• Fernando Mendoza, Indiana Cap 16-0 Season With CFP National Title: ‘All glory and thanks to God’. Kevin Mercer writes “The No. 1 Hoosiers staved off a game Miami Hurricanes team, 27-21, to capture the 2025-26 College Football Playoff national title, becoming the first team in modern major college football history to finish 16-0. It is the first national championship for a program that, for much of its history, was a bottom-dweller in the Big Ten.”
• The FAQs: What Should Churches Do When Protest Enters the Sanctuary? Joe Carter writes “Protesters disrupted a Minnesota church service on Sunday (January 18), after activists determined one of the pastors works as the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s field office in St. Paul, says the Minnesota Star Tribune. Activists, including some from Black Lives Matter Minnesota, entered the service at Cities Church in St. Paul and chanted, “Justice for Renee Good.” The church is led by Jonathan Parnell, who was confronted on camera and misidentifiedby former CNN anchor Don Lemon.

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• Indiana Hoosiers QB Fernando Mendoza Wins Heisman Trophy While ‘Always Praising Jesus Christ’. Kevin Mercer writes “Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza entered the college football history books on Saturday evening, becoming the latest winner of the Heisman Trophy. Mendoza is the first Hoosier ever to win college football’s highest award.
• New Year’s Goal-Setting for People with Actual Lives. Joe Carter writes “What we need isn’t a better to-do list but a better grid for making wise decisions across every domain of life, whether we’re planning our fitness goals or our prayer habits. Such a grid should work for anyone, in any season, pursuing faithfulness in any calling. Three biblical priorities can serve as this grid: Prioritize your priorities, prioritize your energy, and prioritize your limits.”
• A Roundup of Roundups. Tim Challies offers a roundup of his various roundups for 2025.
• My Favorite Movies of 2025. Brett McCracken shares his favorite movies and documentaries of 2025.
• God Wants Your Resolve. On this episode of the Ask Pastor John podcast, John Piper responds to the questions “In the Christian life, can New Year’s resolutions serve a meaningful purpose in helping to align our lives with God’s will, or do they often lead to frustration and spiritual burnout? Are they truly helpful in fostering growth and obedience, or are they ultimately harmful, perhaps setting us up for inevitable failure in our pursuit of holiness? And as we seek to approach this topic from a biblical perspective, how does Scripture guide us in navigating the art of goal-setting, resolutions, and the pursuit of personal change in a way that honors God and reflects the grace he offers?”

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• My Top 10 Theology Stories of 2025. Collin Hansen shares his “To 10 Theology Stories”, an annual compilation of the top stories that have shaped evangelical life, thought, and mission over the previous year.

• Skills We Can Focus on That Help Us to Be More Hospitable. In this short video, Rosaria Butterfield shares about how we can become more hospitable.

• How We Fight: A Devotional Message by Sinclair Ferguson. The Apostle Paul called his young friend Timothy to “fight the good fight of the faith” (1 Timothy 6:12). This same call is for all of God’s people. But how are Christians to engage in this spiritual battle? In this devotional message, Sinclair Ferguson exhorts us to be courageous witnesses for the gospel, conducting ourselves with integrity and faithfulness to the Lord.

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• Thoughtful Christian Responses to Charlie Kirk’s Death. Tim Challies writes “A week ago, I created a roundup of immediate responses to Kirk’s death. Today, I offer a second roundup, and this one offers some mature and thoughtful reflections. Their purpose is not so much to explain what happened, but to consider what it means and how Christians ought to respond.”

• Are You Worshipping God in Vain? John Piper writes “Almost everyone would agree that biblical worship involves some kind of outward act. The very word in Hebrew means “to bow down.” Worship is bowing, lifting hands, praying, singing, reciting, preaching, performing rites of eating, cleansing, ordaining, and so on. But the startling fact is that all these things can be done in vain. They can be pointless, useless, and empty.”

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• Glorifying God with Our Bodies Isn’t About What We Don’t Do. David Mathis writes “Glorifying God in our bodies isn’t mainly about what we avoid and don’t do with them. It’s far more about what we do with them—where we go with our feet, what we do with our hands to help others, and what we say with our mouths to give meaning to the acts of our bodies.”
• When Weakness Overwhelms Us. Joni Eareckson Tada writes “Our call to suffer for the sake of Jesus comes from a God who is tender beyond description. In your pain and weakness, he is nearer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24), he heeds your cry of affliction (Psalm 9:12), he treasures all your tears (Psalm 56:8), and he’ll reward your endurance with all the joy eternity can muster (2 Corinthians 4:17). Perhaps best of all, if we suffer with him, “we will also reign with him” (2 Timothy 2:12). Oh, the joy!”
  

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• John MacArthur died on July 14. There have been a number of tributes written for him. Here are tributes from Tim Challies, Alistair Begg, B. Charles Jr., Mark Dever, Kevin DeYoung, Ligon Duncan, Albert Mohler, and John Piper. Here is an article I wrote a few years ago about why I loved John MacArthur.
• Don’t Reduce Faithfulness to Neutrality: A Response to David French and Chip Gaines. Joe Carter writes “Our goal isn’t to win culture wars but to bear faithful witness to a better way of life. That witness is undermined both by harsh and selective judgment and also by pretending our deepest convictions don’t matter.”
• ‘What’s the Point?’: Struggle and Hope in Scottie Scheffler’s Interview. Paul Putz writes “Last week, an interview with the number one golfer in the world, Scottie Scheffler, went viral. Speaking before the British Open, Scheffler reflected on his success with a level of vulnerability rarely seen from athletes at the top of their sport. He summed up his thoughts with a three-word question: “What’s the point?”

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• The Church and Israel: The Issue. World events have led many to wonder what is the role for Israel. Cornelis Venema writes “In order to orient the discussion of this critical issue, we need to begin with a clear understanding of the major views on this question that are represented today within the church. These views illustrate not only the importance of the question, but the wide diversity of positions.”
• Listener Questions (Live at TGC25) [The Everyday Pastor. In this special episode of The Everyday Pastor podcast, Matt Smethurst and Ligon Duncan answer listener-submitted questions, recorded live at The Gospel Coalition’s 2025 National Conference.

God’s Good Design for Marriage: 5 Doctrinal Dimensions. Robert Yarbrough offers a doxological tribute to marriage, a celebration and commendation of God’s good and glorious design.

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