Podcast: Why the Church Needs Spiritual Mothers (Susan Hunt) July 03, 2023 by: Crossway This article is part of the The Crossway Podcast series. The Essential Role That Older Women Have in Your Church In today’s episode, Susan Hunt reflects back on decades spent working to nurture the practice of Christian mentoring and shares her…
The Center of the Center of the Pentateuch July 02, 2023 by: Ian J. Vaillancourt The Day of Atonement If you look at the structure of the Pentateuch, we’ve got five books. Right in the middle, we’ve got Leviticus. So that suggests maybe Leviticus is central, at least structurally. We could also observe that, if…
What Does It Mean to Walk in the Spirit? July 01, 2023 by: Margaret Elizabeth Köstenberger Life in the New Covenant Galatians is probably Paul’s first epistle, sent to instruct the young church about basic doctrine and practice to be lived out differently now according to the new covenant. Serious adjustments were required of these…
10 Things You Should Know about Sanctification June 27, 2023 by: Margaret Elizabeth Köstenberger This article is part of the 10 Things You Should Know series. Our Identity in Christ A significant part of our identity in Christ is that we’re washed, renewed, and regenerated by the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5). Though work remains to…
What Memorizing Scripture Will Do for Your Kids June 26, 2023 by: Douglas Sean O’Donnell To Fight Sin with Scripture Earlier this year a friend told me that he had memorized Matthew 26:29 to remind him of the joyous promise of Jesus’s presence at the great feast in heaven and to help him resist the…