We serve a sovereign—and yes, a happy—God. Let’s be quick to laugh at ourselves.

Every student of the Bible, particularly those who are charged with teaching it, should commit to reading it in a calendar year.

The good news links the Christmas story with Easter and shows how one is incomplete without the other.

Andrew Fuller is a voice from the past that is worthy of befriending.

Praise God that it pleased him to work through ordinary men like Luther and Calvin to unleash afresh an extraordinary gospel to work in all its grace-driven power in my life and in the lives of countless millions of other believers and pastors through the century.

Jesus took the opportunity to use a human atrocity and a natural disaster to preach both the danger of life in a fallen world and also the need to repent.

I can assure you that you’re not the first pastor to wrestle with the question of whether you’re really called to pastoral ministry.

Leaving a church is serious business. Here’s what to think about before you do.

In our drive to make everything cross-centered, have we forgotten the empty tomb?

Studying Baptist history enables us to become Baptists by theological conviction. It teaches us that there are many good biblical and theological reasons to hold a firm grip upon Baptist ecclesiology as a necessary biblical complement to a robust confessional, evangelical orthodoxy.

Seminary can by no means teach everything you need to know, but it puts strong tools in your box to set you up for a lifetime of matriculating in the school of Christ.

I’m confident many useful books for pastors will roll off the presses in 2019, but as we close out the old year and usher in the new, here are several of the best ministry-related books I read in 2018.

How James P. Boyce’s vision became a reality.

In my prayers, I rarely fail to be grateful for God’s saving grace in Christ, but I realized that I seldom thank him for the daily grace that keeps me saved.

Spurgeon called the 3 R’s “three doctrines that must be preached above all else,” and they draw from three different chapters of Scripture that “deal with the things in the fullest manner:” Genesis 3:14-15 (Ruin), Romans 3:21-26 (Redemption), John 3:1-8 (Regeneration). Why do I think it makes a good preaching or evangelism method? Because each of…

The pages of Scripture overflow with the doctrine of uncomfortable grace.

The Puritans can teach us how to suffer, serve, and lead with faithfulness.

Our Savior to calls us to love him supremely—even if it costs our lives. No matter what, it’s worth it.