• Beto O’Rourke’s Plan to Destroy Churches. Joe Carter writes “Are supporters of same-sex marriage—including many misguided Christians—willing to let Christian high schools, colleges, seminaries, and churches be put out of business simply for holding a biblical view of marriage?”
• 9 Things You Should Know About Prosperity Gospel Preacher Paula White. Joe Carter shares nine things you should know about Paula White, her influence, and her ministries.
• Has Science Buried God? In this May, 2019 interview hosted by the Colson Center in Washington D.C., Eric Metaxas and Oxford professor John Lennox explore the question, “Has science buried God?”

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• You Are Not the Author of Your Story. Paul Tripp writes “Better than anything impressive that you could accomplish in this life, your life story is a biography of wisdom and grace written by Another.”
• The Great Reward in Thankless Service. Betsy Childs Howard writes “Once we know we’re serving the Lord rather than men and women; we can stop worrying about whether we are under-appreciated. We can stop focusing on whether our efforts enhance our image and start concentrating on how we can best meet the needs of our neighbors.”
• Bearing One Another’s Burdens. John MacArthur writes “Do you want to fulfill the moral requirements of the Law? Love your neighbor. How do you love him? By bearing his burdens.”
• Why Joni Eareckson Tada Praises God for Not Healing Her. Joni Eareckson Tada writes “For the last 50 years in my wheelchair, I’ve been daily dying to self and rising with Jesus, dying to self and rising with Jesus, dying to self and rising with Jesus. My goal is to mortify my fleshly desires, so I might find myself in Christ. God has been answering my prayer, exposing dark things in my heart, things from which I need to be healed.”

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• 5 Dangers of Money. Paul Tripp writes “Money matters, but God’s grace matters even more. It alone provides both the strength and the freedom we will continue to need until the dangers of money are no more.”
• What Does It Mean to Abide in Christ? Sinclair Ferguson writes “In a nutshell, abiding in Christ means allowing His Word to fill our minds, direct our wills, and transform our affections. In other words, our relationship to Christ is intimately connected to what we do with our Bibles!”
• God Invites You to Delight Yourself in Him. Randy Alcorn writes “To delight in God is to be happy with Him and in Him. To do that, we must cultivate our relationship with Him just as we do with other people by spending time with Him, bowing our knee before Him as our Lord, and also spending time with Him as our friend. That’s how we get to know Him, by learning and meditating daily on what’s true about Him.”
• What’s the Purpose of the Spiritual Gifts? In this two-minute video, Michael Horton provides a helpful perspective on the spiritual gifts. When we understand the gifts and their purpose, we can more easily understand how God has uniquely gifted each one of us.
• Distinguishing Marks of a Quarrelsome Person. Here’s a helpful (and convicting) article from Kevin DeYoung.
• How Do We Become Spiritually Mature? John MacArthur writes “We know that sanctification is a divine work through the Word by the Spirit of truth. So, we must plead with the Spirit that He would mold and shape us into the image of Christ, through the truth, from one level of glory to the next.”

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• Will We Learn in Heaven? Randy Acorn writes “We’ll be learners, forever. Few things excite me more than that.”
• What is the Gospel? Robert Godfrey writes “The church needs to preach the gospel in both its broad and narrow senses.”
• Is the Church Breeding Loneliness? Monica Geyen interviews Rosaria Butterfield. As they talked about friendship and boundaries, they narrowed in on loneliness, especially among single women.
• Does God Direct All the Details of My Life? On this episode of the “Ask Pastor John” podcast, John Piper answers the question “How much of our daily life is sovereignly directed by God?”
• Were the First Christians Socialists? Kevin DeYoung writes “Despite the initial plausibility of a socialist reading of Acts, there are at least two realities that make the sharing in the early church different from socialism and especially communism.”
• What Is the Relationship between the Holy Spirit’s Work and Our Effort in Sanctification? How does sanctification take place? From one of the live Ask Ligonier events, Sinclair Ferguson considers how the fruits of the Spirit become evident in our lives.
• Intelligent Atheists, Intelligent Christians: Who Gets It Right? Scott Sauls writes “The resurrection and absolute lordship of Jesus Christ come as a package deal. If Jesus is risen from the dead, then it means we are accountable to allthat Jesus said, namely, that we are sinners who are without hope apart from him, and that our lives belong completely to him.”

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• What Does the Bible Say About Abortion? Dan Darling writes “As Christians, our first reaction to this issue should not be to ask what our political parties or politicians think but to ask what the Bible says. So, what does the Bible say about abortion?”
• Is It OK for a Christian to Date a Non-Christian? Listen to Tim Keller answer that question.
• Are There Contradictions in the Bible? R.C. Sproul writes “When it comes to studying the actual consistency of Scripture, it’s not long before we have to deal with allegations that the Bible is full of contradictions. This can be devastating to the Christian faith, because we know that if the Bible has real contradictions, it’s not a consistent account, and if it’s not a consistent account, it can’t be divinely inspired.”

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