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Why Being Anti-Nazi Isn’t Enough for Ethics

While our family was out eating dinner, my 11-year-old sister, Katie, was eager to share what she’d learned at school that day. Taking her napkin, she began to draw a few crisscrossed lines. Sudden...

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John Van Deusen’s ‘Joyful Noise’ Pushes Boundaries of Worship’s Sound

What is the worship music “sound”? Most of us probably conjure a similar aesthetic when we ponder that question. But John Van Deusen wants to expand our horizons, giving Christians a bigger vision ...

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Announcing the Inaugural Class of The Carson Center Fellows

I am happy to announce the inaugural class of fellows for The Carson Center for Theological Renewal. Senior Fellows: G. K. Beale J. Gary Millar Fellows: J. V. Fesko Mary Willson Hannah ...

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Pursue Missions for the Long Haul

In our church in Dubai, there are several airline pilots who regularly fly 12-hour, even 16-hour, flights in some of the biggest, most sophisticated aircraft in the world. They tell me that long-ha...

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How Should Christians Evaluate Fictional Magic?

The fantasy genre has experienced a significant resurgence, due in no small part to the success of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies in the early 2000s. And while various forms of magic and ...

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Appointment of New Archbishop Continues Tragic Slide into Irrelevance

This week, the Church of England’s leadership continued its tragic slide into irrelevance as it announced the appointment of Sarah Mullally as the next Archbishop of Canterbury. Anglicans around t...

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