Every religion in the world teaches that if you live a good life, God might accept you. Christianity teaches the exact opposite, that you cannot earn your way to God, and that is precisely why God came to you. This is not a minor theological distinction. It is the single most radical claim ever made...
A Tribute to R.C. Sproul: A Giant of the Faith Has Gone Home
On Thursday evening, December 14, 2017, Dr. Robert Charles Sproul entered the presence of the Lord he had spent his entire life proclaiming. He was 78 years old. After battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for years, he was hospitalized on December 2 with difficulty breathing and never recovered. This morning, as I sit down to...
The Coming of the Kingdom of God: The End of the Exile
The deepest problem in Scripture is not unhappiness or death but exile from God, and the kingdom is the answer to that exile.
Our True Battle: The Enemy Behind Every Human Conflict
Scripture traces human conflict back past the people involved to the corruption seeking mastery over every heart, including our own.
The Father's Public Declaration of the Son
At the Transfiguration the Father did not make Christ His Son. He publicly presented the Son to whom all authority had been entrusted.
The Blessed Hope: The Return of the Lamb
The church has always lived between two certainties. Christ has come, and Christ will come again, and the cross guarantees the crown.
How Did the Bible Know That? Scripture and the Natural World
Scripture is not a science textbook, yet where it touches the natural world it avoids the errors that filled every neighboring civilization.
Triumph Through the Darkest Hour
Judged on Friday afternoon, the cross looked like total defeat. God's greatest victories are often hidden inside His people's darkest hours.








