Disappointment with your pastor, with other believers, or with your church should send you to your knees in prayer, not out the door with a dramatic show of indignation.

Some practical ways to help open the door to talking about the most glorious news that heaven itself sings about.

Many lay preachers feel unprepared for the task—I know I have. What should you do? Where do you start? Here a few tips.

This week's links include resources on Jesus in the Proverbs, pastors and integrity, self-help, lessons from working with those who were abused, and successful evangelism. 

Here are three reasons why teachers of the Bible shouldn’t be boring—and four strategies to avoid boring teaching.

The way of Christianity is the way of unity between old and young saints in the body, and if you want our youth to take this way, show them the road.

Every semester I tell my students, “For the love of God, do not bring your Greek or Hebrew Bible to corporate worship on Sunday.”

Good theology, for the church member, is how we tell the truth about God and how we dwell together in a way that honors the Lord Jesus Christ.

This week's links include resources on how God listens, Christian maturity, condemnation, pastoral friends, creeds, and witness to others. 

Should college students join a local church by campus if they have a church membership “back home”?

Theologians at every level: Employ your expertise with humility in every interaction for the good of your brother and the good of your neighbor to the glory of God.

This week's links include resources on chronic pain, believing your own press, improving preaching, marriage, and Lent participation. 

It’s easy to be discouraged when you see a tiny trickle of people coming into your congregation. But if that trickle is good, solid growth, it’s much more likely to be growth that lasts.

This week's links provide resources on worship as discipleship, the meaning of marriage, loneliness, following your heart, hobbies and idolatry, and fathers. 

Fellow moms, if we think teaching our children about the Triune God and the universe he made is small or pitiable or unimportant, we don’t understand smallness.

Not every theological issue demands warfare. Not every doctrinal disagreement deserves the same outrage on social media.

This week's links include resources on salvation, language and the missionary, guarding your relationship with God, one-to-one Bible reading, and churches working together. 

The people we encounter in the church may not necessarily be the people we would have chosen for ourselves. But they are the people we need.

Central to our gospel presentation is the solution to the problem of sin, and if this sin is central to our hearer’s identity, we haven’t actually presented the gospel until we’ve brought it to bear rigt there.

This week's links include resources on engaging those who disagree, complacency in salvation, grieving with hope, mothers who do 'nothing,' Jesus and the Old Testament, myths on studying the Bible, and empty nesters. 

Amazingly, even small, rural churches inherit the powerful kingdom of God through the blood of his Son.

This week's links include resources on being pro-life and pro-woman, God's goodness tomorrow, recovering benedictions, talking to kids about ethnicity, and walking away from discipleship. 

Here is the bottom line: when young people are passionate, bold, and relentless, things change.

There is a subtle kind of pride that has the appearance of celebrating grace. But its aim is self-oriented. 

It’s disheartening that so many people are listed on a church roll somewhere but not actually attending.

If one desires to preach the whole counsel of God, proper interpretation is of paramount importance. ​

This week's links include resources on abandoning dreams, fighting materialism, gospel-driven theology, Lottie Moon, and how God uses suffering. 

How do we “do application” in a way that is faithful to the Scriptures and representative of the biblical portrait of obedience?

This week's links include resources on Joseph, our deliverer, the redemption of the curse, and giving God your pulpit. 

What does it mean for a preacher to be faithful? How does one even measure a preacher’s faithfulness?

How can you plant a church if you don’t actually know what a church is?

This week's links include resources on desiring Jesus, the little drummer boy, mastering self, preventing kids from going as missionaries, and encouraging the ministry of single women. 

Putting aside preferences and embracing common, unified, God-centered worship is part of what it means to follow Jesus together.

We can’t always see what God is up to, either on the global stage of world history or on the smaller stages of our lives and decisions.

It’s impossible to replicate, day after day, the camp/retreat/conference high. What can you do to make the most of your experience after it’s all over? 

This week's links include resources on peace during Christmas, emotionally unhealthy leaders, why God would give kids a sick mom, the real meaning of Christmas, and singing Christmas carols.