As Christianity has declined in our society, sports have taken on a more cultic quality in American life. One of the primary ways we see this is the increasing presence of sports on the Lord’s Day. The NFL, with its giant cathedrals of sport-worship, is the prime example. It is not uncommon for people to spend their entire Sunday not in worship, rest, or fellowship with God’s people.

As our society falls more and more under the spell of a newly ascendant paganism, Christians have more reason to know apologetics and to become familiar with its arguments, first for the encouragement of their own faith, and then for the intelligence of their interaction with unbelievers.

Many in our church will want a clear set of rules about what is allowable and what is not. But we have to be careful about that kind of thing, because it is easy to create a kind of legalism around this topic, and we have to resist that. At the same time, parents need practical instruction.

Especially in a generation in which Christian faith is in decline and the world is becoming increasingly hostile to Christian faith, the members of our church need clarity on what Christians believe.

Revelation is filled with many patterns and deep meanings. It has cycles and imagery, double meanings and careful foreshadowing. It is Jesus’s book of the Bible. And it is the great masterpiece of literary history.

Revelation is highly dependent on the Old Testament and rarely uses new imagery that has not already been utilized in earlier Scriptures.

How is it that Jesus has only shed his blood for the elect, yet John says he takes away the sins of the world? How is it that God desires all to be saved yet doesn’t elect all to be saved?

Biography adds the weight of reality to the Bible’s teaching of the Christian life. It has the power to make the life of faith more beautiful and desirable than we might think it to be, if our only acquaintance with that life is what we observe in ourselves or in the Christians we know.

We tend to think of our lives as too small to be of any real importance, but the living God is in our lives making them what they are! We are all, every one of us, en route to positions of immortal greatness.

The Scriptures don’t spell out why morning and evening prayer is important, but we can venture a solid guess: it brackets the whole day with dependence on God.

If you are going to get your cues for Bible reading from the Bible itself—and you should—then you would read it daily and diligently.

How to pray and to think about God’s calling on our lives, and then we discuss how to best structure our schedule around those priorities.

In the Apostle Paul’s mind, the symbol of husbandhood is the cross.

For any Christian thinking through the submission of a wife, this picture of imitation is an important place to begin.

As we treat them like fellow adult Christians, we give them the chance to start acting like that as well.

The church has often been renewed in spiritual life because she was reminded of her history.

Some who insist on retaining the Old Covenant day of worship—the seventh day Sabbath—defend the theory that Jesus rose from the dead on Saturday.

Only the resurrected Son of God has the audacity to offer you the reversal of death itself.

Each morning of your life is an intentional picture of Christ’s redemption and God’s renewal of all things. It truly is a fresh start.

Believe it or not, for centuries the most brilliant human minds spent more time pondering this question than they spent in pursuit of the natural sciences.