My favorite Christmas text puts humility at the heart of Christmas. So this Christmas I am marveling at Jesus’s humility and wanting more of it myself. I’ll quote the text in a moment. But first there ...

Martin Luther knelt before the altar in the monastery chapel. This was the official ceremony when Martin was made a monk. “What do you seek here?” asked a priest leading the service. “God’s grace, and ...

God's mission is what the triune God is doing in the world to save sinners. That's different than Christian witness: the way we participate in what God is doing.

Matt Emerson and Brandon Smith explain what the doctrine known as the inseparable operations of the Trinity is all about.

Nathan Knight talks about his journey to pastoral ministry, why he's concerned about the way that church planting is often done today, and what he sees as a better way based on the New Testament.

John Owen (1616–1683) was vice-chancellor of Oxford University and served as adviser and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. Among the most learned and active of the Puritans in seventeenth-century England, ...

When it comes to joy, we are all about it. And this is not problematic; God has created us to be joy seekers. The problem is when we seek joy in the wrong places.

The Ten Commandments are found in Exodus 20:1–17 (and restated in Deut. 5:6–21). Although Jesus talks about the Sabbath commandment in the Gospels, the New Testament authors never quote or affirm the ...